#that scene of him rallying gresit???? that is COMMAND TRACK MATERIAL right there!!!!!

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...will you please talk to us about Command Track Trevor? Because I absolutely Love That but also I have Questions.

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COMMAND! TRACK! TREVOR!  AKA, TREVOR BELMONT IS ACTUALLY VERY GOOD AT STUFF AND EQUALLY GOOD AT HIDING THAT FACT.

Okay, so, let’s talk about this for a second.  Trevor Belmont does an extremely good impression of a useless wastrel, the dredges of a once-great family, who’s been determined to utterly destroy himself.  He’s a drunk, he’s a liar, he even does a better-than-passable impression of a coward for all of ten minutes.

This is a con, and the whole world fell for it.

Even at the very start of the show, the first time we see him, Trevor demonstrates several things in rapid succession, despite being extremely drunk and at a severe disadvantage.  These several things are:

He has the presence of mind to lie fairly competently about the crest on his shirt, even when he’s so drunk he wobbles.

He is authentically cynical and quite dismal in his worldview, but he’s still prepared to defend his family’s name, to the extent of breaking cover.

He makes the statement that he has a whip and a short sword, when he’s trying to negotiate walking away, but he fights bare-handed against the three guys in the bar, despite the fact that he’s armed and could therefore have a significant advantage if he took it.  We know that he doesn’t mind killing humans, as he’s more than ready to do in the priests, which means that specifically he doesn’t want to kill these humans, a bunch of ignorant fucks in a bar who haven’t really done anything to him.

Again, he’s so drunk he’s wavering on his feet, but he still does a pretty good job in that fight despite the fact that, A, he’s fighting three-against-one, and, B, he’s trying not to permanently hurt them.  They’re pretty evidently willing to beat him to death, but he never pulls his sword.  Holding his own in that fight, even just enough to walk out under his own power, indicates that he might be rusty, but he’s kept his skills up.

SO, my point here is, Trevor does a good impression of worthless disgrace to the family name, but at BEST it’s a half-hearted lie that not even he really believes, and it lasts under a day when he’s presented with a concrete way to prove himself a Belmont through and through.

This brings me to point two of my argument, which is that Trevor ALSO does a very good job of playing dumb.  And don’t get me wrong, he’s definitely the street smarts in comparison to Sypha’s book smarts, but honestly half the fandom thinks he’s illiterate and I just can’t help you people.  He identifies the Cyclops as being “right out of the family bestiary,” and knows how to kill it, even if it takes a minute to remember.  He knows what Dracula’s castle looks off the top of his head, and after a glance at Alucard’s hiding place he’s able to deduce absolutely accurately what’s going on.  He’s even pretty close when he guesses that Alucard is Dracula--clearly the fact that Dracula has a son isn’t common knowledge, probably because it looks like Alucard might be the only dhampir in existence and therefore it’s probable that no one even believed it was possible.  Trevor knows an enormous amount about different types of creatures, as well as obviously maintaining a better-than-average map of Wallachia in his head, as he’s able to navigate to Gresit while drunk, wounded, and starving without evident difficulty.  The man’s not stupid, and he knows more than how to fight.  However, as he proves in the fight with Alucard, playing dumb and apathetic gets him a lot farther than showing off his skills--he could have taken Alucard’s life, if Alucard pushed him, largely because Alucard didn’t think Trevor was crafty enough to pull that stunt.  

Okay, so, those two are basically just “here’s why I think Trevor is smart enough to get into Star Fleet in the first place, if that was his timeline,” but this THIRD AND MOST VITAL point is “here’s why Trevor is absolutely command track, no debate.”

Trevor Belmont turned Gresit from a scared collection of civilians, much abused and manipulated by their trusted authority figure, into a mob, and then turned that mob into a functional army, all within ten minutes.

Sypha and Alucard are absolutely the scholarly brains of that outfit, although they both lack in other areas.  However, neither of them are leaders.  Sypha is utterly confident in her own areas of expertise, but much more inclined to run off alone and half-cocked than use the people at her disposal.  Alucard’s doubts about the people around him being worth much are well-earned, given the givens, but it means he’s prone to “if you want it done right, do it yourself” thinking, which also makes him less-than-inclined toward cooperative efforts.  On top of that, because they’re not given to thinking about how to manage a group, they’re not good with group tactics.

Trevor, on the other hand--he starts rattling off orders to the Gresit mob like it’s second nature, telling them where to stand and how to prepare, explaining the critical details they need in order to be able to fight.  Being a leader isn’t just “go there, do this, good job,” it’s also making sure that the people you’re giving orders to can start to understand why those orders are necessary.  Even something as simple as “salt kills demons--remember that” is crucial in terms of distinguishing someone who’s okay at giving orders from leadership material.  Trevor doesn’t just tell Gresit what to do, he tells them why it works and how to continue doing it.

All while also proving to them that the Speakers are life-saving help, not a threat.

OBVIOUSLY Trevor wears command gold.  He might be a rather nontraditional captain, once he has his own ship, but he comes through fucking clutch when his people need him, he’d die for what he believes without hesitation, and he’s as good at making spur-of-the-moment alliances as he is at rallying people to follow him.

Captain Trevor Belmont, if you please, with his CMO Adrian Tepes and his science officer Sypha Belnades.