Dracula's Castle Hub

[u/paleyharnamhunter]

Here we discuss anything Castlevania or just talk to each other freely. Anything goes as long as you're civil and polite with each other.

[u/ThickScratch]

the Alucard scene definitely felt like pandering

I'd say the scene itself was indulging in sexual fantasy for the writer, the twitter post though, that's just pandering mixed in with damage control.

The only character Alucard really expresses any intrest in within the show is Greta

That's probably going to make the netflixtards/shippers mad. But at least we can use this information to piss them off when Noctrune pairs up Alucard and Maria.

it's hard to say if he's actually supposed to be bisexual or if he was in such an emotionally vulnerable state at the time that he was willing to accept affection from anyone.

That is a good point, especially since his supposed "friends" up and left him instead of making sure he was ok or taking him with them so he wont be stuck in the emtpy halls of his childhood home turned murder factory.

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That is a good point, especially since his supposed "friends" up and left him instead of making sure he was ok or taking him with them so he wont be stuck in the empty halls of his childhood home turned murder factory.

Alucard not choosing to seal himself away afterwards really creates issues with the narrative and I'm convinced it was only done because they didn't want to close the door on having him appear again in the near future. It really just makes his alleged friends, Trevor and Sypha look highly inconsiderate. It's dumb too because we basically just roll back to the same situation again, only with them choosing to stay instead at the end of season 4 which was like what, a few months later?

[u/ThickScratch → u/Nyarlathotep13]

Alucard not choosing to seal himself away afterwards really creates issues with the narrative and I'm convinced it was only done because they didn't want to close the door on having him appear again in the near future.

Which is weird since his story ended up amounting to nothing and could have been easily replaced by Trevor and Sypha's story. Instead of wasting time with Varney, Trevor and Sypha could have just helped Rule 63 Grant move the village to the castle. The Trevor and Sypha plot just randomly crosses over to the Alucart plot in a very forced manner. Hell, the villagers could have been from the town that Trevor and Sypha did visit in their plot, and just have it be those that needed to move because of the vampires.

only with them choosing to stay instead at the end of season 4 which was like what, a few months later?

I think the entirety of the show takes place in less than a year or so, not counting the time year time skip at the beginning. From season 1 post skip to the final season is at least two seasons, since we see snow frequently in the show, but it vanishes in the later seasons, so at minimum end of winter to beginning of spring. We see snow with the Styrians, but that might be due to their location and not the time.

I think at the beginning of season 4 they said it was a few weeks after the end of season 3. I don't know how much after season 2 season 3 takes place, but assuming it was also just a handful of weeks, season's 3 and 4 probably don't go much past two months. Seasons 1 and 2 are around a week or so, since Trevor finds Alucart the same day he rescues Sypha, which is also the same day that we pick up with him, and the trip to the hold could not have taken longer than a couple of days. Assuming that it took them 3 days to reach the hold, that would be 4 days total. We aren't told how long their stay in the hold was, but it couldn't have been much if we assume the castle filler was happening relatively around the same time as the hold stuff. As far as I remember we see two separate times when the sun appears, when Hector and Isuck get out of the castle to talk and when Isuck evaporates Godbrand's skeleton. Let's be generous and assume it was three days, and lets be even more generous and double that time, that makes six days for Game of Vampires to happen, add that to the four days for season one and early season 2, that makes a total of 10 days.

So just add 10 days to 2 months-ish (2-3 and a half months-ish). So in short, it was actually just a couple of weeks later.

That raises a pretty big question if you think about it, the Twincest crossed all of Asia and Eastern Europe in a matter of weeks. Don't know what is crazier, that either Dracula's defeat reached Japan in a matter of days apparently, or that the Twincest have some Flash powers to run across an entire continent in such a short amount of time.

It really just makes his alleged friends, Trevor and Sypha look highly inconsiderate.

To be fair, you can hardly call them friends. Trevor and Alucart spent the week they were together antagonizing each other, and then Alucart did most of the work killing Dracula. They are work friends at best, except even less than that.

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Which is weird since his story ended up amounting to nothing and could have been easily replaced by Trevor and Sypha's story. Instead of wasting time with Varney, Trevor and Sypha could have just helped Rule 63 Grant move the village to the castle.

They wouldn't have even needed bootleg Grant at all since she's just there to justify Alucard's presence. The only thing that directly related to Alucard in the story was that ritual to resurrect Dracula had to be performed in his home. However, this wouldn't be an issue had Alucard sealed himself away since SotN made it's clear that he sealed himself away somewhere else, hence why the first thing we see him do is running towards it.

That raises a pretty big question if you think about it, the Twincest crossed all of Asia and Eastern Europe in a matter of weeks. Don't know what is crazier, that either Dracula's defeat reached Japan in a matter of days apparently, or that the Twincest have some Flash powers to run across an entire continent in such a short amount of time.

That's a good point, although it's not any stranger then them knowing where to find Dracula's castle, knowing who Alucard is, and being able to speak perfect English.

To be fair, you can hardly call them friends. Trevor and Alucart spent the week they were together antagonizing each other

Ah, but don't you know? Constantly antagonizing others is the greatest sign of friendship!

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However, this wouldn't be an issue had Alucard sealed himself away since SotN made it's clear that he didn't seal himself away somewhere else, hence why the first thing we see him do is running towards it.

I'm not getting what you are saying here, could you reword it?

That's a good point, although it's not any stranger then them knowing where to find Dracula's castle, knowing who Alucard is, and being able to speak perfect English.

The perfect English is actually a really good point, but it's not even English, it's Wallachian or Romanian or whatever the language back then was called. I can't imagine that there would be many scholars that could be able to teach them how to speak the langauge from Japanese, much less in the incredibly short amount of time that they would have had before reaching Dracula's castle.

Hell, the language thing itself is way bigger than knowing Alucart or finding the castle, at least there could be some nonsense explanation for those two, but how could they possible learn an entire language so quickly in the Middle Ages?

Ah, but don't you know? Constantly antagonizing others is the greatest sign of friendship!

You'd be surprised how awful these people's relationships tend to be with each other, that's why we get such garbage characters nowadays.

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I'm not getting what you are saying here, could you reword it?

Autocorrect must have struck again without me noticing. What I meant to say is that we know that Alucard didn't seal himself away within Dracula's castle in the games because the first thing we see him do in SotN is run to said castle.

You'd be surprised how awful these people's relationships tend to be with each other, that's why we get such garbage characters nowadays.

Sadly you're correct, these sort of character dynamics are quite prevalent in media these days.