#castlevania request

Request: "Hi! if it’s not to much, can you do an Alucard x fem! reader who tends to ball up her emotions? whenever she’s sad or frustrated she just keeps it all in. and then Alucard decides to ask her what's wrong and that’s her breaking point. idk if this makes sense but I hope it does! <3"

A/N: my apologies that this took me so long, things have been a bit hectic lately! I also made this gender neutral, I hope you don't mind.

(Y/N) had never been the most vocal when it came to expressing emotions and yet in the past weeks, Adrian had felt his partner drifting further and further from him. It had all begun with the shifting of the villagers into their newly established Țepeș-Belmont estate. Adrian had left (Y/N) behind to protect the knowledge stored in the vaults below the castle while he travelled to help the nearby village. When he returned, he did so with at least fifty villagers in tow.

Initially (Y/N) had seemed excited by the prospect of new people but this excitement had soon diminished. A sulky and stormy gloom had taken over (Y/N's) once sweet and beaming smile whenever Adrian spoke to them about matters pertaining to the villagers perhaps permanent residency. It had taken Adrian aback, (Y/N) were not one to turn away from helping those in need so to see them in such a state was unusual.

Naturally, Adrian decided the most logical decision was to simply ask (Y/N) what was wrong. So, on a warm afternoon not long into the stay of the villagers, Adrian plucked up the courage to lead (Y/N) away into the privacy of the castle. They had followed silently as he led them by the hand to his office and upon reaching the premise, had simply cocked an eyebrow at the dhampir. Adrian cleared his throat, "What's wrong? Ever since I came back with the villagers you’ve been distant."

(Y/N's) nostrils flared and they sharply inhaled as they rolled their shoulders back. "What's wrong? What's wrong! What do you think is wrong Adrian?" (Y/N) snapped fiercely at their partner. Adrian stepped back slightly, shocked by (Y/N's) sudden outburst. "This place was supposed to be our home, but you brought a bunch of strangers into without consulting me! It's not even the fact that you brought them here but that the two of you have excluded me from any decision made. Not to mention ever since you came back from the village you've spent all your time with that godforsaken woman! The only time I see you is when we go to bed!" (Y/N) angrily snarked. The flood gates had burst, and they would not be closed anytime soon.

Adrian opened his mouth to calmly retort before trailing off to think about what they had said. In this time a few stray tears of frustration had begun to trek down his love’s cheeks. "You're right. We decided to make this place our home; a center of knowledge from which we could teach the masses in Wallachia the knowledge of science. Instead, I invited the village to stay here, and Greta and I have made all of the decisions" Adrian conceded, "I know you've grown to care about the villagers, especially the children, and this is your home as much as mine. You have just as much right to make decisions about them staying here too. I do wish you had told me this sooner though, instead of bottling it all up" Adrian carefully stroked the tears away from their eyes before cupping their cheek in a comforting gesture. "And you don't have to be jealous of Greta. She's simply in charge in the village which is why I have spent so much time with her recently " Adrian assured, "after all we've been through together, you're the only one for me."

A/N: here you go @stay-hydrated-pls-ty I hope you enjoy it

Adrian watched as his wife's remains smoldered away, wood and bone turning to ash and splinters. While his father was away travelling, he had been left in charge of the castle. Foolishly he had agreed to her living in Targoviste with his mother, learning the science to become a doctor too. This had proved a tragic mistake; he could have taught his wife the science that his mother knew. Perhaps not quite as good but decently. The rest could have been learned from his father later when he returned. His wife had argued that it would be more practical to learn on the job, shadowing his mother would provide extra experience.

This had been fine until the medicine women had been put out of business by the two Ţepeş women. From then on, she had run to the church claiming that the two were witches who had consorted with Satan to bring death and destruction upon the world. The bishop had declared the two were to be investigated for your crimes and then burned at the stake as all witches were. After bidding goodbye to the last patient, the two of had seen, the church had forced past Lisa and into the back room where Alucard's wife was reading about medicine. The monks had smashed everything, lit the house on fire, and forced the two women out to the church to face punishment for their crimes of 'witchcraft.'

