#he's just misunderstood and saintly :( everyone is so mean to him and he probably got murdered as well :(

[nostalgia-tblr]

speaking of wars of the roses shite, i get the appeal of richard iii as people's chosen maligned bad boy (who totally did most of those bad things but shhh he's hot) but i think henry vi is also prime blorbo material and more people should defend him vehemently on the internet.

[darthstitch]

about the netflix castlevania series...

I know, I’ve been busy.  I’ve been raving over this series for the past week but I couldn’t get to a proper keyboard so I can a Proper Rave(tm) complete with gifs and sparklies.  

Seriously, WHERE IS THE REST OF CASTLEVANIA, NETFLIX?  YOU CAN’T LEAVE US HANGING WITH JUST FOUR BLOODY EPISODES, OKAY??!!!!  I NEED THE NEXT SET OF EPISODES AND I NEED THEM NOW. 

Fine, fine.  I’ll be a proper grown up.  I’ll stop sulking and wait patiently. 

Let’s get on with the List of Things That I Really Love About Netflix’s Castlevania animated series:

a.  Dracula - First off, Dracula is not a precious misunderstood Woobie Destroyer of Worlds.  He’s evil.  He’s got a dangerous labyrinth of a castle sitting smack dab in the middle of a forest of skeletons that are impaled on very long sharp stakes, his victims from years ago.  Dracula is bored, mean and absolutely disgusted with humanity.  Apparently, the only reason he doesn’t seem to be concocting some sort of Evil Plan to Cover the World in Eternal Night(tm) in the first few minutes we see him is because he can’t be arsed to anymore.  

But he is a lot more complex than your average moustache-twirling baddie and in less than five minutes we get the idea that there’s still some ounce of humanity left in everyone’s favorite Evil King Vampire.  He basically gets this OH NO SHE’S ADORABLE AND I LIKE HER SEND HELP look on his face once he gets properly acquainted with one Dr. Lisa Fahrenheights.  

b.  Lisa Fahrenheights - People who’ve played Castlevania:  Symphony of the Night will know who she is and in the game, she’s pretty much portrayed as some sort of sanctified figure in a Certain Person’s memories.  In this series, Lisa Fahrenheights is smart, sassy and willing to tell off the most dangerous vampire in the world for his bad manners.  And while our acquaintance with her is painfully short, it gets pretty clear why Dracula would fall arse over cape for her.  

And surprisingly, she genuinely seems to love him back and is apparently willing to believe he can be better than his Evil self without forgetting that he IS a terrifying Evil Dark Lord With Fangs(tm).  We only get like 10 minutes to have her around and I’m actually willing to buy into the Dracula/Lisa love story far more than I did with Twilight or the Star Wars Anakin/Padme romance.  

She’s genuinely a good person without being insufferably saintly and I hope we get to see more of her in flashbacks as this series progresses because LISA FAHRENHEIGHTS DESERVED BETTER GDI.  

Seriously, in the Great List of Incredibly Stupid and Boneheaded Ideas(tm), accusing Dr. Lisa Fahrenheights Tepes (somehow, I get the feeling she and Vlad had a long and lively discussion about being his Princess/Lady/Countess and she stuck to her guns about being a Doctor) of witchcraft and then burning her alive at the stake is probably in the Top Three.  Right beside the one that says, “Do not kill the Cinnabon Roll Son of the Dark Lord of the Sith while Darth Papa is actually there to see everything.”  

Unfortunately, since this is the Middle Ages and we have all that bullshit about wise women being falsely accused and the Church being corrupt, so this clusterfuckery happens and of course, Vlad eventually comes home to find the house he built for his beloved destroyed and that he’s too late to save her.  He can’t even get the chance to possibly turn her into a vampire.  

Of course he’s pissed off. 

c.  TREVOR MOTHERFUCKING BELMONT

Friendly reminder that Trevor Belmont is also THIS TOUCAN BEAKED ASSHOLE:

Okay, so with Lisa dead and Dracula basically rampaging because he’s Extra by nature, we pretty much need a hero to step up for the innocents who don’t deserve to be caught in the crossfire.

Except Trevor’s also been persecuted by the Church, catches a lot of shit from ignorant peasants who blame the Belmonts for Dracula’s monster horde and he really, really just wants a good meal and several tankards of ale because he’s been having the Worst of Bad Days for like a good solid several years. His life is in the shitter, okay? 

  But he’s a fucking Belmont.  He’s never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast.  He can’t stay quiet if innocent people are getting hurt.  So he crawls out of his tankard, takes up the Vampire Killer whip and kicks ass again.  

Just make sure he can get to the beer afterwards.  He’s a little shit.  I love him. 

c.  Sypha Belnades 

So this is what I love about the women characters in this series so far.  They’re not dressed in improbable skimpy outfits for eye candy purposes, they’re smart, they’re brave, they’re sassy and they don’t put up with any bullshit. 

Sypha’s got that covered and while our first acquaintance with her is her getting rescued by Trevor Belmont, the idea is that she was simply taken by surprise by the monstrous critter that originally got her and not because she was a reckless idiot.  She’s innocent and while she’s got the kind of faith that Trevor’s lost long ago, she’s not completely naive either.  She’s a badass and I love her. 

c.  Alucard/Adrian Fahrenheights Tepes - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, my dhampir prince....

Alucard in the Symphony of the Night game was really the reason why I fell in love with the Castlevania video game series.  He’s ridiculously pretty, an absolute badass, the tragic son of Lisa and Dracula and in this animated show, THANK GOD HE’S FINALLY SHOWING SOME PERSONALITY AND IS VERY MUCH THE LITTLE SHIT HIMSELF.  

He’s understandably bitter at humanity but he’s trying to honor his mother’s wishes and her memory.  He knows little babies getting eaten by demons isn’t the kind of justice or vengeance that his mother’s death demands.  He’s not as strong as his father - he’s only twenty or possibly younger and he’s yet to grow into his full power.  

Alucard is a mystery because there’s so many questions I want to ask.  Where was he when Lisa was being burnt alive?  Couldn’t he have stormed in to rescue his mother or did he make it just to hear her last words, too late to do anything more?  Does Dracula hate him because he knows this? Blame him for failing to protect his mama?  

Alucard and his Daddy Dearest is one of the most compelling storylines for this game and I really need to know the rest of that once this series gets going to Season 2.  

And yes, I’m perfectly aware that the Trevor/Alucard ship has launched: 

(Yes, I know perfectly well Trevor is supposed to end up marrying Sypha eventually.  Leave us in our fan fiction heaven and trash can hell, okay?  Also, OT3′s are wonderful things.  Just putting it out there, folks.)

So yeah,  Netflix has pretty much nailed Castlevania.  This is a good, epic start.  Keep going.  I need more.  

In the meantime, I’m gonna be stuck writing more tales of Bucky’s Grampy and the epic adventures of Trevor, Alucard and Sypha, right?