#Alucard dies instead of Lisa

[weareallgonnaliveforawhile]

Hi it's me again, you're gonna bs getting a lot of asks from me lol. Sorry for being annoying but you're the one who came up with the cool AU.

What happens during the travel with Lisa and Trevor and Sypha. WHY is she travelling with them?

—Sylvia

Alright so first of all, to make things clear-

Don't apologize for sending asks to me, I get them and my immediate reaction is 'Holy shit, people remembered I exist?!' before rushing to check what they said. I adore asks, they make me feel as important as like the Pikachu fucker we all vaguely worship or like any artist ever.

Now onto the actual question.

Lisa at her core is a very very moral person. She wants to help people. Her morals are one of the most important things to her SECOND to her family.

With that in mind, I want you to look me in my eyes and tell me that she'd be alright letting her husband commit a genocide, that she'd be alright with letting him do something her son would hate more than anything in the name of 'revenge' for him.

So Lisa is on the side of trying to stop her husband, less in the name of protecting people and more in the name of refusing to let her son's name be used to do horrid things. I want to ask you what's the best way for her to do that?

Is it to secretly work against him from the inside? Maybe but Lisa doesn't have the HEART for that kind of long term betrayal, she still does love her husband.

Is it to try and get through to him? Well, she does try, but it doesn't work.

What about working with an enemy that isn't literally just the fuckers who killed her son? Now she's getting somewhere.

So yeah! That's why she's with Trevor and Sypha, the same reason canon! alucard was.

Her traveling with Trevor and Sypha primarily just makes her lone to both hone her skills as a healer and help create concoctions that could hurt her husbanding, using weaknesses that she'd long known about from 20 years of marriage.

[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.

[beevean]

You know, the funniest thing about how the games treat Dracula compared to the show is that the former have no less than four foils for our villain! To really hammer in the point that dude chose to be a bastard when he could have not!

Alucard also lost Lisa - he watched her die, he listened to her last words, and by all account it was a slow, painful death. He could have been angry towards the mob who unfairly put his mother through such a terrible death. Instead, accepting Lisa's final message, he chose to protect humanity from his father's fury, and kill him over and over which causes him so much internal turmoil that he'd rather sleep his life away.

Soma discovered that his fate was to become the Dark Lord. He simply refused. In fact, he was scared to become the Dark Lord, to the point of making Julius promise that if he lost against Chaos, the vampire hunter would kill him. Soma wants to be a normal human with his friends, and he'll fight to stay so. (worthy of noting that he's the only foil here who can't resist the darkness' call when he sees his beloved die, in DoS: Mina's Talisman can only slow the process down for Arikado to intervene in time. It proves that he really has to struggle to remain as himself)

Hector also was forced to see her beloved be executed in a sham witch trial - deliberately! Isaac deliberately set this up to enrage him to the point of being easily manipulable, and Death deliberately fanned the flames of his anger so that he'd succumb to the Curse and become Dracula. Hector not only directed all of his anger to the only responsible for Rosaly's death, but by the end he pulled back, because he realized that anger was not real, and recognized Isaac as another victim before peacefully moving on.

And Leon also had his fiancée die (see a pattern here), in fact he had to strike the fatal blow, under her request. Mathias honestly believed that because of this, Leon would understand his grief, and also renounce to God. But Leon not only had no intention to forgive Mathias for his cruel plan, he insisted that he'd rather live as a human and honor Sara's final wish, than exist for all eternity all alone, the fate Mathias doomed himself to.

So yes, eventually it almost becomes funny how much the games keep insisting "look at how much of a pathetic loser Dracula is. what a weak bitch. really thinks he's all justified because Wife Died™. Look at all these badasses with Dead Wives��� and how they still do the right thing! lol, dracula. lmao, even."

the virgin "he did nothing wrong 🥺" vs the chad "he did everything wrong and he's a petty manbaby about it". we stan

(ofc there is the heavy implication that Dracula literally cannot move on nor become a better person because of Chaos' influence inside him, which is why his soul had to do a hard reboot in the form of Soma to be freed from the cycle of destruction he stuck himself in. But there is certainly a discussion to be had about how much this affects Dracula's agency and culpability)

[bnomiko]

I randomly remembered Dracula's conversation with Alucard from "The Living Years" today and kinda died on the inside because OUCHOOFOWIE!!!! 😭

Like, they said that they'd talk it out like normal people if Dracula ever started losing his mind again, and Dracula DID lose his mind again....

So like, how'd that conversation go???? Because on one hand it was probably at least a little bit morbidly hilarious with SOTN era Alucard being like "Hey Dad, could you not?" and Dracula being like "LOL, no."

But on the other hand, what kind of absolutely tragic tea did Maria and Richter witness?

Did Julius get to see Tragic Tea Two: Electric Boogaloo during the battle of '99?

I may have conveniently blamed the castle for Drac's state of mind. (Castle: Why me, what did I do?? D :) So there wasn't really any reasoning with him. Like I always headtilt at the conversation towards the end of SotN where Dracula says he wants to purge the human side of Alucard, but that should be the part of him that he'd value even more than his own contribution, because that's proof of Lisa's love for him…

Hmm, IIRC Richter and Maria weren't present for Alucard's battle with Dracula… lemme check. Yes, he tells her to take Richter and leave. So really they just got sad!Alucard to deal with which probably involved a lot of moping and sighing and reluctance to do anything for a good few years.

Ironically everyone's view of Dracula is now colored by Alucard's own perception - except for Trevor's of course, which is different in that, while he doesn't know exactly how Alucard feels, his own memory of "Vlad" isn't the worst. He passed before things really went south again.

Good question about Julius. Instead of Nocturne (the untelling of SotN) I really wish they'd done the Demon Castle War instead, as there's no official story detailing what happened there. I actually never thought about how involved / not involved Alucard might have been in Dracula's defeat there, though we know he was present during the sealing of the Castle.

