Dracula

Dracula
Main aliases:	Kristoff Alucard, Dracul, the Enemy
Species:	Human, Vampire, Cyberon
Affiliated with:	Lilith, MIAOW, Cyberon
Place of origin:	Transylvania
Created by:	Bram Stoker
First mentioned in:	The Chase
First appearance:	Doctor Who Discovers Strange and Mysterious Creatures
Appearances:	see list
Main voice actor:	Ian Gelder
Other voice actors:	Terry Molloy

You may wish to consult Dracula (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Versions of Dracula

Count Dracula, sometimes Dracul or just Dracula, was a famous vampire who originated from Transylvania. He sometimes used the alias Kristoff Alucard. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap, The Delightful Bag, The Shape of Things) He was one of multiple possible futures of Vlad III. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

Dracula existed in a state of quantum possibility. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) These possibilities included Dracula being a fictional character created by Bram Stoker, inspired by the historical prince of the same name; (AUDIO: Son of the Dragon, PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, et al.) a resurrected version of the historical prince; (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) a completely real individual with no direct connection to the prince who worked for MIAOW under the alias Kristoff Alucard; (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap) and an Incremental being who was once fictional, but became real. (PROSE: The Found World, A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

The Fourth Doctor claimed to have helped Stoker create the character based on his knowledge of real vampires. (AUDIO: The Labyrinth of Buda Castle)

Biography

Origins

Due to his status as a quantum possibility, multiple possible versions of who Dracula was existed. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) In one telling, Dracula was a descendant of Radu the Handsome. (PROSE: Possum Kingdom) According to The Book of the War, Vlad III was not actually a vampire, but a bloodthirsty vampire-hunter; however, his deal with the Celestis granted him immortality, leading to the — to him — aggravating belief that he had been a vampire himself. (PROSE: The Book of the War ^[+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

When the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited Maiden's Point and its neighbouring town in Northumberland, they discovered that the town was haunted by a race of vampires who had been sired by the Ancient One, the last survivor of the fish-like Haemovore vampires into which humanity mutated in a possible future. The Ancient One had been brought back in time by Fenric using a time storm. He and the vampires he had turned had then spent centuries following the flask in which Fenric had been imprisoned by the Doctor, starting in 9th century Transylvania, (TV: The Curse of Fenric ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"]) from which Dracula was said to have originated before travelling to England; (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine ^[+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Bloody (And Public) Domaine"]) in fact, upon realising the town was infested with vampires, the Seventh Doctor reminded Ace that Maiden Point was the very place where Dracula was said to have "come ashore" according to "dark legends". (TV: The Curse of Fenric ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"])

In contrast, in one version of history, whispered about by the loa to, and actualised to some degree by, the insane Godfather Auteur, Lilith was credited in the Master's Gospel as the one who had first "breathed unlife back into Dracula's veins". According to Auteur's broader and increasingly unreliable narrative, this was only the first step in Lilith's scheme of priming Dracula to become the Enemy. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine ^[+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Bloody (And Public) Domaine"])

Journey to England

In 1893, (PROSE: The Found World) Dracula journeyed from Transylvania to England on the Demeter. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons)

According to the Master's Gospel — part of the Dragon Scriptures which constituted a "bible of sorts" to people who worshipped Dracula — as it was quoted within Godfather Auteur's draft for a history of how Dracula supposedly became the Enemy, Dracula did not make the journey alone, being accompanied by a "chosen few". On the sixth day, while these "apostles" feasted on some of the crewmen, he also spoke at length with Lilith, who "plotted and schemed" with him, and also took him on a journey "through the shadowed wastes of the nether". She showed him the structure of History stretching between stars, as well as his great Forefathers kept locked outside the universe by the Very Fabric. In the version of events which Auteur wrote and tried to observe into reality, this conversation ended with Lilith telling Dracula that thanks to him, he no longer represented anything so simple as the Yssgaroth Taint; he had become something greater. (PROSE: A Boody (And Public) Domaine ^[+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Boody (And Public) Domaine"])

