DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
CASE-LINKED PERSONS OF INTEREST — CARFAX INCIDENT (2025)
Classification: LEVEL 4–5 — CLASSIFIED
PERSON OF INTEREST: MINA HARKER (née Murray)
Status: Alive. Under Directorate surveillance.
Summary:
Central survivor and primary “tether subject” during the Carfax Incident. Subject was repeatedly targeted by ARC-DRACULA and underwent prolonged feeding events, establishing a psychic bond. Despite repeated exposure, subject resisted full assimilation. Termination of ARC-DRACULA coincided with severing of tether; however, residual phenomena remain measurable.
Behavioral Notes:
Demonstrated resistance uncommon among feeding victims, likely anchored by pre-existing emotional and relational tether to Jonathan Harker.
Reports intermittent “echoes”: intrusive recollections, altered vocal tone, flashes of external perspective not originating from her. These events appear strongest in dream states.
Displays heightened empathy, bordering on compulsive caretaking — possibly an after-effect of psychic imprinting.
Conceived during tether period; Directorate concern remains regarding possible ontological contamination. Infant is enrolled in generational watch program under Level-5 clearance.
Risk Level: HIGH INTEREST — Conditionally Safe
No overt physiological anomalies. Psychological and psychic monitoring ongoing. Any sign of hive-mind reconnection escalates subject to Containment Priority.
PERSON OF INTEREST: JONATHAN HARKER
Status: Alive. Under Directorate surveillance.
Summary:
Survivor of extended captivity within Velkanova. Subject was repeatedly fed upon by ARC-DRACULA and the three Brides. Unlike comparable cases, he did not transition to vampirism (Lucy Westenra pattern) or enthrallment (Renfield pattern). Presents as a “partial feeding survivor,” anomalous category not yet understood.
Behavioral Notes:
Trauma profile includes extreme sleep disruption, intrusive auditory hallucinations, and persistent paranoia.
Reports fragmented access to hive-mind communications: muffled voices, impressions of movement, sense of “being watched.”
Sexual assault is inferred during captivity; subject avoids discussing this aspect directly.
Knowledge of Velkanova customs, Bride behavior, and Dracula’s operational methods is unmatched, but subject is psychologically unstable and cannot be deployed as operative.
Demonstrates fierce protectiveness toward Mina and infant; instability increases when family is threatened.
Risk Level: HIGH INTEREST — Potential Relay Vector
Subject is biologically human but may act as passive conduit for hive-mind resonance. Considered unstable asset and surveillance priority.
PERSON OF INTEREST: LUCY WESTENRA
Status: Deceased — terminated by Arthur Holmwood, 2025.
Summary:
First prominent civilian casualty. Subject underwent progressive transition after repeated feeding. Symptoms included pallor, unexplained anemia, altered sleep cycles, and eventual predatory mimicry. Neutralized by Arthur Holmwood after full conversion.
Behavioral Notes:
Initial concealment of symptoms — motivated by social reputation — prolonged the transition window and hindered intervention.
Post-conversion behavior included vocal mimicry designed to lure familiar targets, and overt hostility toward former intimates.
Remains serve as case study: slow transformation highlights critical intervention window lost to social stigma and denial.
Risk Level: NEUTRALIZED
Case utilized in Directorate training curricula for early detection protocols.
PERSON OF INTEREST: ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
Status: Alive. Location redacted.
Summary:
Civilian hunter and direct participant in Carfax Incident. Romantic partner of Lucy Westenra; executed her termination. Transitioned from skeptic to primary combatant following her death.
Behavioral Notes:
Initially resistant to acknowledging Lucy’s condition, which slowed operational response and contributed to civilian casualties.
Following Lucy’s termination, demonstrated exceptional decisiveness and aggression against vampiric targets.
Psychological profile indicates chronic grief, but also resilience and capacity to function under extreme trauma.
Known for strong loyalty to allies; instrumental in maintaining cohesion within survivor group.
Risk Level: LOW — Human Combatant
No anomalous markers. Recommended for post-incident psychological monitoring due to unresolved trauma load.
PERSON OF INTEREST: DR. JOHANNA SEWARD
Status: Alive. Active.
Summary:
Medical professional. Among first to document feeding patterns and physiological decline in Lucy Westenra. Played dual role as medical analyst and field medic.
Behavioral Notes:
Early detection efforts resisted by peers and community leadership, creating frustration and sense of isolation.
Exhibits unresolved grief regarding Lucy; romantic attachment suspected, coloring judgment but also strengthening personal resolve.