Lisa and his wife had begged for mercy, citing that what they were practicing was simply science lost to time and not witchcraft. Yet their pleas had fallen upon deaf ears. Each had been tied up on a pre-made pyre as the bishop sentenced them to death, condemning them to hell with all of Satan's other creatures and minions. A crowd of the very people that they had helped gathered and began to shout curses at the women, damning them for eternity. Then it had begun.

Lisa had cried out for her husband to be merciful to the village folk while Adrian's wife had simply sobbed as the flames licked closer at her. Sobs soon turned into screams of agony as the women slowly burned to death, their husbands oblivious to their fate. Adrian had been informed of his wife’s death by his father who had returned to the castle in a bitter and uncontrolled rage. Sadness swallowed the young dhampir as he thought of the horrid fate that the two of you had suffered and he rushed to the church.

A/N: sorry this took so long

Several days after night creatures had been spotted outside of Gresit, Y/N, Adrian's partner, had gone missing. Adrian had a propensity to sleep for several days at a time in a bid to recover as much strength as possible. Sleeping also helped him to ignore the reality that his father was intent on snuffing out humanity. However, when he had awoken from his slumber Adrian had expected to see her.

The two had agreed that Y/N was not to go above ground without him. Adrian feared that something would happen to you if he was not there to protect her. He had not been there for his mother, even though he knew the danger of the church, and then she had been burned at the stake. But, against his advice, she had ventured out into the city. Adrian had frantically turned the city upside down and questioned the remaining living citizens of Gresit to no avail. Nobody had seen her and a night hoard had ripped through the city the day previous. It was unlikely, they said, that he would ever find her.

It was only days later that Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades entered Adrian's abode. After a confrontation between the three, they had joined forces to defeat Dracula and dismantle his reign of terror across Wallachia. Before the trio moved on, Adrian requested that they help him search the surrounding areas for the next few days to make sure that his partner was not hiding out waiting for him to come and find them.

The three had torn up the surrounding countryside the following day looking for her and yet had found nothing. Adrian felt absolutely sick with worry but tried not to let it show to the other two. He knew Belmont's sarcastic quips and darker attitude towards death. Sypha felt for him but given the dhampir's distant nature she kept her sympathies to herself.

As they were on their way back to Gresit they came to a small clearing in front of cave. The surrounding area looked as though it had been cleared. The three shared a look of suspicion before carefully advancing. However, before they could go much further Trevor let out a yelp and was tugged straight up in the air. The two spied him dangling from the tree, a rope tightly around one of his legs. Sypha began to laugh before she was tackled to the ground. Sypha was flipped over with her back to the assailants chest as they held a knife to her throat.

Request description: Trevor and Sypha come back from their journey to the castle and invite Alucard into their relationship, but he has moved on. Alucard is not interested in picking up where they left off, especially now that he was found somebody who loves and respects him.

A/N: I use the names Alucard and Adrian interchangeably throughout this fic

Loneliness, that was all Alucard had felt for months after Sypha and Trevor had abandoned him to continue on their own journey together. It had been obvious since he had first met the duo that there had been an attraction between them. Adrian had tried to warn Sypha to stay away from the man, sensing a reckless darkness in him, and yet she had not listened. The two had strayed closer and closer together while Adrian had watched from the side-line, a lonely man clouded by grief that went ignored by his newfound friends.

There were moments when the duo lavished him in attention, but they were few and far between. A snide remark or joke from Trevor, a comforting smile and squeeze on the shoulder from Sypha. Not to mention the obvious sexual tension that hung in the air during these interactions…and yet they had turned away from him. Leaving him to stew in his grief and madness the two had gone off to travel Wallachia.

During this time Alucard had been left to his own thoughts; grief about his mother’s untimely death, anger at his father for unleashing hoards upon the earth and almost killing his own son, and then more grief over being the one to end his own father’s life. The darkness had become an all-consuming pit inside of him and every day he fell deeper and deeper into it. The first glint of hope for companionship was when Sumi and Taka had appeared at the castle seeking aide. However, their betrayal had further shattered Adrian.

