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•CONTACT METHOD: Annys53 at plurk
•THREAD-JACKING: Sure
•FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: It's okay! Just be aware he might get upset.
•BACKTAGGING: Fine. I have a tendency to drop threads after a month or so, but I'm happy to continue.
•AVOIDED TOPICS: I'll say something if any come up.
CANON: Dracula (1931 movie plus non-conflicting details from book and The Book of Renfield by Tim Lucas.)
IC CHARACTERISTICS:
•PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 5'6, brown hair, mesomorph build, broad face with regular, even features.
•DEMEANOR: Expressive, dramatic, when under strain his expressions tend to become over the top. When he's calm he seems a bit naive and sad.
•ABILITIES: He's new to vampiring (semi-vampiring?) and is stronger than most. He doesn't have the same abilities as Dracula yet, or if he does he doesn't know how to use them. He dislikes wolfsbane and probably silver and garlic as well. There may be some sunlight sensitivity. He craves living things, but probably can eat normal food. I'm going to say he can't make anyone a full vampire but he can possibly do...something to them? LMK if you're interested.
Fun thing: the Universal movies make it clear that Dracula's red blood cells literally vampirize other blood cells, so some of Renfield's blood is destroying his own cells and yet he's not anemic...I don't know either.
•OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Hoo boy, he does not like to feel like people are looking down on him, though he's capable of swallowing his anger sometimes.
Badmouthing Count Dracula, even though he's ambivalent towards the Count might bother him. Or insinuating that their relationship was sexual.
IC PERMISSIONS:
•MENTAL: He's kind of troubled but yes.
•MIMICRY: Yes.
•VIOLENCE: Yes. He's very strong, so keep that in mind, but go for it. Please let me know before doing irreparable injury or killing him.
•MAGIC: Yes.
•DEBATE: He's likely to stick his fingers in his ears and stop listening if he's losing but sure.
•HUGGING/KISSING/PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes, but he may also want your delicious blood if you're alive. He's not quite a vampire but not far off.
Playing him as pansexual, but extremely closeted due to his time period.
•SHIPS:Why? Sure if one develops.
•OTHER / NOTES:
Warnings: Abusive relationship, consumption of animals & blood, insects, mental illness tropes, historical treatment of mental illness, religion
This Renfield's current state
Now he's mostly very confused. He's still new to the whole vampire thing, still not the most stable and being in a new century doesn't seem to help. He's going to start out craving Dracula's presence, even if he disliked what happened with Mina, he'll still want him back for security.
Physical: He's not undead, though he has signs of vampirism like slow heartbeat, severe blood cravings, and enhanced strength. Universal movies makes it clear that vampirism is caused by a weird 3-headed blood-fluke...thing. So that might be present under a microscope.
Headcanon: The "R.M." stands for "Reginald Marion."
Other canons I'm using: Drawing on The Book of Renfield by Tim Lucas, he was adopted by a vicar by the name of Renfield. He loved animals as a child and suffered from feelings of inferiority because of being a foundling and morbid fear of death for most of his life.
Unlike that book, he had some kind of scholarship and ended up a lawyer.
Differences between the movie and the book: The movie is set in the early thirties, Renfield is a younger man and a solicitor. In the book, Renfield arrived at the sanitarium ahead of Dracula, but in the movie they made the voyage together. The movie makes it clear that the experience was bad enough to unhinge him.
•CONTACT METHOD: Annys53 at plurk
•THREAD-JACKING: Sure
•FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: It's okay! Just be aware he might get upset.
•BACKTAGGING: Fine. I have a tendency to drop threads after a month or so, but I'm happy to continue.
•AVOIDED TOPICS: I'll say something if any come up.
CANON: Dracula (1931 movie plus non-conflicting details from book and The Book of Renfield by Tim Lucas.)
IC CHARACTERISTICS:
•PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 5'6, brown hair, mesomorph build, broad face with regular, even features.
•DEMEANOR: Expressive, dramatic, when under strain his expressions tend to become over the top. When he's calm he seems a bit naive and sad.
•ABILITIES: He's new to vampiring (semi-vampiring?) and is stronger than most. He doesn't have the same abilities as Dracula yet, or if he does he doesn't know how to use them. He dislikes wolfsbane and probably silver and garlic as well. There may be some sunlight sensitivity. He craves living things, but probably can eat normal food. I'm going to say he can't make anyone a full vampire but he can possibly do...something to them? LMK if you're interested.
Fun thing: the Universal movies make it clear that Dracula's red blood cells literally vampirize other blood cells, so some of Renfield's blood is destroying his own cells and yet he's not anemic...I don't know either.
•OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Hoo boy, he does not like to feel like people are looking down on him, though he's capable of swallowing his anger sometimes.
Badmouthing Count Dracula, even though he's ambivalent towards the Count might bother him. Or insinuating that their relationship was sexual.
IC PERMISSIONS:
•MENTAL: He's kind of troubled but yes.
•MIMICRY: Yes.
•VIOLENCE: Yes. He's very strong, so keep that in mind, but go for it. Please let me know before doing irreparable injury or killing him.
•MAGIC: Yes.
•DEBATE: He's likely to stick his fingers in his ears and stop listening if he's losing but sure.
•HUGGING/KISSING/PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes, but he may also want your delicious blood if you're alive. He's not quite a vampire but not far off.
Playing him as pansexual, but extremely closeted due to his time period.
•SHIPS:
•OTHER / NOTES:
Warnings: Abusive relationship, consumption of animals & blood, insects, mental illness tropes, historical treatment of mental illness, religion
This Renfield's current state
Now he's mostly very confused. He's still new to the whole vampire thing, still not the most stable and being in a new century doesn't seem to help. He's going to start out craving Dracula's presence, even if he disliked what happened with Mina, he'll still want him back for security.
Physical: He's not undead, though he has signs of vampirism like slow heartbeat, severe blood cravings, and enhanced strength. Universal movies makes it clear that vampirism is caused by a weird 3-headed blood-fluke...thing. So that might be present under a microscope.
Headcanon: The "R.M." stands for "Reginald Marion."
Other canons I'm using: Drawing on The Book of Renfield by Tim Lucas, he was adopted by a vicar by the name of Renfield. He loved animals as a child and suffered from feelings of inferiority because of being a foundling and morbid fear of death for most of his life.
Unlike that book, he had some kind of scholarship and ended up a lawyer.
Differences between the movie and the book: The movie is set in the early thirties, Renfield is a younger man and a solicitor. In the book, Renfield arrived at the sanitarium ahead of Dracula, but in the movie they made the voyage together. The movie makes it clear that the experience was bad enough to unhinge him.