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So this is probs obvious to anyone who's thought about it for more than ten seconds, but a big difference between Gabriel and Mathias and the one I think that causes their fates to diverge is accountability.

(On an in-universe level there's also reverence and faith in god but let's maybe stick to more universally applicable traits whoops.)

Mathias actually for real seems to believe that Sara's ultimate fate is not his doing, but God's, while Gabriel never denies having killed his own wife despite having provably been under mind control at the time. He literally never brings this up to Zobek ever. This is PARTIALLY because Lords of Shadow just has kinda goofy writing in general, but if you take it for what it is then it explains why his son is willing to just... ask him to stop, while Mathias's son never bothers.

Gabriel believes he has at least some level of control over what happens in his life, and his crisis is over the things he believes he cannot control. Once his son turns up and says no, there IS something you can do to change the direction of your life, he switches tracks almost immediately. He only needs to be convinced that all the uncontrollable factors have been accounted for.

Mathias, Dracula, literally believes he has zero control over any of the things he does. He keeps resurrecting? Humans keep calling him back! Your girlfriend is a whip now? God didn't stop me! My son stands against me? That's because his human blood makes him naturally gentler, if he's turned into a full vampire he'll see sense! Like he genuinely doesn't seem to believe that he can just... choose to stop lmao, and so there's no point in reasoning with him. Nothing that's happened is his fault, so until the world changes he'll just keep doing what he has to. He has no choice.

He also just seems to lack Gabriel's natural urge to Be Good, but I feel like that's not as big an obstacle as him attributing all his own choices to everyone else.

In Grimoire of Souls he and Alucard have a conversation where the word choice suggests that Dracula can absolutely just choose not to answer a summons, but also that Dracula's "evil intent" is forced upon him by /waves hands at Aria of Sorrow's plot. The latter is suggested by Alucard, which gives it more credence than if it came from Dracula. Which might undermine my point, but I feel like it's just the final nail in the coffin of Dracula's belief in his own control. If he weren't already predisposed to an "everything that happens is God's plan" attitude he'd have an easier time fighting it. Or at least try. Like Soma.

Meanwhile Gabriel is out here like all you have to do is convince me that the choice to not be an asshole won't make everything worse, and I'll make that choice. Hell, I would rather make that choice. Except for Chupacabras, fuck that guy specifically, I'm sick of his shit.

#castlevania #castlevania lords of shadow #gabriel belmont #mathias cronqvist

keii4ii

Veronique. Derwent Inktense pencils, black ink, two different colorshift metallic paints

#keiiii #💕#your art is as stunning as ever 💕#lies of p

(Soma is not actually smol, Anime Dracula is just Tol.)

Dracula Bodyswaps in decreasing order of how many shits given about remaining undetected

#castlevania #castlevania netflix #castlevania lords of shadow

bizarrelittlemew

you have three hours // we can have forever

bonus:

s-t-a-r-c-o

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

Sit down, you're watching a remake of an old episode of How Are We Making This Asshole Tragic and today's subject is Dracula and Lisa's final words.

So the way things play out at the end of SotN is that Dracula asks Alucard for Lisa's final words, and Alucard simply tells him, implying that

1. Dracula does actually have an interest in them despite the implication that

2. He literally never asked, because

3. Alucard would have just TOLD him if he'd ever asked, even though

4. His mother specifically asked him to tell his father, and

5. He did not. ...Until asked. 300 years later.

Like ASSUMING that Alucard holds his mother's final words in high regard you have to assume that he ALSO intended to tell them to Dracula and then never did. Meanwhile Dracula clearly wants to know them and just... doesn't for some reason.

Now it's perfectly in-character for Dracula's crashout to have been near-instant, giving Alucard the opportunity to say actually I kind of don't want to talk to him right now lmao, which is probably the intention [citation needed].

But it does also paint an alternative picture where Dracula wanted to ask but didn't, while Alucard wanted to tell him but didn't, in which case there was SOME kind of obstacle to their doing so. They had to have had the physical opportunity to exchange words, so it's probably more an emotional obstacle than anything.

And I feel like the most likely culprit is that Dracula has difficulty prioritizing in general Alucard being so fucked up about the whole thing that both of them decided separately to put that facet of the conversation off until Alucard was up to it.

Alucard decided to pass the time by grieving. Dracula decided to pass the time by becoming a god and making it everyone else's problem.

There is also the possibility that Dracula simply assumed that Lisa's final words were "Bitch I'm your mother now go kill some humans" or perhaps the slightly more likely "ow please get me down" or "kindly flee before they kill you too my son," or even that Dracula actually DIDN'T want to hear them because he wasn't ready for it, and thus skipped right to the crash-out response.

You kind of have to take old translated scripts as trying to convey narrative ideas rather than actual representations of what literally happened, but doing the latter is just a lot of fun sometimes because HOW DOES DRACULA NOT KNOW ALREADY. WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK. JUST HOW BADLY DID YOU FUCK THIS UP THAT ALUCARD WENT ACTUALLY NO I SHALL SIMPLY NOT FULFILL MY MOTHER'S DYING REQUEST

(whether or not this would actually have convinced him is a completely different conversation, I'm just. The fact that Alucard didn't even try is so much fun to think about.)

