#castlevania asks

[ineedmoretrevorcardcontent]

quit ignoring sypha just to get your pathetic fetish for gay men in you fucking weird fujo

Yeah, well I'm sorry I like a specific ship??? You don't see me calling you a weirdo for liking a throuple.

Oh wait, is that why your ask was anonymous?

[thewriterwhowritesnot]

Alright......time to write some mess. What do we want? Who do we want it with? Is there blood involved? Hit the asks, you guys. I'm ready to serve.

[lokisgoodgirl]

I have also never seen castlevania but have also been told to watch it by every single person I know (we can form an alliance)

😂😂😂 Did we just form a Castlevania watch club because I think we did!!!

I'm currently writing with HOTD on in the background but I intend to watch an episode of Castlevania before bed. 🤭

[i-your-higness-is-me]

Dracula having sex with pregnant s/o headcannons?

I’m going to do headcannons and maybe a one shot. Is it still called a one shot? Or is it an imagine? Or is that a one direction thing?

[symphonyofthewrite]

Saw your post, getting stuff off your chest, I just wanted to say that I haven't seen the thing with the kids mentioned by anyone and it really stood out to me, I feel what you mean to some extent, because for me it was a stronger reaction, albeit you probably won't feel the same and that's, obviously, perfectly fine. I have an instant recoil these days whenever a character is around kids for like one second and everyone instantly goes "THEY LITERALLY ADOPTED THEM/THAT'S THEIR CHILD/THEY'RE A PARENT"... genuinely sick of it, and I went white as a sheet when I heard it, I wanted to pluck my eyes out. I don't know if it's an American thing but English speaking fandoms (well, those teeming with fancops that is) seem like they cannot process adult looking characters being in any near proximity to childlike characters without automatically imposing parenthood and family dynamics and it's becoming distressing to me. I feel like Alucard needed to process his trauma and learn to trust and be whole again, he's young himself too, why he needed to be a "father figure" all of a sudden is beyond me.

Thank you so much for the ask!! I don’t get many asks so it makes me happy when I can talk meta with people 💛💛 (Sorry I’m a bit late in answering.)

Funnily enough I actually do agree with you. I didn’t have quite so strong a reaction, but I definitely had a very similar one when I first hear it.

My feelings were and are a bit mixed. I was saying in my other post that I would have preferred that I got to actually see this interaction; see the kids run by him and call him father, and him smile when no ones looking. I still think that would have been a better, more touching way to do the scene, and would have had more chance of me liking it (though I probably still would have felt very weird about it). (I think it especially would have been better because it would show that Alucard himself liked it, not that Greta was forcing the role on him.) I know that it was meant to be something touching, and pretty much everyone seems to like it (and I have seen some cute posts about it), so I just tried to like it too, and focus on the fact that all they were really trying to say was he was having a nice relationship with the kids, and that was indeed sweet.

But yeah, when I heard Greta say “I heard some of them calling you father” for me it was less a reaction of horror, and more a “HUH??!!”moment. When I heard it I was like “Alucard...you agree with this???!! This is how you see yourself??!!” I almost expected Alucard to refute it and say he didn’t see himself as a father to them. Like I seriously do not see Alucard as anything remotely close to a father figure, and it felt weird and wrong to me.

Like when I saw him interacting with the kids the first time, I didn’t think “oh he’s a father figure to them.” I just thought “yay, Alucard’s playing with some kids, and getting out of his bubble!!” I didn’t have any thoughts as to what his relationship role was with them, I just thought that first interaction was lovely.

And if I saw him interacting with the kids again, I still wouldn’t go “father figure” I’d just be like “yay, Alucard’s playing with the kids again, how sweet!!”

Sometimes the relationship doesn’t need a role or a label, ya know?

And I thought it was especially strange because…he literally just met them?? Like how can they possibly start calling him father when he’s played with them once or twice? Regardless of Alucard’s side or things, what group of kids would randomly call a nice man they just met ‘father’? Is...Is this a normal thing??

Anyways, back to Alucard’s side of things, Sypha’s line about Alucard being a teenager trapped an adults body has always been something that stuck with me and shaped how I view Alucard. I definitely view him as internally much younger than he looks. No matter how much I might hate them for what they did to him, I think Sumi and Take are about the age he actually is, and their relationship with him made sense to me. He’s still a kid—or at least young—he still needs his parents in his life, really. (That’s part of why I didn’t like that Drac and Lisa don’t go to him at the end. I personally don’t think Alucard really got closure, and in my mind I think he still very much needed them, and that would have been the perfect ending to his story in my mind, where everything comes full circle; He was forced to lose his parents and grow up too early, and only when he’s started to truly grow up does he get them back.) So yeah, I really don’t see him like a father at all. One of my main focuses in my Castlevania fanfiction is his relationship with Dracula, so I very much see him as the son, not as the dad, even when Drac isn’t around.

