Arthur Holmwood/Jack Seward

Pairing
Pairing:	Arthur Holmwood/Jack Seward
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Gender category:	Slash
Fandom:	Dracula
Canonical?:	No
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Arthur Holmwood/Jack Seward is a slash pairing between the characters of Arthur Holmwood and Jack Seward from the novel Dracula and its derivative works.

Canon

Arthur Holmwood and Jack Seward are friends and competitors for Lucy Westenra's hand in marriage.

Fandom

Dracula Daily

Since "the Polycule" (Lucy, her three suitors, Mina & Jonathan Harker) was especially popular withing the Tumblr Dracula Daily fandom, Holmward was often seen as a subset of or point of focus within works about that. However, there is also plenty of Arthur/Jack work to be found that focuses on the pairing.

Arthur/Jack works are often set post-canon, which appears related to them ending up closest to each other after the deaths of Lucy and Quincey, and also with the line in the Dracula epilogue about them being "happily married", which implied that they found wives but inspired a lot of jokes and some serious analysis from the Dracula Daily fanbase.

Fanworks

Fanart

• “A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.” by marghen, 2022
• And they both were happily married, ^{Archived version} by nonbinary-dandy, 2022

Fanfic

• Love Multiplying by BlueCatWriter -- a polycule/multiship Dracula fanwork described by the author as "This story is just a slow-burn Holmward at this point"

Meta

• I am currently absolutely losing it listen., ^{Archived version} by capribornio. How reading Dracula in Spanish for Dracula Daily led them to discover that the ambiguous translation can also read as Arthur and Seward getting married in the Spanish translation. References to Supernatural Spanish Dub.
• post by cattuladaily, 2023

Links

• #holmward tag on Tumblr
• Arthur Holmwood/John Seward works on AO3