#john/eric... alucard/julius....

[somacruising]

Nine People Tag

Thanks for tagging me, @rayless-reblogs! It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these :333

Last Song:

I listened to Dawn by CircusP! I love the demo he did for the Solaria synth voice and I find it a somewhat comforting song to listen to. I actually dig Solaria’s voice bank a lot and I’m excited to see what other creators do with her.

Last Movie:

Probably the Venom films. I never watched them when they came out because I’m pretty burnt out of superhero movies in general...but I was curious enough about why all the monsterfuckers were into them and was willing to give it a try. I definitely figured out why they like them and I might actually see the next Venom movie out of curiosity.

Currently Watching:

I’m not ACTIVELY watching anything right now... but I intend on watching Mike Flannagan’s The Midnight Club pretty soon. I just need to be in the right mood to watch it since it seems pretty depressing. I rewatched Severance slightly recently and that was just as good as I recalled.

Currently Reading:

I actually just finished reading The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Yee yesterday, so I haven’t started anything new yet. I liked it a lot and it was relaxing to read before bed (despite how this was not a relaxing time at all for poor Yangchen). I’m also eagerly waiting for the next book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which was the first time I’ve ever read LitRPG outside of a webcomic.

Currently Craving:

Brownies...which I actually have in the kitchen so I’ll be grabbing those after I finish this hehe

Last Thing I Searched for Writing:

I searched up methods to treat a sprained ankle and what one looked like. A few days ago I was looking up military ranking for a fic I haven’t released yet.

Three Ships:

This is not a simple answer because I have so, so many... but my biggest ship of all time is Beat/Joshua (TWEWY). My URL was actually this ship for a while. It was the first not het ship I ever had so it has a special place in my heart. A crossover crack ship I have is Dhaos/Duke from their respective Tales games... and thanks to a friend, I now really like the idea of Van/Largo from Abyss lmao

Tagging:

My brain is pretty smooth right now, so I probably won’t tag a lot of people. just @fray--myste, @unwontedfemme, @thisintermezzo, and @mohsthetic

[emptymasks]

After months of saying I'll finish these, they're finally done. Castlevania chibi stickers and badges are up on Etsy. There's three listings, one for the video game characters, one for the cartoon, and one for the cartoon sequel Nocturne. Making these stickers were a reward unlocked in mine and Julia_boo's donothon back in April.

Castlevania video game characters available: Aeon, Albus, Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Genya Arikado, Carmilla, Charlotte Aulin, Christopher Belmont, Cornell, Death, Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes, Elisabetha Cronqvist, Elizabeth Bartley, Eric Lecarde, Grant Danasty, Hector, Isaac Laforeze, Joachim Armster, John Morris, Jonathan Morris, Julia Laforeze, Julius Belmont, Juste Belmont, Leon Belmont, Lisa Tepes, Loretta Lecarde, Lucy Westenra, Maria Renard, Mathias Cronqvist, Maxim Kischine, Mina Hakuba, Nathan Graves, Reinhardt Schneider, Richter Belmont, Sara Trantoul, Shanoa, Simon Belmont, Soleil Belmont, Soma Cruz, Sonia Belmont, Stella Lecarde, Trevor Belmont, Walter Bernhard, Yoko Belnades.

Castlevania cartoon characters available: Abel, Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Carmilla, Death, Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes, Godbrand, Greta, Hector, Isaac, Lenore, Lisa, Morana, Striga, Sypha Belnades, Trevor Belmont, Varney.

Castlevania Nocturne characters available: Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Anette, Drolta Tzuentes, Edouard, Erzsebet Báthory, Julia Belmont, Juste Belmont, Maria Renard, Mizrak, Olrox, Richter Belmont, Tera.

I can’t link to my Etsy without risking Tumblr hiding the post from tag search results, but the link is in my pinned post, my carrd, I’m emptymasks on Etsy. Reblogs help support artists more than likes ❤️

[ID: Individual pixel art chibi drawings of 86 characters from various European musicals (listed above) that are available as stickers. These drawings are also available as badges where they are placed inside circles to show what they will look like as physical button badges, some of them with plain colour backgrounds and some with 1-3 different pride flags as examples of how you can customise the backgrounds.]

[castlephantom]

Cinnamon meme but in Castlevania version:

Looks like a cinnamon roll but could kill you: Richter, Juste, Sypha, Leon, Eric, Charlotte, Mathias(after LoI events), Joachim, Maria (older version), Soma, Stella, Loretta.