It was not until Greta had entered his life that Adrian felt that the pieces of his life were coming back together. Greta did not try to force him to open up to her nor did she expect anything from him the way that the preceding duos had. Instead, Greta had wormed her way into his heart, bantering with him and revealing her thoughts, emotions, and secrets when the time called for it. Inbetween leading and fortifying the village the two had become romantically involved, often stealing sweet moments away in the woods away from prying eyes.

Adrian had also made friends among the villagers, especially with the village orphans who were desperate for his attention. They had begun to look at him like a father and Adrian could not help but feel touched by that. He took pleasure in making them giggle, telling them stories, and patching up their wounds when they hurt themselves. Finally, the dhampir had begun to find his place in the world once again.

However, when Trevor and Sypha turned up back at the castle and tried to pick up where they had left off it had unsettled Adrian. He had greeted them curtly but had remained distant ever since, reluctant to become get too close again. Adrian's feelings did not change even when they approached him one night in his office inviting him into their relationship.

Once upon a time he would have been open to the idea but after they had abandoned Adrian and then barged their way back into his life expecting the world from him, he could not accept the offer. The damage ran far too deep by then. Greta and the other villagers had helped him to see that he deserved better, that he deserved to be loved. Adrian was not a toy that could be played with and discarded whenever one was bored.

So, deciding that this needed to be snuffed out here and now, Adrian had made his feelings to the Sypha and Trevor truly clear. He did not want to hurt them, even after everything they had put him through, and he did not resent them. Simply put Alucard wanted to create some boundaries for the two so that he would not have his heart stepped all over again.

Request by @f4irycafe: "Alucard (junior) is comforting the reader because she gets very anxious when she gets overwhelmed and helps her rationally think through things and/or help her calm down!"

Adrian sighed a breath of relief. After a long day of doing mental gymnastics trying to understand and taken in everything his professors had said, Adrian was finally home. What he hadn't expected was to be greeted by the loud gasping sobs of his partner. "(Y/N)" Adrian called out tentatively. Adrian heard a few sharp inhales from the sitting room next door. He was quick to make his way into the room where he found (Y/N) sitting on the floor in front of the coffee table. Stacked neatly on top was a laptop and a large pile of study notes. (Y/N) had their face in their hands as they dug their nails into their skin. Adrian knelt next to his love and gently pulled away their hands from harming their face any further.

"Hey hey, deep breaths. Copy my breaths" he soothed, taking deep breaths to model for his partner. After several minutes of deep breathing (Y/N) had begun to calm down. "What's wrong?" he tenderly queried as he stroked their cheek where their nails had dug in. "My test. I can't do it. There's too much to learn" (Y/N) burst back into tears. "I know it looks like a lot but you can do it. When's the test?" he encouraged. "In three days" (Y/N) miserably muttered. "Three days, okay. Here's how we'll do it. We'll break up the content into different three sections and then under that all the relevant subsections you need to know. If we do that now then you'll know exactly what you have to do for that day and, if we make a checklist to go with it, then you'll feel better when you're able to check it off" Adrian directed, "There's a couple of ways you can study. Simply studying until you need a break or doing 7 minute cycles; study, break, study, break etc., until you get everything you want done. How does that sound?"

"It sounds a lot more achievable when you put it like that" (Y/N) confessed, "I feel silly now for getting so worked up." Adrian shook his head in disagreement, "Don't ever feel silly about your feelings. You've had a lot on your plate, it's easy to get overwhelm when you have so much going on. Especially with university/college work." (Y/N) leant forward and kissed Adrian gently, "thank you. I couldn't ask for anybody better or more understanding than you." Adrian brushed off the compliment, "There's no need to be thankful, it's what any good boyfriend should do." (Y/N) snorted in amusement, "you don't always have to be so modest." "Time and place" he teased. (Y/N) laughed but then became serious for a moment, "but seriously, thank you. You always know what to say." He smiled softly, "you’re always welcome. Now why don't we get on to making that checklist."

Adrian tepes wants to find his girlfriend after teaming up with sypha and trevor. Days into their searching adrian finally finds y/n who jumps into his arms. 🤗

thank u sweets 🤍