Actively participated in medical containment during hotel massacre and St. Bramwell Hospital raid, saving multiple survivors.
Displays pragmatic acceptance of supernatural phenomena; views vampires as medical subjects as well as ontological threats.
Risk Level: LOW — Asset Potential
Stable but emotionally compromised. Valuable for research into vampiric physiology; requires oversight to prevent compromised objectivity.
PERSON OF INTEREST: RENFIELD (M.R.)
Status: Deceased, 2025.
Summary:
Civilian turned thrall. Early exposure to ARC-DRACULA resulted in auditory hallucinations and compulsive behaviors. Progressed through stages of enthrallment — patient → acolyte → enforcer.
Behavioral Notes:
Contradictory impulses: deep devotion to Dracula, interspersed with attempts to protect Mina Harker.
Served as living demonstration of enthrallment trajectory.
Death occurred during final engagement; conflicting accounts describe either sacrifice or collapse under Dracula’s control.
Risk Level: NEUTRALIZED
File preserved as exemplar of enthrallment mechanics. Recommended as instructional case for psychological screening protocols.
PERSON OF INTEREST: QUENTIN MORRIS
Status: Deceased, 2025 — confirmed combat fatality.
Summary:
Civilian combatant, originally known as a stage and screen actor with minor international acclaim. Maintained long-standing unrequited affection for Lucy Westenra. Despite lack of combat background, volunteered in hunter group. Delivered killing blow to ARC-DRACULA before sustaining fatal injuries.
Behavioral Notes:
Pre-incident profile: charismatic, disciplined, skilled in stage combat; trained reflexes may have contributed to combat utility despite lack of military experience.
Provided steady tactical support, often acting as intermediary between Arthur Holmwood’s grief and Van Helsing’s obsession.
Death occurred immediately after inflicting terminal strike on ARC-DRACULA; injuries incompatible with survival.
Survivor testimony positions him as martyr; his prior career as actor complicates Directorate narrative management, as public mythologizing of his “final performance” is already in circulation.
Risk Level: NEUTRALIZED
Legacy file retained for morale and commemorative purposes. Recommended for Directorate review of narrative suppression strategies.
PERSON OF INTEREST: ABRAHAM VAN HELSING
Status: Alive. Location redacted.
Summary:
Scholar, physician, and fringe occultist. Prior to Carfax Incident, maintained a small but persistent presence via late-night radio broadcasts and online video lectures. Widely regarded as a conspiracy theorist — his repeated insistence on vampiric reality earned him “crackpot” reputation. During the Carfax escalation, archival recordings of his shows circulated widely, reframed as “warnings.” These materials catalyzed civilian panic and, ultimately, localized riots.
Behavioral Notes:
Pre-Incident Activity: Hosted independent AM broadcast The V-Files and later uploaded commentary videos, typically dismissed as pseudoscience. Key refrain: “Vampires are not myth, they are memory.”
Incident Role: Transitioned from derided outsider to perceived prophet as murders mounted. Citizens replayed his clips as proof of suppressed truth. His advocacy framed vampires as existential threat, overriding medical explanations.
Public Impact: Recordings are now considered memetic hazards; widespread circulation fueled distrust in official channels and exacerbated breakdown of civil order.
Personal Profile: Exhibits obsessive documentation behaviors — carries notebooks and portable recorders, constantly updating lore. Demonstrates brilliance in pattern recognition, but obsession overrides caution.
Risk Level: MODERATE — Valuable but Unstable
Knowledge asset with dual status: indispensable source on vampiric patterns, but also inadvertent propagandist whose public reach destabilized containment. Requires strict monitoring, communication embargo, and information control.
Directorate Note:
Van Helsing remains under consideration for controlled consultancy, but any unsanctioned return to broadcasting constitutes a Level 5 Breach due to demonstrated ability to incite civilian unrest.
DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
POST-INCIDENT ASSESSMENT — CARFAX CLUSTER (2025)
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED
Executive Summary
The Carfax Incident resulted in the apparent destruction of ARC-DRACULA and his Brides. However, analysis indicates the human cohort linked to the case cannot be regarded as closed. Survivors present a constellation of anomalies — psychological, psychic, and social — that may function as residual vectors.
Residual Risk Factors
Psychic Contamination:
Mina Harker retains partial tether-markers.
Jonathan Harker reports intermittent hive-mind echoes despite biological normalcy.
Both are raising an infant conceived during tether period — genetic/ontological status unresolved.
