I saw a post that Dracula could be fusion between Mathias and Walter (since they share same body, mind but they have separate souls and coexist). If that is true and canon, that means... Alucard has 2 fathers?!
My brain doesn't leave me alone because I have OCs for Castlevania/Akumajou Dracula but I never shared with anyone before about them. In fact those OCs would sound more like 'How to create a back story for game characters by using OCs as plot point or something but not to create similar thing what that NFCV does'.
Why I think of this?
This makes me to write about characters and my original ones, but I always change direction of the story, lack of motivation, and to write a fight scene is too complicated for me.
Currently, I try to improve my writing skills, so maybe (unsure) I can share, only if people are intrested as well. And I said games because the show doesn't make me comfortable to write. The games give me a mysterious nature about the characters and beacuse of lack of backstory (on some characters) and all possible theories/ideas from the fandom, made me to think that I think I should try once.
Me looking at the show and see those OCs, including characters that are from the games and tuned intro OOCs, gives me a moment to swear at the TV. And seing the people create OCs for the fan stories, no problem as I have no problem creating my OCs for fan story for the games (prequel, sequel to the game and anything related, maybe I will look for Lords of Shadow, I try to understand the characters and the plot as well).
How about the characters to be original?
In order to create your own original character, you must to create them in your unique way. For an example, you want your OC to be an asian or black vampire (looking like vampires that we know), you can but you must to make research about believes in that respective region, to not make the same mistake as NFCV does. (Race swapping characters is the worst thing I ever seen, but for love of mother nature, create a character, not change thier skin color.)
Another problem is that don't change characters intro something that couldn't be memorable. If we look to Castlevania: Nocturne, Olrox and Drolta are not only race swapped characters, but also the show try to attracted people like 'Look how sexy they are' but that doesn't mean that they could be remember them. In games, Olrox is a member of Dracula's court, not an aztec, Drolta is a sorceress who serves Elizabeth Bartley, not that sexy vampire how is like a succubus.
If we have to look at how they handle Maria and all girls that are so-called #girlboss in both shows, that is the literally how to ruin a character from games intro something that isn't them. To be strong doesn't mean to be a #girlboss, if you want to make the game character strong but doesn't know how to fight, you can see that they are mentally strong, so take that element and make them important in that respective plot.
NFCV characters are bastards, so-called #girlboss, beautiful men intro crybabies, Dracula is tragic meow meow that didn't nothing wrong, Belmonts and Hector to be treated like shit, to accept toxic relationship like nothing happen (everyone remembers of that Lenore and N!Hector) and Alucard to be so-called sassy only to bully Belmonts!? No! That's is not what characters should be represented and I will always act like NFCV never existed.
Back to part with my writing ideas.
I enjoy writing Akumajou Dracula with my OCs. I don't want to be in Disney's fashion, but more I watch anime and read manga, I saw some elements to create my OCs as sourse of inspiration (side note: if you want an anime/manga that have well writen female protagonist, I can recomand The Apothecary Diaries.)
Like I said earlier, I will wrote for LoS, but I don't have OCs, but I really don't mind. I have respect for LoS recently and I'm take insterst. I will most likely to do oneshots with both timelines because makes me feel comfortable, with canon and with my OC. If you worte with your OC in timeline, that OC is again, yours. My OCs is mine to ad in story.
The conclusion
I'm more confortable to wrote characters form original and LoS timelines, but I need time to think about this. After all, everyone has their own ideas.
Side note: I know that I supposed to be about my writing in one post, but because I'm angry at the NFCV, I decide to bring the OC topic as well. Remember, that is just my opinion.
So if the souls of the Vampire Killer (Sara) and of the Crimson Stone (Walter) can see, hear and feel anything around them, I can only imagine what ever Belmonts and Dracula fight against each other, Sara and Walter probably used telepathy to comunicate or something.
And if their souls are free, there would be arguments between them and Mathias as Leon would cover his wife's ears to not hear anything from that conversation and Alucard is forced to watch it as Lisa and Elisabetha would most likely to question their husband's choices, even their own.
There's nothing official, but I think Soma's dracula memories are there but suppressed. In DoS Dimitri is able to figure out that Arikado is Alucard by searching his memories, but Soma doesn't know anything
In DoS Dimitri's soul was on Soma's body when Celia created a Doppelganger of Mina Hakuba to awake Dracula's soul. When Genya Arikado tries to stop him, Dimitri clames that he knows about Genya's identity before threatening to kill Soma if he dares to move against him. That might be the only explanation why Dimitri knows that Genya is Alucard.
I love the idea of Soma being reincarnation of Dracula, but is one question that is still in my mind for a while: Does Soma remembers anything from his previous life as Mathias/Dracula?
•I mean... everybody knows the moment before anything goes intro a disaster but this is inspired from romanian version due to the soundtrack and rise of popularity because of those edits to express that respective moment.
•If you want to know about the song is 60 de zile - Ian feat Amuly
•Yep, the video is not pretty high quality, but at least is clear to see and I used the beginning of the battle scene form LoI (Leon vs Walter)
More I start to look at Lisa and Elisabetha, they have few difference in their design.
First their the hair are blonde: Lisa's is an intense blonde, while Elisabetha's is pale blonde.
Second are eye's color: Lisa has light blue eyes and Elisabetha has (if we look closer) gray eyes.
Third is their hair type. At first we could see that they have wavy hair but...
According to this chart, Lisa's is 2a and Elisabetha's is 2c
And lastly is thier skin tone. Both indeed have fair skin, but Elisabetha's is much paler then Lisa's (because Elisabetha was born from a noble family)
A dhampir being born in of itself is very rare, due to a vampire's undead nature which may result in a lack of fertility.
But is not that reason with lack of fertility, but undead vampires are well...dead. But in Castlevania series I want to imagine that only cursed ones can have children (since Dracula is a self cursed vampire and lost Lament of Innocence manga says that Walter is also cursed from his birth).
Also in Balkan folklore, the parents of the child are a human mother and a vampire father, rare case (or none) when the mother is a vampire and the father is a human. Most common gender for the child is a boy, the girl is extremely rare.
Majority of cases, dhamiprs became vampire hunters (so I see the reason why Alucard is a vampire hunter but only partial as to oppose his father). But some of them also are evil, try to harm humans (that what Magnus literally tried to do with Alucard as that inccubus want to corrupt Alu's humanity and make him the new lord of Castlevania in Radio Drama)
Some sourses from internet thst I found, a dhampir can live between 250-900 years (Don't take seriously for Castlevania franchise pls)
My opinion on each succubi from Castlevania series.
Lament of Innocence
I had to admit that I like her more I love her design, especialy her tattoos on her hands. She looks almost like an aristocrat comapred to other "sisters". Only thing that angers me about her is that she disguised as Sara in front of Leon and Justine to torment Rinaldo when he went to kill his own child. I like to imagine that she is Walter's favorite and a simp for him.(Only the lost manga can explain this)
Symphony of the Night
The most iconic succubi thinks again to Symphony of the Night. Like a previous one, I hate that she disguised herself like Lisa and literally tried to torture Alucard. She lacks of clothes, and in uncensored version, her chest is visible. (I don't have much to say)
Curse of Darkness manga
Like we don't know about her except that she had a conversation with Issac and serves Dracula, like the red haired one, but the also lack of clothes (at least her breasts are covered)
Saw a sibling poll and needed to expand it because I fit, like. Mid youngest, youngest in theory only child in practice, and adopted. And I think they all have their own unique parts in the sibling ecosystem.