#olrox my boy he needs more love

[rheusia]

the lovers (olrox and his ex who is now my new oc yehe)

so yeah, I did not have time for morrotober and probably will finish the last ones and post the drawings after october (1st-2nd of november I think)

[lena--beana]

Damn I can't believe Sam Deats read my journal and made Castlevania Nocturne specifically for me with everything I could have wanted from a Rondo/Symphony story but like

Oh my GOD??????????

Olrox getting main billing after being my favorite one-off villain with one (1) boss fight with no build-up and never reappearing, they were really like "yeah let's make him the hottest motherfucker in the world and make him even cooler while we're at it"

Richter and Maria's character designs are 😘👌 perfection! I loved how Maria had her classic hairdo with her nightgown too and watching Richter put the bandana on for the first time with goddamn "Divine Bloodlines" playing like????

And Richter doing the Grand Cross??? And his flame whip????? The 1000 blades technique against the marquis?????? Maria using so many of her animal friends and caring so much about each of them sweet child oh my goodness

Not to mention the way I screamed louder for Juste than Alucard bc let's be real baby vampire boy was always going to come back but I had NO faith that they would even look at my boy JB and especially Maxim?? Even in passing I'm so touched holy shit. And I see that red coat on the foot of his bed, I know my angry grandpa's coming back 👀👀

But speaking of Alucard I adore this redesign, the little cravat telling me they're at least trying to give him his Symphony look instead of the t-shirt in the last show is a nice touch but that porcelain doll look is killer and I'm all here for it 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Also everything about Annette oh my lord?? Giving her anything besides just being a damsel in distress like before but everything about her backstory had me on the edge of my seat and I LOVED watching her trap the plantation owner in a cage before the end

Loved getting to see Countess Bathory since we're never getting a Bloodlines anime, the succubus who took me way too long to realize she wasn't just a unique vampire like I had every clue thrown in my face from the fit to the nails and she even admitted to haunting men's dreams and I didn't figure it out til the second she grew wings 😭 glad Alucard still got to finish her off but I'm sad we probably won't get that scene with Lisa again (which probably wouldn't happen since Drac isn't back anyway so there wouldn't be much point)

Can I just talk about Olrox some more bc like??? This guy had NOTHING before the show, he was a fuckin Nosferatu reference and now they gave him all this history, they kept all of his abilities and the dragon transformation?? Plus the beautiful purple and gold suit and those piercing green eyes I love one (1) man and its this fucker I need WAY more of him next time around 👀👀👀👀👀

And yes absolutely I'm excited for next time, we're picking up right where Rondo starts, Father Abbott as a stand-in for Shaft and Tera immediately being turned, the city about to burn like? Are we gonna see Death again?? Do we get to watch Richter fight the Behemoth next season? Is Abbott going to totally lose his mind and bring back Dracula to stop Bathory? Since Alucard is here from the start and not after a time skip do we get to see the Inverted Castle? We already got so much that I would have called a million to one chance but anything's possible now we are SO back baybeeeee

[lonleyhumanbeing]

Just finished Castlevania:Nocturne ( I know I’m behind on the hype but what can you do.) and I liked it, just not as much as OG Castlevania.

This is coming from someone who had never even heard of the games until I watched the series.

I liked Richter, but he did Trevor’s thing but worse. I felt more for Trevor and felt like he was a character that could actually exist. Richter felt a little too Shounen protagonist.

No emotional connection for Maria for me, but I loved Sypha. I feel like they’re pretty similar characters but again, Sypha felt more real.

Loved Annette, maybe a little annoying at times when it came to her lineage, but I see why she is the way she is.

Edouard is absolutely amazing I love him. Wish we had more of him but I am incredibly interested in seeing how a Night Creature can remember how it is to be human. His songs really were the best part of the show.

Olrox needed more screen time. I love our dragon vampire boy who pretended not to care but really did. (Why did he help Belmont &co?)

And we love the anti-church themes throughout. It gives the Church in Gresit vibes. When the bishop was eaten because god wasn’t in his church.

Maybe if the inciting incident was better I’d like it more. I felt a lot for Dracula and understood his cause but feel nothing or Erzebet and her cause.

