Mina Harker
Mina Harker is a young schoolteacher who is engaged to Jonathan Harker and is bestfriends with Lucy Westenra, who is Dracula's first victim in England.
Overview[]
Mina, or rather her blood, was pivotal and instrumental by malevolent groups such as the Ahnenerbe who cultivated her tainted blood in order to create vampires that would transform into Nosferatu. This was instrumental for Project Vampir Sturm. She was also a member of the British Paranormal Society and the Silver Lantern Club the latter being responsible for aiding Mina in restoring her humanity by defeating Dracula with Van Helsing.
At some point during the hunt with Van Helsing, she is bitten by Dracula at least three times, but she does not become a vampire right away. Rather, she slowly transitions despite her crew's futile efforts. In one such effort, Professor Van Helsing tries to bless her with the holy bread, but the piece combusts as soon as it placed on her forehead. Mina is cured by the ending of the book, when Dracula is supposedly "killed".
History[]
Attacked by Dracula[]
She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young schoolmistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra. She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year, when schools would have closed for the summer.
After her fiancé Jonathan escapes from Dracula's castle, Mina travels to Budapest and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatic encounter with the vampire and his brides, and the two return to England as husband and wife. Back home, they learn that Lucy has died from a mysterious illness stemming from severe blood loss as the result of repeated attacks by an unknown, blood-drinking animal; — the animal, they learn, was none other than Dracula taking a different shape.
Vampire Proxy[]
It is because of Mina that the Silver Lantern Club learn of the vampire king's plans as she is the one who collects the journals, letters, newspaper clippings and fits all of the relevant information regarding the Count together, places them in chronological order, and types out multiple copies, giving them to each of the other hunters. Mina and Jonathan then join the coalition around Abraham Van Helsing, and turn their attentions to destroying the Count. The club uses this information to discover clues about Dracula's plans, and further investigate the location of the various residences he purchased as a means to track him and destroy him. With each subsequent action the party takes being recorded by the various parties and added to the collection of events surrounding Dracula.
After Dracula learns of this plot against him, he takes revenge by visiting — and biting — Mina at least three times. Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, dooming her to become a vampire should she die, afterwards killing Renfield and destroying all of the copies of their epistolary, except for one which Dr. Seward kept in a safe. The rest of the tale deals with the group's efforts to spare her this fate by tracking and attempting to kill Dracula. When Van Helsing attempts to bless her by placing a wafer of sacramental bread against her forehead, it burns her flesh leaving a scar proving that Dracula has made her unholy. Mina slowly succumbs to the blood of the vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and forth from a state of consciousness to a state of semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. Mina then uses her inherent telepathic abilities to track Dracula's movements under the hypnotism of Van Helsing.
Assault on Dracula's Castle[]
Dracula later flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by the entire group who split up. As Van Helsing takes Mina with him on his journey to Dracula's castle to slay the brides of Dracula, the rest of the party attempt to locate and raid the ship Dracula is using to ambush him. As time goes on, Helsing's ability to hypnotize Mina to obtain intelligence on the whereabouts of Count Dracula diminishes significantly as her appearance and mannerisms become more vampire-like to the point where she even loses her appetite as well as her ability to stay awake during the day despite multiple attempts of Van Helsing to wake her.
While Mina and Van Helsing are at camp, Helsing crumbles sacramental bread in a circular ring around Mina as she sleeps during the day time. Upon waking, she is unable to cross the circle at all. Van Helsing did this as a test to determine that if Mina were unable to exit the circle, vampires would be unable to enter as well. This is confirmed when later in the night, the brides come to the camp, unable to cross into the ring which Mina and Helsing are located. The brides beckon her to join them but fail and fly back to Dracula's castle before sunrise.
Lifting the Curse[]
When the party kills Dracula just before sunset, Dracula's vampiric spell is lifted and Mina freed from the curse as a result. However, unbeknownst to Mina and the other hunters, Dracula was instead spared by Van Helsing and had the latter made him swear to forever be in service to his bloodline. Dracula accepts the proposition and becomes Van Helsing's ultimate weapon against the forces of darkness until he soon creates and organization which has to come to be known as the Hellsing Organization.
It is unknown that due to Dracula being spared by Van Helsing Mina would remain a vampire although it is theorized that because of the holy weaponry used against him to render him near death, his defeat was more than enough to slowly free Mina of her vampirism. Although, Mina has demonstrated superhuman traits during her life as a hunter meaning that her vampirism only subsided temporarily.