#this is just five paragraphs of unstructured and unedited thoughts yw

[opaleyedprince]

i’m cannot sleep so i am just going to type character rambles until i am sleepy

see the thing abt enoch is he’s not even a belmont by blood so even though he’s just as protective of the family name sometimes it catches up with him that he technically has no claim to it; so he’ll act in defense of trevor instead until trevor is like my brother in christ why are you acting like you’re not also a belmont. also when something spooks him he will duck behind trevor out of habit even though he’s like. so much taller now. probably learned to sew/cook/etc from his mother, and learned a bit of swordsmanship from the belmonts even though his specialty was obviously in magic.

just his existence within the story is interesting to me bc he’s yet another person who would have been a blessing - literally - in the fight against the creatures of the hoard/night, but the corrupt system shot itself in the foot and forever robbed him of a future helping people backed by the church; though that might be a blessing in disguise tbh. like first his mother is forced to seek sanctuary with monster hunters, and then later the same people who chased after her somehow end up taking almost his whole family from him.

he’s younger than trevor but usually acts as his impulse control (with varying degrees of success), and meanwhile trevor does his best to keep enoch out of trouble like a good big brother would. both of them also do little things for each other without the other knowing, like trevor grabbing a nice piece of fabric for enoch to hold onto and enoch putting together a draft to help trevor with a particularly bad hangover.

enoch and sypha is interesting bc at first he tries to bond with her over their shared magical talent but that doesn’t go as far as you’d think - she’s a lot more skilled and practiced than he is; enoch’s strategy with magic is to literally burn himself out in the fight and overwhelm his opponent before they can realize what’s going on. but i do think the area where they would really fall into step with each other would be teasing trevor since enoch knows how aggravating he can be and is enjoying less-murderous jabs being sent at his brother instead of the usual death threats.

and NOW the cream of the crop aka alucard and enoch. while they start off on a bit of the wrong foot (witnessing a hot stranger attack your brother will do that to you), i think they’d bond pretty quickly. one thing about enoch is that if trevor is relaxed around someone, he’ll usually also immediately drop his guard; this time enoch actually relaxes around him first. at first it’s just mutual curiosity, but then it becomes “oh hey we’re pretty similar” and then it’s like oh hey we work/fight pretty well together. speedrun strangers to friends to lovers on a journey to kill his dad any%.

but i think the way they could bond over what the church did to each of their families/just over who they are is really something. like alucard talking about his mother’s practice and enoch telling him about his mother showing him how to knit. alucard giving him sword lessons and offering him nice gloves or a handkerchief (a la you wear fine things well). enoch acting as a rock for him and sticking by for company even when he doesn’t want to talk. and my favorite thing aka the drive to better protect alucard in fights causing enoch’s powers to grow and change. pov you are an enemy vamp targeting dracula’s son and his sort-of bf eldritch blasts you and turns you to salt.

all in all i am very normal abt this don’t worry abt it also if you made it this far wowee have a cookie and some milk