And of course, my favorite character from the OG series showed up. Alucard.

[ifishouldvanish]

(sorry, one more bc it's been on my mind for a long time)

I worry though, about... the dynamic. Can someone really find and bond with another through their grief and loneliness, without this grim depression they share becoming *worse?*

For me, personally, whenever I think about them... I think there's going to be a level of catharsis. They have something that would be very hard to find in another living being, and a certain love for humanity and the past that would be difficult to find among vampires, and this shapes them into shattered pieces which fit together. But would they still be able to find happiness? It kind of feels like they're two damaged clocks that have coincidentally been stuck on the same minute and hour hand. Would they be able to heal and move time forward?

Okay so like!!!!

I see it less about bonding over the shared grief itself and more about what their responses to that grief have exposed in each of them. Like, in the beginning and on the surface level, yes. It is the grief and loss and loneliness that brings them together. But they are foils!!! I'm telling you!!! They can learn from each other!!!

I've mentioned probably all of this before in scattered pieces across all my posts at some point but!! I think the lowest common denominator, the core of their dynamic, lies in how they seem to have established their senses of self.

Alucard struggles with how not to define himself by his father, and then having to define himself in opposition to his father. "Slave to our families' wishes" etc. And when that chapter of his life closes he's like, "welp, guess I'll just entomb myself here 🤷" until Trevor and Sypha are like "what?? Dude no??" And he's like "oh haha I guess you're right, I can uphold the legacy of the best parts of both of my parents!!" And they're like "ya!!" But then a month goes by without anyone coming round to say "hey!!! Share that knowledge with me!! Fulfill the role you've given yourself" and he is just... so fucking bored and unfulfilled?

He needed they-who-shall-not-be-named to come along so he could fill that role, needed Greta to come along so he could fill that role. He tells Greta about how rescuing others sort of fills a void for him/gives him purpose, which is honorable, yes. But like... It's also so sad imo?? This comfort in denying his sense of self? "I don't know what to do with myself, just gimme a shout if the world ever needs saving again"?? Like Alucard, honey, babygirl, sweetheart... you need to learn to live for yourself 🥺

Olrox on the other hand is... not selfish exactly, but he knows what he's about and he refuses compromise himself. You killed the only man I ever loved? Okay, then I'm killing you, and no, I don't care if your nine year old son witnesses it. You want the juicy story of why that boy is terrified of the big bad vampire? Okay, but you will learn about my humanity first so you can sit with your cognitive dissonance about it later. You think I'm just going to throw myself at your feet because you promise us all eternal night? How about you kindly go fuck yourself? You happily stump for Erzsebet because she promised you that she'll create a world that will allow you to relive your glory days? Couldn't be me!

Like obviously we have a much more limited viewpoint for Olrox because we know so much less about him and his past, but this is not a guy who's waiting for someone to give him a purpose. He acts alone, he doesn't play nice with others, he has his own agenda, and is even a little bit of a hedonist: investigating the relationship between the abbot and Erzsebet? Might as well fuck a hot monk while I'm at it. I said eat the rich, but I might as well look good doing it. You hate/fear me cause I killed your mom? Get over it already. You think the opera singing night creature is annoying? Well, I'm familiar enough with opera music to know he's actually reading you all for filth, so I think it's great!

I think at the end of the day, Alucard is a character who defines himself by others, not understanding why he still feels so empty and alone. And Olrox is a character who defines himself by his own terms, but in being caught between both human and vampire worlds has learned to push people away because he thinks he is better off that way. But by the end of the season, his worst fear is realized: I cannot do this alone. I am at the mercy of someone else's help.

But Olrox isn't like anyone else Alucard has rescued before. He's a fellow vampire. He's a fellow immortal. He's going to be around for as long as he is. And maybe, in that time, a little bit of that ego can start to rub off on Alucard. Maybe he can learn to live for himself without apology, without feeling like he has to atone for the sins of his father. Maybe, just maybe, he can learn to exist outside of the role of the mythical savior.