[chorus-the-mutate]

I've seen the new teaser trailer for Castlevania Nocturne and I have thoughts.

(I'm adding the read more because this was a lot longer than I initially thought it'd be)

1) I am very happy to see Annette (the new black vampire hunter/magic girl), her design looks quite good (especially her yellow vest and her hair) and already seeing her on the run provides a nice hint of tension.

2) Maria's hair did not look quite how I expected it to but it looks nice and her summoning magic is quite pleasing to the eye.

3) I'm so happy with how cool the set up for these antagonists seem so far, especially the vampire that killed Richter's mom out of revenge, and I'm happy that the fancy vampire lady is Erzsebet Bathory instead of Marie Antoinette (at least that's what I've heard so far).

3.1) I feel low-key guilty for thinking that the vampire who killed Richter's mom is kind of a baddie, especially since she was also kind of a baddie

3.2) How did that vampire chasing Annette dye her hair???

4) I am hoping to see somewhat accurate insights into the French aristocracy since I find it interesting how in real life King Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette were not bad people but inept and unlucky rulers who were destroyed by the system that molded them into monarchs in the first place.

5) I also hope that we can see some class dynamics in general since setting this during the French Revolution provides such interesting opportunities for storytelling. Especially if we actually see the ramifications of King Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette's executions.

5.1) Hopefully these class struggles create an initial sense of tension between Richter, Maria and Annette since it seems like Richter and Maria are still descended from nobility while Annette doesn't seem to be.

6) I still firmly believe that Alucard will be in this show and that while he isn't the dark messiah being referred to in the trailer there's a good chance that Richter, Maria and Annette might initially mistake him for the dark messiah.

6.1) I also believe that Alucard will follow in Dracula's legacy and quickly become the residential sad dad once he's introduced to the new party. Also he is the one that will say "So part of you has died," to Richter (which we heard in the first teaser trailer).

6.2) Alucard will initially be MIA and will have to be reawoken by Richter, Maria and Annette because he had to recuperate from Erzsebet really hurting him or because he took a depression nap after Trevor, Sypha and Greta died.

7) I know that Dracula is the dark messiah being referenced in the trailer and I hope that he ends up being a more reluctant player in Erzsebet's plan than he'd seem to be. Like he seemed pretty neutral towards humanity and was even willing to live alongside them covertly at the end of Castlevania since Lisa was with him. Ultimately I hope that him getting to see her live a fulfilling life helping others will permanently shift his view of humanity in some way, even if he's just neutral towards them.

7.1) I think it would be very interesting if Dracula saw killing humanity as an act of mercy or if he was being forced to act on Erzsebet's world domination plans like he was when he was part of the Rebis. And if neither of those things happen I really hope that we get a good reason for him turning against humanity again. If we went down that route I would personally prefer if he was disappointed in humanity instead of hating fully like he did after Lisa died.

7.2) Goddamn I am so excited to hear Graham McTavish's voice again.

8) I think Tera (the blonde magic lady who resembles Lisa) is cool but I am desperately hoping that she will be her own character and not a reincarnation of Lisa.

9) I hope they're using the supporting characters voices most in this trailer as a way to save Richter, Maria and Annette's personalities as nice little surprises for the show.

10) I am unsure if the vampire that killed Richter's mom is the man with the gravelly voice in the first teaser trailer but if so him being a reluctant mentor for Richter would be very interesting, especially if he helps lead into the themes of betrayal implied in that teaser trailer. I am also wondering who the lady with the very sad sounding voice in the first teaser trailer was since I'm pretty sure we didn't hear her this time around. I might just be confused since I don't think we've seen everyone who was talking in the first teaser, like how we didn't hear everyone from this trailer in the first one.

11) I do hope that we get some insight on what exactly happened to Trevor, Sypha and Greta after the end of Castlevania. I would also love more insight on what happened to Dracula, Lisa, Isaac and Hector as well but this feels less likely to happen.

12) This trailer is so goddamn pretty on a visual level.

13) The only things about this trailer I don't like much are the music, since it feels a bit too dramatic at times, and the lack of personality we see from our main trio so far. Aside from that I am super duper excited to see what Castlevania Nocturne has in store for us in September.

[trgcprnc]

moooore thoughts about modern/uni verse alucard before i die again on my bed.

-still part vampire but was like born in the 1990s

-i would imagine lisa would've died more when he was 17-18 years old just around the time he was graduating high school/secondary school so he totally took a break from schooling and went to university when he was 21. then lyudmil dying when he's 22 years old and taking another break from schooling going back to uni when he's 24.

-is actually thinking he'd be better suited for a vet career instead of nursing but it's one of those i'm in the middle of a breakdown at 3am thoughts and not something he'd actually commit to especially because he spent so much time and money on this degree already ( would also think that dracula's paying for it and would hate to have that conversation of switching degrees considering he's already taken so much time off of school ).

-has in fact done that one thing were he diagnoses himself with like 7 diseases mid term under high stress due to over studying, has also called dracula at 2 am crying 'dad i think im dying'

-he's so tired, he's so so tired, his bags has bags and he's living off of caffeine and he's so fucking depressed.

-lives off campus in a separate apartment and has had three separate roommates ( lyudmil, then grant, then richter and maria ) .

[sepublic]

The Farmers didn’t die in vain

           Amidst the whole recurring theme of taking control of one’s life, about seizing your agency and getting back your own existence on your own terms, and all that occurs throughout Season 4 of Castlevania…

           I really have to appreciate the scene with the farmers that Striga fights. There’s the obvious fact that instead of resigning themselves to being passive victims, those farmers decided to take up arms, plan, and act, instead of reacting, to the vampire invasion; They anticipated and considered thoughtfully and cleverly, and were competent enough to catch the vampires off-guard at a vulnerable moment! And they were smart and efficient enough to genuinely take down quite a few vampires with them!

