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Tanaka-Of-Rine talks to the Totem General Remiel for the last time
![A comic depicting the following scene from Orphan's Path by Aenor-llelo and team. 2/2. “And you don’t have to be.” The Totem steps forward, and Tanaka steps back. “We don’t have to do this. We don’t have to be what they made us. We are not things.” His voice softens. “We are not things.” Tanaka stares at his friend for the last time and laughs. He laughs, and laughs, until his lungs have nothing more to give. “Next time,” he hoarsely mutters, “say it like you believe it.” He hears the soldiers outside. The tent curtains open behind him and he raises his knife, jumping towards Remiel’s shouting form- -<>♥<>- [ Tanaka-of-rine was shot to death by a Totem of Death while trying to escape the Totem General. ]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/941535bbfc8aff321b1689754af63d91/4b64d195f954c08d-6c/s500x750/d26702df45f3d80b6c3d730c97974b78bf67e0ef.jpg)
This whole scene has really stuck in my mind over the past few weeks and I finally got around to sketching it out into comic form. Aenor and the Orphan’s Path team sure do know how to hit you where it hurts.
If you want to read Orphan’s Path you can find it down below, highly recommended if you feel like sobbing over funny block men.
Someone here asked why Jack doesn't yet suspect that someone is preying on Lucy, and it got me thinking. It's a great point. The Jack the Ripper murders predate Dracula by a few years. Why wouldn't Jack, a man who deals with people like Renfield every day, think of the Ripper and begin putting together a theory of some madman (his term) crawling through Lucy's window at night?
I poked around Google to see if there's any connection between Stoker and the Ripper. Aside from him meeting two men suspected of being the Ripper (did he know they were suspects? it didn't say), there doesn't seem to be much there. One source did mention that he made a comparison between the evil of the Ripper and the evil of Dracula. So we know Stoker was aware of serial killers; hence Seward should be, too.
Anyway as I was reading my findings I was struck by something else. In multiple sources people dismiss the idea that Dracula was based on the Ripper because the Ripper tortured and killed prostitutes while Dracula "romantically" preys on high class ladies.
You guys.
Okay, to be clear, I don't see much evidence that Stoker based Dracula on the Ripper.
But like. Did any of these people read the book? Romantically? Ffs.
Also (and this is the point I've been working towards, believe it or not) the idea that Dracula doesn't prey on poor sex workers just annoys me. We have no idea. No one would tell us, in this epistolary novel, if sex workers were turning up dead in London gutters. It's not newsworthy when a sex worker dies looking pale but otherwise unharmed. We've seen that Drac has a huge appetite (*cough*Demeter crew*cough*). The fact he *hasn't* killed Lucy yet implies an almost guarantee that he's eating other people. Who better than sex workers? Maybe some vagrants here and there, too. The way they die would likely mislead most people who found the bodies into thinking it wasn't by violence, too.
Dracula likes to slowly torture and draw out his kill when it comes to Lucy. Is she the only one? We have no idea.
Aaand now I want a story about Dracula's unknown victims.
Okay, so what about the fact that London isn't becoming overrun with fledgling vampires? Well, idk if Stoker ever gives us an explanation for how Drac makes new vampires, but it's clearly not an automatic thing, or Transylvania would have a lot more of them (a lot of them babies--yikes).
Will someone pretty please write the story of these missing victims?
Maybe I'll take a crack at it...