#know that i'm always rotating soma thoughts in my head

[reincarnight]

now that i have a better understanding of the game, here are more detailed thoughts on the killer!soma au. (survivor edition coming soon??)

he is from dawn of sorrow, specifically from its bad ending. soma witnessed his best friend's "murder" but didn't have the talisman equipped (and thus, arikado couldn't intervene in time). the black fog whisks him away not too long after he kills celia.

his appearance is very human-like! at least from the distance / if you don't pay enough attention. he has crimson eyes, fangs and pointy ears + he looks unnaturally pale. here are his portrait sprites from aria, with soma awakened as dracula on the right, for reference:

unlike with dracula, the castle doesn't appear in the background if soma is the killer. this is due to the fact that it's currently sealed inside the solar eclipse.

soma, dracula, dark lord... he responds to any of these.

he doesn't really care about the entity or the trials, only seeing the latter as a source of entertainment at best. soma 100% believes he can break himself out whenever he wants. i mean, this is cv's satan equivalent we're talking about.

in a similar vein to julius mode, he can levitate and teleport around the trial grounds. (see the first phase of the boss fight for a general idea.) by default, he attacks with hellfire — either in short bursts or charged attacks... but you know what? he has some really cool souls he could use.

depending on his mood, he might play around a little: eg. give survivors a false sense of security by letting them believe they've escaped him (and then snatch it away).

he will absolutely tunnel any belmont he sees —— or any other survivor who annoys him tbh, but a belmont will always take priority. he remembers all of his deaths at their hands.

out of the survivors, alucard is the only one who would make him pause. the fun moral question of whether you'd hook your son :)

[insert spiderman pointing meme] applies to killer!soma seeing dracula.

++ note that i treat survivor and killer au as their own separate universes. if your muse is talking to killer soma, survivor counterpart doesn't exist in that specific interaction, and vice versa. that said, i'm not strict about it.