Looks like could kill you but is a cinnanon roll: Yoko, Julia, Grant, Hammer.

Looks like a cinnamon roll is a cinnamon roll: Sara, Lisa, Annette, Lydie, Mina, Elisabetha, Rosalie, Soleil, Maria (younger version), Saint Germain.

Looks like could kill you, would kill you: Walter, Dracula, Alucard, Trevor, Hector, Issac, Christopher, Simon, Maxim, Shanoa, John, Jonathan, Julius.

[tulipselfships]

Castlevania Masterlist

(More characters will be added if they are brought up! These are just the only ones i could think of.)

Alucard/Adrian Tepes/Genya Arikado:

Nothing yet!

Charlotte Aulin:

Nothing yet!

Death:

Nothing yet!

Dracula Tepes:

Nothing yet!

Eric Lecarde:

Nothing yet!

Grant Danasty:

Nothing yet!

John Morris:

Nothing yet!

Johnathan Morris:

Nothing yet!

Julius Belmont:

Nothing yet!

Richter Belmont:

Nothing yet!

Simon Belmont:

Nothing yet!

Soma Cruz:

Nothing yet!

Sypha Belenades:

Nothing yet!

Trevor Belmont:

Nothing yet!

Yoko Belenades:

Nothing yet!

[ninjakirby1322]

OBL Preview - Belmont Curse

Record: 22W - 27L - 1T

League: Tied 9th, Legend Division: Tied 3rd

One of the 6 founding members of the Outlandish Baseball League, the Belmont Curse fell from competing for 2nd place in Season 1 to tied for the worst of the founding teams in Season 2, and it was easy to see why. Their bats were a lot quieter this time around.

Nathan Graves, in particular, struggled to get the offensive output he had from Season 1, barely managing to get a hit 1 out of every 5 attempts. Richter Belmont was even worse, meant to set the tone for the team as a lead-off batter but couldn't manage to get on base to save his life.

The pitching struggled as well last season, with Sypha Belnades even having to relinquish her starting pitcher role to her descendant, Yoko Belnades, due to how much she was struggling. Alucard Tepes was the one bright spot for the team in terms of pitching, having won 6 games and striking out almost 100 batters, good enough to be in the top 5 of the league in both categories.

The team hopes to have an offensive revival this time around, rallying behind captain Simon Belmont and focusing more on just getting on base this time around. With louder bats, the team might just be able to break the curse their scoring was under last season.

Lineup

Richter Belmont, RF

Trevor Belmont, SS

Dolores Belmont, LF

Simon Belmont, C

Nathan Graves, DH

Christopher Belmont, 3B

Soleil Belmont, 2B

Julius Belmont, 1B

Maria Renard, CF

Bench

Desmond Belmont, IF

John Morris, IF

Zoe Belmont, OF

Eric Lecarde, C

Starting Pitchers

Alucard Tepes

Yoko Belnades

Grant Danasty

Mina Hakuba

Relief Pitchers

Soma Cruz

Juste Belmont

Sypha Belnades

Shanoa Dominus

Leon Belmont

[k20spock]

[GIF description: A gif from the upcoming Vampire Survivors DLC Ode to Castlevania showing several Castlevania characters walking down a hallway in a pixel art style, many resembling their sprites from their respective games. The top row from left to right shows Leon Belmont, Sypha Belnades, Grant Danasty, Christopher Belmont, Eric Lecarde, John Morris, and Juste Belmont. The middle row from left to right shows Julius Belmont, Yoko Belnades, Trevor Belmont, Hector, Sonia Belmont, Simon Belmont, and Maria Renard. The bottom row from left to right shows Soma Cruz, Jonathan Morris, Charlotte Aulin, Alucard, Shanoa, and Richter Belmont. End GIF description.]

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania

[belschine]

Hi! Tumblr crashed when I tried to answer this properly so I’m gonna try with a proper text post under the cut instead.

To keep things simpler I’m gonna separate mental/emotional exhaustion and physical exhaustion/injury. I’ve been having a long day (or week, or month...) so please forgive me if I forget someone, although I’m not doing the non-canon characters

Physical rating

Trevor > Simon > John > Shanoa > Jonathan > Julius > Grant > Hector > Charlotte and Eric > Christopher > Juste > Richter > Alucard > Maria

Trevor lost an eye and that chest scar of his looks like it should’ve killed him, Simon just got cursed, John’s having his life sapped away by the Vampire Killer.

