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darthstitch · 5 years
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Castlevania Netflix Season 2 Review: All My Bloody Tears
Yeah. Uh. SPOILERS. MASSIVE GINORMOUS SPOILERS. Consider yourself warned.
I'm kind of a complete mess as I write this because PAIN! PAIN AND SUFFERING! TEARS! BLOODY TEARS!
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While it's not without its flaws, the second season of Netflix's Castlevania is incredible and lives up to the promise of Season 1. This, gentlebeings, is how you set up a sequel and leave the audience wanting more, but still walking away satisfied with what we've currently got.
The Good Stuff
The thing about Castlevania - as the game series by Konami - is that it's pretty much a patchwork quilt of everything goes. Think your favorite fan fiction peeve on AO3, the ones with the ten million tags before you even get to the goddamn story. So on one hand, it's got its clear inspiration from the classic Hammer and Universal Horror renditions of Dracula. But the game series is Japanese, so you have your beautiful anime-esque artwork by Ayami Kojima and the obvious anime influences.
I've played a few of the games, but I'm not going to claim gamer-god status. I just play for the fun of it and I don't hesitate to use walk throughs as a map of sorts, basically figuring out where to go, because the general castle layout is set up like a labyrinth and it is INSANE and FUN at the same time. So far, I've played and finished Symphony of the Night and two of the GBA ones: Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow. I'm still trying to master the ones on the NDS. But basically, the premise is the same: You're the hero/heroine, you need to enter the big spooky castle, gather weapons and/or spells to make you stronger and add to your abilities, take down monsters and Major Bads - including Death Himself - and hopefully prevent Dracula from resurrecting and covering the world in Eternal Night. The main timeline basically has Belmonts, assorted Not-Belmonts who also hunt vampires and of course, pretty, pretty Alucard.
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Then, there was your AU timeline in which Gabriel Belmont goes to defeat a Big Bad and becomes DRACULA ... and Trevor Belmont is his son, a.k.a. Alucard. Yeah, wrap your head around THAT one.
In short, Castlevania canon is fucked. To quote our Trevor, "Snake-fuckingly insane."
So Warren Ellis does the smart thing and basically picks up what works from the "canon" and crafts a damn good story out of it.
The Disaster Trio that is Alucard, Trevor and Sypha, end up bonding even closer together and spend much of this series in the Belmont Basement...er.... I mean, "Hold," trying to do the game equivalent of gathering spells and weapons to storm the castle with. We learn a few more interesting things about the Disaster Trio. Trevor actually ended up losing his family at a way too young age. Sypha and her people have some pretty "interesting" views about God. Alucard has artistic talents and basically acts his real age, which is a traumatized snarky 20 something year old, who's barely holding on to his composure with his shiny fangs and claws. There are epic moments such as "Treffy" and I would absolutely LOVE to hear the Belmont family story that explains how the hell a book of "penis spells" ended up in the Belmont Family Library.
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Seriously. Fan fiction writers, don't fail me now!
Also, Lisa gets a few more minutes to shine and break our hearts at the same time. This is the woman who managed to charm and get one Seriously Scary King of Vampires wrapped around her tiniest finger. She's snarky and sassy as before, but so real, so kind and just basically trying to be a decent person in a Crapsack World. She loves her husband but she knows he can be monstrous. She loves her son but as Alucard himself puts it, she wants him to be able to be himself, be happy and not be overshadowed by his father. Seriously, as long as each season gives us something more about Lisa, I'm gonna be content.
We also get introduced to a few more new characters, who basically make up Dracula's Court of Evil. Hector and Isaac are humans but sociopathic enough to despise their own kind and willing to take part in their death and destruction. They both have their requisite tragic and abused pasts. Hector, however, has an element of naivete that makes him an easy target for the machinations of Carmilla, the only general in Dracula's court who's figured out which way the blood's flowing and wants to make sure she comes out on top. Isaac, however, is somewhat the mirror of Alucard himself. This is the guy who gives his unconditional love and loyalty to Dracula and refuses to abandon him no matter the personal cost to himself or his remnants of a conscience or whatever he has that passes for a moral compass. I figure that it's there, it's just not one that I would recognize. Isaac is a scary, scary mofo and it looks like he and Hector are gonna be back for season 3.
