How is Drac' surviving the heat wave (4th this year!) ? Is Lisa holding up as well or her husband is condemned to be her giant cooler ?

Take care of yourself 🙂

While I like them togehter, it's kinda hard to see Games! Alucard be in the same relationship like Trevor n Sypha so the two would be on the Complicated area, but I like the parralelism the two has with Dracula and Lisa, is like history repeats itself in that universe and AoS seems to show she had a positive effect on him, just needs more development.

(Leaving this here for lols, in a post SotN AU I have this Spy x Family dynamic with a young OC Alu meets after waking up. XD)

I really only ship Alucard and Maria because it’s supposedly canon. If it weren’t for that, Alucard would be with absolutely no one in my book.

Don’t worry about talking about Alucard and Maria with me. It’s a touchy subject with others because of how it’s portrayed by some people and those people tend to be awful and bigoted, from what I hear.

The hints are very subtle. Alucard is very respectful to Maria in SOTN, and she ends up falling for him at the end of true ending. In GOS, Alucard subtly mentions that Maria was someone he cared about (which throws Richter off), and he seems more happy/agitated and less cold when talking about her.

Now, I just want to point out, just because I ship them does NOT mean that I ship them when Maria is young. Alucard didn’t even know Maria until she was an adult. You will probably never even see me draw young Maria and Alucard in the same setting.

He was one of the first designs that caught my eye. He just needs a good ol’ mustache. He’s also my favorite Dracula sprite in the pixelated games.

I mostly dislike it and Dracula was really the only reason why I watched it. That said there are a select few things that I do like about it. The first season was okay, and I actually liked the second season but I absolutely despise season 3 and most of 4.

A few things I liked about it:

- The banter between Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard.

- Dracula and Lisa’s relationship.

- Sypha quite literally battling with Dracula’s unruly castle (but I was upset that Dracula didn’t even figure out what was happening, even though he should in theory.)

- Issac’s loyalty to Dracula.

- Seeing Dracula go on rampages.

- The fight with Dracula and how it ended.

- I actually liked Greta as a non-game character.

- I did enjoy seeing Juste and the remark he makes when he first sees Alucard.

A few of things that I didn’t like about the show:

- The entire redesign of most characters despite all of them (except Dracula, Carmilla, and Sypha) having set designs to begin with. I’m not sure if this was a licensing issue or not.

- Alucard’s character was made more to be eye candy for viewers.

- The sex scenes with Alucard and Hector. I found them to be very unnecessary. And this is just my opinion, but I really don’t see Alucard getting too intimate with anyone, even Maria.

- Issac’s entire personality and design being changed.

- Death and St. Germain’s roles and personalities were heavily changed.

- Hector and Lenore’s relationship.

- The entire plot of Castlevania is literally supposed to center around Dracula and his feud with the belmonts, yet very little of that happened in both series.

- Trevor’s personality being that of a total deadbeat looser.

- The absence of Grant Danasty, even though he’s supposed to be one of Trevor’s three companions.

- As much as I loved Dracula and Lisa being brought back, it completely ruins the plot. It also didn’t make sense for them to decide to keep Alucard in the dark about it either.

He actually points this out himself in Grimoire of Souls. In that moment, he actually seems to speak to Alucard as a father, rather than a Dark Lord. The only reason why he keeps coming back is because humanity and Chaos demand it. He has no say in the matter.

He first lost his interest at the ending of Symphony of the Night, when he finally hear’s his wife’s last words from his own son. He was probably disheartened to be defeated solely by him as well. The fact that SOTN was originally intended to be the last game in the franchise also supports this idea.

I like to think that the reason why he didn’t seem to even care by the next time he was reincarnated (Order of Ecclesia) was because he was purely being manipulated by Chaos and the crimson stone (possibly by Walter’s own personality as well,) and had lost nearly all sense of himself by then due to Chaos slowly corrupting his soul.