I imagine that Dominus, even though it didn’t kill Shanoa, probably still took a toll on her.

Jonathan, if he uses the VK, is probably less hurt by it than his father thanks to ‘proving himself’ to Sara with that cool mental battle with Richter. I still don’t think it’s completely harmless, though, but that’s just how I feel about it and not canonically stated anywhere.

In 1999 Julius is the strongest Belmont and perhaps the strongest just normal human out there, but I feel like the very last battle Drac could put on would be the most vicious. I also loosely headcanon (as in I believe it but if it’s too inconvenient I will roll with something else) that he used a modified version of the Dominus spell - explaining his amnesia and giving a good reason to the complete, permanent destruction of Dracula’s body than just “it was prophesied” - so the Shanoa thing applies to him too somewhat.

Grant just spent probably like 3 months or so going from staging a rebellion to getting transformed into a monster to joining another rebellion and winning that time. Good for him! But that sounds exhausting.

Hector’s awesome and badass but he does still seem to eat shit a lot. Sorry, Hector. Charlotte is noted to be a really powerful witch, and Eric seems pretty tough. It’s been a really long time since I’ve played Bloodlines, since before the whole fax fiasco went down, so I’m not 100% on that one.

Christopher, Juste and Richter are pretty self-explanatory - they’re Belmonts, and the Belmonts get more powerful with each generation. Juste and Richter’s damage is mostly emotional, so we’ll get to that. I don’t have any thoughts on Christopher in the physical category beyond this either.

Alucard’s not human, so he’s got a leg up somewhat, but in SotN specifically it’s also notable that Dracula appears to stand down after Alucard passes on Lisa’s last words rather than be killed by Alucard’s hand directly.

Maria is fine. She’s 12 so she could fall off a building and walk away. You know how it is to be 12

Mental/emotional rating

Alucard in 1476 > John and Simon > Maria > Julius > Alucard in 1999, Grant, Trevor and Sypha > Jonathan and Charlotte (?) > Hector > Juste > Richter > Christopher > Eric > Alucard in 1797

Shanoa just lost her brother and left a cult, but things are looking up for her now that it’s over and she’s experiencing catharsis, so I’m not sure where to put her on a scale for that. Honestly she simultaneously fits at both ends in my mind.

Alucard in 1476 is obviously bad. He more or less goes out of the situation committing the closest thing to suicide he can get as a vampire.

John and Simon probably both know they’re going to die.

Maria is definitely not going to think about it for a long time but what she’s been through would have messed up an adult, let alone a child. She also just lost her parents so. Yeah.

Julius may have forgotten everything, but his dialogue in Aria suggests he still has PTSD over it anyway. As if amnesia wasn’t enough!

Alucard in 1999 is at the point where it’s like, at least it’s fucking over, but also I assume he’s left to believe Julius is dead and has been left to grieve his friend. Grant, Trevor, and Sypha are likewise grieving Alucard, an interesting inversion of this... *chuck supernatural voice* CIRCULAR NARRATIVE

Jonathan and Charlotte are grieving and stuff but it’s a cathartic experience too I think I havent played Portrait in so long I’m sorry. I need to get on the grind again maybe over winter break. In my defense I also got lead poisoning since the last time I played it which did make me forget a lot of other things from that time period as well (I’m ok ^_^’)

Hector is still grieving his wife and his revenge was kind of pointless and doesn’t actually make anyone feel better. But he made a friend.

Juste just nearly had to kill his best friend. He didn’t in the end, which is great! But still a really stressful thing to go through. He’s clearly agitated and upset about it. He also lies to Lydie about what happened, likely to try to protect Maxim, given his own family’s history of being driven to the fringes of society due to their power.

Richter was absolutely fucked over from fighting Dracula, but I think in the end things would’ve been worse for him if he hadn’t. He was socialized to believe it was what he existed for either way, and the second it’s over he’s basking in the glory of victory... For but a moment. Needless to say, it doesn’t last.

Christopher is like... whatever in his first time around I guess, but fighting your 15 year old kid has got to suck. Even if I do think he probably wasn’t a great dad to lead to that outcome

I honestly don’t know where to put Eric on this he’s just chilling I think. I have the same excuse for Bloodlines inaccuracy as for Portrait I’m sorry

Alucard’s conversation with his dad in SotN was probably really cathartic for him, even if he does try to go back to his old ways as soon as the fight’s over and kill himself again - there’s something to be said about how recovery is harder than continuing to perpetuate your own misery, and Dracula continuing to oppose humanity in all his resurrections after 1797 is a testament to this. So they’re kind of parallels when you think about it!