           But not only that… It’s ironic that Striga laments the fear in those farmers’ eyes, when they realized they’d likely die for nothing, in vain, having not made a difference; Because it was that fear that DID make a difference! Striga saw how even these pitiful, non-warrior humans were willing to dedicate themselves to a final stand, to at least go out fighting in the hopes that it isn’t all for naught; And it made her realize the futility of war. THAT was the turning point for Striga, that made her agree with Morana, and decide to call off the senseless conquest of Carmilla’s.

           It’s kind of heartwarming and almost kind, really. These farmers died thinking that they’d failed to protect everyone back home, but it was kind of the opposite- Through their sacrifice, Striga realized the futility of war. So while it wasn’t quite how they intended it to happen, those farmers and civilians did succeed in saving their families and everyone else who hadn’t been attacked… They hadn’t died for nothing, they’d made a difference that arguably saved dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of lives! The farmers made a choice to stand and fight instead of fleeing, and that choice to take back agency and initiative- It led to them succeeding and saving so many other people.

           And, I think that’s another beautiful thing about Castlevania- That for all its gore and darkness, it’s not for nothing. There IS a point, in the goodness of hope and faith, in trying; Not ignoring the ugly parts but fully acknowledging them, and reassuring the viewer that it really is worth it to at least try and take back control of your life and who you are, and do things on YOUR terms for once. This show is, of all things, a rather bold claim of the inherent value of living and good, of life and humanity, and I suppose that only makes sense; Especially given how Symphony of the Night, one of the most iconic and defining Castlevania games, ends with the villain Dracula reflecting on the words of Alucard and Lisa, and deciding that humanity deserves a chance. The writers certainly adapted THAT point rather well.

[deitsuki]

...cursed castlevania ofmd au- (made with bad English because it isn't my first language and my phone keeps changing the words while I'm writing)

Blackbeard is Dracula, and he is bored.

Stede is Lisa-

Instead of going there as a doctor, Stede is running away from home right after he is told about the engagement. (He spoke to Mary a bit, and seeing how unconfortable both of them are with it, he takes his clothes and books and dissapears the next night). Blackbeard has just moved the castle, bored with the place it was before, and it happens to be right next to Stede (who just see this castle and decides that yes, he'd go inside, why not). Btw, in his way to escape, Nigel dies by accident.

Blackbeard appears, thinking he'd just scare this human away like always- who woudn't be scared of the king of vampires, Blackbeard?

Except that Stede has no idea who he is. Which give Blackbeard a surprised pikachu face. He then introduces himself to Stede as Ed, and allows him to stay on his castle. Stede reads to Ed the stories from his books and from the huge library at the castle, Ed enjoys Stede's fancy stuff.

They adore each other and get married eventually. Izzy who also lives there hates it. The more time it goes the softer Ed becomes (and he doesn't turn Stede into a vampire, which also annoys Izzy, why can't Blackbeard just turn or kill this human already? Fucking Bonnet making his boss soft and weak)

Lucius is Alucard. Stede saw this young man who was sarcastic and could draw and write and said: I can't not adopt him (and Ed agreed because he agrees with everything his husband wants). The rest of the crew also gets kind of adopted by Stede and starts living on the castle, for Izzy's eternal suffering.

The other Badminton asshole is the church guy.

Stede was on a city (getting more books, Ed would be with him but he was out doing king vampire stuff, the rest of the crew was also traveling or were unavaiable at the moment, except by Karl, who was watching Stede from afar) when they see each other. He says that there is a rumour about how Baby Bonnet betrayed God by abandoning his family, killing Nigel and then marrying Blackbeard himself. Chauncey asks for information about the vampire, saying that it would prevent Stede from getting executed (it's a lie) but Stede refuses to tell anyway. Karl leaves to warn Buttons about what is happening, but when the crew who were closest to that city finally gets there it's too late.

Ed take a while to come back from the important vampire shenanigans and is devastated by the news.

He then yeets Lucius and the rest of the crew and gets emo and evil again. Izzy is loving it (yes Chauncey showing up were his fault, he's the one who told the rumours about Stede, Ed being away for vampire stuff and the others enjoying a vacation away from the castle was just luck and great timing) , etc etc eventually Ed is killed by the crew and he and Stede come back to life because of Death or wathever idk I don't remember how it happened I didn't watch the last seasons of castlevania.

[greensaplinggrace]

Castlevania Fanfiction Recommendations

Wellspring (Complete) Trephacard

Wellspring (n): Where something begins. 

Trevor’s been throwing rocks and coins and shit into wells for most of his life, without any expectation of getting wishes granted or anything stupid like that. All he really wants is to know there's something down there.

Baba (Complete) Trephacard

Deep in the wilds, mysterious things wander through the lands on mysterious trails. Dracula isn't the only legend that walks their earth.

In stumbling across an abandoned village that seems too good to be true, Trevor stumbles across himself, too. Lucky for him and the lives of the countrymen riding on his success, Alucard and Sypha are there to pick him up.

Every Horse Movie (Epilogue) (Complete) Trephacard

Trevor basks in his Horse Victory, then inadvertently gets caught up in another person's in-progress movie. 

Walpurgisnacht (Complete) Trephacard

Two cold and lonely travellers take refuge in a mysterious castle... a castle which contains AT LEAST 0.5 vampires. And then they get snowed in.

Flirtation ensues.

Moon River (Complete) Trephacard

Trevor falls into a river.

Which normally, you know, wouldn't be so bad for the monster hunter, except it's the middle of the night. In winter. And instead of falling he may have been pushed in by an enemy vampire

.......yeah, this might be bad

Ten Second Tidy (Incomplete - 12/13) Trephacard

After everything, there is the cleanup. 

Understandings (Complete) Trephacard

Trevor had thought he'd understood, what the three of them meant to each other, what they were becoming. Or he'd hoped. 

Whiter Fang (Incomplete - 9/10) Trevorcard

Trevor finds an injured wolf in the woods. He can’t just... leave it.

