#but like in far fewer time drac's intro had him fall amusingly into line for a woman and then rained literal hell for her death

[ultimateinferno]

Yknow. I do forsee a potential plot point for Netflix-levania to somehow have Dracula as a villain back, even with the end of the previous series. Obligation. He's no longer the weary widower, and with Lisa's return there's closure. He's lived as a man. He understands man. He may not even hate man. Maybe.

And yet he's back because the other Vampires are fucking it up and now daddy's home to bring back order. He's no longer gunning for genocide, but honestly, the politicking of the vampires who are so far up their own asses, they need to be reminded who's really in charge. His death left a power vacuum, a particularly annoying vacuum. Maybe the little things of humanity irk him, but vampires are everything they have but turned up to 11.

So at the end it's a formality. He'll come back, clean things up among vampire society, make enough of a mess to get a Belmont to kill him, then turn in for another 100 years.

Does this make him too noble? Probably. If you want the grandiose "What is a man" Dracula, you can extrapolate from "It's an obligation" and have him actively resent people pulling him out of the afterlife from Lisa so fucking much, that he leans too hard into the role. The part of him who's evil out of obligation and the part who's evil out of resentment begin to blur the lines. Is he the lord of darkness because that's the role he's been cast and is simply going through the motions or his he just so simply done with the whole process that he refuses to give up an inch of power to any other Vampire (or human) because they're all just children in his eyes?

It could still ultimately culminate in a Soma Cruz plot line where after 1999 he quits so hard that he refuses to even return to the role properly but it doesn't matter because his mere presence fills the vacuum, even when he does nothing (not for the lack of trying from others).

Maybe that's a bit petulant in its own right. YMMV, but I think that's the point. For being such an archetypal lord of all evil villains, how he fills it is shockingly dynamic. He's evil for evils sake, a beacon of arrogance, or a truly tragic villain. Depends on what's needed. If he does come back, I do want to really see a "Castlevania does Bram Stoker's Dracula. Genuinely. It's just an adaptation for the original novel because that's Canon to the original Castlevania timeline, and it'd be funny to properly reveal that Quincy Morris is a Belmont (And his son fights WW1 vampires and grandson WW2)."

#castlevania #netflix castlevania #castlevania nocturne #just a 4am rambling with minimal thought behind it #watching the new show it didnt feel like elizabeth bathory was meant to be the truly intimidating presence as the show pretended she was #but that shes merely a placeholder for the truly engaging villains come in #why else would she be so overpoweringly overshadowed by Orlox and Dralto #theyre actually interesting shell just be usurped late #if thats not the case and actually was meant to be as a replacement for the big D #then thats an obvious criticism like yeah if she was meant to be this impossing go for it #dont just skimp out on her this fucking mich #but like in far fewer time drac's intro had him fall amusingly into line for a woman and then rained literal hell for her death #including big faces in the sky and pyres #while bathory here was all 'ooh a messiah a messiah' with to back up thats not actually shared by other vampires #like being hard to kill #hell orlox's 7 minutes in the intro sold his presence #so here as a writer witching this lackluster portrayl feels like inevitable prep for a more compelling big bad #cant believe i didnt mention carmilla. shes like the same archetype as bathory but well done