#castlevania #like if I were trying to convince my dad not to destroy the world I feel like that would be step number one #but clearly it wasn't which is hilarious given the word choice in the script #and the fact that Alucard TELLS dracula that Lisa asked him to tell him #and dracula doesn't need to ask why he didn't #dracula just like yeah that's fair. see you next time kiddo

our two worst enemies

cops

and a guy who isn't wearing a mask during a public health crisis

#castlevania #Castlevania Lords of Shadow #lords of shadow #he could be asymptomatic for all he knows!

pwlanier

Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC.

Courtesy Alain Truong

I may prefer Soma Is Dracula as my personal headcanon

But it's just so much fun to play with Soma Is Dracula's Disgruntled Flesh Prison when you're goofing around with fanfiction

#castlevania #soma cruz #to be clear: dracula is still theoretically being an asshole about this #like instead of explaining like a normal person he keeps going YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE OF ME #and responding to Soma's retaliation by trying to subsume him #dracula is such a convenient villain to pity because he's constantly shooting himself in the foot LMFAO #You don't need to have a well-constructed plot.#the plot is dracula being an idiot again.

cloudy-rina

Had the urge to draw him loafing hahah Rocky is so cute to me 😭💖

kikmessenger

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

kikmessenger

skips a stone over a few posts

ferrettaur

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Dracula takes a moment to bask in the relief of not having to explain the Infinite Corridor. “It should be 1475.”

“Then we are certainly occupying different spaces and not merely different times,” the other says. “I am decades ahead of you, and your existence would have been difficult to miss. My name is Gabriel.”

Partway into his crusade against humanity, Vlad Dracula Tepes awakens in the body of a human boy. After a short scuffle he reaches out across the Infinite Corridor to his own body, currently occupied by another vampire giving the name Gabriel who is, fortunately, not enthused by the prospect of spending eternity there. With only the powers inherited from their hosts and the ability to exchange words, the two of them must navigate their new worlds and help each other find their way home.

The spirit of Dracula's host body is currently unconscious and shunted off to the side for his own safety (and Dracula's convenience), so if Gabriel's claim of his body most likely being in torpor is accurate, then it should be safely sitting empty. They're not worried about it. It's probably fine.

Of all the Castlevania WIPS currently waiting for their turn to see the light of day, I can't believe this is the one that reaches any kind of postable state first. Merry-Go-Round of Draculas fic where the anime's Dracula is in Soma's body, Gabriel is in the anime Dracula's body, and Soma is currently taking a nap in his own body because he had the appropriate reaction to finding Dracula bouncing around in his head and Dracula is already sick of him. Don't worry about Gabriel's body.

Includes copious amounts of poorly-supported headcanon, as well as interpretations that aren't headcanons but instead chosen specifically to make this particular fic as entertaining as possible. My sincerest apologies to literally every Japanese person.

#castlevania #chapter two is shaping up to be rather longer than chapter one LMFAOAJSJDKFG

Okay I saw your latest post about dracula and the tepes, and uhhhh

is there some sort of draculisa discord I'm missing out on?!?!?! They are my favorite ship and I stalk their ao3 tag like it pays my bills!!! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

If there is, I am not a member :( These are all screenshots of conversations with my usual friend group.

As consolation though here is another one featuring the Grimoire of Souls cast discarding all of their brain cells in a less-than-serious attempt to deduce how exactly Dracula managed to find himself married to Lisa:

#grimoire of souls #draculisa #castlevania #soma and alucard are not in the room.#the adulty ones think this is just a little bit in poor taste #but the mental image of dracula making a fool of himself for love is just too tempting.

northeasternwind

It occurred to me that I'm not entirely certain whether the robed vampires in the anime live in the castle when Dracula ISN'T waging war on humanity.

ineedmoretrevorcardcontent

Baby Adrian: *intensely making flower crowns for all the guards*

Dracula: if I don't get one I'm kicking them all out

northeasternwind

LAUGHS I meant more that Dracula seems like the kind of guy who doesn't want his servants to be visible ever unless he's showing off:

but this is funny too how dare they prevent me from monopolizing my family's attention merely by existing 😭

ineedmoretrevorcardcontent

LMAO he's been an attention seeking ho since his Mathias days😭

Let me rephrase it;

Adrian: *aggressively making flower crowns for the guards*

Drac: >:(

Drac: so anyway I started killing

northeasternwind

Also if you like this you'll probably also like the shitpost about how the castle succubi all consider Alucard their collective son rather than a potential partner. They violently chase off any potential suitors because they're concerned about his delicate half-human body not being able to handle such rough treatment, and Dracula has to regularly kidnap him back from them and gently remind them that the boy already has a mother whom he loves very much. god forbid women do anything in this castle

ineedmoretrevorcardcontent

Omg why does that sound familiar? I've definitely seen that one, if not reblog or comment on it. I love the concept and think it's so cute tbh😭

In my trans woman AU, I actually made it that Adrian's faerie in the games (unnamed) actually shows up to heal her when she is injured and stayed with her when she was healing in the coffin. So alongside the succubus in the castle, Adrian also has a faerie to gush over him/her

northeasternwind

I shitpost in the tag semi-regularly because I have so many thoughts and so few people to express them to

Awwww she is just so lovable they can't help it 😭

#castlevania

elucubrare

You’ve heard of “i didn’t say it was good, i said i liked it,” get ready for “i said it had some technical problems & didn’t fully deliver on its themes, not that i didn’t like it”

elucubrare

#I voiced a criticism of some of its aspects#which in no way implies I did not like it#“and especially does not imply that I would like to hear a defense of it of the form 'shut up and let people have fun'”

REALLY endorsing these tags from galileosballs