(Sidenote, come to think of it, I think this is another reason why Greta x Alucard is a nope from me. She’s very much an adult, so I just see a discrepancy between them that makes me feel weird about them being in a romantic relationship. If we need a label I feel like she fits as an older sister for him, guiding him and giving him support. Him unloading all his problems on her within just meeting her makes more sense if he’s like a younger brother who needs to cry to his sister. I felt weird about it in a romantic context when it was so fast. I mean I know he was desperate to talk to someone, and I probably would have done the same, but still).

“I feel like Alucard needed to process his trauma and learn to trust and be whole again, he's young himself too, why he needed to be a "father figure" all of a sudden is beyond me”

^^ THIS. EXACTLY THIS.

I was honestly really hoping they’d go in depth into him dealing with his trauma, and how he’s still hurting from the wounds of it, and how he needs to heal. I thought that’s what his S4 arc would be about. I don’t think they gave him the chance to really process and work through everything that happened. (Again, I don’t think him just unloading all his problems on a nice stranger is truly working through his trauma. I would have much rather watched him struggle to trust her, and him telling her about his trauma happen later, and be difficult for him, and a deep, heartfelt moment).

Like I was saying in my other post, I think if they framed his arc in how he dealt with the town collectively, I think that would have fit better, and been more touching and satisfying. I would have liked to see him struggling to trust humans, and then see as time progressed how several different people in the town liked him and meant him no harm, and how he realized he could trust them, and that he liked them too. It wasn’t that he had a bad romantic partner and needed a new one. He believed he needed to be punished for killing his father, and in his deep loneliness he let these kids into his house and heart, and they turned on him because he was half vampire. That’s something pretty deeply ingrained, and not something a new romance just fixes by existing. He needed to work through that in a much deeper way.

I know this is gonna be a very unpopular opinion, and it's totally cool if you disagree, but in a weird way... I sort of disliked Alucard’s ending. Don’t get me wrong, Im glad he’s happy, and I’d certainly prefer it to him just getting more trauma like last season (*shudders*), and I don’t think him opening up his castle (and his heart) to humanity is a bad way to end his story, certainly not. I think that fits. And my heart did melt a bit at the "I'm weirdly happy" scene. But, where everyone else is like “*sobbing* happy endings for all our faves” ...I see the creators of the show trying to wrap everything up in a neat little bow, and while that’s certainly not all bad, I don’t love every aspect of that. Theres a time and place for that, but a show based on video games, for which there’s more content in these storylines isn’t one of them in my mind.

Sometimes some of the sadness needs to linger. At the very least, let it linger at the beginning of the season so you can work through it in a powerful way, you know? It may have been tough to see Alucard be more closed off, but I think it would have been more satisfying to see him open up his heart and go back to his old self if we saw his trauma leave lingering effects at the beginning.

To me it didn’t feel like a satisfying arc, it felt like the fairytale ending of “oh look he’s not apprehensive about humanity even after what happened! Oh look he got the girl! And the Castle’s a happy place now! Look he’s not sad anymore! He’s even a father figure to these kids! He’s totally moved on!” And all those things can be awesome when done properly, and when they have depth to them. But they didn’t work through the trauma to get there, so it felt surface level to me, and too fast. I really liked that first episode, and how we saw the two sides of him—one that's become more closed off, and the other that still buries the human despite his comments—and I also really liked the first interaction with the kids, and thought that was one of the few interactions that had depth to it and fit with his arc well. Having it go beyond “they’re helping him learn to like and trust humanity again, and displaying who he really is inside” ended up detracting from the power of his relationship with them in my mind.

Having played SOTN, I think an ingrained loneliness and sadness are, in a way, a key part of Alucard’s character. That sounds really sad and awful out loud but…there are some people that just have a sadness or a loneliness to them, and that's not entirely bad. Here’s the thing…it can make them that much more beautiful. The fact that they still fight for good, even when they see all the dark, those moments when they find true friends, despite how alone they are, those moments when they are happy, are so much more powerful. They just are always a bit…separate from other people. One of my favorite lines in anything is the line "We are connected by our darkness, not by our light" in Pandora Hearts. I think it's a line that fits Alucard well, and it’s always something that’s drawn me personally to him. Don't get me wrong, I don’t think Alucard’s all dark and sad and lonely, he’s definitely got a bright side to him too, of course he does. But I also don't think he ever is able to fully accept the vampire side of himself, and I find that interesting, and worth exploring. Personally I was honestly hoping for the show makers to come up with a bittersweet reason for why he went to sleep for 300 years, (and I thought that's why they set things up with Sumi and Taka that he’d have something against his vampire nature). Personally it felt like they were trying to say “oh he’s all better now, he’ll never be sad or lonely again” and while that’s nice I suppose…for me it sort of…stops feeling like Alucard, in a way? I don't know if I'm explaining it right, or if that sounds terrible...😅

Anyways, back to the topic at hand. I do agree that’s very common of fandom that people are like “boom! Just add water! Instant father figure!” and I don’t love it either. Sometimes it can be cute if it truly fits, but it doesn’t fit every relationship between an adult-looking character and a kid character, and shouldn't be the first place people go to. In the same way every relationship doesn’t have to be romantic, not every relationship has to be parental/familial either. Sometimes it feels like fandom culture isn't really okay to have some characters just be good friends. A good friendship can be more wonderful than a romance sometimes.

