> @drachenblood asked: topic: being the last of the Belmonts.
HOKAY this is a big ass rant, but. it’s .. strange to him, to say the least. but he’s come to terms with it. i think that it is harder for him to accept that mankind are the ones who murdered his family, let alone the priests that he was taught to trust and protect, than the monsters he fought or creatures of the night. and i think that especially is why he stopped fighting monsters for so many years. he didn’t believe that people deserved the help of the belmonts, because they would rather gargle superstition and cast them out when they (rather like sypha’s people) were sacrificing everything to protect them, and had since the appearance of leon belmont.
i do think there was some idolization of leon, too. it’s only natural that trevor wanted to be like leon. that he would want to kill vampires and be looked on as a great knight or hero of transylvania. even more so when he finally got to see the belmont hold’s secrets, or the magnificence of the morning-star whip, which was blessed with a willing vampire’s blood.
of course the stories of what really happened with leon and mathias are completely blown out of proportion after several hundred years, and i’m sure absolutely no one knows that dracula himself had once been friends with the progenitor of the belmont clan. that little detail has been lost to history entirely.
but back to the topic: being the last. he absolutely believes he will be the last of his line. that he will have no children, not get married. of course this changes when he meets sypha and the two fall in love over the course of castlevania 3. but he would not wish being feared and treated like they are on anyone. why would he subject that, let alone new children, to what he went through?
but he gains respect when he finally kills dracula. and everyone comes to know his name as the man who rids the world of dracula’s horrors. more than that, he treats everyone equally. he’s not some agent of the church, so he seeks out the help of wizards, witches, speakers and even a half-vampire hell, dracula’s own child to see that the count dies for his transgressions. sure, this sparks a feud for centuries between the resurrected vampire and his family, but he has no idea that’s going to happen.
but before he meets sypha, i imagine that he’d be a very lonely and very bitter person. he travels from place to place looking for food and a place to sleep while protecting himself as he goes. he uses drink to forget the images of his home burning in front of him, of his family being executed for crimes against the church. [something that my portrayal of dracula actually has in common with trevor; that their families were both slaughtered for heresy and there was nothing they could do to stop it. foil to foil, one conniving and cunning and so full of hatred that he’d rather kill mankind than live with them. and the other so full of hatred that he’d rather ignore their plight than help them.] but trevor grows. his humanity wins out in the end and he cannot stand by while his family’s legacy was to help people in need. even when he wanted to just turn around and walk away, his conscience wouldn’t let him.
that understanding of his family’s legacy and his own guilt is what keeps him connected to who they were. and how he keeps them alive. one can look at it further that by slaying dracula, trevor is also slaying that part of himself that could have become so much like the count. because it is his humanity - something dracula has forsaken - that pushes him to his limits to climb castlevania.