[anakinskywalkerisfave]

Masterpost of All My Inktober Artwork

1. Alucard 

2. Sypha Belnades

3. Trevor Belmont

4. Hector

5. Isaac Laforeze

6. Leon Belmont

7. Grant Danasty

8. Maria Renard

9. Soma Cruz

10. Shanoa

11. Albus

12. Eric Lecarde Cornell

13. Charlotte Aulin

14. Jonathan Morris

15. Soleil Belmont Marie Belmont

16. Mathias Cronqvist Gabriel Belmont

17. Sonia Belmont

18. Richter Belmont

19. Joachim Armster Victor Belmont

20. Nathan Graves Carrie Fernandez

21. Brauner Malus

22. Simon Belmont

23. Christopher Belmont

24. Juste Belmont

25. John Morris

26. Maxim Kischine Reinhardt Schneider

27. Genya Arikado Rosa

28. Saint Germain

29. Julius Belmont

30. Death

31. Dracula and Bonus Trevor

[arikad0]

ALRIGHT BEFORE I HEAD OFF TO WORK here are my headcanon heights for every playable Castlevania character from the canon games

Leon: 6'00"

Joachim: 6'06"

Trevor: 6'04"

Grant: 5'06"

Sypha: 5'07"

Alucard: 6'11"

Hector: 6'01"

Christopher: 6'00"

Simon: 6'01"

Juste: 6'02"

Maxim: 6'02"

Richter: 5'11"

Maria: 5'07"

Shanoa: 5'10"

Albus: 6'01"

John: 6'00"

Eric: 5'10" I have embraced this height

Jonathan: 5'08"

Charlotte: 5'04"

Stella: 5'07"

Loretta: 5'07"

Soma: 5'05"

Yoko: 5'08"

Julius: 6'02"

[nyxshadowhawk]

The Major Arcana, According to Castlevania

Playing The Arcana while binge-watching Castlevania has made me want to arrange Castlevania characters according to the Major Arcana. This is just my interpretation, so make of it what you will.

The Fool: Soma Cruz. I was going to put Soma at the Wheel of Fortune, but I think this is a better place for him. He is a seemingly normal, naive kid who is thrust into the adventure of a lifetime. He stands in a liminal space, at the boundary between light and darkness during an eclipse. He has the potential to be either good or evil, to become Dracula or to champion the fight against him. 

The Magician: Juste Belmont. Sypha could easily go here too, but Juste is quite a skilled sorcerer. His magical abilities really set him apart from any other Belmont and, though he doesn’t quite equal Richter and Julius in terms of raw power, his magic definitely gives him an edge. 

The High Priestess: Sypha Belnades. She doesn’t quite have the composure you’d expect from the High Priestess, but with her magical powers, intuition, and extensive knowledge of the arcane, she fits. She is also creative and strong-willed.

The Hierophant: Genya Arikado. Okay, maybe this is cheating, but Alucard’s role in the story does change as it goes along. By the time we reach AoS, he’s lived 600 years. He is powerful, wise, and righteous, but stuck obsolete ways of thinking (because... y’know.. he’s six hundred years old.)

The Empress: Shanoa. I have not played OoE so I can’t say much about her, but I know that in raw power she is second only to Soma, and Alucard’s equal. She is also the only woman to have her own game (in the main timeline), making her the Queen of Castlevania.

The Emperor: Richter Belmont. He’s likely the most powerful Belmont, unless Julius surpasses him. He also temporarily falls under the control of Shaft and becomes Lord of the Castle. Either way, he fits.

The Lovers: Mathias and Elizabeta/Dracula and Lisa. There’s a lot of love relationships implicit in the series, but this one has the most direct impact over the plot and the characters involved. Dracula seems to genuinely love his wife, in Lament, Symphony, and the Netflix series.

The Chariot: Trevor Belmont. Trevor’s character arc in the animated series centers around him making the active decision to take control over his own life. He fights back against Dracula for the good of Wallachia, instead of just letting life pass him by in an apathetic stupor.

Justice: Leon Belmont. I almost put him at The Sun, but what really defines Leon is his desire for justice, not just for Sara but for everyone Dracula might hurt. “The Belmont Clan will hunt the night!”

