#tera castlevania

[saman-tics]

Can we talk about great Tera is? Not only is she very beautiful, but she's a great mom. Even though she was low-key manipulating Maria into summoning those dark creatures, it was her vampiric side that was influencing her to do so. She's still a great mother and character. Would love to see where her arc takes her in season 3 if we get. She definitely deserves better.

[wittyvitale]

Modern Day Castlevania Nocturne AU Headcanon: Richter comes to the breakfast table in just a shirt and underwear. Maria immediately looks away and says, “My God, you NEED to wear pants, I don’t want to see all of that!”

I really like the idea of Richter being a gross teenage boy in his own home and Maria yelling at him for being a gross teenage boy.

“Mum, make him put pants on!!”

[mr-shimurka]

She's Queen👑✨

[ Castlevania: Nocturne ] Season 2, Episode 1

[ + screenshots & collages ]

Erzsebet: "Speaker woman. 'Think what a powerful servant I would be,' you said…

…You do magic. Do some magic...

…'Loyal too,' you said. As if you could be another Drolta...

...You are not Drolta. But perhaps I have a use for you…

…The Abbot, the man who loves you but sacrificed you to me, go to him. Bring him to me, now."

Tera: "Machecoul's a long way. I don't know if I can keep making ice that far."

Erzsebet: "Find out."

[alucarddaily]

Official Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 wallpapers by @samueldeats

[drolta]

Castlevania: Nocturne + text posts

[prickly-paprikash]

Castlevania Nocturne really stepped up its game in the second season.

I had two major complaints for the premiere season of CN:

The pacing was erratic. From episode 2 onwards, it seems as if the story is obsessed with giving us nonstop climactic battles, at the cost of letting the characters and pacing breathe. I understand that a central theme of the first season was loss—not just loss of loved ones and the grief that comes with it, but simply losing at every turn. They make the Vampire Messiah feel more like an inevitability, and it works to some extent. But one thing that the original Castlevania series did well was how it handled the flow of conversation and combat.

Seasons 1-3 were all mostly slow, deliberate episodes centered on talking. Characters would simply converse. The very first scene of Castlevania literally embodies this.

Lisa and Dracula, having an organic yet expertly crafted conversation that feels sharp, poignant, and immediately tells us everything we need to know about these two characters. We get one Lisa scene, and then she dies and yet it hits so hard because of how one conversation was written.

Nocturne's first season, many times, felt more like a quip-fest. Castlevania's humor was dry and morbid, to better fit the sarcastic and dark tone of the series. When characters like Trevor or Sypha or even Isaac cracked a joke, it never felt out of place. They had a cold, callous sense to them. Like their humor was a coping mechanism for the dreary and bleak reality they lived in.

Richter on the other hand felt like a Phase IV MCU lead, being unbearably sarcastic and "witty". Watching Nocturne again, I struggled to like Richter in the first half but he really came into his own after he meets Juste.

In the second season, however, the pacing really knuckles down. It becomes deliberate. And when a fight scene happens pre-episode 7, it feels more like OG Castlevania again. It isn't being treated with extreme weight, but it feels more like a part of every day life for Belmonts and their peers. Whenever Trevor, Sypha and Alucard get into a scrap with Night creatures, it actually had a sense of levity to them. This was a job. An occupational hazard. A logical result of living in Wallachia. In Nocturne season 1, fights were treated with more weight than they should have, while character work felt secondary, barring someone like Annette.

Here, it really allows me to fall for these characters more. Being an OG Drolta stan was so rewarding this season. I really also liked Maria and Tera more here, with Tera becoming a vampire creating a really interesting dynamic between the two and pushing their characters into directions that I didn't expect to enjoy as much as I did.

Mizrak, Olrox, and Richter were sidelined a bit more here, but it makes sense. These three dominated the first season, so it made sense to shift the focus on others and let their characters grow and shine. But just because they didn't take up most of the spotlight doesn't mean their characters were ignored.

Mizrak and Olrox's romance was developed in more subtle ways this time, which I appreciated. The writers let the unspoken heat and budding romance speak for themselves here, and I really enjoyed Olrox's sadness and Mizrak's regret and grief here, though of course the best scene between them was at the end. The way the writers made that finale, weaving feelings of heartbreak, lust, love, and fear into that one sentence was so, so good. Mizrak's fear of death and torment. Olrox simply saying that the devil was easy to cheat.

