I was so afraid I was being overly sensitive!
UPDATE: Apparently there is a character named Anna Harding, so maybe they just renamed Ruth?
I’m very tired of seeing ingenue characters from literature, especially classical literature like Dracula, get changed by modern adaptations to a point where they are no longer an ingenue at all. But I admit I’m rather sensitive/protective of that trope
I feel like poor Lucy gets the short end of the stick 99% of the time, and not just by canon. As much as I *love* Coppola’s film, I wasn’t a huge fan of that interpretation of Lucy. Lucy in the original novel is kind and gentle, fitting the Ingenue trope perfectly, and gosh I’m just…
Is Ruth Harding/Lucy Westenra not in this? I’m guessing this female lead is Ellen Hutter/Wilhelmina Murray (Harker) but if Ruth/Lucy has been excluded, I’m going to be sad
Ah, she’s not in Osaka! Tokyo
I just feel so bad because I really don’t know what to say back. I want to show I genuinely care and recognize that she is hurting