Joachim Armster, Shanoa, The Succubus, & Elizabeth Bartley By Mindy Lee

I thought the hand was blue because it was in shadows, but looking at it more yeah it is!

as pointed out her left hand looks to be rotting and while her shoulder is fine, at least her forearm seems to be just bone!? What is the backstory for that design choice?

Poor quality of the picture, but still looks like her left hand is rotten and that's why she is covering it.

On the North American cover she is just all blue (corpse?) vampire. Which is a lot less interesting in comparison tbh.

For all the Elizabeth Bartley fans out there <3

drew elizabeth bartley!!

Elizabeth Bartley, reborn as a vampire by the witch Dorottya Szentes.

elizabeth bartley

Castlevania: Bloodlines streamed by Tsunati

watching/rewatching a show when you already have an established favorite character is great because every time they come on screen it's like

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Looking to Alucard's family tree on the recent posts from @radiant-featherball and @beevean. With my personal theory that the vampire master that turns a victim intro undead to take as their child for their selfish or other purposes.

That means... :

To clarify those things:

•We all know that Walter turned Joachim (to be his little pet), Justine and Sara (for cat and mouse game). So they are the Walter's "children".

•Is unclear if Alucard turend Lyudmil into a vampire but I go with this version. (From friends to adoptive father-son relationship)

•Julia and Isaac are siblings. If she was taken by Dracula, Julia would be the only adoptive daughter in his castle and could became Alucard's big sister (I'm sure that Lisa would loved to have a daughter)

•To me, Death is that babysister that is unpaid, but he is loyal to Dracula (his eternal husband).

•And acording to LoI manga that Walter was cursed from birth and that demon could be Death. If that is true, Death is Walter's "father" and Joachim, Justine and Sara are Death's "grandchildren".

(I think I need a break after this. And yes, I did this on paper.)

there's so many things wrong with this fucking image

you know the story is good when you hit a plot point that makes you have to set it down for twenty minutes and consider it

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i wonder what kind of relationship these two would have....

So in Castlevania game lore, the novel Dracula canonically exists, and is apparently just fanfiction or whatever about the ACTUAL Dracula AKA Matthias Cronqvist. But at the same time, Quincey Morris (spelled without an E) did exist and did slay Dracula, and die doing so.

Which begs the question, how inaccurate was Bram Stoker's account of events? Or was it inaccurate at all? Maybe Dracula DID resurrect and do all that to the Harkers and Lucy and whatnot. And Quincey eventually managed to kill him, though not before siring an actual son named John.

I kinda want to see a Castlevania version of the Dracula novel; One compliant to the lore. So obviously the rules for Dracula and vampires is changed a little, and maybe he's not so utterly alone this time, given he's usually attended to by an entire army of monsters. Or maybe this resurrection, Dracula came back weaker than usual and couldn't summon any of the typical lackeys like Medusa or Death. Maybe he DOES have some minions and they just take a backseat in the roles of the peasants Dracula hired.

The fact that Quincey has John means that he must've fallen in love with someone other than Lucy; So maybe he never proposed to her, or he had a one-night stand sometime between the rejection, and his blood donation. We also know there was a Lucy Seward in Castlevania canon, who was Eric Lecarde's fiancee until Elizabeth Bartley (Erzsebet Bathory) turned her into a vampire and Eric had to mercy-kill her.

This is obviously conflicting with Lucy Westenra and how her story went... And given Eric's own age in the timeline, I wonder if this could be reconciled with the revelation that after Quincey's death, Jack Seward had a daughter he named Lucy in honor of his lost loved one, only for her to tragically suffer the exact same fate, whoops I think I tempted fate right there.

There's also Castlevania Netflix's continuity, which definitely can't use Dracula as the villain because he took a major chill pill at the end of the first series. Now I'm kinda curious to see Castlevania Netflix actually adapt Quincey Morris' story, and it's blatantly the novel Dracula but with a few changes here or there to be canon-compliant; In particular, Dracula is replaced with another vampire who is identical in all but name and maybe appearance.

Because wouldn't it be funny if we got Quincey's story for either the game or show continuities of Castlevania, and despite the lore changes, it unironically ended up being a more accurate Dracula adaptation than all of the other actual Dracula adaptations??? I say this because the Castlevania games kinda get the meaning and sentiments of the novel better than the proper adaptations, somehow.

Am I the only one who doesn't like Castlevania Nocturne so far?

I was hyped at first when I saw the teaser trailer but now I'm just very mixed about a lot of stuff. The way they remix the story and characters rubs me the wrong way, like they're making Maria be rude towards Richter by calling him "ungrateful wanker" like how Sypha was rude towards Trevor, and I really don't like that, that's not my Maria! Also, why is Elizabeth Bartley here? Richter never fought her EVER! That was John Morris and Eric Lecarde in Castlevania Bloodlines which takes place MUCH later after Rondo of Blood, why is she here??? I know the show hasn't come out yet but I'm starting to doubt it will be better than the first Netflix show, they got a different director and writter but it still feels like the same show, and I don't like the first show. I'm not sure if I wanna watch it, I will out of curiosity though just to see if its genuinely something I like.