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So I made a joke about Benedict creating his boar devil for NSFW reasons, and
Bestie @beevean wanted me to post it because apparently I Get Him (Isaac) 😔
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Me on Tumblr: *intricate dissections and analyses of the CV lore and characters, pulling out canon sources to prove that the writing is actually deep and complex and full of symbolism*
Me on Discord:
@the-crow-binary
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It all started when I took a break from my animatic to do a little edit of Isaac with lil fangies...
Then it continued with editing Hector to have a little more fangies... :)
And then one thing led to another....
And that's where we are now. ❤️
Enjoy. ❤️
#should i edit Isaac to have boobs too or would that be too great of a crime#castlevania#curse of darkness#hector castlevania#akumajou dracula#isaac laforeze#crow edit#(guess that's a tag now lol)#hmmmm.... okay i'll do it.#hestia#this tag is for the bestie ;)#also. just for fun.#vlad dracula tepes#hehehehehehehehe
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Man, shall I share my progress again.... hmmm.... yes. Yes I shall.
I am bad at keeping things i am proud of/excited about secret until completion. 😔 I just think what I'm doing is neat. 😔 (anyway. @simonsquest ❤️)
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I am having lots of fun with my animatic this far ❤️ Got to the first "No longer you", with 70 images (redrawing on top of them all once i've got the whole song layed out will be fun, lol) for about 1 minute
Enjoy a little peek of a horrified and very bald Simon :p
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Found a WIP in my phone and @beevean wanted me to post it, so 😔 Have it, I guess. 😔 (the context, if I remember correctly, is Mathias bathed Hector in holy water without his knowledge in order to keep Dracula from touching him again. It succeeded in hurting Dracula pretty badly, and Mathias ended up sent to the lowest cell of the Castle to be tortured. :) This is (part of) the aftermath ❤)
No major torture, but there is a little bit because Isaac is really unhappy.
"Aouch! Let go!"
"Will you stop struggling already!? Or do you want me to put the chains back on!?"
Mathias gritted his teeth at the devil forgemaster's grip on his wrists. His legs were too weak and injured to be of any use in his struggles, moving them even slightlt sent jolts of pain through his hips as well.
He froze, and the general waited a second before letting go of one of his wrists to focus back on the bandage he began to put around Mathias' throat. A fairy was working on healing his arms, it's tingling yet warm magic spreading it's curse inside every wound it could get it's little hands on. It could've been soothing, comparable to the touch of an angel... if he had not the knowledge that the little thing was of a much unholier nature.
Hector never would've done this. He would have healed him by classic, normal means all the way through, like he would have ask him. He would have been gentle and cautious, and certainly wouldn't have made the bandage around his throat so tight he struggled to breath.
"This doesn't please me more than it does you. After what you've done... Consider yourself lucky that Lord Dracula only asked me to heal you. Though he didn't say I had to be nice about it."
A knee pressed on his hip and Mathias let out a pained moan. He had no more wound there, but it was still sensitive to pressure.
"You filthy little rat," he spat with venom, "Unworthy of the title of Lord, undeserving of breathing the same air as us cursed creatures..."
"Are you done yet?" Mathias hissed, impressed with his own ability to keep his voice from wavering, "You made your hate for me pretty clear from the start. I am growing tired of your redundant insults."
"Oh, you poor little thing. I sure hate to be a bother to you, your highness..."
Mathias winced and clenched his lips as a thumb pressed against a fresh wound, slowly making it's way inside the flesh. No, he wasn't going to give that beast the pleasure of hearing him moan again, of seeing the pain decorating his face. He had endured much worse since he had been imprisoned... he knew how to handle it.
"Maybe it will make you think twice before trying to harm my real Lord again."
Mathias scoffed, and oh, how great it felt to see the general frown. With an annoyed click of his tongue, Isaac pulled his thumb out and let his fairy do it's work. The lord hoped his small sigh went unnoticed.
"Playing the brave one now, aren't we?"
"I am not interested in playing your games, that is all."
Now it was Isaac's time to scoff, as he brought his thumb to his lips, his eyes piercing through those of his prey. Mathias' stomach raised to his throat as he watched him lick the blood off his finger.
"You will find soon enough that you don't have a choice, Cronqvist."
#maac#yeah i tag their ship tag because they are being very them :)#castlevania#akumajou dracula#mathias cronqvist#vlad dracula tepes#more or less? at least in mention?#isaac laforeze#crow writes
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Hehehehehehe.... wip. >:)
It's a bit embarrassing to share when it's at such an early stage lol, but i felt the need to tease y'all. Especially you @simonsquest ❤️
#it's gonna take the time it's gonna take....#but it's on it's way. >:)#simon belmont#castlevania#simon's quest#sara trantoul#akumajou dracula#wip#animatic#crow art
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A long time ago, i made a post (that i can no longer find) about this song and how i could imagine it being Sara (as the "mysterious woman") talking to Simon when he was cursed and looking for guidance.
