#zead

[castlingvanias]

if castle only vania

[apoloid]

my favorite Castlevania Character, from Curse of Darkness (my fave game) and from Harmony of Dissonance (their best design)

[heljay]

Sure, I could have drawn this with Seward instead, but I'm not a coward

Honestly my personal favourite scene with these two is exactly this-- making good use out of Death's human guises. And honestly if you're gonna simp for a vampire for an entire millennium I can't imagine that Death doesn't love the taste of blood, himself, or have a Thing for getting sucked dry like a juice box

Also, excuses to draw them kissing, because it heals me

[beevean]

I decided to break down down this absolutely beautiful poster because I love it and there is some interesting content to notice <3

Starting from the big character portraits:

The Hecboi being his usual badass self. You can spot his earrings which I love, it's such a cute detail <3

Isaac practicing his "step on me daddy" routine. yes sir i get it your boots are fabulous and your pants can't contain your d

I find highkey underrated how Kojima associated him with skulls in official artwork. I wish it didn't get lost in time lol.

Trevor, my friend Trevor :) much more serious than the sass master he is in the game lol

Julia taking care of Hector's Innocent Devils :)

Side note, while I love most of their designs in the game, I find Kojima's idea of what Hector and Isaac's Devils could look like very fascinating. I like how she draws dragons.

The big man himself, St. Germain standing in front of a clock, and Zead holding a four-leafed clover for good luck (+ Isaac again lol)

Now, the more minute detail, going anti-clockwise:

Not only we can see Dracula's Castle, but the figure in the center is the Devil Forgery lab in the PtR manga:

Another underrated detail of lore :)

Oh, this one is just. juicy <3 It took me ages to understand what's going on, but with some help I finally realized it.

So this is essentially the moment where Hector went to Dracula and was like "hey boss, would you mind if you stopped to order me to kill humans? dunno if you noticed but i'm human too and it feels weird. thanks", and Dracula was like "hmm. let me think about it. no. have a nice day :)".

In the PtR manga, it was depicted like this:

With Dracula threatening Hector with his extended claws, and then throwing him off the castle keep. i don't know what you were expecting, man

But in the poster, he's straight up holding Hector by his throat and stabbing him with the fingers of his bat wings! So much that you can see blood dripping from his mouth! Ouch!

This only proves my headcanon that Devil Forgemasters are superhuman and can withstand wounds that would kill a normal person.

also, between this and his sippy attack in the game proper, dracula sure likes to manhandle hector a little too much.

the besties going to work <3

You have no idea how much this little drawing pisses me off. This is the closest thing I have of a canon depiction of Hector and Isaac working as Devil Forgemasters.

I need to see them slaughtering humans together in my bloodstream D: not even NFCV had the courtesy of depicting a villain Hector actually doing villain things D: guys. guys the potential-

Aside from that, this also incidentally proves that PtR's interpretation of Isaac's fabulous outfit (being what is left of his normal Devil Forgemaster outfit after Hector destroyed it) is retroactive. My man was apparently already going shirtless just because he felt like it. Imagine being killed by Dracula's most loyal soldier and your last sight in life is his tiddies. King shit.

also

yeah it's stupid but that's the vibe i get lol

I get it, Kojima-san, you love your blorbo. understandable

A bit more seriously, I really appreciate how much Isaac doesn't have the certified Kojima Pretty Man face, he's instantly recognizable. I like his big nose :)

Hector practicing Devil Forging, a smaller version of this panel from the PtR manga:

I like how in the poster it looks like a typical yin-yang symbol, but also closer to the black-and-white motif of the Devil Forging crest :) they look like two lil dragons chasing each other.

why does isaac look 150% more naked without his shoulder armor

It's hard to tell which even this is supposed to represent. I guess it's his defeat at Hector's hands, if we take the black splotches on the ground as his outfit being slashed. Notice the crest on the floor, similar to the intro of the game!

The worsties fighting. Hector is pissed and Isaac is a troll, must be a day ending in Y. they're flirting

The End! Hard to tell if it's Hector's golden Devil or Abel, but it looks awesome <3

This one... puzzles me. I can tell that Hector is being attacked by some little devils and he's defending himself. But why is he using a small pumpkin as a weapon??

(what if this is him trying to defend rosaly from the mob who accused her of being a witch :<)

Hector angsting. Sadly I'm not sure of what kind of flower that's supposed to be, perhaps a dandelion? I wish it was a lily of the valley like in PtR.

Our friend Trevor again. Interesingly, in the full poster, Isaac and Trevor are directly mirroring each other.

Trevor being like "bruh are you for real" after whipping Hector's ass black and blue. (i hate his second fight so much...)

I would say "Hector's revenge", but actually it looks like he's bleeding and in pain. So... I think this the moment when Dracula nearly clawed Trevor's eye out.