The Hermit: Alucard. Who else but the man who shut himself in a box for three hundred years? He almost shuts himself back into it after Symphony. Even when he’s around people, he tends to keep his distance. Between being immortal and in mourning, Alucard is desperately lonely, but he seems to like it that way.

The Wheel of Fortune: This one’s kind of a wild card. I’m not sure if there’s really a character who exemplifies it. I’d probably put Jonathan and Charlotte here, but I haven’t played PoR, so I don’t know much about them. It’s either them or John and Eric. Or Grant! Grant is underrated and deserves love! 

Strength: Simon Belmont. This man manages to kill Dracula not once, but TWICE, and the second time was while a curse was slowly killing him! He has more determination and willpower than even the average Belmont.

The Hanged Man: Hector. I’m going off of intuition on this one, since I haven’t played Curse of Darkness, but from what I know of Hector from Netflix, his story is one of tragedy and transformation no matter which way you spin it.  In the game, he seeks to atone for his past and join the side of good.

Death: Guess. Who.

Temperance: Isaac (Netflix) is something of a dark, cynical choice for this card. And yet, he fits, because it is his ultimate ambition to bring the world to a state of balance and peace, albeit through twisted means. He engages in brutal self-flagellation to calm his mind and achieve spiritual discipline. He is not the healthiest interpretation of Temperance, but embodies it nonetheless.

The Devil: Dracula. Well, duh, right? Even if an actual devil exists in the (main) ’Vania-verse, Dracula still may as well be it. 

The Tower: Those twins from season 3. Bolt from the blue, true destruction. I will not elaborate, I will only say that my heart has been taken out and impaled on a stake, and I don’t know how long it will take for me to recover.

The Star: Maria. She is just a little ray of light in the dark world of Castlevania, always optimistic while still being fearless, determined, and competent. She also has enough confidence to take on Castlevania by herself and even says “Well, perhaps we’ll meet again... if you live that long” to Alucard’s face.

The Moon: Carmilla. The Moon can represent the allure of the dark side and the temptation of vampirism, as well as madness and deception. What defines Carmilla (and that bitch-who-shall-not-be-named) for me is her deceptive nature. It’s why I hate her so much. She promises you fulfillment of your forbidden passions and then destroys you. It’s a dark interpretation of the Moon, but it works.

The Sun: Christopher and Soleil Belmont. Christopher is SUPER underrated and forgotten by almost everyone (although he’s a legend in-universe), which is sad because he literally defeated Dracula twice! Just like Simon! And, Soleil was the first heroic character to become possessed by evil! You thought that trend started with IGA? No! Soleil is the first Belmont to be fought as a boss. They deserve some love.

Judgement: Julius Belmont. Dracula’s day of reckoning has come. Again. Fighting Julius Belmont is the last test that Soma must past before confronting Chaos. Julius stands at the final threshold and offers Soma the opportunity for personal atonement and redemption. 

The World: Castlevania itself, the central point of the entire series and the driving force behind it. It is the battleground on which the forces of good and evil come to a head, and no man can say who will emerge victorious.

[finalsorrow]

alright might as well write these down now too

julius - owl fairy - bird wings shanoa - black locust tree fairy - moth wings simon - beetle fairy - beetle wings sonia - frilled lizard fairy - leathery wings  soleil - sunflower fairy - short, leathery wings in the shape of pairs of beetle wings  alucard - vampire bat fairy - bat wings  cornell - wolf fairy - long, fluffy feathery wings  leon - monarch butterfly fairy - butterfly wings john - oak tree fairy - butterfly wings  eric - vine fairy - insect wings  elizabeth - thorn bush fairy - bat wings from nix: soma - venezuelan poodle moth fairy - moth wings mathias - emperor moth fairy - moth wings 

tba 

[belovedbelmont]

Alright, I’ve got it. The details for a Castlevania Silent Hill AU.

The protagonist is Dracula, and he’s looking for his wife. (Very SH2-esque) There’s appearances/mentions from/of Julius, Leon, Alucard, Simon, Trevor, Richter, Jonathan, Eric, John, Charlotte, etc.

I’ve bolded the main points of interest in each paragraph if you want to find specific part or want to scroll through.

He wakes up in a forest before Silent Hill, he’s smaller, slower and weaker than normal. Bats and crows follow him and increase in numbers the closer he gets to the town, before disappearing abruptly once he reaches a graveyard. 