Because Olrox doesn't want one of those—heaven's no. He can take care of himself, thank you very much. But what if he could learn he doesn't always have to? Who better to restore his faith in the world than the guy who has his mother's conviction that all of this mess is worth saving so deeply ingrained in him that it's been the primary source of his identity for centuries?

I'm starting to ramble here so I hope this is coherent, but in conclusion: they would be so restorative for each other and look so hot together and that is why I believe in Alurox supremacy 🙏

[sweetsmalldog]

Castlevania: Nocturne Episode 8 liveblog: The finale

If Maria dies I will cry

If Ritcher dies I will also cry

If Annette dies I’m gonna scream

If the Abbot dies I’m gonna fucking applaud

HIIIIII DROLTA <3

What the fuck is wrong with Erzabet

She sounds different and kinda sad

Oh she’s a lion lady now

Didn’t Sekmeht get defeated in the original myths when she was tricked into thinking wine was blood and she drank herself to unconsciousness that’s probably not super relevant but maybe

Mizark my man I don’t think they care they’ve drank the fucking coolaid

We love soon to be battle couple flirting

Maria my love-

GET HIS ASS TERA

Ritcher’s blue fire will never not be cool

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABBOT

SHES HERE

And she’s SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

Edouard’s singing ohhhhhh

NIGHT CREATURE REBELLION

NIGHT CREATURE REBELLION

NIGHT CREATURE REBELLION

Drolta vs Ritcher is so sick they’re both so cool

I love the spins Maria does when she summons stuff

It gives it all an almost innocent quality to her magic

Olrox is so into him

There was definitely a shot of Drolta’s whole ass in the spin you aren’t slick animators I saw it

HE HIT HER THO

Edouard ;-;

Is the machine actually going to get banished? Because night creatures are actually like super important for the plan right? You need them to have an army

Because the Abbot can’t make them otherwise he’s not like Isaac or Hector who actually had the power to do it on their own

Oooh ice whip I love the noises it’s making

Oh that’s fucking spooky

MARIA RUN

NOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO NO NOT HER NOT HER NOOOOOOO

Oh shit Tera stopped the spell

And Ritcher can’t do a damn thing to this bitch

And Olrox saved his dude awww

“Everything I do is for god” shut the fuck up

You don’t want to kill Maria?

She’s was gonna turn Maria wasn’t she

OH FUCK SHE WAS

Mizark wants to be a good man wants to do what’s right but Olrox just wants him to live

Fuck maybe it isn’t to soon for them to start talking about spending eternity together

He’s gonna cry ;-;

Mizark don’t say that dude-

Poor Olrox

Ritcher cannot touch this bitch

Tera-

OH NOOOOO

OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK

Edouard and Annette ;-;

Ritcher and Maria need to goooooooooo

RUN PLEASE RUN

ANNETTE YOU THREE NEED TO GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN

And Tera is gone

The power of a mother’s love…

DON’T STOP RUNNING DON’T STOP RUNNING DON’T STOP

I hope Mizark sticks around more

Oh Tera fuck

She’s gonna be a villain next season isn’t she

Drolta please let them leave-

She’s still so hot

Oh no

Hi Olrox

WAIT WHAT?!?!

WHAT

ALUCARD?!?!?!

Drolta’s dead rip one bad bitch you will be missed

IT IS ALUCARD!!!!!!

MY BOY MY THERAPY NEEDING BOY!!! HOLY SHIT

HE’S SO PRETTY AND GLOWY

RITCHER KNOWS WHO HE IS

HES SO FUCKING ETHEREAL BUT YOU ARE PRETTY LATE KING

OF COURSE THATS WHERE THEY END IT

[knot-ee]

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the content.

yadda yadda independent roleplay blog featuring canon characters from all sorts of media. you curate the content you want to see. mature and dead dove content will be featured on this blog without tagging. pro doing whatever the hell you want since this is fiction and a hobby. two thumbs up when it comes to smut, but it comes with conditions.

the babes.