In fact, if Isaac ends up becoming "Death" in this entire series, I'm gonna be evilly delighted.
And then, there's Godbrand, who is basically the vampire equivalent of YOLO. Basically, all he wants is to fight, fuck, drink blood and make boats out of things he shouldn't make boats out of. Generally, he just wants to have a good time, rule the world like a king and make sure the humans know their place.
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So okay, let's give Carmilla her due. Evil? Check. Manipulative? Check. Sadistic, vicious and cruel? 10 across the board. In the absence of a Certain Fanged Someone taking a more active role in what should be "The War on Humankind," Carmilla wants to make sure she's keeping things moving, spinning her webs of intrigue and plans upon plans, thinking she's going to come out the winner and make herself the new Queen of the Damned.
Here's the problem. Dracula figures that out, easily enough.
Here's the OTHER problem. His Fanged Nibs is all out of fucks to give. He's done. Finito. Finished with everything.
Yeah, about that.
While the humor of this series is a gift that keeps on giving, the drama and the feels will DESTROY you.
You know that moment when you realize Dracula isn't just waging a war on humanity, he's waging a war to destroy all vampires too? Because in that moment when he lost his beloved Lisa, he hated not only humans, but he also hated HIMSELF. He hates the fact that his life of evil, wanton death and destruction, wrought this price on the person that he loved. And she damn well didn't deserve that treatment. He hates the humans who killed her but he also hates his own kind, who are just as monstrous as he is.
So when Godbrand basically asks him, "If we're killing all the humans, what are we going to EAT?" Dracula basically tries to fob him off with some excuse or the other. Yeah, His Fanged Nibs is a LYING LIAR WHO LIES. Also, this lying liar who lies is actually spending most of his time sitting, brooding and being HUNGRY. Because he's not drinking blood. At all. Any blood drinking we see from His Fanged Nibs is in flashbacks.
Let that sink in for a second.
Aluard accuses his father of basically doing history's longest suicide. Yeah. It is - Dracula wants to take EVERYBODY down with him.
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The fight scenes are worth the wait. I was screaming when the classic "Bloody Tears" started playing in Episode 7, an episode that I'm gonna watch like ten thousand times more, because OH GOD THE EPICNESS OF IT. The sheer badassery. The fact that Alucard is actually the secret identity of Moon Moon.
And then, the final fight between Dracula and our Disaster Trio is just as epic as expected. Even when he hasn't drunk blood, the trio is outmatched and outclassed and this is where you remember that if Dracula had only roused himself long enough to give a flying fuck about something, Carmilla's head would have been rolling on the floor a long time ago.
But then: "My boy.... I'm killing my boy. This is your room. Your mother and I painted these walls, made these toys. Lisa.... it's our boy. Your greatest gift to me. And I'm killing him. I must already be dead."
GDI WARREN ELLIS HOW VERY FUCKING DARE YOU.
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The only way they take down Dracula is because he basically wants to die. So he lets his son kill him and end his misery. And when his rotting, decaying, corpse seems to be reaching out to his son for some kind of last embrace, Trevor, thinking that Alucard's going to be hurt, takes Dracula's head off. Sypha burns off the remains.
And it's done.
Castlevania is a game with numerous endings, all depending on how you played the game and whether you got this artifact or what not. The series pays homage to it because Trevor bequeaths the Belmont Hold to Alucard and asks him to be the last defender of it and his father's Castle. It's not going to be Alucard's grave, but his home now. Trevor and Sypha wander off into the sunset, for more adventures and mischief and Alucard lovingly sends off his BFFs with a fond "Fuck you."
