#once i add more muses i'll probably start wanting to integrate them into modern verses too... but at the same time i don't want to bring

[sorrowveined]

me trying to figure out how i'm gonna get loretta and stella verses in the modern era........ my brain hurts so bad.

okay so dracula's return in 1999 was predicted and that prediction was known about in portrait's era, i think?? so does that make it possible that after the events of the game, the two COULD have decided to help out with the planning of that battle??

i tried doing maths using the wiki and, if still alive, i think stella would've been around 76 by 1999... so the sisters might have even been around then still... not that i know where i'm doing with this or what that could mean yet lol. i am very scattered today with my thoughts - i just feel like the fact that portrait & the 1999 battle & then the aria series are actually quite close together in the timeline to be. like. something i could maybe use somehow?? if i had a brain

another unrelated point i find interesting reading the wiki (note: i am not just getting my lore from the wiki, i'm going through the games as well, but it's a helpful source while I'm still getting through them!) - dracula's revival in 1999 apparently involved a huge war against humanity and i assume as a result that near everyone would've known about it. but in aria, I specifically remember soma being like "i thought dracula was legend" and seeming to not know he was a real being, which is??? because how would the world forget about that?? when it happened so recently??

so i wonder if something happened in 1999 with dracula's final defeat that sealed away (most) people's memories of the supernatural as well. i know i'm making a huge leap from one (1) line of dialogue, and please tell me if i'm way off here, but i feel like that'd be super cool so i kind of hope it could work... as a headcanon...

BUT BACK TO LORETTA AND STELLA i wanna reincarnate them in the modern era for their portrayals here! but i need an excuse for why they would come back specifically and not like. a bunch of the other castlevania characters instead. hmm. anyone want to brainstorm?? ;w;