Ugh. That's the good shit.

And Richter? They still let him be the dry, sarcastic quipster, but I appreciate the restraint here. He doesn't crack jokes as much. Instead, they really focus on his feelings with Annette, to the point that he feels more like the love interest rather than the MC for a good chunk of the season.

And I'm not complaining. I enjoyed the budding romance between them in the first season, but with the deliberate pacing here, the writers really sold me on this soft, chaste, tender love story. Richter and Annette feel like young adults falling for the first time and I really fucked with it.

I'll talk about Annette in a separate post, but sufficed to say, she was the best character of this season. Hands down.

My second complaint was Erzsebet Báthory. She felt so... she felt like she paled in comparison to the three other villains of the season.

Drolta was exquisite. She oozed charisma and charm, and she stole every single scene she was in. The animators loved her and I could tell. She had the most costume changes. She had the sharpest lines. She was gorgeous. And even her death felt euphoric because she got to introduce Alucard into the mix. Like, seriously, they used her perfectly in the first season and she was easily the best character by far.

Olrox? Sexy. Gay. Kill me. Him and Mizrak? Perfection. His voice was so smooth and seductive. His dialogue? Smartly written. Every scene he's in, he feels like he's always holding back something.

Rage. Pain. Lust. Desire. Grief. Hatred. Remorse. It is always there, an undercurrent of emotions so thick you could feel it in every scene they placed him in.

Abbott? Worthless. Pathetic. Hypocrite. I hated him every single time he was onscreen, and that was exactly what he needed to be. A counterrevolutionary bible thumper that would elicit powerful memories of unlikable relatives at a reunion. No notes. Perfectly utilized villain, and I fucking cheered when he got burnt to a crisp by his daughter.

But Báthory felt so underwhelming.

So either the writers knew this specific complaint from the fans, or more likely wrote her this way to purposefully hide the true final boss of the series.

Drolta.

See, Báthory doesn't hold a candle to any previous villains of the Castlevania story. Not as complex as Isaac. Not as iconic and important as Dracula. Not as enjoyable to both hate and love as Carmilla. Not as hilarious and memorable as Death. She was just there. I thought it was a waste, and that I wanted to see more of her shine in season 2.

So when the only bit of character work she got was her mourning Drolta and her small flashback, I was disappointed.

Make no mistake, she made a great physical threat. But that was it. She felt more like one of Death's elite guards from season 4 than her own true brand of evil.

Not as hate-worthy as the Abbott. Not as conflicted as Olrox. Not as charismatic as Drolta.

So imagine my surprise and subsequent glee as to when Drolta takes the power for herself. Killing her in the sky. That was perfect.

Drolta, who served Sekhmet. Who broke down at the loss of her goddess, her fellow priestesses, and the people she cared for. Who, blinded by grief, sought to resurrect her goddess by becoming a vampire herself and searching high and low for a worthy vessel.

Drolta became even more interesting. Thinking herself as only a follower, never seeking to gain the goddesses' power for herself. Becoming the first Vampire/Night Creature that gave Alucard, the son of Dracula himself who was leagues above Báthory before she became the goddess, quite a lot of trouble.

The way every villain was handled in this season was excellent. From Abbott's death, to Richter proclaiming his desire to avenge his mother to Olrox's face right after they worked together to beat Drolta, but still letting him go afterwards as thanks—I'm sorry, but that was some raw ass writing right there.

The only thing I have to complain about? Nothing from the writers or animators or directors. It's the production that I hate.

Streaming services fucked everything up. 8-10 episodes for every single show is such a dumb move, and making us wait 2-3 years for every single one of them is horrible.

On top of the fact that they will cancel something on a whim.

Nocturne would be unquestionably a masterpiece had it been allowed to have 24 fucking episodes each season. We could explore France more. See deeper into the revolutionary setting of the show. Really see the world of Castlevania, but no. And now there's still a threat of cancellation when animation has been carrying Netflix's worthless ass for years? Especially through the pandemic?

Watch Castlevania Nocturne. Support the studio. Show Netflix that this is where their energies and money should be going towards.

Their live actions, barring something like the big names of Stranger Things and Squid Game, have been flops. They fumbled the Witcher series. They killed Kaos. They ended Shadow and Bone. They fuck up every single time and it has been animation that has pulled through.