We check in with the villains who survive and of course, we know there's gonna be sequels, because, hey, that's kind of the point of each and every Castlevania game. There's always gonna be a new Big Bad coming around. And trust me, Dracula's gonna be back. He's not just going to lie quiet in his grave.
And just when you think you can end this series with a satisfied sigh, our very last moments are spent with Alucard. Who is haunted by the ghosts of the parents he loved so much. Who gets to relive one happy memory with his mom, who loves him with all her heart. And she's so proud.
And Alucard finally breaks down into heartbreaking sobs.
We grieve with him.
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The Bad Stuff
Yeah, okay, so I need to get this explained. Why bother to have all these interesting character designs for Dracula's other generals AND NOT HAVE THEM TALK? I'm serious. Not one of these fascinating-looking vampire bastards HAVE ANY GODDAMN LINES. Netflix, FFS, DON'T WUSS OUT ON YOUR CHARACTER ACTORS. YOU CAN'T BE THAT POOR. GIVE THEM VOICES. PAY YOUR CHARACTER VOICE ACTORS. OMG.
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They basically just get killed off in the end, but while we know they were pretty scary and formidable, we don't really know anything about them other than: Vampire, Scary, Dracula's General. They were just pretty much Red Shirts, because the heroes never did get to confront Carmilla, Hector and Isaac directly.
There was evidently so much story to be told here, like they seem to have come from all over the world, even as far off as China AND THEY'RE. NOT. TALKING. The only ones with any dialogue are Carmilla, Hector, Isaac and Godbrand and none of these guys even get to share screentime with the Disaster Trio. Godbrand doesn't even make it to the final battle.
I mean, if these guys were just going to be cannon fodder, then let's just use any of the voiceless Major Bads from the games. Put some requisite scary music and sound effects and let the Disaster Trio take care of them. Let them speak in mysterious archaic languages or whatever, since we're not going to care about them anyway.
The Conclusion
Apparently, this is gonna be a pattern for this series. It's going to be good, it's going to be GREAT but there's always going to be that ONE THING that would drive us batshit crazy. But not enough to wreck my enjoyment of it.
The best parts of this series is the faithfulness to character, the layers upon layers of motivations and feels you're going to uncover as you rewatch it, the fact that it's not afraid to put tongue in cheek and leave canon at the door, while still being true to the source material.
So. "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk! Have at you!"
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MOAR modern!human!AU HCs
I'm trying to find the first post but .... Oh well. I'll link to it one day.
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So! More on modern!human! AU. Keep in mind I HC Adrian studied Chemistry at Uni and had a part-time job in a lab but he quit.
After quitting his job he decided to attend a master in Chemistry at Uni. Vlad was fine with this but he didn't like Adrian quitting his job. "Boys these days", he usually complains.
Vlad is a professor in the same Uni he studies at. Adrian feels kind of ashamed of this fact, and he doesn't like his friends to know
Since Vlad is settled to restore the whole Castle and turn It into a touristic spot, Adrian thought his studies might be useful in the restoration works, and since he is also interested in art, Adrian thinks perhaps he can fit in the team.
The restoration team was mostly made of teachers and students from his University, but there were some experts sent by universities from abroad.
Some of the international members of the team were professor Dragonslav from Kiev, and professor Zufall, from Berlin.
Vlad invited some of his doctorate students, like Carmilla, but she isn't very interested in the job so she declined, not very politely.
Vlad's secretary, Isaac, is in charge of managing the works and allocations of the team.
Adrian has a, say, smooth relationship with Vlad but it's mostly because he prefers not to argue with him
It's the same feeling for Vlad, actually, especially ever since Adrian quit his job.
Lisa is fully aware of this and she knows the situation will probably explode some day
Anyway family life is just fine and the three of them are happy
Adrian likes a girl from Uni that studies Veterinary. Her name is María and she's friends to a distant cousin of Trevor, called Richter.