Or: The timeline in which Trevor and Sypha find an empty coffin under Gresit but wind up meeting Alucard anyway.

an evening’s rest (Complete) Trephacard

“Oh, Trevor,” says Alucard, as he settles into the armchair by the fire, “you’re awake. Good. Sypha and I were just talking about you.”

“You were?” says Trevor, not quite sure whether to be concerned or excited by the prospect. Alucard and Sypha being the way they are, it’s fifty-fifty as to whether this conversation is going to end in spectacularly inventive sex, or with the pair of them giving him the silent treatment until he agrees to actually cut his hair for once, or replace his boots just because half the sole is missing on one of them, or god knows what else. He lives in fear of the day they decide he needs to learn how to darn socks.

Adrian’s Amazing Adventure (Incomplete - 7/9) Trepha

In which Adrian is a brat and way too smart for anyone’s good, Trevor is confused but he’s also too well trained for his own good, Dracula may not be capable of getting a heart attack but that doesn’t stop him from trying, Sypha swears she is the only one with a functioning brain around here, and Lisa schemes like a proper Lady of the Night.

Or: Adrian activates his father’s transmission mirror, ends up in unfamilliar woods and adopts a hunter. Everyone else just has to deal with it.

Blind Date with a Belmont (Complete) Trevorcard

If there was one constant in Adrian's life, it was this: Belmonts could never be trusted.

It'd been twelve years since they'd abruptly stopped hunting Adrian's family. His parents had never explained why the pact was formed, but after more than a decade of peace, Adrian finally learned to stop looking over his shoulder. Life in a small town, working in his mother's bookstore, was quiet and simple, if sometimes a bit dull.

Then a new Belmont entered the picture: less threatening than he should be, with dark hair, piercing blue eyes, and a baffling interest in Adrian's newly proposed Blind Date with a Book display.

From birth, Adrian had been taught to fear the Belmonts. Somehow, this one was different.

We’ll Have Ourselves a Merry Christmas, One Way or Another (Complete) Trephacard

Adrian is feeling down about the holidays after having a fight with his father about his relationship with Trevor and Sypha. His partners are supportive in their own ways and Lisa Tepes talks some sense into her husband behind the scenes. 

dirty paws (Complete) Trevorcard

Trevor befriends a wolf. 

Honorary Family (Complete) Trevorcard

Trevor is only twelve when his family and home are burned and taken away from him, a month on his own in the wilderness is harder than it sounds when a kid is in that mindset. One desperate night he plans to steal some food and medicine from a home and ends up intervening when Lisa is being threatened by the church and saves her life but is taken in her place.

After almost being burned himself Trevor wakes up in the famous Dracula castle being taken care of, he bonds with Lisa quickly but has a harder time learning to trust Dracula and Adrian due to his upbringing. Or in which Trevor saves Lisa and ends up being semi-adopted by the Tepes family, he and Adrian have an odd relationship. They get at each other's throats but are also partners in crime a lot of the time. It might take Trevor a while to figure out what exactly this feeling is that isn't quite brothership but is definitely more than just friends.

Righting Wrongs (Complete) Trevorcard 

Trevor stumbles through the area of Târgoviște, right in time to witness Lisa being accused of witchcraft. He doesn't take kindly to that. And the Țepeș family does not forget their debts. 

A Parental Predicament (Complete) Trevorcard

Adrian is bringing home his boyfriend to meet his parents. There's just one tiny problem: his boyfriend is a descendant of a notorious monster-hunting family, and his father is Dracula.

It goes about as well as you would expect.

end of sanctuary (Complete) Trephacard

With the help of psychological magic, Trevor and Sypha enter into Alucard's dream world in order to help him confront his trauma, guilt, and other personal demons while also reevaluating their own relationship to him. 

The Threat of Explosion (Complete) Isaac/Hector

Isaac acts decisively to keep Hector from siding with Carmilla.

A.K.A. The seduction of Hector or Isaac thinks Hector deserves nice things.

Good Gloaming (Complete) Isaac/Hector

“Ah,” Isaac sighs when they first meet. “You’re the other Forgemaster.”

He says “other” the way most people say “pig shit,” but Hector’s tired from traveling and he doesn’t really think much about it until he’s gotten lost for the third time in an hour, in the same wing of the castle—following the directions that Isaac gave him.

In Memoriam (Complete) Gen & Trephacard

Trevor Belmont's family died when he was 12. He's spent quite a lot of time running from it since then. Lying to himself.

“But you know that the word Teloch means of death, right?”

Maybe, maybe it's time to stop.

Deliverance (Incomplete - 35/?) Trephacard

Adrian is beginning to think that Wallachia will be a smoking pile of ash long before he, Trevor, and Sypha can stop Dracula’s war on humanity. They’ve been chasing the castle for months, but each time they get close, it vanishes. Traveling with such genuine and trustworthy allies has been unexpectedly pleasant; Adrian doesn’t mind that Trevor and Sypha are involved with each other, but he is taken entirely by surprise when they open their relationship to him one evening.

Hopelessly in over his head, his heart keeps urging him forward, even when he’s forced to confront the darkest aspects of his nature. Adrian must learn to swallow his pride and let himself be vulnerable if he wants a chance at happiness. Unfortunately, there isn’t much time for looking within when the world is drenched in blood and magic, and the path to victory may destroy him completely. 

With Broken Words I’ve Tried To Say (Complete) Trevorcard

In which Alucard sends a letter to Sypha, but ends up corresponding with Trevor instead. 

The Shops On Morning Street (Complete) Trevorcard

Trevor Belmont, former monster hunter and current florist, is tasked with looking into the proprietor of the new tattoo parlor across the street, much to his annoyance.

What he finds is Adrian Ţepeş, current half-vampire, current tattoo artist, and a whole lot more than Trevor bargained for.

