Lucy Westernra loved Mina Harker.
She also loved Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and Dr. Seward.
She writes to Mina and says that she wishes that she didn’t have to choose between the men she loved because she wanted to marry all three of them and hated to be the cause of any sadness they’d have.
Lucy Westernra was not possessive of Mina Harker, nor was she jealous of Mina and Jonathan’s relationship.
Lucy is overjoyed when Mina gets married and whenever the topic of their relationship is brought up- wether in conversation or in the few POV chapters we get from her- she is supportive of her best friend and talks of how well-matched they are and she’s so happy that she gets to see two of her best friends with someone they love.
I mean, Mina even says that Lucy isn’t jealous by nature!!!
Mina and Lucy obviously had a relationship closer than regular friendship, and closer than a “sisterly bond”. Mina says that she loves Lucy with “All the moods and tenses of the verb,” and also mentions several times how lovely Lucy is when she’s asleep with words that a lover would. Was it just super deep platonic feelings? Was it romance? Was it something different? Who knows? But the fact remains, they certainly weren’t two bros chilling in a hot tub five feet apart.
Mina Harker loved Lucy with all her heart.
She also loved Jonathan Harker.
Seriously, Mina and Jonathan are relationship goals and a perfect example of a power couple. They’ve known each other since they were children, they share interests, their strengths compliment each other’s, they’re supportive, they’re in love. Jonathan was literally willing to have Mina turn him into a vampire if they couldn’t stop her turning in time. When Jonathan made his escape from Castle Dracula, the last thing he thinks of is Mina. He was ready to rip Dracula apart with his bare hands on the spot after Mina got attacked. Mina told Jonathan not to share any information with her once the mental link happened because she didn’t want to hurt him or the rest of the Crew of Light. She memorized entire train schedules just because she wanted to help Jonathan out with his commute time. She tried to help him with every resource she got and begged Van Helsing to assist that effort. They literally don’t keep any secrets from each other.
A lot of this applies to her relationship with Lucy.
I’m here for Lucy being in love with Mina explicitly in adaptations of Dracula, but I think that recently people are forgetting that Lucy wasn’t jealous of Mina or hated Jonathan or anything of the sort. Lucy was the embodiment of a precious cinnamon roll who loved her best friend and loved all three of the men who proposed to her and gladly would’ve married Arthur, Quincey, Seward, Mina, and Jonathan if she could’ve.
I just really don’t like that some portrayals of her it’s Lucy in the Closet who is in love with Mina and longs for her but unfortunately she’s in love with a Straight Man and in a Hetero Relationship where the man isn’t really that great of a guy for her- which is also mean to Jonathan because again, he would kill everyone in the room and then himself if anything happened to Mina and was just a nice dude In General- and can’t accept the fact that she’s got Romantic Feelings for Lucy so there’s a weird dance because Lucy Has To Be In The Closet Because Victorian Society Won’t Accept Her and Mina Is In Denial About Her Feelings For Lucy And Is Throwing Her Happiness Away For A Straight Relationship With A Jerk. It’s not very fair to any of them, and it actually ruins the driving force for the whole gang’s campaign against Dracula.
The whole reason why they even came together was because they loved Lucy, Lucy loved them, and the monster who slowly and torturously killed her before turning her into a monster has hell to pay. Stop pitting wholesome relationships against each other and trying to make statements about Oppressive Victorian Society with characters who actually were counterculture in their own ways in the original material, and don’t forget that Quincey, Arthur, and Seward exist and were in love with Lucy and were loved by Lucy.
TL;DR Lucy Westernra was a sweetheart who was most likely plyamourous, and writing her as being jealous of Mina and Mina’s relationship due to some form of unrequited love and being Forever Alone is misinterpreting a deep and unselfish love for her friend as well as erasing her own romantic arc and relationships.
Idk I just noticed this sort of thing and it took me a while to understand why I fully support Mina/Lucy but didn’t like a good chunk of the Mina/Lucy content I’ve seen and wanted to make an extremely long and rambling post about it once it clicked.