She is also friends to another Veterinary student called Hector. This Hector had worked for Vlad as an intern, but eventually quit the job since he didn't like Carmilla and had frequent disagreements (read 'fights') with her.
Also, Héctor and Isaac didn't get along that well, so Vlad had to let him go.
Trevor introduced Adrian and María and both him and Sypha suspected María liked Adrian, but they were not sure.
Perhaps she liked Hector?
Adrian doesn't feel quite right about bringing her home since his father is sometimes a total cunt.
Also, Trevor isn't helping with his puns and comments.
So Adrian took advantage of one day him and María stumbled accross each other in the campus, alone.
They skipped their lectures and had a nice morning drinking coffee, talking and, in the end, kissing.
Well It was more like making out, actually.
So they started going out toguether.
I should totally turn this into a fic, right? 🤣
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*inhales* LISA FAHRENHEIGHT TEPES WAS A DOCTOR WHO’S LIFE GOAL WAS TO HEAL AND PROTECT AND WASN’T AFRAID TO CALL THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS OUT ON HIS SHIT AFTER FIVE MINS OF MEETING HIM AND SHE GENUINELY TRIED TO HELP HIM BECOME A BETTER PERSON AND WAS SASSY AND ADORABLE AND DIED IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN WHILST BEGGING HER HUSBAND NOT TO TAKE THE REVENGE AND ALL I’M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT IF A LIGHT LIKE THAT CAME INTO MY LIFE AND WENT IN SUCH A HORRIBLE, PAINFUL WAY YOU CAN BE GODDAMNED CERTAIN I’D WANT TO WATCH EVERYTHING BURN AND *inhales* Lisa Fahrenheight Tepes deserved the world okay
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darthstitch · 5 years
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My Castlevania Season 2 Feels
A story in Kitty Gifs
DRACULA
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ALUCARD
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Trevor
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Sypha
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Isaac and Hector
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Lisa
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Godbrand
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Carmilla
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Trevor and Alucard and Sypha
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Human Modern!Alucard
I’m bored and got a terrible cough so why not. 
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His family owns a castle that is pretty far away from everywhere so he got his driving license as soon as he could.
He lives with his parents because the castle is big enough to have as much private time as he wants. 
He owns a black car but he doesn’t really like to drive, specially when it snows, which is most of the time in winter.
They are a wealthy family.
He likes the castle and his dad’s library.
He likes spendind the day alone reading and studying.
He studied Chemistry at Uni.
He worked in a lab for some time, but he didn’t like it so much so he thought it was better to quit and think about doing something else.
He is interested in History of Art and Literature.
He likes fencing and he met Trevor in a competition when they were teenagers. They became friends there and hang around from time to time.
They are good friends but they are constantly teasing each other. 
Adrian met Sypha at Uni and he introduced her to Trevor. 
He is a little jealous of them going out toguether because they sometimes make plans without him.
He is rather lonely.
He has two dogs and he enjoys taking them out in the mornings. He usually gives them a walk in the fields near the castle.
In spring and summer, most mornings he goes for a run in the fields with his dogs. In winter, he runs on the treadmill they have in the castle.
In winter, he likes inviting Trevor and Sypha over and spend the evenings playing videogames and drinking.
He likes coffee.
Bonus: Sypha and Trevor
Sypha studies History and she is a total bookworm.
She is always carrying books around.
She wants to become a professor.
Trevor is a professional fencer and he is always training and travelling because of his competitions.
He also studies martial arts.
He is interested in ancient weapons and old tales.
He loves videogames.
He owns a couple motorbikes.
Whenever he buys himself a helmet, he buys a matching one for Sypha.
They started going out together shortly after Adrian introduced them to each other.
No one thought they would make a good couple but the truth is they seem to be made for each other. 
Bonus: Lisa and Vlad
Lisa works as a surgeon in a hospital so she sometimes spends the week away.