[gon-and-killuas-mother]

had a dream with Dracula Castlevania, i was like his "assistant" or something some time after Lisa died. except instead of the plot happening he was just. going on with life. a sad old man, still with a murder side but i think Alucard convinced him to NOT destroy mankind

and then there i was following him around, cracking dumb jokes that made him chuckle and discussing what we should do with this stray dog Alucard found

"It's annoying" Vlad said.

"It's a puppy" I told him. "They get better when they're older."

"I could disassemble it and remake it into a pristine hound."

"Then it wouldn't be the same dog. And Alucard would be sad."

"Hmm."

"Fucks sake, I can take the dog. I like dogs."

(yes this is the exact conversation i remember having with Dracula)

[weareallgonnaliveforawhile]

You can't just drop a smoking hot AU and not elaborate?? How did Drac react????? How DID ADRIAN DIE?

Oh damn, people responded to my post a lot quicker than I thought. Anyways

Short Answer

Badly.

Painfully, angrily and while fearing for the lives of the innocents around him.

Long Answer

Funny enough, the first question is the least complicated one to answer cause no matter what, Dracula will react the same. With rage.

Dracula is a person who when he loves, he loves completely and it consumes him whole so that when that person is gone it leaves a gaping hole where they once were that nothing can fix, not even more love. We see this in canon when Lisa dies and when Alucard dies, that's exactly the same. He's consumed by his anger, by his grief. That's his boy and they dared take him?

2) That depends and it also really doesn't.

There's a thousand ways for Adrian to have died. He could've been a child when he was killed. They could have found out about his existence ahead of time and planned ahead. He could've been attacked after he was injured. In truth, the ways for Adrian to have been killed are nearly endless, but I want to take a step back at look at Lisa's canon death. She died helping people, wanting the people who were watching her die to not be killed by her husband.

So I think it fits if Alucard dies in the same fashion.

If he's hurt, hurt enough that he can't defend himself without collateral, in the home of a kind healer (Maybe an older woman who's seen years go by, maybe a young father, maybe-) and if he attempts to make a fuss or not cooperate, people other than him will suffer for it, then that gives us an opening.

If he's going along with them, injured, wrapped in silver that is weakening just enough that while he could normally transform out of it no problem, the only way out now would be to nearly destroy the street he's being walked through and if he sees a young child pausing from playing to stare at him wide eyed while their parent rushes them back inside, then that gives us an opportunity.

And if he's dying in a manner oh so similar to his mother, bound to a cross in silver, screaming for his father to spare the innocents while maybe he's being burned alive, maybe it's holy water, maybe they're attempting to slice his head off-

Then that gives us an answer.

[i-prefer-the-term-antihero]

Additionally, your thoughts on Dracula and Adrian from the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania? I find Dracula really tragic, and the ending scene of Season 2 crushed me because I was not expecting Adrian to cry. He’s usually so stoic and calm that I didn’t think he would weep, I expected him to just shrug it off like heroes usually do, but no, when given time to process everything, the first thing he does is break down into tears. Sypha was right in calling him a brooding teen in an adult body.

Ohh man. If you just take a look at my writing blog (or anywhere I post my fanfiction) it’ll become pretty clear pretty quickly how I feel about them XD So far all my Castlevania fics have been about the Tepes Family. Adrian and Drac are my favorite characters in the series!! (Though I do love pretty much all the characters in it.)

YES YES YES!!

They did an incredible job making Drac sympathetic and tragic. I don’t know if you know anything about the games, and granted, they couldn’t put a lot of story stuff in the games, but (at least as far as I’m aware) in most of them it’s like “ya, he was an evil dude who did evil things because he was evil.” So it actually would have been pretty accurate to the source to make him just an unsympathetic, irredeemable villain, but they didn’t and I LOVE them for it. Playing Symphony of the Night (Alucards game) after watching the series l was almost longing for that Drac I know and love from the series, (though it’s fun to see evil Drac too).

As I’ve said, I adore redeemable villains, and they did an amazing job with him, to the point where pretty much everyone in the fandom adores him, which is extremely tough to accomplish—even if you write a redeemable villain well, often large parts of the fandom don’t see it and hate the character. I knew that the point was that they were going to defeat Drac but I have to say, especially since I originally knew nothing of the games, I was hoping they’d save him by the end.

I think the fact that he liked and was kind to Hector and Isaac was evidence that he wasn’t too far gone. I mean, the only two people he genuinely trusted and liked in his court were human…that’s so interesting, I wish it was at least talked about, either in the show or in the fandom. I think he actually liked humans, partially or especially because of Lisa, he just...was so angry, and needed someone to blame. He probably ultimately blamed himself for not being there to save her, and it was just easier to blame the humans he once hated/didn’t understand, even if in reality he didn’t hate them as much as he thought he did...

Doing more thinking and research into the show for my “If These Walls Could Talk” fic I recognize now that symbolically it made sense even within the show that he died when Lisa died (which I can explain more about if you want but id probably end up going off on a long tangent so I’ll save it)...but I still thought practically, in the show, he could have still been redeemed.

Omg I LOVED that. The longer I take to sit with it, the more I realize just how much I loved that they put him crying instead of shaking it off.

It’s very interesting that Drac and Alucard are more openly emotional characters. I might be totally wrong, but as far as I remember, they (...and Lisa when she dies, and probably Isaac in a flashback), are the only main characters we see openly cry. It’s a pretty bold move to make any of your characters emotional like that, but especially your villain, and your bold handsome hero. It’s sooo easy to get emotional characters and emotions wrong…or just offputting to some people...but more on that later.

I think Adrian and Drac are both rather sentimental, in an odd way. Much of Drac’s motivations in the show and even in the games (the times his motivations are explained) had to do with his wives (yes he was married before Lisa in the games...unless Lament of Innocence was retconned...) which is interesting. So many of his decisions are based on emotion. He lets Lisa in just because he likes her, he goes to war with the world because of Lisa, he sits in his study mourning her loss, he let’s Alucard kill him… I also notice very often he digs his nails into his palms until they bleed, presumably because if he didn’t he’d hurt someone else (in the scene where he hurts Alucard, he does this). His sentimentality doesn’t diminish is power as a villain, which is SO difficult to accomplish.

