I recently played through Aria and Dawn of Sorrow for the first time and now I'm obsessed with this crew. The Soma Protection Squad is so good, man.
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有角幻也(Arikado Genya)
Maybe it's hard to explain what I draw…His name , Arikado(有角)means "horned" in chinese,too "无角"means "hornless"
So it's horned Arikado and hornless Arikado(just a joke :3
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alucard, a man who took his mothers dying plea for him not to hurt humans so deeply that it saved richter belmonts life, vs genya arikado, a man who willingly brought mina hakuba into castlevania alongside soma cruz, when he had no reason not to leave her behind, a place that he himself says she is sure to die no matter what if soma takes too long, a place where she admits to feeling things such as an awful headache, a place she had no reason to be except for one: so she could be used to manipulate soma, at every possible chance (and yoko, too, is a victim of this, despite arikados closeness with her, more documented and backed up than his relationship with any other characters -- as she bleeds out on the floor, he uses her suffering to once again incentivise soma, alongside the natural mention of mina).
alucard, a man who believed in humanitys ability to do good above all else, vs genya arikado, a man who believes the cycular nature of the dark lords existence to be inevitable and immutable, going to rise if needed, when needed -- a man whose ideology is so similar to the main villain of the game, who believes the same thing, who acts on that belief whether through selfishness, genuine urgency, or both, that you can believe theyre working together. that they would definitely work together. especially when there is, practically speaking, what could serve as evidence theyre working together.
alucard, a noble man who seeks to do right, vs genya arikado, who would use everyone around him as tools to fulfil a singular goal.
alucard, a man who seeks to help others, vs genya arikado, a man who has others dirty their hands for him -- who does this time and time again, having soma kill graham jones when he sat waiting outside the throneroom. having julius hunt down soma on the event he turns mad, despite having been right outside the throneroom. having soma hunt down dario and dmitrii, subtle encouragement to kill and hurt those same humans he was begged not to harm: "im prepared to overlook use of excessive force", he says, a loophole wherein he never directly causes harm.
alucard, a man who desires to embody his mother, vs genya arikado, a man who resembles his father more and more every day.
alucard, vs genya arikado.
1999, a singular event. an event never seen. an event where, finally, painstakingly, comes the end of count dracula -- the end of a constant in alucards life, there since his very birth. a constant presence, always to return, where to alucard, an immortal, everything else of his world is transient and fleeting, never to be seen again. an event where this one, immutable presence is forever extinguished, when no matter how many dying pleas youve heard, no matter how much you believe in the triumph of good, no matter how noble you are, no matter how much you want to help, no matter how much you take after your mother, no matter how much you prepare for it -- you could never be ready for it.
hence alucard, foil to dracula, destroyed by endless cycles. hence genya arikado, foil to soma, who needs to control these cycles.
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