She is one of the best surgeons in the country.
She travels a lot.
She is a really nice woman and Sypha loves having coffee with her from time to time.
Vlad is a professor in a University, and spends most of his time writing and studying. 
Adrian was a fuzzy baby so when he grew up both Vlad and Lisa decided one baby was enough for them.
Vlad has published many books on different matters and proudly displays them in his library at home. Adrian doesn’t really like that but he liked the books though.
They sometimes leave Adrian alone in the castle and spend the week away toguether. Adrian is fine with this.
Vlad is thinking about restoring some of the areas of the castle.
Vlad doesn’t like Adrian to have long hair, but Lisa likes it.
Lisa loves living in the castle, but sometimes she wished it was near the hospital, since she has to drive for an hour to get there. Adrian likes going with her in the car so they can talk.
Vlad prefers taking the train.
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SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT AND IT WAS ME (I mean posting this, the art is not mine)
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darthstitch · 7 years
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ugh, more netflix castlevania feels
So remember when Dracula told his demon horde something along the lines of "KILL EVERYONE IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY LOVE I HAVE EVER KNOWN" cue blood and screaming?
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So, Castlevania "canon" is fairly convoluted but they basically have the same premise as the Coppola Dracula movie and the Luke Evans version that came out recently.  Which is:  Dracula ended up being a terrifying Lord of Vampires because he lost the woman he loved.
Imagine Dracula finally realizing that Lisa Fahrenheights of Lupu is his beloved Elisabeta reborn.  
He freaks out.  
Intellectually, he knows she's lived a different life than his Elisabeta and they're not identical. But there are things there that have not changed - her kindness and compassion chief among them.  Maybe one day, she calls him Vlad, instead of the usual respectful "milord" and it slips out, because she's actually chiding him and it's the SAME EXACT TONE that Elisabeta would use on him when he's being what she calls a "ridiculous walnut."
Whatever that meant.  
Anyway, she doesn't even realize that she's called him that and usually, when Elisabeta did it, there was an endearment right after and he can already hear the echoes of it in Lisa's voice and ....
Yeah.  Nope!
He tries to carefully distance himself from the good doctor because HELL NO, I CAN'T DO THIS AGAIN, WHERE IS MY TICKET TO NOPEVILLE WHEN I NEED IT?  But of course, it's not like Lisa herself decided to knock on the door of the demon/ghost/monster infested castle because she wanted to bone its master, right?  She's on a Quest for Knowledge, here.  And obviously, there are less dangerous candidates around for this whole love business that she could pick and choose from.  
At this point, she's basically just happy that she's managed to form this friendship, however unlikely, with His Fanged Nibs and of course, when His Fanged Lordship decides to do his freakout, she's not having this nonsense.  She wants her friend, goddamnit.  
So basically, Vlad is doomed.
Because Lisa is basically this brave little ball of sunshine and snark and sass and Vlad despairs when he realizes that he's living for each and every moment she smiles at something new that she discovers, or things that she's learned, or whatever else he can present to her, laying all that he has at her feet.  He's got to be inventive - it's not like Lisa's going to swoon at the usual trinkets of jewelry or pretty dresses.  
Basically, Vlad realizes he's got no way out the day Lisa actually forgets to keep her usual respectful distance from him and HE GETS GLOMPED.  
Okay, it's actually a thankful hug and she turns absolutely crimson with embarassment when she realizes what she's done.  She immediately apologizes but he's got her in his arms, his Elisabeta, his Lisa, his beloved...
The only love he has ever known.  
Vlad only gets to be happy for a few years with her.   They don't even get a mortal lifetime.  Even mortal husbands and wives get to grow old together, watch their children eventually marry and present them with grandkids.  
(Vlad will never ever admit that he FAINTED when Lisa revealed that she was pregnant.  Also, he would never admit that perhaps there were a couple of true salt tears that dropped into Adrian's soft, downy hair, the first time he'd held his son close.  His beautiful boy, the living image of his mother.)