 I am emotional myself so I absolutely love to see emotional characters, but for most people, seeing even a normal character be emotional diminishes them in their eyes, or makes them whiny, so making your villain even a little emotional, and having that not take away from the audiences perception of their power as a villain is sooooooo hard to do, and I applaud them for making a so well-beloved, and still villainous and intimidating, but also emotional (at times) villain.

For Alucard. I don’t see any problem with him being emotional, but it makes even more sense if he’s a teen in an adult’s body—which was indeed portrayed quite well.

Yes that was interesting when he cried when drawing his parents!! I wasn’t expecting that when I saw him drawing them. I was enjoying and intrigued by his story so much, then when he started crying I was caught off guard—but in a good way. It really made me feel for him, and understand that he was still grieving his mother, and that knew the gravity of what he was currently doing.

I think it’s kind of important to show that kind of thing in a situation like this. It’s easy to think Alucard hates his dad, and they need to show the emotion of the situation to make it clear “no he doesn’t hate his dad, this actually breaks his heart, he just knows he has to do this.”

I loved when he was telling Trevor and Sypha about how much the world would lose by killing Dracula. It’s really interesting that he hides his emotion with them, and that Trevor and Sypha are so stoic. The son of Dracula isn’t the guy you expect to be the only hero who cries.

In “For Love” when Trevor’s like “Don’t get weepy about it” I was sitting there, sobbing, like “No, please get weepy about it! Let the boy cry for goodness sake!! Give me some emotion!!” But I too was not expecting him to cry like he did, and in grieving the death of his parents...

I knew the crying scene was coming because I’d seen pictures of it on here and pinterest, but I had no context for it. In the end it wasn’t just the weeping itself that made the scene so impactful, it was everything surrounding it. I didn’t know it would happen when he was completely alone (and would be for the foreseeable future), and in grieving his parents, or about the ghosts/flashbacks before it (cementing his grief), or that it was literally the last scene of the season, or that there would be no music for both the scene and the credits thereafter.

And that was what really got me.

Because, firstly, we never got to see any flashbacks to his childhood, and that was what I was begging for the entire series (and hence why its what I write about). To finally get it, and it not to just be something the audience gets to see, but something Alucard himself is seeing... a happy memory he’s seeing when he knows that is completely gone, he cannot hope to have it again, and for him to now be in his father’s place…that’s heartbreaking. Like just having your character cry—let alone those kinds of full-on sobs—is painful enough, showing a son grieving his parents is a particularly heart wrenching kind of sadness, but showing that he is haunted by memories of those parents he lost—not only lost but one of which he killed, and, if SOTN is canon for the show, the other of which he could have saved—of a happy childhood, and he is alone with these memories for the foreseeable future...that is truly heart wrenching.

Also the scene with Trevor and Sypha in the wagon earlier in the episode was super sweet, they could have easily put the Adrian crying scene earlier, and had the Trevor and Sypha scene be the last scene of the season (and Trevor’s game actually does end with them looking into the sunset, so ending with the last scene of “For Love” would be accurate as well), and left it on a positive note, and the audience would have been left with a completeness. But they made a conscious choice put his crying scene last, and it was so powerful, because it made you remember that at the end of the day, he isn’t just our bold handsome hero, he was a son who lost both his parents, and that, to him, this isn’t really a triumph, but a loss. It also kinda confirmed that Drac wasn’t an "evil guy, end of story". That there was reason to grieve him, and to show his son grieving, and to leave it there because of it. It was a personal gravity too

In the end, it was the lack of music in the scene, and even more so during the credits, so theres only his tears, and all you are left with in the end is this amplified emptiness that really did me in. I think I literally sat there, tear tracks on my face, my mouth open when I hit the credits.

Playing Symphony of the Night after watching the show is really interesting in exploring his character. I knew there was very little story, so I wasn’t expecting much from the story, but I actually found that I was beyond excited whenever there actually was some story, and the few lines they did say are stuck with me.

Maria comments early on that Alucard’s not very good at talking. At first I just chalked it up to...weird translations or whatever. But the more I played the game and the more I thought about him in the show...I think she’s right. He’s not very good at talking, yet if and when he does talk he’s quite eloquent, and precise with his words. (This actually makes him a somewhat difficult character to write). I wonder if perhaps this has some connection to his emotionalness. He’s very careful with what he says, and this may spread to what he does—such as being careful when he shows emotion. I’m curious why he’s like this. It could just be his nature, but I wonder if as a kid he was ever hated because he was a vampire—maybe people made fun of him, and he cried, and they made more fun of him because of it—and he learned both to hide his emotions, and that he had to be very deliberate and show people he didn’t mean any ill will with his words. (And he looks older than he is so people might call him immature for acting his mental age). All very speculative, of course. But it’d be fun to write about!

Also, another thing from SOTN that is related to this topic, there was a fight that really struck me (enough I actually wrote a fic about it (inverted recurrence)). SOTN takes plays 300 years after the events of The Netflix Series (aka Dracula’s Curse). Most of the bosses don’t seem to have a lot of meaning story-wise, they’re just there for you to fight. The other day I (Alucard) walked into a boss room...and there were Trevor, Sypha, and Grant (who was omitted from the Netflix series). They were fake versions of them, of course. And there’s no dialogue in the fight so maybe I’m just speculating, but what struck me was that the fact that Dracula could use them against him probably means he still cares about them, even after 300 years. It probably also means that they’re some of the only friends he’s ever had. Granted, he was asleep for a good chunk of those 300 years, still. It goes back to that sentimental-ness I was talking about earlier.

