#castlevania criticism

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Richter’s character…I feel like they tried to do another version of Trevor.  And that’s the problem.  If I wanted to see Trevor, I’d go back and I'd watch the original, so I wish Nocturne had given us more differentiation between the two characters.

However, the big reason why Trevor’s snarky personality doesn’t work on Richter is the circumstances of their upbringings: Richter lost his mother at nine but seems to have lived an otherwise peaceful life barring the frequent monster hunts.  He lived in a stable home and was looked after by Tera for years and seems to have a good relationship with Maria.  In contrast, Trevor lost his entire family at twelve and lived as a drifter for years afterward without that kind of security.

So Trevor earned his cynicism.  On Richter, that same cynicism just comes off as mean-spirited and unnecessary bravado.  He’s an annoying teenager. “And you just happened to stumble upon it one day while you were out picking flowers?” - That line isn’t funny.  Like, really dude?  You’re going to talk like that to the woman who raised you?  That was an asshole thing to say.

So it was a little vindicating when Olrox appeared at the end of Episode 4 and Richter freaked out and showed that he's a shit-talker. (Remember Trevor's 'killing you was the point, living was a luxury' line?)  I'm hoping this is the starting point of his character growth, but so far, Richter is the sort of protagonist I really dislike. I don't hate him, but I'm also not going to continue Nocturne for him. I'll be sticking around to see where Alucard, Annette, Olrox, and Mizrak go.

[demigoddessqueens]

touch

Thinking of touch-starved men…, their eyes follow your hands and fingers so carefully, anxiously, getting easily jealous at how casual your touches are with others who are not them; always lingering where you are, seeking out your presence and just wanting a sliver of your attention away from everyone else; touch-starved ones who have a quiet gasp whenever you place your hands over theirs or just a casual friendly touch; chills along their spine and entire body as you play with their hair; hugs make them freeze in their tracks before arms tentatively wrap around you like your made of glass or a stardust that will vanish the second it’s over

EDIT: they can’t help but swallow down their moan(s) when your fingers brush through their hair, lightly touching the exposed back of their neck

Just….touch starved characters…

[hobermallowed]

Castlevania: Nocturne + text posts

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"Who's Hotter?" Melanated Beauties

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[woodchipp]

i fucking love good writing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Helluva Boss Is On The Cartoon Base Awards (Including Velma And Harley Quinn)

Man, this is an abysmal choice of finalists. I don't care what people say Harley was only good in season one but after that just got worse. Velma was just shit and Mindy Kahling totally bribed someone. The only one I see worthy is Blue Samurai because Castlevania: Nocturne was crap as well. And we all know what Helluva Boss has become.

[bibibbon]

Do you think bnha treats the male victims of abuse narritavely worse than the female victims? (sorry if this sounds like I'm pitting them against each other or invalidating the female abuse victims in the story)

I've been reading your metas on how Horikoshi mistreats Deku in the narrative by sweeping Bakugo's bullying under the rug and meta posts by other fans dissatisfied with the way Dabi and the Todofam abuse as a whole was handled and I started recalling discussions on twitter how Denji from Chainsaw Man is a male victim of abuse, whose abuse is taken seriously by the manga and the mangaka, but not by most fans.

No absolutely not. I think MHA treats both of it's male and female abuse victims horribly. I have never viewed it to be something about gender it's just that horikoshi doesn't know how to handle abuse victims character whether thd abuser be a character he likes or hates.

Now I guess I can kind of see where this idea is coming from because the series itself shows us more abused male victims than female ones so there's definitely something there but even the female victims like toga, Rei himura or Eri aren't treated any better.

I remember getting ask that literally made me have a morbid realisation and it stated that Dabi ended up just like how Rei was in the beginning of the series. Also Rei never actually gets to escape her abuser either. She is still stuck as enjis caretaker and that's honestly tragic.

Toga's abuse is actually given the attention it deserves so she is probably the only character whose done a bit of justice in that area.

Eri still ends up getting hurt and used whether she is with the heroes or overhaul. The girl literally mutilated herself to make herself useful for her quirk to be used and you get the jist of it. This isn't a good look at all especially if you look at her history.

Now there are a lot male victims who have been abused like izuku, Dabi, shoto, hawks etc. Now these characters have much more screentime than the female characters but never actually get that part of their character focus on or they don't even bring it up so this just ends up making their characters feel so one dimensional and makes them badly written.