That's why Vlad will rage and destroy the world this time around.  For robbing him of the woman he loved, not just once, but twice.  
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darthstitch · 4 years
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I have an explanation.
Look, Lisa Fahrenheights Tepes was supposed to go to heaven, ok? So here's the Angel of Death, Rae Rae, about to roll out the Red Carpet and the Heavenly Choir because poor Lisa got such a shit deal and deserves her heavenly reward.
But Lisa tells her, No, wait, I have an Extra Emo Dramatic Dumbass(tm) that I need to wait for or he might just start pulling off his Epic Dumbassery in the Afterlife if I'm not there to love on his Idiot Ass.
So Rae Rae realizes that Lisa has a Point and says, Hold on, Imma talk to my brother.
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And His Infernal Featherbrained Nibs loves his little sis and Lisa reminds him of his darling detective and he is certainly NOT going to stand in the way of True Love.
So, a deal was struck.
And Lisa was was there, waiting for her idiot husband after his suitably dramatic exit from the mortal realm.
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darthstitch · 7 years
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about the netflix castlevania series...
I know, I’ve been busy.  I’ve been raving over this series for the past week but I couldn’t get to a proper keyboard so I can a Proper Rave(tm) complete with gifs and sparklies.  
Seriously, WHERE IS THE REST OF CASTLEVANIA, NETFLIX?  YOU CAN’T LEAVE US HANGING WITH JUST FOUR BLOODY EPISODES, OKAY??!!!!  I NEED THE NEXT SET OF EPISODES AND I NEED THEM NOW. 
Fine, fine.  I’ll be a proper grown up.  I’ll stop sulking and wait patiently. 
Let’s get on with the List of Things That I Really Love About Netflix’s Castlevania animated series:
a.  Dracula - First off, Dracula is not a precious misunderstood Woobie Destroyer of Worlds.  He’s evil.  He’s got a dangerous labyrinth of a castle sitting smack dab in the middle of a forest of skeletons that are impaled on very long sharp stakes, his victims from years ago.  Dracula is bored, mean and absolutely disgusted with humanity.  Apparently, the only reason he doesn’t seem to be concocting some sort of Evil Plan to Cover the World in Eternal Night(tm) in the first few minutes we see him is because he can’t be arsed to anymore.  
But he is a lot more complex than your average moustache-twirling baddie and in less than five minutes we get the idea that there’s still some ounce of humanity left in everyone’s favorite Evil King Vampire.  He basically gets this OH NO SHE’S ADORABLE AND I LIKE HER SEND HELP look on his face once he gets properly acquainted with one Dr. Lisa Fahrenheights.  
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b.  Lisa Fahrenheights - People who’ve played Castlevania:  Symphony of the Night will know who she is and in the game, she’s pretty much portrayed as some sort of sanctified figure in a Certain Person’s memories.  In this series, Lisa Fahrenheights is smart, sassy and willing to tell off the most dangerous vampire in the world for his bad manners.  And while our acquaintance with her is painfully short, it gets pretty clear why Dracula would fall arse over cape for her.  
And surprisingly, she genuinely seems to love him back and is apparently willing to believe he can be better than his Evil self without forgetting that he IS a terrifying Evil Dark Lord With Fangs(tm).  We only get like 10 minutes to have her around and I’m actually willing to buy into the Dracula/Lisa love story far more than I did with Twilight or the Star Wars Anakin/Padme romance.  
She’s genuinely a good person without being insufferably saintly and I hope we get to see more of her in flashbacks as this series progresses because LISA FAHRENHEIGHTS DESERVED BETTER GDI.  