I few years ago I watched the Gravity Falls commentaries, and from them I got a lot of the writing advice I still think about and use today. Alex Hirsch said something on this subject which I really liked which is “Hold your tears.” When a character cries they’ve broken, that’s as far as they can go. So if you make a character cry when the audience themselves doesn’t feel the weight of the scene, or it doesn’t feel like the character has broken yet, it can feel like too...much/cheesy, and distance the audience. especially with cartoons where the way it’s drawn can actually affect your sympathy for the character (it can look weird or accentuated).

They did such an awesome job with this by literally holding his tears until the very end. I don’t know how other, non-emotional people felt about it, but Ive don’t know if I’ve ever seen tears used so well in a show, pack such a punch. To have it not just be a part of the scene but literally the focus, and at the end...it was powerful.

Sorry for the long response, and more importantly, I’m beyond sorry for taking so so SOOO long to respond. I hope you enjoy my response, if you see it <3

P.S. For anyone else who made it all the way to the end, I actually have a Castlevania sideblog now: @symphonyofthewrite !! I’d be beyond happy to recieve asks like this over there, if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts!!

[beevean]

One of the problems w nocturne is that now they cant even adapt SotN (the alucard part of it i mean, lol and lmao for Richter n Maria) properly, bc there's no cycle of resurrection nor the same Alucard-Dracula family confict

In the games SotN is Alu being forced to awaken and confront his lineage alone! It's him trading words w his dad and facing him directly

Meanwhile in nfcv: N!Alucard is biased towards his vampire legacy, he is the one to handle the fight and deal the finishing blow to N!Dracula (and stealing what should have been Trey's moment bc useless belmonts amiright) and later when his dad and mom are revived they just. Dont tell him shit and fuck off alone. And he didnt even sleep he just went around killing vampires.

What im trying to say is that the pivotal moments and circumstances that lead to SotN are gone in nfcv. Like why should i care that Alu fights some rando vamp leader? Even if its Drac somehow, this is the Drac that went to live away w his wife and completely forgot abt him and that Alu could have visited at anytime. They already threw SotN elements into the story without regards for the timeline

Meanwhile SotN Alu is grappling w being in the future, with his friends dead, completely convinced that his dad doesnt loves him while Drac is desperate to keep his dear son with him even if he has to cleave his human side with his bare hands. Its a vry tense and raw family relationship that they cant recreate now

It's what I said here: the lore changes in NFCV completely destroyed any chance of the showverse having anything remotely similar to the gameverse. It's such a divergent AU that it became its own thing.

As of now, Nocturne has yet to answer its biggest unanswered question: what did Dracula do in the past three centuries? He ignored his son, probably spent some decades travelling and having kinky sex with Lisa, and then he saw her die of natural causes. What then? His castle has become Alucard's home. Did he... find himself another castle? Did he revert to the hermit he was pre-S1? Did he become a nomad?? Annette doesn't know about him, so I suppose he lived in obscurity. He wasn't even interested in Sun Thundercat's plan, no one mentioned him, he didn't peek to see what the hell was going on in France like Olrox did! Where the hell is he???

And speaking of! We know that Aluc, instead of sealing himself away, stayed around and fought vampires (which means good jorb to you too for killing vampires for centuries and having them still becoming the ruling class), and possibly witnessed the death of his "friends". Now that I think about it, didn't the OG show end with Trevor, Sypha, Alucard and Greta all living together in the new village? I would assume Alucard became something of an honorary uncle to the Trepha kid. But now Richter doesn't know who he is? Did he peace out when Trevor and Sypha died, leaving the Belmont bloodline be?

Anyway, yeah, it is literally impossible to even attempt to recreate the SoTN story. We lack the entirety of the context, we lack the main villain, we lack Richter's and Alucard's intertwined legacy. Which is what makes me think that they won't even try. After all, this supposed adaptation of RoB has more in common with fucking Bloodlines of all games, plus the superfluous backdrop of the French Revolution. They shattered the lore so thoroughly that now they're basically forced to write an AU fanfiction, something on the same level as a high school AU of old.

Remove the whip, and you would never tell Nocturne is supposed to be tied to the Castlevania franchise - hell to the original cartoon.

[angrbodic]

Alucard thoughts (spoilers for Castlevania S4)

So to preface, I have a sinking suspicion that Alucard was a very solitary little boy and that perhaps his parents kept him close and were very over-protective of him. To me, that would make sense if that were the case; a dhamphir/vampire hybrid would be a rare occurrence in this world and we do have unofficial confirmation of that when Carmilla brought up the fact that Dracula never turned Lisa and they had a son together.

I’m sure not even Dracula would know what they were getting into having Alucard and then Dracula had to teach his son how to hone in on his vampiric side to keep it stable. So, it’s not to say Alucard doesn’t have people skills, he clearly does. I’m only mentioning this because--

-- I’ve seen others make a comment how Taka and Sumi��s betrayal didn’t make much of an impact on Alucard’s development. And I strongly disagree -- it did. 

Alucard does take after his father quite a bit.

- He’s analytical and meticulous, very thoughtful in what he does, like his father. - I’ve noticed that Alucard’s candor when he talks he’s exceptionally soft-spoken like him as well. But he’s not above swearing or making smarry comments. - He is also very dangerous like his father but that’s not a character trait. We’ve seen if he’s hurt enough, he’ll turn to what he knows scared people away (i.e. impaled corpses) but that also shows that, at one point, Dracula had to have discussed his human life with his son and what profound affect that had on him. No one’s going to know how that panned out, but this is in reference to “Lament of Innocence”. - Obviously Alucard is very intelligent, like his father, he’s very educated, so he has a passion to learn like his father. He even makes the comment to Sypha and Trevor how much his father enjoyed learning and lamented how much of a waste it was to see his father turn the way he did instead of using his knowledge to help people. But over all, I’d say Alucard strongly takes after his mother more than his father. He is another facet in Dracula’s long life to remind him of Lisa’s humanity, possibly to the point when his son tried to reason with him that he was so disgusted and hurt that he injured his son. Alucard has a strong sense of compassion and sympathy for others, so much like his mother, and he clearly tends to follow more in her footsteps than his father. 

