Abraham Van Helsing

Character
Name:	Jack Seward
Occupation:	doctor
Relationships:	Jack Seward -- protegee, Lucy Westenra -- patient, Arthur Holmwood -- vampire hunting ally, Quincy Morris -- vampire hunting ally, Mina Harker --vampire hunting ally, Jonathan Harker -- vampire hunting ally
Fandom:	Dracula
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Abraham Van Helsing is a character from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. He has been re-used in numerous adaptions and spinoffs of the novel, and has been the protagonist of some of them, such as the 2004 film Van Helsing.

Fandom

Van Helsing in movie adaptations: Dracula’s nemesis

Van Helsing in the book: Dracula’s real estate lawyer’s wife’s girlfriend’s fiancé’s boyfriend’s university professor

justaslime, in relation to Dracula Daily 

Dracula Daily

• meta about Van Helsing's nationality
• meta about Van Helsing as Stoker self-insert: "Still, I am very sold on the idea that Bram Stoker wrote a character with his same hair color and the same physiognomic attributes as himself, gave him his own damn name, and then made sure he had six advanced degrees and was super smart and talented at everything. ", ^{Archived version} post by atundratoadstool, 2022

Shipping

• Seward/Van Helsing
• Dracula/Van Helsing

Fanworks

Fanfic

• the poison and the cure by ancatmeow - a somewhat metatextual character study

Fanart

• big buff boy for you, ^{Archived version} by crepuscol, 2023
• fanart by bluelightningcommander, 2023

Meta

TODO

• I've sussed it, team. Van Helsing's problem is that he's Wrong Genre Savvy, ^{Archived version} by animate-mush, 2022 for Dracula Daily

Resources

• Wikipedia:Abraham Van Helsing
• Abraham Van Helsing on AO3
• #Abraham Van Helsing on Tumblr
• Abraham Van Helsing on Dracula Fandom.com wiki
• Abraham Van Helsing on TVTropes