Seriously, in the Great List of Incredibly Stupid and Boneheaded Ideas(tm), accusing Dr. Lisa Fahrenheights Tepes (somehow, I get the feeling she and Vlad had a long and lively discussion about being his Princess/Lady/Countess and she stuck to her guns about being a Doctor) of witchcraft and then burning her alive at the stake is probably in the Top Three.  Right beside the one that says, “Do not kill the Cinnabon Roll Son of the Dark Lord of the Sith while Darth Papa is actually there to see everything.”  
Unfortunately, since this is the Middle Ages and we have all that bullshit about wise women being falsely accused and the Church being corrupt, so this clusterfuckery happens and of course, Vlad eventually comes home to find the house he built for his beloved destroyed and that he’s too late to save her.  He can’t even get the chance to possibly turn her into a vampire.  
Of course he’s pissed off. 
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c.  TREVOR MOTHERFUCKING BELMONT
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Friendly reminder that Trevor Belmont is also THIS TOUCAN BEAKED ASSHOLE:
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Okay, so with Lisa dead and Dracula basically rampaging because he’s Extra by nature, we pretty much need a hero to step up for the innocents who don’t deserve to be caught in the crossfire.
Except Trevor’s also been persecuted by the Church, catches a lot of shit from ignorant peasants who blame the Belmonts for Dracula’s monster horde and he really, really just wants a good meal and several tankards of ale because he’s been having the Worst of Bad Days for like a good solid several years. His life is in the shitter, okay? 
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  But he’s a fucking Belmont.  He’s never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast.  He can’t stay quiet if innocent people are getting hurt.  So he crawls out of his tankard, takes up the Vampire Killer whip and kicks ass again.  
Just make sure he can get to the beer afterwards.  He’s a little shit.  I love him. 
c.  Sypha Belnades 
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So this is what I love about the women characters in this series so far.  They’re not dressed in improbable skimpy outfits for eye candy purposes, they’re smart, they’re brave, they’re sassy and they don’t put up with any bullshit. 
Sypha’s got that covered and while our first acquaintance with her is her getting rescued by Trevor Belmont, the idea is that she was simply taken by surprise by the monstrous critter that originally got her and not because she was a reckless idiot.  She’s innocent and while she’s got the kind of faith that Trevor’s lost long ago, she’s not completely naive either.  She’s a badass and I love her. 
c.  Alucard/Adrian Fahrenheights Tepes - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, my dhampir prince....
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Alucard in the Symphony of the Night game was really the reason why I fell in love with the Castlevania video game series.  He’s ridiculously pretty, an absolute badass, the tragic son of Lisa and Dracula and in this animated show, THANK GOD HE’S FINALLY SHOWING SOME PERSONALITY AND IS VERY MUCH THE LITTLE SHIT HIMSELF.  
He’s understandably bitter at humanity but he’s trying to honor his mother’s wishes and her memory.  He knows little babies getting eaten by demons isn’t the kind of justice or vengeance that his mother’s death demands.  He’s not as strong as his father - he’s only twenty or possibly younger and he’s yet to grow into his full power.  
Alucard is a mystery because there’s so many questions I want to ask.  Where was he when Lisa was being burnt alive?  Couldn’t he have stormed in to rescue his mother or did he make it just to hear her last words, too late to do anything more?  Does Dracula hate him because he knows this? Blame him for failing to protect his mama?  
Alucard and his Daddy Dearest is one of the most compelling storylines for this game and I really need to know the rest of that once this series gets going to Season 2.  
And yes, I’m perfectly aware that the Trevor/Alucard ship has launched: 
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(Yes, I know perfectly well Trevor is supposed to end up marrying Sypha eventually.  Leave us in our fan fiction heaven and trash can hell, okay?  Also, OT3′s are wonderful things.  Just putting it out there, folks.)
So yeah,  Netflix has pretty much nailed Castlevania.  This is a good, epic start.  Keep going.  I need more.  
In the meantime, I’m gonna be stuck writing more tales of Bucky’s Grampy and the epic adventures of Trevor, Alucard and Sypha, right? 
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