#anyway Dracula crushes on every Belmont he meets

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Dracula: New resurrection, new me. I will not fall for the first attractive boy I see this ti

Simon: Hey.

Dracula: Ah, fuck.

[sneepity-snoop-snorpity-sneep]

I gotta blabber for a sec about how much I appreciate how unique and SO not-simple of an antagonist Olrox is.

like he's introduced as the Vampire Who Kills Richter's Mom, and it was a straight-up murder. Like he fully sought her out, she was in the process of sending her kid overseas most likely because she knew he was coming - even before we fully get Olrox's side of the context, we can tell that shit was personal. Right down to the vivid green eyes, he's giving weirdly chill disney villain vibes. But the entire rest of the show? He's the dude in the bad guy car of the villain train just sitting and judging (OH is he judging) every other person there.

Olrox tracking down and killing Julia Belmont is the most confrontational we ever see him get. Every other scene he's in? He's watching, assessing, sometimes philosophizing, and eventually pulling his own chess moves, but fighting? Rarely! And the additional context of his character makes him even more fascinating!!

Olrox is really one of the only vampires in both Castlevania and C: Nocturne that seems to hold onto a connection to a human's life - even after he's no longer one. He reminisces to Mizrak about being a human during the fall of the Aztec Empire, he chooses to spend his time more like a human than any vamp since Lisa sent Dracula traveling like a human way back when.

Homeboy crossed the Atlantic by fucking ship, at a time when the trip took literal weeks and weeks and he can't even leave his quarters except at nighttime (granted, idk if he *has* a faster way to cross the ocean but it kinda seems like he'd do the ship trip anyways) he chooses to rent a room at an inn instead of staying at the chateau (and boink a cute human in said room, cough cough), and really seems to avoid other vampires - although I'm not sure if that's cuz he just doesn't vibe with 'em in general, or because he really doesn't vibe with the current hot vampire philosophy of the century, which seems to be very heavy-handled colonialism + elitism

I kinda wouldn't be surprised if it's both honestly - given that the only other vampire we meet besides him who spent time in the americas/new world was a literal plantation owning slaver (and unless I misremember, Annette says there were multiple vampires among the rich in St. Domingue), it seems pretty likely to me that whoever turned him was probably a vamp who had a direct hand in the downfall of his nation - coming to the New World specifically for conquest and to seize resources seems like it would be hella appealing for vampires. It would make a LOT of sense for Olrox's standoffish behavior around the other vamps to go back to him having been turned by someone very similar to them, who was probably not just an enemy to him, but part of this massive wave of destructive change in his human life.

like he really gives an impression of actively disliking and withdrawing from every other villain's motivation in this show - and it makes a lot of sense if my speculating is even a little bit close. The vampire's goals in Nocturne would be very nearly the same thing that drove the fall of the Aztec Empire - desire for power and control, justified by some """""natural order"""" hierarchy which really just boils down to 'we want all of this and we're going to indulge in making up a dramatic jerk-off reason why we're entitled to it, since you can't stop us taking it anyways and we've got time'

Dude seems to make little effort to be vampire-like - we rarely see him revel in his power like many other vampires do, as well as seeing him nonchalantly rubbing elbows with humans. He speaks fondly of a man he loved, who he fell for while said guy was still human, TO the other human he is currently crushing on! And I do mean crush, like he doesn't react to or treat Mizrak like a plaything, almost every time we get an Olrox lore-drop it's because he's talking to Mizrak sincerely about things that matter to him. He LIKE-likes this human, to the point of jumping directly into a fight to whisk Le Crush to safety in front of a vampire so powerful he won't directly oppose her! Absolutely fascinating behavior all around.

MAN but I want to see some flashbacks from this guy - as far as we know, vampirism is completely an Old World thing - Europe, Asia, Africa, every other vampire we've seen in both Castlevania shows has been from these continents. Were there even any vamps there at all before europeans landed on the shores of the americas???? I mean, I've heard of one of the old religions in mesoamerica having a suspiciously vampirelike god, but how would that connect to Olrox getting vampirized as a 30ish Aztec man?

MAN OH MAN but I am looking forward to seeing what Olrox gets up to in s2 -I'm burning to know if he's gonna survive the series or not, because despite him being the first villain we meet in Nocturne and doing a deed that usually gets villains the 'karmic death' ending, overall he's not really being written like a bad guy the audience wants to see go down. especially since he's not actually in opposition to our protagonists and has a vested interest in keeping one of Team Good Guys newer members alive. My guess is he's either going to get a similar ending to Isaac, a villain that we root for who actually catches a break and doesn't die, ooorrrrrrrr he's gonna get a Highly Tragic sort of death

[words-writ-in-starlight]

You mentioned Castlevania, so: Trevor Belmont for the headcanon meme?

Buddyyou have answered the call and here are some headcanons about thisdisaster for this headcanon meme.  Disclaimer that I know NOTHINGabout the games and this is 100% based on the show.  Also, welcome to Latin Hour.