Behavioral Volatility:
Arthur Holmwood demonstrates capacity for decisive violence under grief stressors.
Dr. Johanna Seward remains emotionally compromised, vulnerable to fixation.
Abraham Van Helsing exhibits obsessive behaviors, potential to catalyze further engagements.
Memetic Hazard:
Renfield’s case (thrall trajectory) and Lucy Westenra’s transition both generated substantial civilian panic.
Local lore in Carfax Hollow has not dissipated; community narratives framing the survivors as “chosen” or “cursed” complicate long-term stability.
Operational Legacy:
Quentin Morris’s death in the act of destroying ARC-DRACULA has already been mythologized. This narrative may become a rallying point for future cultic activity or anti-state sentiment.
Directorate Recommendation
Surveillance: Maintain passive but continuous monitoring of the Harkers and offspring. Elevate to active containment on any indication of vampiric physiology or psychic relay.
Narrative Control: Suppress civilian accounts linking survivors directly to the anomalous. Promote alternate explanations (terrorist activity, chemical contamination, civil unrest).
Knowledge Management: Limit academic or journalistic inquiry into Carfax Hollow; reclassify records under Directorate Seal.
Asset Consideration: Evaluate Johanna Seward and Abraham Van Helsing as controlled consultants for future vampiric phenomena. Psychological clearance required.
Final Assessment
ARC-DRACULA may be destroyed, but the Carfax cluster remains an active risk environment. Survivors constitute a Living Containment Breach Vector — not anomalous in themselves, but permanently altered by proximity. Directorate policy: observe, suppress, never release.
DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
ENTITY REGISTRY — ARC-DRACULA / BRIDE COMPLEX
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED
OVERVIEW
Entities collectively designated ARC-BRIDES functioned as vampiric adjuncts to ARC-DRACULA. While exhibiting standard vampiric physiology (immortality, predatory anatomy, psychic tethering), each retained distinct psychological imprints reflecting their human origins. Operational function was less as combatants and more as instruments of psychological destabilization and control.
Confirmed subjects:
Gertrude (c. 1920s origin)
Jessica (c. 1980s origin)
Claire Van Helsing (c. 1990s origin)
All three reported destroyed during Carfax Incident (2025). Status: Neutralized — Unverified.
ENTITY PROFILE: GERTRUDE (“BRIDE ONE”)
Status: Presumed destroyed.
Summary:
Likely the eldest of the triad. Origin traced to interwar Europe. Maintained hallmarks of period culture — pearls, jazz, flapper attire — even post-conversion. Distinguishing behavioral marker: fixation on a lost lover killed by ARC-DRACULA.
Observed Behaviors:
Fed selectively, preferring victims resembling her lost companion.
Referred to Jonathan Harker by another name, indicating memory bleed or deliberate reenactment.
Exhibited duality: overt hatred for ARC-DRACULA, yet unconditional obedience enforced by blood tether.
Specialized in emotional manipulation; victims often reported feeling “seen” before attack.
Threat Assessment: HIGH (Crimson) — Psychological lure.
Containment Notes:
If entity survived, recommended protocol involves identity-disruption measures (breaking reenactment loop).
ENTITY PROFILE: JESSICA (“BRIDE TWO”)
Status: Presumed destroyed.
Summary:
American origin, circa mid-1980s. Tourist/backpacker who entered Velkanova under guise of injury and was assimilated. Displays volatility, theatricality, and compulsive violence.
Observed Behaviors:
Carried consumer tech (walkman, headphones) long after obsolescence — incorporated into feeding rituals.
Thrill-seeker: treated predation as performance, taunted victims with humor and mockery.
On record as overwhelming even ARC-DRACULA’s tolerance for chaos; subject required direct restraint by master entity.
Demonstrated highest body count of the triad during Jonathan Harker captivity.
Threat Assessment: HIGH (Crimson) — Unpredictable predator.
Containment Notes:
Countermeasures require crowd isolation; subject thrives in spectacle and panic.
ENTITY PROFILE: CLAIRE VAN HELSING (“BRIDE THREE”)
Status: Presumed destroyed.
Summary:
Voluntary entrant. Believed to be relative of Abraham Van Helsing, though Directorate records redact degree of kinship. Origin traced to late 1990s. Assimilation was conscious act of devotion rather than forced feeding.
Observed Behaviors:
Self-identified as “disciple” rather than victim. Spoke of ARC-DRACULA in theological terms.