I honestly recommend you read @sapphic-agent post on bakugo and izukus relationship or her other posts about bakugo in general which are great in my opinion.

When it comes to chainsaw man fujimoto consistently recognises the abuse that denji goes through and (even though I haven't read csm) makes it clear that this isn't normal. It's usually the male audience that end up brushing denjis abuse or trauma to the side for example I have seen multiple posts talking about how what himeno did to denji wasnt a big deal or how makima never groomed denji.

Denji's character somewhat reminds me of hector from castlevania and how some fans would say that Lenore and Camilla did nothing wrong or that they never exploited/abused him.

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How to Request/Rules/Fandoms/Current Requests (REQUESTS OPEN)

Welcome to my Blog everyone. My name is Casimir (he/they), I am an andult and I love to read and also share my writings. I enjoy working on requests and I hope you all enjoy reading what I write. I apolofize for any spelling mistakes as english is not my native language.

I am making this my pinned post, so you all have an overview of how to request something, what my rules are, what Fandoms I write for and to also link Masterlists for those Fandoms. I am also adding a request list that I will constantly update just so you guys know what's coming.

Please be polite when requesting something and remember that i am human too that has irl stuff to do, so if I have many requests, it may take a while to get to write the most recent requests. Also know that if my requests are closed, I will not write requests untill I open them again. Of course I will also write my own stuff between requests.

How to request something:

-Use the Ask Box

-Name the character/the characters you want in your request

-Tell me what Gender you want the Reader to be: female, male, gn or trans (If you don't add a gender to it, I will use GN Reader)

-Tell me the scenario you are thinking of

-You can be as spefic as you want, but don't go too overboard

I will write:

-NSFW/SFW

-Angst or Comfort

-Headcanons and Scenarios

-Female, Male, GN, Trans Reader

-Fluff, Platonic or Romantic

-Single or multiple characters in one request

-Poly fics

I will NOT write:

-Minor x adult

-Incest

-Rape or Gore

The fandoms I am writing for are:

-Castlevania

-Baldur's Gate 3

-Final Fantasy 7/Final Fantasy Crisis Core

-Devil May Cry

-Vampire Hunter D

-Critical Role

My current requests are:

-Alucard and Lyudmil (Poly) x Trans Witch Reader

-Alucard x GN reader- feeling safe

-Alucard x GN Reader - Goth makeup

-Alucard x GN Reader - Crush

-Alucard x GN Reader - Enemies to lovers

-Alucard x GN Reader - Friends with Benefits

-Alucard x GN Reader - Wingman/Crush

-Alucard x female reader - Fucking his mouth

-Alucard x GN Reader - Endearning nicknames

-Alucard x Female Reader - Strangers to friends to lovers

-Trevor, Alucard, Hector, Isaac, Dracula x GN Reader - Wearing a corset

-Catslevania trio + Greta and reader - Being outcasted

-Vergil, dante x GN Reader - Quiet and shy reader

-Alucard x GN reader - Shifting gender

-Genesis x Reader - Pegging

-Sparda boys + V x Female Reader - Cult of the Lamb like powers

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I've seen more than a few posts by now asking why Horikoshi doesn't just kill Dabi off by now, and frankly I agree with that question. Let's be honest, killing him would be a mercy at this point and in spite of everything he's done, I don't thinking another prolonged coma with sporadic moments of consciousness is a punishment that fits the crime. He killed 30+ people, caused mass destruction, and tried to overturn an entire society.

Giving some crossover insight, Light Yagami probably killed millions with the Death Note, and I don't think even he would deserve the fate Dabi got. His poetic justice was he was an arrogant psychopath who died a pathetic death in a warehouse. The vampires of Castlevania Netflix have killed and tortured millions of people over the centuries they've been alive and out of all of them, I think only Erzsébet Báthory might deserve that fate, and that's only because she's ascended to goddess status and may be unkillable at this point and eternal imprisonment might be the only option.

So why doesn't Horikoshi kill Dabi off already?

Well....Horikoshi does have a problem with killing off characters unless its for shock value. There's no reason Nighteye, Magne, or Midnight had to die other than shock value. Most other characters that are killed off are barely in the series long enough to consider them a noteworthy death.

You could argue that Magne's death was to show that Overhaul was a new villain that meant business, but given the fact Overhaul doesn't kill or maim any other character the same way unless it's one of his nameless henchmen, his power doesn't prove to be that much of a threat to the main cast.

