Dracula/Mina

== Canon ==
In the Stoker's novel, Mina is a part of the group hunting Dracula. He starts feeding on her in her sleep, and during his third attack on her forces her to drink his blood, to make her a vampire (and presumably one of the Brides) and to establish a mental connection between them, enabling him to spy on the vampire hunters. Mina, however, uses this mental link to track Dracula's moves, which plays the crucial part in the hunters finding and killing him.
Dracula adaptations that have Dracula/Mina in some form include:
* The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen - 1975 book
* Dracula - 1979 movie
* Love at First Bite - 1979 comedy
* Dracula, el Musical - Argentinian musical from 1991
* Bram Stoker's Dracula - 1992 movie
* Mina: The Dracula Story Continues by Marie Kiraly - 1994 book
* Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington - 1997 book
* Dracula the Musical - musical from 2001
* Dracula - entre l'amour et la mort - Canadian musical from 2006
* Dracula: The Un-dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt - 2009 book
* Dracula, my Love by Syrie James - 2010 book
* Dracula in Love by Karin Essex - 2010 book
* Dracula, l'amour plus fort que la mort - French musical from 2011
* Dracula 3D - 2012 movie
* Dracula - 2013 series
* Dracula Untold - 2014 movie
* Nosferatu - 2024 movie
==Fandom==
Dracula/Mina is so unpopular in the Dracula fandom on Tumblr, especially post-Dracula Daily, that a lot of content relating to the pairing is probably produced by Dracula/Mina hatedom. Fandom treats it as a symbol of everything wrong with Dracula adaptations and perception of the novel by the public; Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola's adaptation that has signicantly increased the popularity of the pairing among creators of subsequent adaptations, is also almost universally reviled by the book fans. Fans bring up the problematic character of shipping a rape sirvivor with her rapist, breaking/diminishing the great relationship that Mina has with her husband Jonathan, portraying Dracula in unnecessarily sympathetic light and distorting Mina's characterization/taking away her agency as potential problems with the pairing.
Even before the Tumblr fandom took shape, Dracula/Mina wasn't a particularly popular pairing, which has been noted by some fans:
Majority of Dracula/Mina shippers are fans of the relationship in the 1992 movie, Wildhorn's musical or 2024 remake of Nosferatu, in all of which the couple is made canon. Novel-based shippers are rare. The fans of the ship explore it in varied ways: some enjoy its dark nature and use it to write about dynamics of abuse, while others emphasize things like sensuality, Gothic romance, vampirefucking/monsterfucking and possibility of redemption through love.
==Fanfiction==
=== Novel ===
* Correspondence by Assimbya
* Awakening by kajivar
* Letter from Mina Harker to Lucy Westernra. Written in shorthand, after Lucy's death, and found hidden in her tomb, unopened. by mathildia 
Some of the fanfictions are written by non-shippers as experiments in trying to create a Dracula/Mina story that would ring true to the novel characters:
* The Making of a Monster by RobberBaroness
* One Flesh by PsychoPomposity
Likewise, several novel-based fics take a premise of Mina being Dracula's reincarnated wife from the 1992 movie and give it a darker turn:
* Mina's Lost Entries by evenstar8705
* Ioana by Assimbya
There are noncon fics using the pairing primarily for horror. They usually take place on the night of the blood baptism:
* This Bitter Hour by Eione
* M is for That Which is Mine by Changeling_Lili
=== Bram Stoker's Dracula ===
Dracula/Mina stories set during the 1992 movie often expand on their canonical scenes together, especially these during their courtship in London. Post-canon works are usually AUs in which Dracula survives and they get together.
* Twilight Is Not Good For Maidens by Thyme In Her Eyes
* there is no exorcism for what is whole by ncfan
* Blood and Life of the Comestible Lily by EAceofspades
==Fanart==
File:Dracula1979-15.jpg|Dracula/Lucy (de facto Mina character) from the 1979 movie
File:Der Biss by 1-084.jpg|1992 Dracula/Mina based on The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.
* Art by Abigail Larson ("What if Dracula turned Mina and they got to live happily in his castle as vamps forever")
==References==
Category:Dracula
Category:Het Pairings