If we have to put a label on it, I think he seemed like a nice older brother figure to them? I think that fits who he is in my mind. But father? Nope. Not for me. And again, I don’t think it needs a label.

Thanks again for sending me this ask!! It was nice to get the chance to work through some more of my feelings here too. Sorry if I went too overboard. And I hope I don’t sound too terribly negative, it really was a great season, and I definitely liked some parts of his arc, just not all of it.

If you or anyone else reading would like to discuss with me more, be my guest!! 💕

[nomadicism]

What are your theories/ is your wishlist for the third season of Castlevania?

Hi Anon, thank you for the Ask!

I don’t have much in the way of theories, other than it seems like this season will bring a new take on some ideas from Curse of Darkness. With the addition of St Germain, it seems like there will be some setup for Hector vs Isaac. Hector might want to look for Isaac on good terms and be surprised by what he finds. Isaac seems like a natural choice for S4 main villain, but I can also see him being more of a neutral ally. Carmilla doesn’t seem like a two season main villain, so she probably isn’t surviving this season.

Superficially—meaning, going on nothing but that trailer and the art—Lenore seems like she could play a role similar to Laura from Lords of Shadow, or Rosaly from Hector’s CoD game backstory (or the CoD manga).

I assume Trevor and Sypha, and Alucard will remain split into separate story arcs and something happens at the end of the season that will lead them to reunite in S4 (assuming their story arcs are occurring in the same time/era).

I’m very curious if St Germain will be a time-traveler, if so, that could be wild.

My wishlist for the season is that:

More of Castlevania games’ monster menagerie shows up. I loved seeing Slogra and Gaibon for their brief time last season.

If St Germain really is a time-traveler then he’s like something out of 1960s Dr Who meets the Twilight Zone.

Sypha gets a Bowel Disrupting spell.

Especially #3.

[thesharklord]

Reaction of Alucard Trevor and Hector listening to the female reader singing a song so that their children can go to sleep (sorry, I do not know if I already asked for this request)

**Alucard**

An echoing castle makes thunderstorms ten times worse, Alucard knew this so it was no surprise that the children couldn’t sleep. Though the storms Alucard remembered as a child had never been this bad. The castle practically shook as thunder reigned throughout the stone halls. Above that though was quite possibly the most beautiful son Alucard had ever heard. It drifted though the air on honey sweet notes pulling like a siren’s song to his son’s bedroom. He could only watch in wonder as you, his beloved wife, ran your hands through your child’s hair. They slept peacefully with their head resting on your lap, all fear of the storm lost to the sound of your voice. Alucard sees no other option but to lay on the bed beside you and listen with a content smile.

**Trevor**

The only songs Trevor knew were overly obscene bar songs so when your child asks for a lullaby he immediately passes it off to you. You roll your eyes and wait for them to nestle into bed before begging the song. Trevor’s jaw drops at your voice. How come you don’t sound that good singing bar songs? Maybe he was just too caught up in those moments to really appreciate the obvious gift you have. “That’s not fair.” he whispers when you finish.

**Hector**

Hector usually helped your child sleep by sitting on the bed and letting every animal in the house pile on top of them like a giant blanket of fur. Usually that was enough to get them to sleep. However sometimes they have a really bad nightmare. When Hector walked in that night from a late night walk he found you holding your crying child. On top of that you were singing softly while rocking them back to sleep. The animals, cats, dogs, and that one fox, sat at your feet listening. It was the most beautiful thing Hector had ever seen and how he wished he could keep it forever.

These were fun to write and honestly I needed this.

[ineedmoretrevorcardcontent]

Per the WIP game:

Tell us about "Purgatory Belmonts."

That was fast👀 I'm not surprised that you're curious about that of all the WIPs (affectionate)

Okay so, when Leon swore that he and his kin would destroy the night, he also made another promise;

"None of the wielder of the vampire killer will reach heaven until Dracula's blood is put to rest."

So Leon and many other ancestors of Trevor who have used or handled the whip, including Trevor's parents (Gabriel and Marie) are stuck in purgatory, bound to look after their burned home until Dracula's bloodline is erased. His siblings are not stuck because they have not wielded the whip.

The main fic focuses on the ghosts' daily activities and being bored asf because there's nothing much to do. Until Trevor comes back (much to their excitement) with two other people searching for the Belmont hold and a way to kill Dracula.

Not soon after, Leon realises who the blond warrior is and the alchemist Belmonts are very impressed by the ginger haired magician. After the canon stuff happens (mostly) Trevor decides to stay behind while Sypha visits her family.

The Belmonts come to terms (and grow fond) with the son of Dracula.

(if anyone wants any more clearing up, my asks are always open)