Dracula Helena

Of all the Soul-Clones created by the Impaler, the figure known as Dracula-Helena may be the strangest. 

Her origin is unique for one thing.  She was married to the latest (and one of the least impressive) holder of the title Baron Frankenstein, who had grown quite obsessed both with his beautiful bride--who in turn felt little or nothing for him--and with re-creating his famous ancestor's work.  What happened with and to them both was dramatized (with lots of silly humor and exploitative footage) in the motion picture Mistress Frankenstein.

Basically, she suffered a severe head trauma due to a fall.  The damage was severe enough to be fatal, or would have been had her husband not had the equipment needed to maintain life.  However, she required a new brain. 

The Baron's servant was able to get a new brain with good speed, and so she was revived.  Exactly what methods were used remains unknown but such a transplant has been successfully carried out by many Frankensteins in the past, including both Victor and Frederick Frankensteins as well as the former's son Wolf (in the films Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein).  However, Helena immediately began to show a wildly different personality.  Formerly bored and asexual, now she demonstrated a powerful libido aimed exclusively at women.  More, the women with whom she had encounters acted dazed, distracted, even mesmerized.

In short, they behaved precisely as vampire victims do.

Which begs the question--where did that brain come from?  My own research has led me to specific theory, mostly based on subsequent behavior and "filling in some dots."

Quite simply, at approximately the same time as (but prior to) the events above, the Countess Irina Karnstein underwent a huge change.  She was a strange individual, who had at one point been "adopted" by the mentally unstable clone called Dracula-Lejos as his "daughter."  It was at this time at least she attracted the attention of Dracula-Prime himself.  This terrible figure watched as Irina performed a weird blood experiment to use blood to transfer her consciousness into another person to become the wife of her step brother, Lejos' natural son.  She did this in Transylvania, the very lands the Impaler himself calls his domain.

Thus when Irina's body was abandoned in a an old castle (as chronicled in the motion picture Nadja), Dracula had his servants steal it and sell the brain to a servant of Baron Frankenstein.  The Baron might never have realized his wife was now a vampire, and if not then becoming was soon to become a soul-clone of Dracula!

What happened of course was not merely a scientific process.  An element of magic was involved.  The resulting individual evidently gained the powerful lust for women which is part of the first Dracula's personality, as well as a degree of arrogance.  Her powers seem impressive--not least an ability to walk in sunlight, which may mean at least physically she was something of a dhampyr a la the infamous Blade.

However the next time we see her, as chronicled in the silly comedy film The Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing, she encounters one of two sisters in the Van Helsing family.

Again, the filmmakers were focused upon making a farcical exploitation film so using it as a guide for actual evens requires more than a few pinches of salt.

Maybe a whole pillar.

Essentially, however, it would appear during college this particular Van Helsing, Lavina, underwent a strange experience wherein the ghost of some ancestor helped her incapacitate Dracula-Helena who was using Lavina's growing awareness of her own orientation to almost seduce her.  However, if not completely destroyed such creatures can come back.  When Dracula-Helena returned, she had a more involved plot which involved both Lavina and her sister Mina.

As chronicled in the film Lust for Dracula, this next plan took years, and was aimed at driving both Van Helsing sisters mad.  It also saw Dracula-Helena helping fund some drugs that could result in weakening the will of test subjects.  Mina Van Helsing was one such subject, persuaded she had married a man named Jonathan Harker but who was in fact a woman and minion of Dracula-Helena.

In the course of events, both Lavina (now using her middle name Abigail and working as a doctor) and Mina were seduced and betrayed by the Soul-Clone--arguably making her one of the most successful of all the Impaler's creations.

The precise fate of the sisters remains unknown at this time.  As of this writing, it has been sixteen years since the events described herein.  One possible clue is the motion picture An Erotic Werewolf in London, which hints as a nightmarish dreamscape in which Mina Van Helsing may be trapped--or it may be she has become a werewolf as part of Dracula-Helena's schemes.

So far as we know, this marks the only female Soul Clone the true Prince of Darkness has created.  If indeed she has retained (as it seems) the ability to walk in sunlight due to Irina Karnstein's dhampir nature, then she remains also a formidable opponent.