A gravekeeper that vaguely looks like a 19-y/o Julius greets him into the town, he’s obviously suspicious of Dracula. He never asks him what his reason for being there is, though. Dracula passes into the town. The first thing he sees is a red and white coat on a signpost, which he mistakes for a monster. Angry at being deceived, Dracula tears the coat from the signpost and it disappears as soon as it’s off. Dracula doesn’t seem to notice. 

Most of the enemies are clearly flammable. bundles of sticks, wooden things. Dracula has to use fire to destroy them. Other enemies look a bit similar to fleamen, but they’re made of chains and try to grab his face. Lots of enemies are attached to ropes and chains, and try latching onto him and pulling him back.

Dracula meets a small, blond boy, who’s somehow familiar. This boy fills him with intense rage that he doesn’t understand the reasoning behind, and the rest of this section of the story is Dracula chasing the boy, who continuously cuts-off his ways of getting to him. So, Dracula must be creative and find new ways to pass through areas to reach the boy.

After this segment ends, and Dracula finally decides chasing the boy isn’t worth it anymore, he approaches a building with neon, blue lights. Inside of it is a man who is too ashamed of himself to tell his name. He says he’s in Silent Hill because he has a cross he must bear for eternity, as punishment for his own foolishness. He has the key to the back exit of the building, which Dracula must get to. In order to get the key from this man, Dracula has to bring three letters to him, that spell ‘ANN’. The man leaves the key for Dracula, and leaves the building with slow feet, staring at the letters in his hands and repeating a name that only the beginning can be heard of.

The next notable part of the story, Dracula walks through a hallway that soon becomes a long bridge out in the open. At the end of the bridge is a figure. The figure is taller than him, which makes him uncomfortable. The figure keeps getting further as Dracula approaches, and when Dracula’s finally made it to the end of the bridge (which is now just a short hallway, again) he sees the red and white coat hanging on the door into the next room.

The regular enemies Dracula encounters after this are somewhat familiar. If Dracula steps in even the smallest puddle, he’ll get bitten. Either by a red half-formed fish creature, or by an eel who’s skin on it’s face peels back when it opens it’s mouth. There are the undead... but their skin is also their robes. They’re easy to kill, but there are so many, and in the areas they do appear, they spawn without end. 

In the next area, Dracula sees the blond boy again. He’s kneeling in front of a fire, weeping. Dracula just feels in his soul that this is as good a time as any to come up behind the boy and strangle him, but once he’s near enough, the boy stands up and he’s fully grown. He just walks away, and Dracula just goes about doing his own business like nothing had happened, suddenly tired.

The next interesting scene sees Dracula visit an area that looks out over the lake. Staring out over the lake at the railing is the man with the red and white coat, and Dracula approaches him and starts talking to him like they’ve known each other forever. The exchange is strangely normal, just talking about mundane things. The man in the coat makes Silent Hill feel less lonely, and reminds Dracula that he’s got someone else who’s going through a similar journey. Until the man with the coat asks about Dracula’s wife. Dracula doesn’t have time to respond. The next time he blinks, the man is gone, and Dracula must carry-on wandering alone. In the distance, across the lake and through the fog, one can faintly see fire on the horizon and the water almost looks red.

The more Dracula wanders, the more powers he remembers he has, but they’re all so weak compared to what he feels like they’re supposed to feel like. The more monsters he kills, the more powerful his magic becomes, but he is always unsatisfied with his power, and the enemies just keep seeming to get stronger.

Next, two men and a woman are approached. They are both angry with Dracula immediately, and Dracula can’t understand why. The first man looks mostly like Trevor, wielding a whip, the second is a bald man wielding knives and the woman’s face is obscured under a blue hood. The first man challenges Dracula to a fight. Just before Dracula can kill him at the end of their fight, that blond man from before appeared to repel Dracula’s magic and rescue Trevor. Dracula realizes now who that blond man is, it’s Alucard. He could tell because of the sorrow and fire in his eyes. A blonde woman wearing green is standing, watching from the distance.

After the exchange, Dracula carries-on like nothing. At some point, he sees the man who he’d met before, the one that had given him the key, and recognized him as Richter. He was more suspicious of Dracula, this time around, but their exchange concluded without a conflict. Dracula has no ill-will towards this man, he realizes.

Dracula eventually meets Death, who’s inside of an art gallery. Dracula appears the have the same level of familiarity with Death as he had with the man in the red and white coat. Death keeps pointing out the portraits, and keeps reminding Dracula that he’s the real Dracula. Eventually, the two go together into a portrait who’s frame is as long as a door, and when they’re inside, Death has disappeared but Dracula feels stronger. Two creatures that Dracula somehow knows are supposed to be young adults stand in front of him. In the first half of the fight, they’re attacking him individually, and in the second half of the fight, they combine with an odd war cry that sounds like the mixture of two names. 

