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Gotta love crying in the club about Lenore’s death even though I kinda hate her. Goddammit Powerhouse, you made me care about her in the end and I hate it. That scene was way too emotional for my poor heart. Like homegirl got her karma but she chose death instead of being in a cage like Hector did and I don’t know if that’s better or worse.

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Of all the things I thought I would do this christmas break, I didn’t think it would be planning harry potter fanfic

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False, Texas is now Dark Blue

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I want to obliterate that twink, but I also want that twink to obliterate me.

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That is a hot fucking take holy shit

Theories about Count Saint Germaine

I strongly believe that the version of Count Saint Germaine in Netflix’s Castlevania is based heavily on the German legend of Faust, particularly from Goethe’s version of the Faust story. 

In that version of the Faust Story, Faust is a doctor and sorcerer who sells his soul for the ultimate knwoledge / life experience.  He will live until he has the greatest experience, which he feels would be the ultimate enlightenment (knowledge).  In Goethe’s  Faust: Part 2 he learns that this ultimate experience is love, caring about others.  And so he finds redemption and is able to ascend to Heaven where his true love, Gretchen waited for him.

The Goethe version of Faust was written as a closet drama play in the late eighteenth century with part two written some time before eighteen thirty one and based on the fifteenth century German legend.  Goethe’s version of Faust was told in the 1926 silent film from F. W. Murnau (director of Nosferatu), the “Fleabitten Bargain” episode of Wishbone, and is retold in the Kamelot power metal albums Epica and The Black Halo (when played back to back) but the Kamelot version changes Gretchen’s name to Helena and change Faust’s first name to Ariel.

Faust is supposed to have been a doctor and sorcerer and during the time of his bargain, he and Mephistopheles (a demon, not The Devil, himself) travelled to different places and times together.  Faust was obsessed with gaining new knowledge.   

The legend of Faust is loosely based on a real self-proclaimed sorcerer who lived in the fifteenth century.  He was the author of a few Grimoires and many legends sprang up around him being immortal and having a demon companion who could turn into a dog. 

Now comes Saint German. Historically Count Saint German was an infamous yet well-educated conman of the eighteenth century who claimed to be a five-hundred-year-old immortal from Transylvania.  No one knows his true origin, there is only speculation.        

Here’s what Count Saint Germaine looked like in the Castlevania video games.  And yes, he’s a time traveller.  

Here’s what the historic Count Saint Germaine looked like.

Here’s what Count Saint Germaine looked like in the Netflix Castlevania series.

And here is how Faust was supposed to have looked according to Goethe’s Faust Part 1, illustrated by Harry Clarke.  

And here’s a statue of the demon Mephistopheles AKA Mephisto with Faust.  

 Though I doubt he sold himself to Mephisto I do think Count Saint Germaine learned the importance of love and found his redemption through love.  I also feel the Netflix version of Count Saint Germaine’s personality, his sorcery, his appearance, and his time travelling are very likely based much more on the legend of Faust than on the historic Saint Germaine. 

And now for my more insane fan theory…  

I think that person that Count Saint Germaine wanted to be reunited with was Alucard.  

Here are the clues:

1.  Whoever that “someone very dear to (him)” was, the show went out of their way to not reveal the companion’s gender, name, or appearance.  This suggests an effort to subvert expectations.

Tell me that doesn’t resemble Alucard’s build?

2.  The silhouette of the lover was thin, androgynous, and long haired, much like Alucard.  

2 Part b.  (Assuming this version of Count Saint Germaine is based on Faust)  Faust’s lover, Gretchen, does look a bit like Alucard now that I think about it…    

3.   There is the “reversed castle” in the corridor.  That reversed castle is from Symphony of The Night, the game where Alucard confronts and defeats his father.  

Symphony of the Night is set over a century after the current Netflix series events so though Count Saint Germaine might look much older than Alucard, there is a chance he is the younger of the two immortals at the time of their meeting since Count Saint Germaine is clearly a time traveller.   

4.   During season 3 there are distinct parallels between Count Saint Germaine and Alucard.   A lonely immortal desperate to be able to trust someone.  We are told how lonely Saint Germaine must be and then it cuts back to Alucard making similar decisions for the same reasons.   

5.  Both Alucard And Saint Germaine value knowledge in all its forms.   They consider it the mots precious gift. 

6.  This season went out of its way to portray Alucard as bisexual.

7.  Assuming Count Saint Germaine is at least partly based on the sorcerer Faust, part of the legend was that Faust traveled with a male companion…  who could turn into a dog (believed to be a demon).

  Not only is this ship possible, but I have fully embraced the Alucard and Count Saint Germaine (Faust) ship.       

In any event if I am right (and I think I am) we just actually saw Alucard and Count Saint Germaine’s Happily Ever After.

There’s also a very high chance that like the historic Count Saint Germaine the name is an alias.  It would be perfectly fitting if Alucard ended up with a direct descendant of Trevor and Sypha.

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I’m calling it now: Next season, we’re meeting Taka and Sumi’s clan, after they come to find their lost members. Thus, Alucard is about to get caught in a skirmish. He sends a letter or something to Sypha and Trevor, or some kind of distress signal, and it’s better than wandering so they come to his aid. Probably some kind of battle with a bittersweet reunion and maybe some goddamn comfort for my boy.

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Hey you

Yeah you

Whoever hurt my boy is going to get a weaponized Osana to the face.

Fak u

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If we get anymore Star Wars content, I want a merry trio comprised of an ex-padawan yoda-alien, an expert thief Jawa, and one very tired Ewok that chaperones them. And well shall call them...

Smol squad

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Anime High School? Don’t know her, all I know is Sakura High

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A nice day out for Purple and Mewtwo 💕

Make sure to treat your pokemon now and then 😉

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Yandere Dev: Gives us multiple ways to kill our rivals

Me: Pacifist routes so hard that it should be called tomodachi simulator

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BABYYYYYY BABYYYYYY

If BB dies I’ll murder Kojima with my bare hands

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If BB dies I’ll murder Kojima with my bare hands

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I can only find one Narugodo fan fiction in AO3.

Please, I don’t want to go to desperate lengths

Don’t make me go back to fanfiction.net.

Don’t make me do it.

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My crops... are watered. My skin... is clear.

EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU ATLUS

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Also, it’s strongly implied that she raped Nick. I don’t see the rest of you commenting on that nice little fact.

AMY ELLIOT IS A BITCH

That is all.

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AMY ELLIOT IS A BITCH

That is all.