When Midnight reacted to Majestic's death, I legitimately asked, "Who?"

Endeavor confronts Dabi about killing Snatch and even Dabi asks, "Who?" (Also, why? Did Endeavor even know Snatch? Why bring that up?)

Why did Star have to die? To showcase how strong an opponent AFO/Shigaraki was? Uh, we already knew that...? To show why no other nations were getting involved in the fighting in Japan? A simple doomsday message from multiple nations that says, 'You're on your own,' would have sufficed. AFO could have been blackmailing world leaders into staying out of it. There could have been an international conspiracy of corrupt leaders who were in on it. They could have been having the same issue with mass prison breaks and couldn't help out. There was no need to invent a whole new character for any of that, so her death was a waste.

Arguably, Twice is the only character I can think of at the moment whose death was plot relevant. Realistically, how else was that fight going to go down? He and Hawks spend the entire battle in a weird standoff?

So either Dabi's current state is the result of creator cruelty or:

In the last couple chapters we have left, we're going to find out Eri's Quirk is not as damaged as everyone thought it was and she comes in clutch to save everyone. It's a cop-out ending, but I tentatively think this one might actually happen yet, mostly because it would neatly fix Bakugou's destroyed hand and some of the other characters who were maimed in Final War to the point their Quirks are barely usable.

Dr. Garaki cuts a deal where he biologically engineers a solution that saves everyone in exchange for a reduced sentence. Also a legit possibility. Would not be shocked if President Hawks visits the guy in prison and says, "Listen, a lot of people got really messed up in that last fight, so we've got a proposition for you." Saving both heroes and ensuring the villains actually live out a life sentence.

That unknown figure wandering around the wasteland does prove to be Shigaraki and he's got some unknown Quirk from AFO that could potentially save his comrades and we're headed for a Harry Potter Musical 'It's Not Over Yet' twist ending.

If the rumors about My Hero getting a sequel series are true, Horikoshi may be keeping Dabi around in case he has a use for him there. I don't know how that would even be possible, but I do admit the possibility of this conversation does make me laugh a little:

Pro Shouto: The plan couldn't have gone more wrong. Deku was in the wrong place. Bakugou was being Bakugou. Yaoyorozu had a relapse in nervousness and just created those weird dolls of hers instead of the materials we actually needed. The whole thing made the civilians laugh though. Not mean laughter, they were entertained and that's important, but if we were still in school, Aizawa would have expelled us all for sure.

Dabi: ...as much I just love our bi-weekly challenge of how long we can keep a conversation going before that heart monitor goes off and they put me back to sleep, do I have to listen to you bitch about work?

Pro Shouto: You said you wanted to hear about the outside world.

Dabi: Yeah, the fucking weather and shit.

Pro Shouto: You want a full forecast or--

Dabi: Don't make me come down there.

...

Realistically, none of those four scenarios are gonna happen, but the sequel rumors are preventing me from discounting them outright.

I would say there's no point in having that last minute 'everyone is saved' because that's it, that's the end, but then I remember Zuko's last line in Avatar is, "Where is my mother?" and opened up that whole subplot for the graphic novels.

So I don't know anymore.

[demigoddessqueens]

intimacy

Masterlist 11

thinking of…intimacy starved characters, always listening to whatever you have to say and speaking whatever strikes their mind and heart with you, not so much lingering for your touch but when they will be able to see you again and what you’re doing if ever away, only their eyes rest on you whenever the crowds pass by or another tries to take your attention away, they know your desires and fears just as they’ve entrusted to you, a connection that runs deeper with each other than most

[ennawrite]

watching Castlevania and Belmont & Sypha are exactly how I imagined Cassian & Nesta in my head

bonus:

give Alucard red hair and he’s basically Eris Vanserra.

Now imagine THAT love triangle 😏

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[pansexual-chocolate]

@rosie-dear-rosie tagged me in this game. They are an amazing writer so please read their fics and they have such a great blog.

honorable mentions because I can only do 12 Donna final fantasy x/x2 Rose quartz (Steven universe)

The beyonder (Moon girl and devil dinosaur)

Aloysius Fogg (Undeadwood critical role). Bilquis (American gods) So many characters I am hooked on and love so much. But they aren't recent characters

tagging: @six2vii @xshingie @angel-hawthorne @sunshine-hime @jemgirl86 also whoever wants to play

[woodchipp]

the quartet of "wow your story hates your guts for no reason can I adopt you" rise up