Dracula
Arthur Holmwood
Lucy's fiancé
A noble, warm-hearted young lord (later Lord Godalming) who loves Lucy, gives his blood for her, and pays for the pursuit of Dracula.
Arthur Holmwood is twenty-seven, tall and athletic, with golden-brown hair and a strong chin. He is chivalrous and openhearted. He is Lucy's chosen fiancé, and he is also loyal to his friends, Dr. Seward and Quincey Morris, who proposed to Lucy too and promised to stand together.
He inherits the title of Lord Godalming, and the money and standing that come with it. Arthur feels deeply, which makes the story hard on him. He is the one who sits beside Lucy through her illness, and the one asked to do the hardest thing of all.
“Take mine! All of it, if it will save her life!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
When Lucy falls ill, Arthur offers his blood at once in the transfusion Van Helsing arranges. He cannot stop her death, and grieves openly at her bedside. Van Helsing then brings him to the Westenra vault, where he sees the creature wearing Lucy's face and, guided by the professor, drives the stake that lets her rest.
He becomes one of the six allies and bankrolls the hunt. He helps destroy the earth boxes in London, travels by steam launch up the river toward Dracula's castle, and fights at the castle pass beside the others, crying out that they finish it for Lucy and for Mina.
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