Sit down, you're watching a remake of an old episode of How Are We Making This Asshole Tragic and today's subject is Dracula and Lisa's final words.
So the way things play out at the end of SotN is that Dracula asks Alucard for Lisa's final words, and Alucard simply tells him, implying that
1. Dracula does actually have an interest in them despite the implication that
2. He literally never asked, because
3. Alucard would have just TOLD him if he'd ever asked, even though
4. His mother specifically asked him to tell his father, and
5. He did not. ...Until asked. 300 years later.
Like ASSUMING that Alucard holds his mother's final words in high regard you have to assume that he ALSO intended to tell them to Dracula and then never did. Meanwhile Dracula clearly wants to know them and just... doesn't for some reason.
Now it's perfectly in-character for Dracula's crashout to have been near-instant, giving Alucard the opportunity to say actually I kind of don't want to talk to him right now lmao, which is probably the intention [citation needed].
But it does also paint an alternative picture where Dracula wanted to ask but didn't, while Alucard wanted to tell him but didn't, in which case there was SOME kind of obstacle to their doing so. They had to have had the physical opportunity to exchange words, so it's probably more an emotional obstacle than anything.
And I feel like the most likely culprit is that Dracula has difficulty prioritizing in general Alucard being so fucked up about the whole thing that both of them decided separately to put that facet of the conversation off until Alucard was up to it.
Alucard decided to pass the time by grieving. Dracula decided to pass the time by becoming a god and making it everyone else's problem.
There is also the possibility that Dracula simply assumed that Lisa's final words were "Bitch I'm your mother now go kill some humans" or perhaps the slightly more likely "ow please get me down" or "kindly flee before they kill you too my son," or even that Dracula actually DIDN'T want to hear them because he wasn't ready for it, and thus skipped right to the crash-out response.
You kind of have to take old translated scripts as trying to convey narrative ideas rather than actual representations of what literally happened, but doing the latter is just a lot of fun sometimes because HOW DOES DRACULA NOT KNOW ALREADY. WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK. JUST HOW BADLY DID YOU FUCK THIS UP THAT ALUCARD WENT ACTUALLY NO I SHALL SIMPLY NOT FULFILL MY MOTHER'S DYING REQUEST
(whether or not this would actually have convinced him is a completely different conversation, I'm just. The fact that Alucard didn't even try is so much fun to think about.)