Trevor and Isaac fighting! Love that scene in the game :D

isaac how are you even twisting yourself. what are you doing. you're showing off, aren't you.

Not sure about what location these ruins are supposed to be, but fascinating detail of the skeleton holding a scale of justice. It's close to Zead...

tl;dr i want to eat this poster because it's just so fucking good and a great way to summarize the game

[the-crow-binary]

Zead: Dying sucks butt. How do you living beings cope with mortality ?

Hector: Violent outbursts.

Isaac and Trevor: General sluttiness.

Saint Germain: Thanks to denial, i am immortal !

[textsfromcastlevania]

(647): Stop fucking Belmonts.

(416): Sorry it took me so long to reply. I was fucking a Belmont.

[badly-drawn-forgemasters]

He’s okay, just sleeping

[matiassotolopez]

-Castlevania animated style Death- One of the great absences in the Netflix show is one of the absolute mainstays of the franchise , Death itself. It has been around ever since the first game, always a very important character, most of the time one of the final bosses and one of the toughtest challanges, sometimes even harder boss fight that even Dracula himself. Of course the first games had very little story development so there was not much explanation of how Death itself would be a mere minion of the lord of vampires. I think in part it derives more of the asian notion of “God of Death” or “Shinigami”, who is a somewhat different vision of the Grim Reaper character has in most the western world were it’s seen as a more omnipotent and universal force of nature -more neutral than outright evil- rather than a somewhat more lesser and sort of demonic figure in the asian lore.   Later games would elaborate on Dracula’s relationship with Death as characters, that but those early mysterious appearences in the older games gave me room to make up myself a few stories of my own head of what was happening there. Mixed with with later games added to the canon makes the ingridients of what I propose of how Death could be used in the animated show. Death I feel it works better as a mysterious figure, that is somewhat Dracula’s equal in power but hangs around him because it benefits it’s own interests. Death wants to harvest as much souls as it can, and Dracula’s objectives of scouring humanity aligns itself perfectly with that. It’s just good business to help Dracula. However that’s how it only began, when the man known as Dracula was still called Mathias Cronqvist. Later as a plot to become the most powerful vampire in existence, Dracula got ahold of the Ebony stone and the Crimson Stone, powerful magical items that allowed it to gained control over Death, both literally and figuratively as it secured him of not only absorging constantly the power of it’s defeated enemies but also that each time he himself died it would store it’s own power so the next body he got was even more powerful than the last. Death was the one responsable of bringing Dracula’s soul from the other side each time, bound to the owner of the stone, so in a way it was more of a curse to it too. But Death did not resent it since it keeps it on the soul harvesting business better than any human was ever in the past, Dracula was the best at it’s game. However Death isn’t a mere pawn, willing to manipulate everyone to further it’s goals: Humans but stoking their fears and insecurities to create panic, Dracula’s followers to commit sacrifices in his name to hasten his ressurection, and even Dracula himself by suppresing part of his memories if he deems it may distract him from his mission of wiping out the human race. On the design front, I think it’s pretty straight forward: the classic hooded figure, I tried to coalesce elements of all the games. I wanted it to be this sort of wraith specially in the lower part of the cloak , where it should be like the rags dissolve and move more like fog that actual cloth. All to reinforce the idea that death it’s more like an spirit rather than an a mere monster or even an actual physical being. it also would help to have him change to being more defined or more of a shape that floats around to suit the animation needs and make it more visually appealing.Since I reckon not only is hard to animate bones but probably it wouldn’t be very interesting visually to just make it a clothed skeleton I added details like the rags/bandages that was something Ayami Kojima added on  her “Symphony of the Night” design which I think was a very cool idea, and also some jewlery. Maybe it wasn’t necesary, but I think it adds some uniqueness to the design. Then there’s the scythe, but the image has the descriptions already so I won’t repeat myself here.  Of course there’s a gazillion of “Death -like” characters out there so I tried to keep it as closer to the games as possible, but I’ve also thought a bunch of variants other than this one like the other characters I did before. But in the end I think Death is one of the easiest characters to design, there’s little chance of screwing it up because the concept is so simple yet so strong that it works with anything remotely coherent with the classic image of the Grim Reaper. I just wanted to take my crack at it, and in the meantime rant about my ideas on how to use the character in the show. I think that by now , they way they teased Isaac starting his own cult and monster army for season 3 it seems fitting that either he is the one that calls upon Death to revive the King of Vampires or that Death itself decides to masquerades as Zead and try to bring about the ressurection of Dracula by manipulating everyone he needs to get it done. Well this has gone way too long, so I bid you good bye. There’s more characters to come still, more Belmonts and even lesser monsters I have some ideas to how to use them on the show.  Cya! * Grant Danasty Concept* *Simon Belmont Concept*