12-05-28 [DE] Grave Mistake 1

[Ravenhull]

http://www.draculaeverlasting.com/strips-de/grave_mistake_1

[KigaiOkasu]

Uh oh. Why do I get the feeling that simply biting her and enslaving her isn't going to cut it? Oh well. Could he at least turn her into a vampire?

[Azrael]

I seem to recall that Stoker's Dracula had several (three?) vampire "brides" stashed away in his castle. So here's number one?

[KigaiOkasu]

Maybe, but she could also be number two. I don't quite understand why Rayne Ambrose isn't a vampire.

[Error of Logic]

Possibly Drac has to want to turn a victim. Maybe it requires him sharing his blood with the prey first, and all he's done so far is chow down.

[KigaiOkasu]

Maybe, but if I recall correctly from the Stoker novel, as long as the person dies from the vampire bite, they become a vampire themselves. If a person gets bitten and others are successful at warding the offending vampire off while giving the victim enough time to recover, then the victim's vampirism goes into remission. The big exception, in the case of Mina, is if the victim consumes the blood of the vampire. If that happens, then, outside of killing said vampire, there's literally nothing that can be done to stop the victim from turning. They'll turn gradually, and if they die during the process, they become vampires immediately. Again, I could be wrong about all of this.

[Ravenhull]

Of corse, given the base concept of this comic, we can't take the novel as 100% accurate. His spirit admitted to tweaking things.