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Richter & Annette!!

"But we're not children anymore."

They’d only known each other for like seven hours and he was so in awe of her

I practically devoured the second season of Castlevania: Nocturne, such was my desire to see this continuation of Richter's story.

This year-plus wait was worth it, I was compensated with a season infinitely superior to the first in every aspect, but one of the points that definitely caught my attention the most was the development of Richter and Annette's relationship and the meaning of this relationship for both characters.

I love first of all how the approach of these two is totally different from that of Trevor and Sypha since these two were already slightly older than the couple in Nocturne, adults, basically. It's a bit of a cliché, but I love how Richter and Annette had almost or completely no previous romantic interaction given their difficult lives. I love seeing them blush at simple hand-holding or silly dialogues of the two laughing while hunting for food.

Loneliness and the loss of her mother separate Maria from Richter, but that same shared pain unites the young Belmont with Annette.

It is, however, interesting to also assimilate how these moments work the sense of one wanting to protect the other. It's lovely to see Annette protecting Richter from Alucard...

Annette and Richter + hands

bonus!