When they combine, they create a monster that looks familiar, but it’s face is obscure. It has a very large torso, and it’s weapon is a spear, with the spearhead being able to lash-out like a whip using a chain. Every time it’s knocked-down, it disappears and reappears in some other part of the room laying down with it’s weapon through it’s abdomen. It’s a slow-moving monster, but it jumps around and swings the spear/chain with moves that look like they should be deadly, but Dracula soon realizes it’s impossible for him to die in this fight, because this monster isn’t real. Or rather, it wasn’t a real monster or enemy to Dracula. Once he realizes this, the monster lashes-out a final time before it begins to burn and crumble like an old war-torn building, standing triumphantly alongside it’s weapon. Dracula is left standing alone, back in the art gallery.

Later, Dracula would find himself in a church. Only... there are no crosses nor crucifixes, there was no one praying. The church was empty. The stained-glass windows show the images of two different, but very similarly-appearing women. Both blonde, both fill Dracula’s heart with love. The glass turns green and dark blue, and disembodied footsteps enter the church and walk up to where the altar was, beside Dracula. The footsteps stop, and a sound is heard. Dracula can assume the spirit is kneeling, and for some reason, he can assume it has it’s head to the hilt of it’s sword. It begins mumbling prayer, and the sound of a red and white coat in the wind can be heard. Dracula leaves the building, he decides it’s time to go.

The next time he sees Richter, Richter is enveloped in energy, he’s burning with blue fire and passion. His skin is melting, he knows this will be his last fight, and he challenges Dracula. Richter explains that Alucard had visited him only a moment before Dracula had appeared. They fight. When Dracula lands a final blow on Richter, the whip Richter had been fighting with flies from his hands, and he reaches for it desperately. The fires are burning his skin at a faster rate, now, and upon seeing his hand reach up for the whip, Richter realizes it’s his time to go. He bows his head, sits back on his heels, and sighs in relief when he dissolves into the ground.

At this point, Dracula’s barely heard or seen anything about his wife. He couldn’t even remember her name, it escaped him each time he thought about it. The two names he was thinking of continued to merge in his head. They sounded like ‘Elisa.’

There’s a point where Dracula needs to take the offspring of a monster that he’d encountered before, and it had run away after wounding him. He felt no regret, taking this offspring. He needed it to pull a key from it’s insides. However, the parent of the spawn soon caught-on to Dracula’s plan, and hunted him down. Dracula had to carry the offspring in a canvas bag across the town in order to extract it, the tools hiding in four different buildings. Throughout this whole time, Dracula could sense the monster following him. When Dracula finally was able to set the offspring down and open it, the monster ambushed Dracula and the two engaged in a battle. Once the monster was defeated, the offspring on the table let out a terrible wail that sounded like the enraged, pained screams of a young warrior. The offspring grew suddenly into a similar form as it’s parent had been, before rushing away and disappearing. The key it had is left behind.

Dracula soon feels his wife’s energy in the air. It makes him desperate, he needs to do whatever it takes to get to that energy. This eventually leads him back to the graveyard where Julius greets him again. Dracula descends into an unmarked, shared grave. He soon finds himself in a throne room, far underground. Shattered glass is pushed against the wall, the carpet is made of blood and the brick is dark. The throne is before a coffin, and no one sits in it. When Dracula sits, he’s alone for some time. He reflects. He remember his wives’ names. Elisabetha and Lisa. All of the anger and thirst for power he’s felt up until this point leaves his body. 

When he grows tired, he hears more footsteps come from the stairs that lead into the room. They were slow and encroaching, and when they finally get into the room, it’s shown that the footsteps belonged to a man who is clearly Simon Belmont. There’s fire in him, but it doesn’t consume him like it had with Richter. Suddenly, as Dracula stands from the throne, he notices he’s suddenly become much larger, more powerful. He realizes Simon is his last challenge to overcome before he can see his wife. In this same moment, he realizes that he, too, is Simon’s last hurdle to redemption. They engage in battle immediately, without need of words. 