∙ work in progress character info sheet is located here. ∙ Kim Hong-jin "Horangi" — Call of Duty ∙ Piers Nivans — Resident Evil ∙ Roy Harper "Arsenal" — DC Prime Earth ∙ Cole Cash "Grifter" — DC Prime Earth ∙ Akihiro "Daken" — Marvel 616 ∙ Varro — Spartacus TV ∙ Lambert — Witcher games & books ∙ Olrox — Castlevania TV ∙ Nogitsune — Teen Wolf ∙ Ben Braeden — Supernatural TV ∙ Jin Marito — Bucchigiri ∙ Ryōmen Sukuna — Jujutsu Kaisen ∙ Getō Suguru — Jujutsu Kaisen ∙ Dean Winchester — Supernatural TV

the writer.

disgustingly older than 18. horridly older than 20. if i were under 25, i'd be a happy boy and bragging about it. male (he/him) and gay — just like all my muses. i am very friendly and open minded; i just have no interest being your bff or your therapist.

the rules.

1. one-liners and single paragraph threads bore me. gimme content. gimme details. furthermore, plotting is encouraged and is more certainly a two way street. 2. i am selective but going back and forth about being running a mutuals only blog. for now, non-followers can send in asks. 3. do not fucking reblog my headcanons and edits if we're not mutuals. reblog images and memes from the source; this really pisses me the fuck off if you fail to do so. if i tag you in something, you are, of course, free to reblog it from me. 4. i will not tag individual "triggers". the only thing i will tag is nsfw images as freaky!! this is pro-creativity zone. don't like something, do not follow me. 5. cut yer damn posts. tag yer fucking posts. i will not follow people who post excessive negativity and excessive mun images like it's twatter. 6. icons aren't guaranteed because they take god damn time. 7. i do keep up with the jujutsu kaisen manga on a weekly basis. please do not share leaks. i will tag all manga spoilers as spoiler alert! 8. when it comes to daken, i do not write him through his redemption/hero phase. he will only be portrayed as a villain here. 9. all of my muses are cis-male with the exception of the nogitsune who is sexless and genderless. 10. smut will only occur with male muses as all my muses are written as gay.. except akihiro who is technically pansexual in the canon. i used to be really loose when it came to smut and ended up getting bored, sooo there needs to be compatibility between us, the characters, and a fun plot built around doing da nasty. 11. nsfw memes can be sent by all mutuals even if we haven't written before or plotted. don't continue them as threads unless i've given you approval.

straight up i fucking love crossovers even if i'm not familiar with the fandom your character is from, i'll give you a shot if i find it vibes with what i got going on here. however there are some fandoms that i have no interest in or do not like, such as: animated disney shows, the vampire diaries, star wars, wwe.

[garrettwrites]

Hi, how's it going? Anything new and exciting in your life?

I see you're obsessed with vampires, who are your favourites? 👀

Sorry for the 3day delay I had to think on this. Picking favourites is hard. Reminder that I welcome all sorts of asks! Especially vampire and Worldbuilding ones!

Life's hard, gotta study the hell out of roman fish productions while simultaneously making art for social media and my portfolio, but what's life without a little stress.

Onto your question (which I ended up rambling on, sorry), lore wise I have two absolute favourite pieces of vampire media:

VtM: Bloodlines (2004 game). My love. I like how they write vampires and set their powers, clan divisions and hierarchies. The aesthetic of the game is also early 2000s late 90s, which is nostalgic. It's more fantastical than straight forward, a vampire DnD in fact, so it offers a lot of liberty and flexibility for whatever story you want to tell. It also works well as inspiration for original works, since the more you look into it the more you can pick what to use for your own vampire stories.

Second one is the netflix series Vampires (2020). It's french. It is an... incredibly fresh take on vampires. The series unfortunately only has one season with six episodes. It follows the life of this poor vampire family, but the twist is that vampirism is biological and vampires are born as such, and can die of old age (they just age much slower). Their weaknesses, their biology, their social structures and the way the series explores them through the eyes of a teenage girl slowly coming into her vampire disease (because it is kind of an illness), the way the series IS NOT AFRAID of pushing forward extremely embarrassing moments (such as the girl, still unable to control herself, biting the boy she loves IN CLASS and being viewed as a weirdo for it - refreshing when many writers are afraid of such realistic moments due to how cringe they may come across as for general audiences.... It's pretty solid. The scenes with the girl's mother walking into the sun covered in scarves and pieces of cloth is also really good, more series should do that - makes sense that a vampire would still go outside during the day, they'd just need to look absolutely out of place while doing it. Which they should. Vampires don't belong in daylight.

