You know what would have made Castlevania Season 2 so much better...Grant Danasty
No here me out here people before you go running away.
See Grant is a unique character as many have said on this site and others. He’s the only one of the party that doesn’t have magic, doesn’t have some mystical whip and isn’t the undead.
He’s just a normal person, who was previously a pirate, who got caught up in this mess and was trying to save his people from the actions of Dracula. See he had given up being a pirate and was basically being a kind of robin hood type person at the time when Dracula started to stir up trouble. His family was killed in the attacks, so he has a direct bone to pick with Dracula.
By the way a great post by @rosebleue linked from a facebook post about why Grant is important to the story.
So rather then let more people die for the stupidity of the church, he and a group of rebels were like “We can take him” and went after Dracula themselves.
However their actions cost them their lives in most cases, in others, like Grants he turned into a demon and was made to guard the Clock tower in the game.It’s here that he meets Trevor who beats him and then the spell cast on him comes to pass. Grant thanks Trevor and offers his services to help stop Dracula.
Grant’s skills are amazing. He can climb walls, parkour himself in all sorts of places, and his knife skills are amazing. Not only can he throw them long distances, but he also is extremely agile and can use a type of spell that allows time to slow down.
So why the heck would they not use this character in the series?
I really think it would have worked better if Grant had been there.
Grant could have been made also a PoC (black possibly to counter Isaac’s cruel nature), and as a former Pirate -who were known to be PoC and worked in a democratic group (Yeah pirates voted on things and made choices as groups) he would cancel out a lot of the stuff Isaac spews in this show.
On top of that since Walachia is his home, he wouldn’t be leaving and would have stayed to help out Alucard and fix up his home land.
You could have easily used Grant in a number of ways, not only being someone to banter off of Alucard and Trevor, but being also someone who sees where Sypha is coming from and maybe have some interesting moments with the characters.
With Trevor, you could point to the Danasty line having been some sort of nobles at some point, maybe political figures, and that he can get Trevor’s reluctance to deal with things. You could have also used him as a kind of voice of reason why Trevor needs to step up. Also, probably teasing him about Sypha, “Hey if you don’t want her, I would have no issue taking her.”
Also this little Gem could work too:
Grant's surname, "Danasty", might be a reference to Dănești, a noble house from Wallachia. The House of Dănești was one of the two main lineages of the Wallachian noble family House of Basarab. They were descended from Dan I of Wallachia. The other lineage of the Basarabs is the House of Drăculești, which Vlad III Drăculea belongs to. Grant's surname could also be a play on "Nadasdy", a noble Hungarian family that produced Ferenc Nádasdy. A "lesser impaler" than Vlad Ţepeş, Ferenc was the husband of Elizabeth Báthory and father of their children.
With Alucard it’s a question of his father and his actions. Maybe having Alucard point to what happened to his mother and possible pointing out how much he and Grant are alike. Grant’s father was killed by Dracula, Alucard’s mother was killed by people who were from Grant’s homeland. The drama there write’s itself and by the end the two are friendly enough that when Trevor offers him a ride with Sypha and him, he declines offering instead to help rebuild his home and watch over Alucard since he’s going to need a friend to help him out.
With Sypha it’s about magic and such. You can have Grant talk about not buying into magic and Sypha helping him out with that. Making him see a more spiritual side to himself. Also, given he is hinted to have feelings for her, you can add onto that by hinting, if you want, for him to be bi and have a thing for Trevor or Alucard as well. Given that he avoided the wedding of Sypha and Trevor according to Judgement, you can play a bit with that, maybe make it where he feels a bit sad that she chose Trevor, or that he’s not into guys. But keep them as the level headed ones of the group, the Dad of the quartet if you will.
If you wanted something interesting have him fight one of the Vampires and take them down, going “That was for my family.” You can also throw in his comments in regard to his family being taken from him the same way Dracula lost Lisa. As I said above Isaac as a counter to Grant would be interesting. You could have it be where he was a free person of color vs. Isaac who wasn’t and then get into some of that area if you really wanted to.
Even if you didn’t go that route with him, Grant should have been in this. He would have added a strong dynamic to the team and brought the reality of the situation to the group as a person who lives in the lad that they are fighting for. He’s human and knows how Hector feels and understands why Isaac can hate people as well.
He could have worked perfectly in this as a mirror for Trevor and Alucard and even Dracula to look into.