He washed up on the English shore in a place identified in some accounts as Whitby, (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap) but in others as a town in Northumberland next to Maiden's Point, where the Seventh Doctor would later learn that the Ancient One and his vampiric spawn had followed Fenric's flask across the world, having started from Transylvania. (TV: The Curse of Fenric ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"])

Having come ashore in the form of a large hound. Dracula then climbed the 199 steps to Whitby Abbey. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap, Brenda's B&B) The Tenth Doctor once claimed to have encountered Dracula on the night he arrived in Whitby. (COMIC: The Black Sea) The Second Doctor once seriously claimed to be familiar with Dracula; he said that Dracula was a "charming fellow - so long as you managed to avoid him at mealtimes". (PROSE: Players) There were many fictional and metafictional versions of Dracula's journey to England, ending with his subsequent death. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

Becoming the Enemy

In one version of history, whispered about by the loa to, and actualised to some degree by, the insane Godfather Auteur, Lilith resurrected Dracula following his established death., then appeared to him in his dream, revealing her true monstrous nature to him and telling him about a temporal echo of a mine in Bedfordshire where he could, by means of a careful ritual, rewrite the whole of Earth's history.

After brutally murdering Jonathan Harker in revenge, the Count made his lair in the anomalous mine. Two weeks later, on 19 November, Dracula contacted Mina Harker and threatened to kill John Seward and Arthur Holmwood if she didn't meet with him. After Mina arrived and Dracula had her restrained by cultists, the mine decayed to the point that it became a point of singularity where all of Earth's time-stream began to leak through, and from which it could be corrupted in one fell swoop. Mina fatally stabbed Dracula, but he collected the leaking subtance in a golden chalic and, having drunk "the raw blood of time", rewrote history with himself at the centre.

In this "new kind of history", Dracula would supposedly go on to take over the British Empire and built a society wherein vampirism was fashionable. He was a figurehead of Earth history into the 20th and 21st centuries, leading vampires to space. This timeline was obscured to outside observers by Enemy timeships starting at the date of the Ghost Point. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

While still focused on Dracula, Auteur received a message from Archimedes Von Ahnerabe, asking for everyone Graelyn Scythes had met and befriended across the Multiverse to send her video greetings to make up for her having to spend her birthday in quarantine. Auteur answered the call with a video in which he claimed that he had tried to arrange for Dracula to meet Graelyn as a birthday treat, but he had refused; he had subsequently been "informed by Father and Mother that [he] was simply talking in [his] sleep", a notion which he found outrageous. He claimed that he would make the encounter between Graelyn and Dracula happen, whatever it took. Disturbed by his ranting, Graelyn did not watch the video until the end. (PROSE: Birthdays are Made for Memories)

In the Cyberon War

The "ancient horror" as Cyber-Controller. (COMIC: Before the Storm)

In one account, towards the end of the Cyberon War, the preserved head of the vampiric Count Dracula had passed into the hands of secret Earth Alliance military researchers, who hoped to extract the vampiric essence from him and refine it to turn humans into supersoldiers capable of standing their own against the Cyberons. While it was being transported from an Alpha Centauri base to the secret research station orbiting Mars aboard Captain Tom Williams's ship, The Demeter, the ship was boarded by the Cyberons. Sensing Dracula's potential, the Cyberons offered Dracula the chance to become the new Cyberon Controller (AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons) to replace the original Cyberon King, who had been lost in 2989 alongside the original Cyberon planet. (COMIC: Before the Storm) Dracula agreed, and his head was mounted on a new cybernetic body. He announced the beginning of the "New Cyberon Era", intent on taking his "rightful place as a galactic leader amongst the treasures contained in the stars". (AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons)

Eventually, the Cyberons detected human transmissions about a great weapon being hidden in the remote Asteroid B-725. Dracula took a ship there personally only to find a woman in a wheelchair who explained that she was dying of a degenerative, contagious disease affecting her brain, and had retreated to this laboratory to work in peace without endangering others. Unable to develop a cure as she'd initially hoped, she had chosen to help the War effort another way by actually making the disease more infectious and then luring the Cyberons here. Dracula and his Cyberon party were now all contaminated, with Dracula's Cyberon bodyguards dying almost instantly. Before they died, they pinned Dracula in place, and held him firm even in death, so that he couldn't spread the infection to the wider Cyberon race. The woman mocked the trapped Controller with her last breath, declaring that he had been beaten by "weakness" and declaring herself "the Weapon and the Warrior". (AUDIO: The Weapon and the Warrior)