Well, just today, the full official version got released. And it is making my brain work even more. :)
#i am so close to make an animatic you guys have no idea#i want to do one so bad#i want to do a lot of them actually#akumajou dracula#simon belmont#castlevania#simon's quest#sara trantoul
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<3
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Dracula is a cruel, merciless ruler, and won't accepted being questioned over his war even by his most respected general.
@woodchipp @the-crow-binary
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"There is more proof of Dracula being a nicer person in the games before Lisa's death"
Where? No really, where?
Because he kind of adopted a bunch of orphans? Yeah sure, on the pact that they'd swear alliegence to him and learn a cursed magic, essentially just using them as yet another tool to tell God to get bent
Because we don't see him bathing in the blood of innocents like we see N!Dracula do in that one flashback? Just because we don't see it doesn't mean that we can't infer a similar behavior by virtue of him being a vampire who needs human blood to live. The dude ruined the life of his best friend by having him kill his own girlfriend just to further his own plan and felt no remorse about it, even kind of gloated about it. Do you really think he'd be above doing the kind of crap N!Dracula used to do? He was already calling himself the King of the Night and was welcoming demons of various kinds into his castle, including a succubus who, like you mentioned in another post,was about to get down and dirty with one of his supposed proteges who was 15 years of age
And while you are technically right about the issues between him and Lisa I'd argue that the biggest issue is the lack of actual scenes detailing the relationship. I'm pretty sure the implication is not that Lisa is scared of her husband, but rather that she knows what he used to be and fears he will slip back once hit with such a massive blow. Had the show given us actual chemistry between the two it could've been nice, rather than making it look like Lisa just saw Dracula as some sort of patient to cure rather than a person to love, since, as it stands, the only thing the two seemed to have bonded over was their mutual love for science which, when coupled with Lisa's lack of care for Dracula's actions in the ending, makes her look like a borderline psychopath who cares more about knowledge than people even though the very reason she sought Dracula's knowledge in the first place was to help those in need
And I cannot in good faith criticize the show for going the whole "bad boy/good girl" route because, like it or not, it's one of the few instances of the show being relatively faithful to the games, where Lisa wasn't even a character, just the archetypical angelical woman who's basically a saint and almost managed to rescue Dracula's soul were it not for her death. The main issue there is that we never actually truly see Lisa, so her thought processes about Dracula are unknown to us, but no matter what we cannot avoid the implications that she knew her husband was a monster, it's practically impossible for her to not have known. Hell, the fact that she had to tell Alucard not to harm humans in and of itself implies that she feared the possibility that he might do so in a fit of rage due to his half-vampire nature. Now where do you suppose that fear might stem from?
For all intents and purposes the show's depiction of the relationship should've been better as Lisa was given some actual screentime, it's just that the show's shoddy writing turned that positive into a negative, but some of the fundemental issues that you mention are baked into the very idea that was already present in the games, they were just far less visible due to said lack of screentime
My bad, I meant to say "nicer" than N!Dracula. I know he's still a dick :P
The issue is pretty much what you said. We sadly have very few details of Dracula and Lisa before she was killed. What we do know paint him in a generally gray light - most obviously the idea that he sheltered rejected humans for the sake of teaching them dark arts, a sort of "selfish kindness" if you will. The show had the chance to give us more to really convince us of the idea that Dracula had good in him, especially since the entire angle chosen for him was "tragic complex villain you can't really blame". And they made things even worse.
We don't know if Dracula went on violent killing sprees for trivial reasons. Maybe he did, or maybe he didn't and found other ways to feed (the games, admittedly, gloss over the very concept of vampires needing humans to feed on). We know that N!Dracula did, and even better we learn this in a scene where we're supposed to feel sorry for his depression: that is the thing I take issue with.
(btw, in that scene N!Dracula didn't kill people for the sole purpose of eating, which would be understandable for a vampire. He took great pleasure in dismembering some merchants for "disrespecting" him. It was a show of power. Again, we don't know if Dracula did the same power flexes, but the implication is that he stayed in his own castle 24/7 and he was merely a legend. IGA confirmed that before Lisa's death, Dracula had no issue with mankind in general, only with God, and he lived a peaceful life: N!Dracula was already a misanthrope before he met N!Lisa.)
We don't see the details of Dracula being a kind, loving family man to Lisa and Alucard. The only line we can go with is the arguably-canon Grimoire of Souls where Alucard says that Dracula regained his humanity with Lisa. Same goes with the show because god forbid a flashback gets in the way of N!Alucard being a dick, but N!Lisa's behavior really suggests the worst. Maybe he didn't beat her or yell at her, but I still think that kind of fear should be unwarranted: N!Lisa has been with N!Dracula for nearly 20 years, she made him travel all by himself, she trusted him with a son, but she thinks (and correctly guesses) that one blow would make him regress to the savage impaling beast he used to be? Why did you stay with him, then?
As for Lisa's final words, I don't read them as clear-cut as it is in the show:
ENG: "Do not hate humans. If you cannot live with them, then at least do them no harm. For theirs is already a hard lot."
JP: Do not blame humans. She said that those unable to forgive mankind will walk the path of their own destruction. Those who do not belong to that world shouldn't do anything...
