When I was a kid, I used to wanna be a vampire hunter after reading Bram Stokers Dracula. I volunteered at the Free Library and I had a folder with photocopies of lore and maps of Europe printed out with Romania outlined and Transylvania marked with a big X.

I was raised Muslim, so I didn't really know how the whole Cross and holy water thing was gonna work. Come to find out years later that Vlad was a prisoner of the Turks and grew up in a court full of danger and betrayal alongside the prince who he would later betray for land, country, and personal glory.

Dracula probably had Borderline Personality Disorder and was probably leaning more towards NPD! He was ripped from his home at an early age and was raised in an environment of distrust. Then the only woman that he loved commits suicide thinking he's already dead. He regrets the fact that he split on her and the folks around him as he wrestled with his eastern roots and with his western upbringing. He ghosted her to concentrate on defending his homeland and defeating the turks. His revenge and need for personal glory set up the situation to allow false news to reach his love of his death. Her plunge from the castle marked his plunge into madness and despair. He roams the Earth impaling and piercing his victims codependentaly sucking their blood and life force to continue living out his anguish while never truly ever feeling love or satisfying his thirsts.

Dracula needs to stop dwelling on the past, or depending on blood for his fix, and needs to practice self-bbloove and do some DBT(Dracula Behavior Therapy), but if he were to let go of the past, then he would cease to exist. 🧛‍♂️🧄