In 2992, "it" was destroyed once and for all when the "last scion" of the Clan Van Helsing launched it into the Sun. The Cyberons were leaderless for a few years, but by 2996 a more traditional Cyberleader had taken charge. (COMIC: Before the Storm)

Depictions of the fictional Dracula

Overview

The quantum possibility of Dracula (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) involved accounts in which the vampire was a work of fiction. Peter Cushing appeared in some Dracula films before taking on the part of Dr. Who. (PROSE: Lady Penelope Investigates the stars of the Sensational new film Dr. Who and the Daleks!)

The robot Dracula. (TV: The Chase)

At the Festival of Ghana in 1996, an android Dracula was among the robots at the House of Horrors. (TV: The Chase)

When one of the Doctor's "cosmic enemies" took advantage of the Fourth Doctor's momentary musing on a variety of imaginary creatures from human folklore, making various monsters from his imagination physically real, one of them was Dracula. The Doctor found himself in Transylvania and walked to the nearby castle where he was confronted with "a strange apparition in a flowing black cloak and black hat" who soon revealed himself as Dracula. Dracula attempted to bite the Doctor, but the Doctor managed to find an old silver watch in his pockets. Dracula recoiled, hissing, as the Doctor brandished it in his face. The Doctor then took advantage of this respite to concentrate on a different mythical creature, causing the psychic attack to bring him face-to-face with a unicorn and ending his encounter with Dracula. (PROSE: Doctor Who Discovers Strange and Mysterious Creatures)

Melanicus created an illusion of Dracula to frighten the Fifth Doctor, which the latter dismissed as "a strictly mythical figure drawn largely from a work of Victorian fiction." (COMIC: The Tides of Time)

The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones encountered Dracula on a world of fiction created by the books Martha had read throughout her life. The Doctor punched Dracula and exclaimed that he had a very hard face. (PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage)

In the Land of Fiction, Dracula was stationed at Camelot, after Sherlock Holmes died. He was eventually converted into a Cyberman, but it failed as he already was dead. He led the attack on the Cyber Planner, in order to make them believe that Cybermen do not exist. (AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen)

In 2022, after Auteur brought life to all of the fiction contained within the Cupid Archives and several Cupids merged with fictional characters, Frankenstein-818 became Dracula while up in the top of Frankenstein castle. This was reversed after Herodotus-724 managed to expel Auteur from the Cupid Homeworld. (POEM: Auteur and the Homeworld ^[+]Loading...["Auteur and the Homeworld (poem)"])

Minor references

Jo Grant, upon seeing Stangmoor Prison, said that it looked like Dracula's castle. (TV: The Mind of Evil)

When exposing Josiah Samuel Smith to harmful sunlight, Ace called him Dracula. (TV: Ghost Light)

Maria Jackson thought that there was something spooky about Sarah Jane Smith's house, and that "it had a touch of Dracula's castle". (PROSE: Invasion of the Bane)

Clyde Langer told the following joke about the character: "How did Count Dracula escape from Transylvania? He used a blood vessel." to weaken the Pied Piper by causing laughter. (TV: The Day of the Clown)

When Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer saw the sunny Ashen Hill Manor Clyde said that "Castle Dracula" also might have looked okay on a sunny day. (TV: The Eternity Trap)

Behind the scenes

The plot for Goth Opera was originally developed from an unproduced comic strip for Doctor Who Magazine which would have featured the Fourth Doctor in a fight against Dracula. (REF: I, Who)

Dracula has been played by David de Keyser, Marc Warren and Jonathan Rigby in various adaptations, while Peter Cushing, who played a version of the Doctor in the two theatrical 1960s Doctor Who movies, was most famous for playing Dracula's archnemesis in the Hammer Dracula series, Van Helsing. This is referenced in several parodical work by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett, such as Doctor Who 3 - The Third Motion Picture, where the Scriptwriter ends up being slain in the manner typical of the theatrical Dracula.