They're very different, even if the core message is the same. In the English version, yes it can be read as Lisa fearing that Alucard might harm people, but she is mainly urging him to find forgiveness and compassion in his heart (yes it's very Jesus of her, I know). In the Japanese version, that's where she acknowledges that her son isn't fully human, but notice that what she's concerned about is not that they'll kill, but that they'll destroy themselves.
But fair enough about Draculisa fitting the archetype in general. Undeniably the series has an issue with the portrayal of women :P I think that what mitigates it is, again, precisely the lack of details, which makes us come up with our own interpretations on what happened between the two.
I could have explained myself better, but I see a difference between "bad boy/good girl" on its own, which can be cliché but inoffensive, and the idea that a good girl's job is to actively try to fix a bad (read: toxic) boy, like the responsibility is only on her shoulders. We don't know if Lisa saw Dracula as a beast to be tamed: maybe she did, or maybe she simply saw his best traits. We know N!Lisa offered herself to teach N!Dracula "some manners". It's explicit that she wanted to fix him, and clearly she didn't do a very good job at it.
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Lisa the Impaler 😏
Ah, I see what you did there, smart stranger. 😏
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Hector: You can't intimidate me. I have seen horrors your mind cannot fathom. I have witnessed them in their rawest, most naked form. I have been possessed by them, embraced by them, I am loved and accepted by them as one of their own. Nothing can get to me anymore.
Dracula: Hi, I'm the horrors.
#i dedicate this one to the besties. <3#just a silly little thing haha#castlevania#vlad dracula tepes#curse of darkness#akumajou dracula#hector castlevania#hecula
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Me: Sorry I don't speak much, I have a lot on my mind.
The lot on my mind:
#i will never get over their differences i am sorry#Mathias' skin is so smooth while Dracula's is so. old. lolllll#anyway the them get me crying#i feel undescribable feelings towards the them#they are so them and also him.#mathias babygirl look how low you have fallen....#and how tall you became 😏#castlevania#vlad dracula tepes#mathias cronqvist#akumajou dracula
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"I trust you that you will be able to take down the Belmont."
"I'm capable, my Lord."
Which didn't mean Hector had any intention of doing so. The path he had traced on his maps should take him in the opposite direction, to give the hunter a wide berth.
Not cowardice. Will to live.
It is but a feeble voice, crushed by the weight of the guilt that paralyzes him on the spot, kneeling right at his Lord's feet.
Hector dares not lift his head, for he knows that his brittle resolve to save himself would shatter at the sight of the man who gave him shelter and warmth.
He used me. I refuse to be his tool! I deserve better than that!
And it was Lord Dracula himself who taught him his own worth, so Hector was only being a good student.
Moved by a spark ignited in his chest, Hector clasped his Lord's hand like many times before, and planted a long kiss on that cold skin, until the chill seeped in his lips.
The kiss of Judah.
"Oh, Hector," and he didn't need to look at the vampire: his smile, the smile that had him ensared for years, was audible. "You will never change."
"Forgive me, my Lord," Hector replied, and stood up, gaze fixated on his own bloody hands, "but I believe I did already. I can only thank you for the man I have become."
To Lord Dracula, he owes his most sincere gratitude, for raising him to become the kind of man that can decide for himself to seek life.
#ah :)#well isn't that nice. :)#hehe Dracula is so naive <3#love that Hector tries to convince himself that he isn't a coward lol#him realizing he deserves better like yes kiiiiiiiiiing go off!! <3#i did not expect to see a mention of the kiss of judah#bestie's brain. it's just too big. <3#i love some good christianity symbolism in my Castlevania. <3#and a good use of the centric religion of the games <3#better than the show that cannot be named because it isn't worth the comparison#call bestie Hector the way she deserves better <3#anyway. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#Hector choosing life and Dracula having no idea he's never going to see his favorite boy ever again................. in this life :)#oh the drama. oh the tragedy. <3
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Super ultra prompt that will earn you all the prompts you want: my old idea of Hector being offered a chance to live by three people. Him kneeling in front of Dracula and clutching his hand in tears, Rosaly holding his hand while he's bedridden, and Julia dragging him by the wrist to her own home, while he's wounded but smiling.
Hehe. I finally did it. :3 look at how small Hector's hands are compared to Dracula's, I'm sobbing
#the prompts are MINE#ALL MINE.#MWEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE#hope you like it bestie ❤️#castlevania#curse of darkness#akumajou dracula#hecula#hectaly#vlad dracula tepes#hector castlevania#rosaly castlevania#julia laforeze
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Just as a reminder, Dracula can do this Soul Steal move, where he simply grabs his opponent and absorb their energy. It's fast, easy, keeps his enemy at a respectable distance, and it shows that he's no mere vampire, but a Dark Lord with terrifying powers - look how quickly he drains poor Shanoa here.
And yet. :)
(the amount of life he drains with a bite is not even that much, definitely not enough to one hit kill from full health. It's as if Dracula deliberately restrains himself. Is Hector's blood that delicious, that he'd rather savor it slowly? :) )
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