When Dracula defeats Simon, Simon stands triumphantly. He doesn’t look dead, he looks like he’s defeated Dracula. A door opens at the other end of the throne room, and Simon slowly turns to stone. When Dracula casts a glance back one final time, he sees chains drag Simon’s crumbling body into the ground. A key is dropped at his feet. Dracula decides he doesn’t need the key-- his last door is already open to him.

The door leads into a dark world. A replica of old Wallachia and Transylvania, only everything was shrouded in darkness. Screams could be heard in the distance. Dracula ran towards it and the only source of light and heat in this world. Once he made it there, he found the body of an ambiguous woman attached to a burning cross, she was the one screaming, but her screams were inhuman. Searing chains shot from the fire, and figures hidden in the shadows around the fire would attempt to stab Dracula if he got too close. He realized he must kill this monster before him now. Her energy was very strongly like Lisa and Elisabetha’s, but she was not they. 

After killing the monster, the screams died. The flame died. The darkness started to fade away into lightness, and Dracula was falling through the sky. In the distance, a red eclipse. His hair was short and white, his hands looked human. When he fell, the wind almost sounded like music. When he hit the ground, his vision cut, but he could feel his body, unable to move, laying on the ground. Images came to his vision. Images of what was to come. Chaos, souls. A young lady with brown hair was the last image that came to him before Mathias died.

No, Mathias had been dead for a long time. Dracula died when he closed his eyes, and he awoke as a newborn Soma.

[castlephantom]

Castlevania Characters Nationality because I'm bored

Leon Belmont: French

Sara Trantoul: French

Rinaldo Gandolfi: Italian

Mathias Cronqvist: Hungarian (at first I want to put Swedish, but then I thought that this wouldn't make sence)

Elisabetha Cronqvist: French or Polish

Walter Bernhard: German

Joachim Armster: Danish

Justine Gandofi: Italian

Lisa: German

Alucard/Genya Arikado: Hungarian-German (since Mathias is Hungarian and Lisa German, thats the headcanon I go with)

Trevor Belmont: German

Sypha Belnades: Spanish

Grant Dinasty: Romaian

Isaac Laforeze: Italian

Julia Laforeze: Italian

Hector: Greek

Rosaly: Romanian

Saint Germain: French

Christophor Belmont: German

Soleil Belmont: German-French

Simon Belmont: German

Juste Belmont: French-German

Maxim Kishine: German

Lydie Erlanger: German

Richter Belmont: German

Annette: French

Maria Renard: French

Iris: German

Tera: German or Romanian

Shaft: German

Shanoa: French

Albus: French

Barlowe: German

John Morris: American

Eric Lecarde: Spanish

Elizabeth Bartley: Hungarian

Drolta Tzuentes: Hungarian

Jonathan Morris: American

Charlotte Aulin: Irish-American

Stella Lecarde: Spanish

Loretta Lecarde: Spanish

Brauner: German

Julius Belmont: Romanian (because his both parents are Romanian and I go with this headcanon)

Yoko Belnades: Japanese-Spanish (I decide that her father is Spanish and her mother is Japanese)

Soma Cruz: Japanese-Spanish (this little headcanon that his father is Spanish and his mother is Japanese)

Mina Hakuba: Japanese

Hammer: American

Graham Jones: American

Celia Fortner: British or American

Dario Bossi: Italian

Dimitri Blinov: Russian

[belovedbelmont]

@fleursouverain: He’s an amazing character but I don’t think he should appear in simons I think Julius and Simon deserve a season over richter, even if he comes from one of the most popular installments

idk if you’re trying to butter me up or what but it’s workin....

Also, I think richter definitely deserves a season (or two, who knows...). maybe something similar to how I think a Simon-based season would be where part of it is CV 1/SCIV and then the other part (probably the majority) is simon’s quest (because simon’s a bit of a loner and in SQ he actually has to go around and talk to people)

Richter’s story has a bit more ~substance~ based on what happens in-game, with annette and maria and dracula, so rondo might take precedence over symphony just because symphony (beyond a few notable characters) is primarily just the alucard we know and love going through this whole castle on his own.

Richter’s possession and sotn in general is a huge plot point also because that’s when the formula of a belmont defeating dracula really shifts. I doubt the netflix show would do much or anything with john/eric/jonathan/charlotte, maybe the order of ecclesia, but richter and alucard’s story in sotn adds more significance to the demon castle war and julius’ story in general.

.... and I think we could get a lot from a season or two (or three--) based on 1999 or the sorrow games. Adi, the netflix show’s producer, is really interested in soma and his story too so I feel like we’ll definitely see the sorrow squad at some point.