Now it happened that Mina's father was Doctor Seward, who happened to run the local santitorium, which happened to have recently incarcerated a crazy person named Renfield, who happened to be obsessed with Sulley from Monsters, Inc.
It also happened that he firmly believed that he was Sulley's loyal servant.
"I am here, master," Renfield would say to all of the closet doors in the facility. "I am here to obey thy orders."
This was enough to make Martin, one of the hospital's guards, lose his cool.
"Blimey, you won't be keepin' quiet about that cartoon character Sulley, will you?" Martin would say as he drug Renfield back to his cell by the little arm. "I dare say, those folks at Pixar are making their animation too realistic if you be mistaking them for real!"
"I need to serve Sullivan!" Renfield would cry out desperately. "I need for him to...give me things."
But Martin wouldn't have any of it as he locked the cell door shut after shoving Renfield inside.
"He's crazy!" he would say to himself, clapping his hands together. It was funny how Martin seemed to strongly dislike crazy people yet chose to make a living working at a mental institution.
Anyway, it happened that there was this old guy, Dr. Van Helsing, who worked at the facility and always said things that were batshit insane. But everyone took his opinion seriously for some reason.
"You say that Mina's friend Lucy has not been heard from for three days?" he said to Dr. Seward in his office one afternoon. "Where did she last see her?"
"In her room, I believe," answered Doctor Seward, sounding clueless and desperate. "Tell me, Dr. Helsing, do you think we should go to the police?"
"The police will not be able to help you," said Van Helsing firmly. "Not if what I believe to be true has happened. I fear that poor Lucy has become the latest victim of none other than Sulley from Monsters, Inc."
Now, any normal person would say "What kind of shit have you been smoking, Van Helsing?" in response to something like this. But all Dr. Seward said was "Go on."
"It has come to my attention that Lucy and Mina were both reading a fanfiction on the night of her disappearance," said Van Helsing, adjusting his glasses. "A fanfiction that was centered around Sulley and Boo from Monsters, Inc."
"But Monsters, Inc. is just a movie," said Doctor Seward, stating the obvious. "It isn't real!"
"Need I remind you that in this fanfiction that Lucy was reading, Boo was hoping that Sulley would make passionate love to her," Van Helsing said, ignoring Doctor Seward's point. "Lucy, it is known to all of us, had a huge crush on Sulley. But this fanfiction had an abrupt and unexpected ending. At the end of the story, Sulley shoved Boo into his jaws...and ate her alive."
"And why should she have expected a different conclusion?" asked Doctor Seward, sounding clueless and desperate. "The title of the fanfiction was Sulley Eats Boo, after all."
"My research shows that this fanfiction was originally published with a different title," said Van Helsing with dead seriousness. "It was once called Boo's Kitty, but the reviews were savage. They told the author that he had a "sick, sick, sick mind," so the title was changed, to warn the reader of what the story included."
"I still don't understand what any of this has to do with Lucy," said Doctor Seward, wiping sweat off of his forehead like the useless sap he was.
"At the end of the story, Sulley runs outside into the rain and cries out to the sky," said Van Helsing, placing a spoon in his tea and stirring it ominously. "He swears revenge against those responsible! The ones responsible, in his view, are those who clicked on the fanfiction. Those who ship Sulley and Boo. Those who wish to see them make love and have furry, ugly babies together."
"But Dr. Helsing, in the movie, Sulley would never do anything to intentionally harm Boo, and certainly wouldn't eat her," said Doctor Seward, stating the obvious. "This is all just some bad fanfiction. It isn't film canon."
"Ah, but Doctor Seward," said Van Helsing gravely, taking off his glasses. "The fanfiction of today...may be the film canon of tomorrow."