#shanoa castlevania

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inktober day 14 - shanoa

[pier-monsters]

shanoa castlevania save me here’s a redraw

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⤹ - - SHANOA layout rq by @agenderkiana icons ++ banner . interact && / or credit to use , thanks!

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[the-edude]

Shanoa for DraculaXmas

[cassiferlynnart]

Shanoa x Laura [Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia] , requested by @69420coolgirl and @wygolvillage

Day 8: Moon

[yuribracket]

MALIGNED YURI BRACKET: Round one

How is Karen Aijo/Mahiru Tsuyuzaki (Revue Starlight) maligned?

"Yes hikaren. But have you considered."

How is Shanoa/Laura (Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia) maligned?

"well already the cv games get ignored because of the Netflix show and order of Ecclesia is even less talked about and shalaura is only known to like. My friends. Pretty much all content that exists for them is by one of my pals. come on Shanoa is a yuri icon. every female villager flirts with her. every female enemy flirts with her. she’s canonically not interested in men. please." "CV fans we have to pull through, I've never seen a poll account acknowledge the games." "#pitting shalaura against twewy and tales characters is fucking sick in the head. they ARE the most maligned for this"

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Samantha Groves AKA Root:

She's a hacker that starts off as an antagonist and even kidnaps a main character, and tortures some people. She ends up saving the world from an AI takeover/apocalypse. She's a self proclaimed psychopath and worships The Machine, a true AI she considers a god. She's a lesbian and in love with another main character Shaw, who she also kidnaps at some point (but Shaw shoots her so they're even). She is a girlboss because she's an extremely competent hacker and is very good with a gun. But she also has her goofy and useless lesbian moments. She's such an interesting and layered character.

Shanoa:

Shanoa is a member of a Dracula-worshipping cult called Ecclesia, to which she has sworn her life- literally. Unbeknownst to her, Dominus, the dark power she is fighting to wield is the power to offer herself up as sacrifice to revive Dracula, and it's already taken away her emotions and memories. To gain this power, and to perform her duty to Ecclesia's leader/her teacher/adoptive father Barlowe, she's willing to obey any order... including the order to kill. Shanoa's skillset include magical Glyphs, which allow her to cast spells, materialize giant weapons, summon monsters, and more. Though a magic based character, she's extremely strong and agile and more of a magical knight. Eventually, after murdering her brother Albus and discovering the truth about Ecclesia, she decides to bring down the castle and kill the "god" her master Barlowe had built his broken, evil cult around in a final act of redemption, and it's also just really cool. She frequently compares herself to a living weapon, and she is a classic #girlboss in my opinion. There's more I could go over but this is already getting way too long lol. Everyone please play Order of Ecclesia NOW

[localsya]

forgor to upload this here yesterday, shanoa piece doodle i might work on in the next month 👍

[moonstoneraven]

valentine’s day shalaura :3c

[the-crow-binary]

I unlocked Shanoa in Grimoire of Souls and I have the choice between those two subweapons

I think I really like this game.

[inversionimpulse]

Castlevania game I'd like to see: something centred on Shanoa fighting a non-Dracula villain during the period after OoE where she's rebuilding the Belmont clan. I just think that would be a really neat premise, playing as the leader of the Belmonts at a time when they're starting to flourish again. I think you could really do something with that in a decently large-scale action-RPG!

While I'm at it, maybe lean into how, where most CV protagonists are merely vaguely religious, Shanoa is outright a Catholic clergywoman (I think) and presumably pretty devout. In particular I like the idea of having her praying to the saints for intercession.

(But filtered through the lens of "Japanese gothic fantasy action game, so not so much a theological examination as a gameplay feature where she gets a Devil Trigger-esque flaming sword warrior angel super mode by praying to Saint Michael, or prays to Saint Cecilia and a piano falls on the boss' head, etc.)

Also, the game's Vergil also uses Latin in their spells, but is audibly differentiated from Shanoa by pronouncing them according to Classical Latin rules instead of Ecclesiastical Latin.

(So Shanoa says, EG, Vol Falcis like "Vol Falchis," but the rival says it like "Wol Falkis.")

[ladyaster]

I love Order of Ecclesia a ton, I had a resurgence for my love for it at the start of 2021 and it’s been two years since and it never went away. However, I wanna share some love for probably my favorite NPC in the game.

Ecclesia is partly such a great title because of the villagers (it’s also in general a heartwarming, wholesome, tragic work of art that’s also super fun to play through), though sadly aside from Laura (who I do think has a great backstory, though while I do see why people do ship it, I don’t really ship her with Shanoa since I hc Shan as ace/aro (which admittedly is very mild projection as an ace myself but also she just kinda gives those vibes IMO but anyone else’s hcs are valid too) and as such I don’t ship her with anyone, sorryyy) and sometimes Monica (who is a precious baby who needs to be protected, it’s okay cinnabun your dresses are great), they don’t get the love they deserve because they’re all so endearing. Except George, heck him. However, I wanna give special mention in particular to Daniela. The Daniela sidequests are the best ones in the game IMO and they always make me wanna cry. I love how as is we’re getting insight to Shanoa’s talents outside of killing monsters, and as an artist myself I love how it’s drawing of all things, so like post-game we can imagine what she’s doing with her life once everything’s over and she’s just living as an illustrator with three cats. But what gets me is their friendship the whole way through. In general it helps that Daniela is a sweet old lady who offers cake even to Albus, and it turns out she’s a legit Belmont which suddenly makes her the coolest granny ever, but her giving Shanoa that sketchbook not only helps her unlock parts of herself she thought she lost to Dominus (maybe even helping some of her emotions start to regrow), but the way they bond over both the drawings and the locations drawn in them is so bittersweet. From the little things like “oh you’re so talented! Here’s a nice hat for you!” to the deep things like the life and times of one of the last members of a heroic bloodline, it’s wonderful. Even moreso is how Daniela uses the fact she’s lost so many people in her life as well as her possible dementia to help relate to Shanoa better and reassure her that she’s not alone on this difficult path. Heck, she knows as a Belmont what she’s fighting against, and says she’s always welcome to come back and even wants to celebrate her eventual victory against Dracula. They even throw in dialogue reminiscent of that one line from Spirited Away in there and...aaaaa.

Gosh this game hits me in the feels. The epilogue to this game is Shan knocking on Daniela’s door, immediately hugging her when she opens it, and asks with tears still streaming down her face: “Can we have cake, now?” T^T

[emlan]

DS Castlevanias on the switch! Here's an Order of Ecclesia classic 💋

[ragecandyart]

More Shanoas cause I love her too much

[the-edude]

Day 10: Shanoa