A: what I think realistically

Here are a set of three related headcanonsthat are my ride-or-die Opinions about this show.

First of all, the Belmont family wasquite sizable—Belmont family proper, I’m sure there are any number ofillegitimate children and/or other branches scattered around Europe.  They were close, most of the family living onthe hereditary estate with the exception of the transient full-time hunters,but tough love was very much the word of the day.  It had to be, given their family duty and thesheer death rate.  Technically theBelmont family motto is Numquam Retro,arched over the ancient family crest. But for as long as Trevor can remember, the real family motto has beenthis: no matter how good a Belmont is, there is always something just thatlittle bit better.  Aut cum scuto aut in scuto, reads the legend over the family mausoleum,either with shield or on shield, andit is much truer.  Belmonts come homevictorious, or they don’t come home.

Second of all, Trevor was the crowningjewel of the Belmont family—a talented warrior from a young age, well-versed inthe bestiary, and devoted, sodevoted, to the ideal.  No one becomes asbitterly disillusioned as Trevor without having a long, long fall to get there.

Third of all, the Belmont family tooktheir excommunication as they had taken every attempt to stop them from servingtheir duty: with stoic, stubborn disregard. They received the Bull informing them of their banishment and repliedwith a politely immovable “thank you but we’re rather too busy to be excommunicatedright now.”  The Catholic Churchresponded as was highly typical in the 1400’s.

Trevor was returning from an utterlymundane errand into town, seeking some small gift for his baby sister’s firstkill, when he saw the smoke start to climb. He reached the estate just in time to watch the fire bring the roof downand cut the screaming short.

B: what I think is fucking hilarious

For the first little while of theirjourney, Sypha and Alucard are relatively sure that their third member is themuscle, the street-smarts, to their formal education.

Then Trevor busts out some fluent Latinto translate a book and adds a snide insult for good measure, o salvator somnelente mi.

They are both dumbfounded, and Trevor rolls his eyes at them.

“The Belmonts weren’t just a bunch ofcountry drunks,” he points out, and tosses the book carelessly at Alucard.  “We were scholars too.  Carry that, would you?”

C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends

The three of them have been on the move,hunting for Dracula’s castle, for a full month and a half when Alucard findsTrevor sitting on watch outside the ransacked farmhouse they’ve claimed asshelter from the weather.  Normally, evenif he’s drinking or on watch or distracted, Alucard struggles to get the dropon Trevor, which is far more of a statement about Belmont House’s skill thanAlucard suspects even Trevor himself realizes. This time, Trevor jolts, even though Alucard takes care to make noise soas not to alarm Sypha.

“Belmont?” Alucard asks, crouching downto be on eye level with him.  “Are youall right?”

Trevor doesn’t respond—in all honesty, seemsto barely hear the question.  “I had ababy sister,” Trevor says distantly.  “Oldertwins, too, but my baby sister—she just killed her first werewolf about a yearand a week ago.  I got back just in timefor the celebration.”

Alucard sits down beside him,cautious.  “That is quite anachievement.  How old was she?”

“Fourteen.”  Trevor blinks, takes a deep breath and letsit out, studies the moon with uncommon concentration.  “She burned, a year ago, with my brother, andmy elder sister, and my parents, my cousins…”

“Ah,” Alucard says quietly, and does themath.  “Your family must have been quitelarge.”

“Forty of us,” Trevor confirms.  “And every single one of them died in thatfire.”  

Alucard nods, and tucks his knees up sothat he can wrap his arms around them, and they sit there in the quiet for awhile.  If there’s a trace of moisturebeading on Trevor’s lashes, neither of them mention it.

“I cannot imagine what it feels like,”Alucard says at last, barely a whisper, “to lose so many loved ones to thefire.”

“No,” Trevor confirms.  “But you have a better idea than most.”

D:  what would never work with canon but the canon isshit so I believe it anyway

There’s not really enough canon to make a judgement one way or another, but.

I really fiercely want the moreintelligent demons—it’s clear that some, if not all, of the Night Horde arehuman-level intelligent—to start to…remember. Once upon a time the House of Belmont was the most feared force in Hell,the levee that held back the tide of the supernatural from washing over themajority of the populace.  Now the leveehas been broken (burned) and the tidal wave is rushing in and the demons arerunning free—

And some of them, meeting astubborn-jawed man with alcohol on his lips and the ancient crest on his chest,think twice.

Thinking twice is, more often than not,the last thing they do on this plane of existence, before the silver of Alucard’ssword or Sypha’s power strikes them down, or before the last son of the Houseof Belmont lashes out with whip and blade and holy water.

Those that escape spread the word:despite the Church’s best efforts, there is still a Belmont abroad in the land,and he has allies, and he is doing hisfamily proud.

Strange, perhaps, that the last Belmontwould be flattered by the rumors of a demon horde.