Honorable mention: Interview with the Vampire. Of course. Especially the new TV series. I love the psychological exploration of vampirism in there. However, I think the series is good because of the characters themselves rather than the blood sucking of it all. Vampire wise I don't care much for the lore, it is there to solidify the fact they're all monsters.

Extra 2: Unironically? I know this might sound cringe, but if you ignore the main storyline and exclusively look at the lore... Vampire Diaries is kinda good. The writers clearly did their research and included ideas from all over the world in their social structures, vampiric powers, etc. One of my favourite aspects is how they utilise the concept of "vampries can't enter a house without consent" to its absolute fullest. There's even a character who is turned into a vampire, and gets locked out of his own home because he lives alone and no one is in there to allow him in. Hilarious.

CHARACTER WISE...

Lestat is definitely one of my all time favourites. He symbolizes what a vampire should be for me, but is still multi faceted enough to be a person rather than a caricature.

Olrox from Castlevania: Nocturne (animated series). I miss drawing him. I wrote two whole ass fanfics about him, but they were romantic rather than focused exclusively on him.... A shame. I think he's pretty interesting. Depending on where Nocturne goes, he might surpass Lestat in the future. He's charming, but dangerous. Tragic yet with a chance of rising above the rubble. He's also native american, and possibly a god - all really fresh concepts. I really love Olrox. Top tier vampire dude, sorry Alucard but you're just not as cool.

Talking about Castlevania... Carmilla. She's not even that original as a character, but she's what people nowadays call a "Girlboss" except she's actually well written. You feel for her. You love her. You hate her. And she's a vampire that knows she's a monster and wants to keep being one. None of that "oh naur I'm immortal but must... commit the sin of drinking blood" bullshit. She, much like Olrox, steals every scene she's in.

Jonathan Reid from Vampyr (2018 game). A very... text intensive game. But I like reading, so I don't mind. He's a doctor, and was a soldier during WW1. He's the main character of the game and you can take his path in multiple directions. He's a favourite of mine because I like the concept of a doctor vampire, plus I genuinely love Vampyr.

The cast of The Lost Boys. No explanation needed,

Least favourite vampire: Astarion because 1) he took over my dash, can't talk about vampires anymore without that man being there and 2) people can't tag his fucking name properly and I'm over here trying to find minotaur content (AstErion) and I see that kind of muscular kinda lean white haired small fangs elf taking over the tags. Please people. Learn how to tag.

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I had some time and drew my version (technically an oc) of Olrox's past lover

Kinda chaotic, but they're pretty anyway

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The random urge to draw them together hurts my brain aaaaaaa

their proportions kinda broken but it's late

also Olrox being terrorized with pillows every morning is a great idea

chaos is happening here, gotta fix and render them in digital, but that's what I'm leaving for tomorrow yeee :D

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more Olrox doodles yaayaa

one of my headcanons is that when Julia cut his back with her magic knife, it actually left a scar, I think high tier magic weapons could actually leave marks on vampire's skin

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It's 1am, but I drew Olrox again (normal and him from Feathered Serpent au which belongs to @piratekingpitchblack)

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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As I promised, I fixed the vamps :D

just look at them having fun, nothing more being important

(and some doodles with Kwahu)

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them gays being wholesome (I should learn how to use fineliners raah)

ft cocky Kwahu yee (gotta fix him in digital cause he looks kinda broken on his face)

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Not me checking ao3 notifications and then I saw one comment where someone mentioned the drawing on Tumblr of Olrox and his past lover

The moment of realisation that they saw my drawing hit me so hard I entered fangirl mode

Anyway it made my day and my heart is full of happiness, thank you

[rheusia]

I think I shouldn't post my "I have only loved once" au fic here, because these chapters are quite long and mess up with my vision on the blog.

So, as I have just finished the fourth chapter, here is the link to the whole ao3 work

Have fun reading it whole! (tw! angst, death, violence)