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• An Inconvenient Warning by astrangergivingthestrangewelcome

  Fandoms: Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)  

  • General Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  24 Nov 2022

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Jonathan Harker
  • R.M. Renfield
  • archive warnings don't apply but this is a heavy one guys
  • disturbing imagery
  • discussions of institutional abuse
  • a brief mental breakdown
  • renfield is the narrator so
  • weird things about blood and insects are to be expected
  • but also good things!
  • this is a story about how the choice of mercy
  • is what ultimately saves both Jonathan and Renfield from the Count
  • this fic exists because Jonathan and Renfield have
  • so much to talk about and they never speak in the books
  • and bc I think Renfield's hero moment needed to have more buildup
  • also Renfield backstory
  • also the Renfield and Seward toxic whatever it is
  • it's not frontseat in this fic bc Seward isn't in it
  • but Renfield thinks about him A Lot

  Summary

  Strange Wonders explores the chain of events that happen when Jonathan is the one to stay home on September 30th. It's a story about survival, love, gothic horror and grasping for freedom.

  An Inconvenient Truth:

  On the evening of October 2nd, scared and fairly sure he is about to die, R.M. Renfield decides to pen his versions of the events leading up to his decision to turn against the Count. As it turns out it had quite a lot to do with a visit paid to him that morning by one Jonathan Harker.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Strange Wonders

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  7,763

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

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  Bookmarks:

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