Exhibited stillness, quiet observation, and ritualized gestures (face-touching, whispered blessings).
Functioned as recruiter: approached potential victims with language of “salvation.”
Unnerving calmness noted by Jonathan Harker: described as “the breath before the scream.”
Threat Assessment: HIGH (Crimson) — Religious zealot vector.
Containment Notes:
Any resurfacing demands extreme caution; subject’s rhetoric considered memetic hazard capable of inducing voluntary conversion.
TRIAD FUNCTIONS
Collectively, the Brides operated as:
Psychological Multipliers: Each represented a different archetype of ruin (grief, thrill, faith). Together, they destabilized captives by amplifying fears and desires.
Operational Enforcers: Guarded ARC-DRACULA’s captives, enforced ritual compliance, punished disobedience.
Mythological Reinforcers: Their very existence validated ARC-DRACULA’s legend; masquerade rituals and public displays centered around them.
POST-INCIDENT ASSESSMENT
Though presumed destroyed, Directorate analysts stress the non-zero possibility of Bride survival, given:
Lack of physical remains.
Velkanova’s continued black-site status.
Persistent cultural echoes in survivor dreams.
Directive: Monitor missing-person cases globally for signatures:
Identity reenactment loops (Gertrude pattern).
Thrill-violence paired with pop-cultural anachronisms (Jessica pattern).
Quiet devotion rhetoric (“He chose me,” “I am saved”) (Claire pattern).
DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
CASE FILE APPENDIX — ARC-BRIDES TESTIMONIAL RECORDS
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTEDEXCERPT A: Tape Harker-19 (Recovered, Velkanova, 2025)
Source: Jonathan Harker, captive log.
Condition: Warped, partial.
“…she wears the pearls even when she’s covered in blood.
Calls me by his name, not mine. The one who died smiling.
I think that’s why she smiles at me—because I’m already dead to her, and she doesn’t care who I really am.”Analyst Note: Correlates with Gertrude profile (identity reenactment loop).
EXCERPT B: Civilian Interview — “Subject 14” (Carfax Hollow resident)
Source: Local recorded 911 call (archival).
Condition: Audio degraded, background noise present.
“She was laughing before she even hit him. Like—like it was a game. High heels on the pavement, music in her ears, and she just… tore him open. She told me I had ‘good cheekbones for bleeding.’ I can still hear her saying it. She laughed for minutes. MINUTES.”
Analyst Note: Matches Jessica profile (theatrical predation).
EXCERPT C: Tape Harker-21 (Recovered, Velkanova, 2025)
Source: Jonathan Harker, captive log.
Condition: Whisper-heavy, low-level hum interference.
“…Claire doesn’t blink. She just… waits. She touched my face like she was blessing me. Said, ‘Now you’ve been seen by a god.’
I didn’t answer her. Couldn’t.
If Mina ever hears this—don’t listen to her voice. She makes worship feel easy.”Analyst Note: Matches Claire profile (religious devotion, memetic hazard potential).
EXCERPT D: Folkloric Account — Velkanova Resident (undated, smuggled interview)
Source: Anonymous resident testimony, smuggled to foreign press; seized by Directorate.
Condition: Translated, anonymized.
“The Prince’s women are his shadows. They dance when he commands, but they do not sleep.
One sings old songs, one laughs like a knife, one whispers prayers.
We keep our children indoors when the lamps go out, because if the shadows see them—
it means he already has.”
EXCERPT E: Post-Incident Civilian Interview — St. Bramwell Hospital
Source: Nurse testimony, after raid.
Condition: Partial transcript.
“She—Jessica, I think—stood in the middle of the corridor, swinging an IV pole like it was part of the show.
There were bodies already, but she wanted more eyes on her.
When Arthur and Quentin arrived, she applauded them.
Like it was theater.
Like we were audience, not victims.”
EXCERPT F: Directorate Analyst Log — Carfax Debrief
Condition: Internal memo, redacted.
“The triad represent complementary archetypes: sorrow (Gertrude), thrill (Jessica), faith (Claire).
Each reflects a facet of human vulnerability—love lost, desire for sensation, longing for meaning.
ARC-DRACULA did not create them merely as companions.
He engineered them as mirrors.”
Conclusion:
Firsthand accounts reinforce the triad’s role as psychological multipliers rather than simple predators. Survivors consistently describe encounters in terms of recognition or performance, suggesting the Brides’ true danger lay not only in feeding, but in reframing victims’ identities and desires as part of their predation ritual.