So, not only did he act out of loneliness when Taka and Sumi asked for his help, he was taking after his mother in doing so. The games go the same direction, Alucard does what he does because of his mother and how much of weight she has on him. But this is going back to how Alucard was brought up, that he was sheltered, in some sense, his parents very protective of him, so I think a lot of naiveté was involved when he crossed Taka and Sumi. They spoke to not only that depression and loneliness, but they also spoke to how his mother was a constant reminder of good in the world.

He did want company, but he also wanted to continue his mother’s good will and helping others. So, he didn’t understand the implications of their desperation and didn’t see their betrayal coming. In my opinion, not only did these two exploit that, but they also coerced him into sex. I though that not only Hector’s sexual intimacy with Lenore was uncomfortable, but I thought Alucard’s was especially so, like his heart wasn’t in it. It’s not to say that it was dubious consent, but they used it as means to break him down and killed them.

So, when they betrayed them, he is so devastated, he goes back to where his father died and curls up to the remainder of his father, because you know at one point, Dracula was always emphasizing caution, vigilance, and that not everyone can be trusted, the opposite of what his mother taught him. He went to the closest source to what he knew best as means of strength and how to handle with being betrayed. His mother likely never experienced as much betrayal and cruelty as much as his father did. And, well, he doesn’t have physical connections to his mother’s remains.

We see Alucard shift further into his depression as season 4 comes up. You see a few more bodies outside of the castle but I highly doubt that Alucard did this to random people without provocation. But more importantly, he just looks absolutely disheveled.

He’s unkempt, filthy, and looks worse for wear. We know he has guilt in doing what he’s done but also the affects of Taka and Sumi’s betrayal made him feel so awful that he let himself go to a complete, literal mess. Before then, Alucard was a clean, well-kempt man. Alucard stopped taking care of himself because what was the point if they were seeing him as someone to be used (not feared, even) for his knowledge and home. The bodies outside were used to ward people away, but even Dracula managed to stay clean and well-kempt, not like his son.

I think this touches the depths of Alucard’s shatter of self-confidence and how lowly he thought of himself after being used by Taki and Sumi. He would have shoved himself further into that pit, but the note and the man that died along the way was a nudge into the right direction. It spoke to his good nature and gave him purpose once more. Innocent people that were 20 miles away that desperately need his help.

Not like people approaching him in the one place he felt secure, a metaphorical invasion of his personal space. Again.

So it makes sense that he felt more secure going out to assist people and once how he saw families being tormented after losing his family, he couldn’t sulk in the castle. He wouldn’t sulk in the castle, because that’s not him. He’s not his father, he can’t do what he did, because ultimately, he’s more like his mother and his mother’s virtues are stronger in him. He is the literal antithesis of his father, he is his mother’s son.

I feel that Alucard always wanted an interaction with the outside world and he certainly had that with the refugees he helped. He played with the children, he happily gave them food, and he was doing what his mother did and you know that’s what he wanted to do in the end: Do what his mother did and used his father’s knowledge for good, like she did.  I feel like in the end, Alucard’s quiet inner grief from season one where he shut down from the world (not only just to heal his wounds) after his mother’s awful death, he was coaxed to open up and find a sense of community and love that he wouldn’t have had and had to limited degree after his mother’s death.

He didn’t see himself worthy of it, not only on the account of his father’s blood, but what he did in reaction to being betrayed. I’m not going to say Alucard’s reaction was completely awful: what Taka and Sumi did was wrong and it hurt him more than he let on and more than what’s seen on a surface level. But not only that, Sypha and Trevor had such an impact on him as well, reminding him of his mother’s good deeds that was easy for him to feel comfortable in his skin again, or perhaps, the most he’s ever felt comfortable as his own person ever did.

From a man that was so deeply traumatized, hurt, alone, and exploited from the very first episode (you know Dracula would have used his son as a tool in his revenge if Taka and Sumi didn’t use him) to a man that’s finally found purpose and it’s the best way he can coumarate not only his father, but especially his mother.

And maybe that’s why he looks “weirdly happy”, the poor man has been limited so much in his life. So in retrospect, his development makes sense. He didn’t necessarily transform -- he found himself again and he found an even better part of himself he never knew he had. People like him for what he is: witty, compassionate, intelligent, and sympathetic. 

[arikad0]

I like the idea that Lisa only calls Alucard by his current name instead of Adrian during his nightmare about her death because the Succubus didn't know Alucard isn't his birth name. cause. y'know. Alucard only changed his name after Lisa died

[femgirlfriend-moved]

ok shit that i didn't get in castled vania s4:

- all the stuff from targoviste like why was that even a whole arc but ok ig

- hector and lenore like no. genuinely

- the whole saint germain thing was rlly interesting but did he fr do it for a woman with 0 lines in the show....

- Why is trevor acting the protag part instead of alucard.... like honestly does anyone actually like trevor idk. cliche battle at the end didn't really stan sorry

- genuinely sypha/trevor as a relationship was kinda cringe but that's nothing new. also weird love confession right in front of alucard like he's just some 3rd wheel like Please dont

good shit:

- absolutely every isaac scene

- absolutely every striga/morana scene

- im really sad carmilla didn't get a redemption arc and died instead but the battle was really good. she was an amazing character honestly and i really wished they did more with it. i am absolutely a carmilla apologist and im not saying this randomly i was actually emotional about that whole thing and i love her sm

- every alucard scene i love him sm. i liked greta too i don't think it was bad writing

- and battle scenes were good i liked them except for the last one but i already covered that. saint germain plot was trippy and enjoyable he was just a shitty person

- oh and ofc vlad and lisa happy ending i actually wasn't expecting it...they should have definitely visited alucard right away tho like........... sir mam please see ur kid