Arcane. Castlevania. Blue Eye Samurai. She-Ra.

Support this show, please. I would love to keep this series going, but it needs the attention it so rightfully deserves.

Please. I need to see Old Man Coyote. I need to see Tera go further into the darkness. I want to believe in the possible Maria x Alucard romance that was in the games that could be written really well here. I want to see more of these characters. I want to dive deeper into this world. But most importantly, I want every single person who worked on this show to keep having a job. To be able to do what they do best and get better at it.

This show is great. It deserves more seasons. More sequel series to explore other Belmonts. Other countries. More sexy vampires. More sexy hunters.

Support animation.

[shesalittlelost]

Oh Alucard and Juste got the worst babysitting job lmao

She is so going dark isn't she? I know my heart will break but Tera my darling I will not stop loving you 💔🥲

I like how she feels... idk younger? after turning. like less mature and so much smaller in the face of an uncertain eternity.

Can't wait for this ugly mf to get his ass handed to him by another Belmont.

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter?" Castlevania Nocturne

[halpwhatdoiputhere]

My dad has REFUSES to call Olrox anything but Ollie since he saw the first episode

For example when little boy Belmont when running after Olrox appeared behind him my dad just yelled

“HERE COMES OLLIE!!!!”

“HES GONNA GETCHA”

With so much excitement

So when the ahem smexy after shot scene he just when “damn Ollie got some”

[memingursa]

Vampire Yuri but with yaoi size differences I see

[mr-shimurka]

If only....

I love this women so😭

[aquilaofarkham]

title: lady in bloodied white rating: MATURE (canon-typical violence, child death, gore, psychological trauma) word count: 13,851 summary: Something is hunting the children of Machecoul. While on the trail of this mysterious force, Richter begins to question his sanity until his target reveals itself to be more personal and horrifying than he could have ever imagined. likes/reblogs are greatly appreciated!

READ THE ENTIRE GHOST STORY

[wittyvitale]

Tera and Mizrak definitely have some backstory. Just look at the way she teared up after he attacked her and said, "she's a vampire, nothing more." In S1, Tera said that the townspeople were suspicious of her bc she was a foreigner, but she found kindness at the abbey. Mizrak would have been much younger back then, but I'm sure he was one of the ones who showed Tera kindness when she first arrived. I mean Richter and Maria knew who he was in the first episode, greeting him like an old friend. Mizrak knew where Tera lived. Mizrak has been a part of Tera's life the entire time she's been in Machecoul. And to watch someone who's shown you kindness for 17 years suddenly attack you and say that you're incapable of love... that must have been painful for Tera. Poor Tera deserves so much better

[colorfulwastelandvoid]

The only vampire in the entire show to scare me 😭. Keep her far away from Maria. That is all. Yall please watch the second season it’s so good.

[alucarddaily]

"Do you really think you could kill him? He's someone you love. Even if he's become a monster."

[mejcinta]

Does Nocturne season 1 timeline give away possible season 3 Rondo of Blood plans?

I believe that seasons 3 to 4 will cover Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night storylines respectively.

Why is that? Season 1 begins with a flashback to 1783, Richter's childhood, then there's a time skip of 9 years that takes us to 1792, the same year when Rondo of Blood is set in the games!

In this story, Richter's relationships with Annette and Alucard are tested as Dracula is thrown into the mix. Maria also features.

My guess is that Maria and Tera will have a hand in bringing about Dracula, in Maria's case inadvertently as Tera influences her.

Annette and Richter in St Domingue receive a prophetic warning from Annette's spiritual mentor, who is revealed to still be alive and on the island. She prophesied the coming of Erszebet, and will probably also suffer a vision of Dracula's revival.

I also suppose that Annette's magic will be a counter to Maria's magic which a this point is being corrupted, and for that reason Annette will be taken from Richter? If that is not the case Maria being taken by Tera is also still reason enough for Richter to leave the island with Annette to join forces with Alucard.

As for SoTN I think season 4 will be the perfect time to do a 5 year time skip. Season 3 still needs a continuation from s2 given the new interesting developments like: Mizrak being turned, Old Man Coyote possessing Tera and Richter and Annette starting a relationship. Old Man Coyote would not want to wait YEARS to begin his agenda, and that's what gets me thinking season 3 will not have a time skip.