LuMina

LuMina is the femslash ship between Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray Harker from the ''Dracula fandom.

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Mina's story in the novel starts with her and Lucy writing each other letters, starting on the 9th of May. Mina and Lucy are two young women, both seeing different men and have known each other since they were children. Lucy outright tells Mina that they keep no secrets from one another and are very open to talk about their plans and their relationships to each other. Lucy is very happy to report to Mina that she received three proposals all on the same day, lamenting to her how hard it will be for her to pick one as she loves the other two so much that she doesn't want to make them sad. Lucy however also tells her not to tell anyone except Mina's fiancée Jonathan, as Lucy believes that women should always tell their husbands everything.

As Mina had told Lucy in her first letter to her, she started keeping a journal, like Jonathan. On the 24th of July, she and Lucy met at the station to move to a house at the Crescent. Meeting another person at the harbor, Lucy left Mina early to visit her mother. The next day, Mina and Lucy met up again just to talk, with Mina noting that they are often accompanied by two other unnamed friends of theirs. Mina notes how pretty Lucy looked, like she did the day before and that older men were always trying to sit close to her when they were out together. Though Lucy is very friendly with them, so Mina figures that they all fell in love with her on the spot. As one of the older men told Mina the story of a man who killed himself right were they are sitting. This rendered Mina speechless, so Lucy spoke up and chastised the man for telling them that story in the first place. The man told them that knowing it wouldn't harm them, so Mina and Lucy enjoyed the scenery after he left and even held hands. Lucy used this opportunity to tell Mina that she picked Arthur Holmwood, the man she knew the longest, to be the suitor she will marry. Though Mina is happy for Lucy, she is also reminded of the fact that she hadn't heard from Jonathan for quite a while, which is something she didn't tell Lucy.

On the 26th of July, Mina notes that she's getting increasingly worried about Jonathan and Lucy, for different reasons. Mina notes that Lucy had started to sleepwalk "again", implying that this is not the first time this had happened. Mina retells the worries of Lucy's widowed mother, who had already lost her husband due to him sleepwalking off a cliff and fears the same could happen to her daughter. Mina takes Lucy's mother's advice to just lock the door of their shared room to prevent this. She then retells what Lucy had planned for her marriage with Arthur, causing her to sympathize with her, as she had made similar (though far more humble) plans to marry Jonathan.

On the 27th, Mina notes how Lucy's increasing sleepwalking had wakened her. She seriously worries for Lucy's health, but decides it not be a matter to worry about, as Lucy seems stable and the weather is warm enough.

Throughout August, Mina gives her journal updates on Lucy's state, reporting that she was at first sleepwalking far more frequently than usual, even trying to break out of their shared room by looking for the key while sleeping. Then she noted that Lucy seemed far more stable, right around the time a huge storm swept the nation, keeping the two of them terrified in their room. Attending a funeral for the captain who had warned Mina about the storm, Mina notes how sensitive Lucy is to the pain of others, to the point where watching someone get hurt (in this case a dog) would leave her just standing there, watching with an agonized look on her face.

On the 11th of August, at 3 AM, Mina panics as she found Lucy absent in her bed, fearing the worst. Mina didn't dare waking Lucy's mother, not wanting to make her worried sick with her already fighting an illness, so she put on clothes and started to look for her. Mina knows Lucy so well that she actually memorized what clothing Lucy would wear while sleepwalking, realizing that she must be only wearing her nightgown, Lucy shouldn't be very far. She looked through the entire house, but then noticed that the front door was slightly opened. Mina had no time to think, she prepared herself to go outside as best as she could and ran after Lucy. Mina had already expected Lucy sitting in their favorite seat, and lo and behold, Lucy was sitting there asleep. But when she came closer to her, she realized that something dark was reaching for her, so Mina cried Lucy's name in desperate attempt at waking her up. Once Mina reached her, the figure was gone, Lucy was still sitting asleep gasping for air. Fearing that Lucy might've fallen ill in the chilly air of the night, Mina wrapped her shawl around her neck. Put her shoes on Lucy's feet, Mina tried to wake her, gently, then urgently. When Lucy woke up and they walked home together, Lucy felt sorry for having Mina walk on the gravelly path barefoot, but Mina was far more concerned about getting Lucy home safely. Before falling asleep again, Lucy asked Mina to promise not to tell anyone about this, Mina agreed after some hesitation, believing it would be better for everyone if they didn't know. Though later that day, Mina noticed that her pinning the shawl on Lucy's neck must've harmed her, noticing two bloodspots on her neck.

The next few days, Mina is glad to find Lucy healthier than before, but then disappointed when the happiness didn't last and she seems to be growing weaker. Though Mina notes how Lucy's mother is losing her fight against her own illness, she does not understand why Lucy doesn't get any better. She notes how the wounds on Lucy's neck get bigger every day, should they not heal any time soon, she would urge Lucy to see a doctor about them.

However, when Mina is urged to come to Budapest to pick up Jonathan, she also finds out that Lucy had died due to her mysterious illness during her absence. Mina almost suffered the same fate later on, but was saved at the last second.

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LuMina is one of the most popular ships in the Dracula fandom, being the second-most popular ship for Mina (after JonMina) and the most popular ship for Lucy, exceeding all of her canon ships.

Many note how Mina can't go two days without mentioning how pretty Lucy is in her diary, and how tenderly their friendship is written in general. One of the easiest ways to rile up fans of the Dracula novel is dismissing either of them, the fandom is very protective of them.

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