#also i'm still vibing with your headcanon that dracula attempted to corrupt lisa for the pleasure of turning a vampire hunter to his side

[beevean]

I'm pretty sure that the whole deal with Dracula flirting with Annette was a reference to the whole "vampires love the blood of young virgins" trope. In Rondo's intro we even see his followers reviving him by pouring the blood of another young woman on his coffin.

I don't have that much of an issue as far as Dracula's character is concerned, it's something that vampires in media tend to do, often as a metaphor for predators, and Dracula hates humanity but not just in a rage induced way like in the show: game Dracula is a sadist he laughs maniacally and is gleeful about human suffering so I'd say it's in character for him to prey on young women (albeit in a "classy gentlemanly way") as a way to corrupt some of the most innocent and pure elements of humanity

...I only wonder if he also used to do this before meeting Lisa

Yeah, it's most likely because of it. Hell, wasn't the plot of Haunted Castle literally "Dracula kidnapped Simon's bride"? I guess that, before Lisa was introduced in the series, the devs thought he wouldn't be above preying on women like a stereotypical vampire; after they gave him a wife, he became more of a gentleman.

(after reading Dracula this is hilarious to me though. Yes, our guy turned Lucy and assaulted Mina in a very uncomfortable way... but bro. bro the entire section with Jonathan is chilling. "Yes, I too can love" and all of that. a real Dracula should absolutely boil with bisexual energy)

I don't believe Dracula jugs "respect women" juice, but I don't think he's an outright sexist pig either. My headcanon is that he craves someone by his side because he turned while he was grieving Elisabetha and never got over that sense of loss, even long after he forgot about her as a person (after all, that genius tactician offered Leon immortality after he casually revealed to be the source of his pain lol). Losing Lisa as well only made things worse.

Hey. Hey you know how a century after Lisa's death and Alucard renouncing him as a father (and I'd argue Hector betraying him as well), Dracula resorted to kidnapping and brainwashing Soleil? Just sayin'. Just sayin' that my man really, really needs someone with him :) he might prefer cute women, but he's not picky :)

#castlevania #akumajou dracula #dracula castlevania #also i'm still vibing with your headcanon that dracula attempted to corrupt lisa for the pleasure of turning a vampire hunter to his side #but he was hit with a bad case of the crushes