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What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse…

☀️The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night☀️21, any pronouns. Trying to be an artist. Currently trying to use RPG Maker. Commissions not open. Please read my intro post, it’s more comprehensive :3.

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I Cannot Explain How Often I Think About This Part Of The Simons Quest Story. Ough I Wanna Try To Explain

I Cannot Explain How Often I Think About This Part Of The Simons Quest Story. Ough I Wanna Try To Explain

I cannot explain how often I think about this part of the Simon’s Quest story. Ough I wanna try to explain every tiny line of this in detail, but I can’t think of words rn aaa, so I’m gonna dump random disjointed thoughts in the tags for now.

https://href.li/?http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv1/documents/CV1J.txt

https://href.li/?http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv2/documents/CV2J.txt

I’m putting the links to the English translations of the first two games’ Japanese manuals because their stories are so much cooler than what the western releases got. The second I get everything I can or have thought about this guy together I’m doing in depth story and character analysis for some silly whip man NES games tho—

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castlevania castlevania games text post simon belmont oahsjfkwuwhflshdjdka I can’t words rn and I’m so frustrated about it like I had multiple points I was gonna make but I just can’t put them down at all for no reason I should rant about how they mention decay in this one tho— decay is not fun and would be very horrifying to experience while alive fun fact! Simon is not doing so great— the American manual describes is as more of a soul effecting curse but like slowly rotting alive is so much more horrifying i imagine that was probably not mentioned in the American release for the same reason why they censored blood in some games tho lol also the ominous last line in this screenshot that’s given a little bit more sad implications when the mysterious woman tells him something about courage afterwards the ‘please remember bitter memories in Transylvania’ at the end of the whole thing implying that 7 year gap may have been him just avoiding fixing the curse because of the trauma of what happened there that also implying he was initially gonna give up and die without actually doing anything about this it’s so interesting that the few insights into Simon as a character that we get are like he highly doubts that he’ll be as good as his ancestors and then he gets cursed and his first response is to give up and slowly let it kill him like WOW those are some important character details for sure it’s so hard to talk about him without immediately being like ‘oh no poor guy’ theory posting kinda not like whole theory but a small piece of speculation material lol
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1 year ago

Ok weird opinion of mine I guess idk how to start posts aaaa

I think Simon’s “barbarian” design really works story and character wise.

Yeah, it’s silly and absolutely not historically accurate whatsoever, but it kinda makes sense in a certain weird way.

We know from Lament of Innocence and Dracula’s Curse that the Belmont family is generally on rough terms with the public. Leon gets his title taken away and, even though he gets his sword back at the end of the whole Walter situation as confirmed by how Belmonts onward have that sword, he’s still generally kinda shunned for going against the church’s wishes and the tail end of the crusades happening at the time. And Trevor is straight up banished from the country for fear of his strength. He’s much isolated from other people off in the house in the woods until he’s called to help fight against Dracula and gets some friends on the way.

And this kinda sets up the situation that the family was living in during Christopher’s time. The Belmonts are social outcasts; their existence is acknowledged, but they’re not really associated with or thought of very highly at this point. So, it wouldn’t be unlikely that they just wouldn’t really care for or be caught up with social expectations like fashion. When people are going to be wary of you regardless of what you do, why not dress however you want? Especially if you know no one’s going to do anything about it! Especially if it’s practical; the longer, looser sleeves and pant legs of the time would be restrictive in a combat/acrobatic context. So Christopher probably just wore whatever he wanted, and to be fair he doesn’t really seem to interact with anyone besides family very much.

First I wanna mention that I am completely aware that Simon was designed way before any of these other characters. But these characters are chronologically before him and can explain where he gets these design choices from in universe.

So, what about Simon then? Well, Simon has a lot of themes of wanting to be like his ancestors. Christopher is directly mentioned as someone he wonders he’ll ever compare to. Judgment shows him looking up to Trevor as well, and even though that game is of interesting canon status lol, it’s an example of that character element being used again. And this is reflected in his barbarian designs! The cape he wears in the manual drawings resembles the cape Trevor throws off in the opening of CV3. The general light armor and skimpy clothing is reflective of both some of Christopher and Trevor’s designs. The metal armor in Simon’s Quest being reminiscent in shape to Trevor’s on the CV3 box art. It just makes sense that Simon would be trying his damnedest to emulate the guys he’s been looking up and comparing himself to his whole life.

And the sudden transition from the barbarian look the family had for years to the more with the times fashion that Juste has makes a lot of sense considering Juste grew up in a time when the family was highly respected and in the middle of town, somewhere where keeping social expectations and appearances would be expected of him.

Idk if any of this makes sense, but aaaaaa random stream of an idea I guess. I like Simon getting to being weird and out of place for his time period and country lol. Also I’m not saying that other designs are bad!!! I like all of Simon’s game designs tbh, Ayami’s is really cool too and works for some of these points cause it’s also kinda barbarian esque but just in black and red, I’ve cosplayed it before lol. Yeah idk that’s it and I am sleepy goodnight—


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1 year ago
I Have A Castlevania OC >:3c. He And His Story Are Still Very Work In Progress Stuff, But Hes Got Some
I Have A Castlevania OC >:3c. He And His Story Are Still Very Work In Progress Stuff, But Hes Got Some

I have a Castlevania OC >:3c. He and his story are still very work in progress stuff, but he’s got some rough concept doodles! And when I say rough I mean ROUGH cause one of his arms I erased so many times some of the layers of the paper were tearing so I had to just leave it as is and it looks a little short whoops— but yeah

His name is William “Billy” Danasty :3. I think I’m gonna have his story be set sometime around the height of the Satanic Panic with music and stuff, he’s kinda a bit of a metalhead. He seems all tough and scary, carries a switchblade at all times, and keeps everyone at a distance, but it’s not because he’s mean, he’s just afraid of people. He does make some friends eventually, but I don’t have drawings of them yet. I need to make a nice full color concept page for him someday hehehe.

Also, NES Castlevania style sprites are fun to make!!! :D


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