#ricula

[smartzelda]

Volta of Midnight

By: SmartZelda

Summary:

After a minute had passed, the man’s eyes—a deep, sea-blue—fluttered open once more. “So, it’s been…four years…” he whispered to the sky, voice wistful, yet fatigued almost. Soon enough, his eyes drifted down to the dark, ancient wood ahead. One of the few rays of moonlight, which struggled to peek between the branches of the tall oak trees, fell upon centimeters of exposed collarbone, laid bare due only to the deep v-cut of the man’s shirt collar. This loose, pure-white button-up was tucked into a pair of pale grey trousers, which were pulled up to his waist, and held up by a thick, brown-leather belt. His large, square-shaped, silver belt-buckle caught another of the moon’s rays, causing the metal to glint whenever he shifted his weight between his feet. Four years since I took up the duty of the hunters before me, and slew the legendary vampire… –~~~* In which, under the watchful eye of the full moon, Richter Belmont disappears.

Rating: Teen

Category: mlm, f/m, gen

Fandom: Castlevania

Relationships: Dracurichter, Richette, Richter & Maria

Additional Tags: pre-symphony of the night, Unreliable Narrator, Mind Control, canon-typical religious themes, Richter Belmont Has PTSD, Ghost Dracula Vlad Tepes | Mathias Cronqvist (Or is it?), Implied Bisexual Richter Belmont, Not Cheating, Richter Belmont typical blood mentions, Mentioned Original Belmont Clan Children (Castlevania), Vasile Belmont, Angst and Tragedy, Fluff

Words: 15,101, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Posting Date: 05-17-2026

Link to Fic:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85051286

[Any commentary, thoughts, additions, etc from me is under the cut ☺️]

You know sometimes you set out to write a fic quickly to get an idea out of your head so you can be normal later, and weeks later you end up with 15k, a new hyperfixation, a new blorbo, and lowkey obsessed with a rarepair.

There was a point in the process of writing this that I (for some reason) fully believed I could get away with tagging it as gen, but the eroticism was so strong that I'd look like a fool to pretend there's nothing there between Dracula and Richter in this fic, so I ship tagged it. Ultimately, though, I do feel like the main focus of this fic is the exploration of concept (that being what happened the night Richter disappeared 4 years after Rondo of Blood) and the character study nature of it.

In any case, I do hope someone out there enjoys this!

I also hope that it doesn't age too poorly once I finally play sotn and rondo of bood myself.

[smartzelda]

I thought I was done a while ago, but now I'm rewriting again

So here are a couple excerpts of my wip