Especially The Ones That Were Choose Your Own Adventure Books Lol I Love The Art Style In One Of Those - Tumblr Posts

castlevania castlevania games selena belmont castlevania selena castlevania ii castlevania 2 castlevania simon’s quest simon’s quest castlevania ii: simon's quest haunted castle simon belmont akumajou dracula akumajo dracula art post my art I remember seeing someone make a post somewhere about how it was weird that a lot of the cut items from the first Castlevania were things like high heels and a love letter and stuff I wonder if Simon’s wife/girlfriend was supposed to be a character at one point in it and she got cut for some reason idk it’s interesting to me that she’s only ever appeared in like deliberately noncanon content ya know? like Haunted Castle was even called not a Castlevania game by its own lead director the two novels with Simon girlfriends in them were never intended to be canon just fun side stuff especially the ones that were choose your own adventure books lol I love the art style in one of those anyway I’ve been trying to think of ways to write her lately but its so easy to end up accidentally falling into annoying tropes alas 💀💀💀 especially ones the series has already used before oof currently my idea so far is since Simon himself is kinda the chosen one hero guy trope in CV1 and ends up subverting that trope by genuinely failing a ton getting hated by the public and possibly dying at the end maybe Selena might work as initially the damsel in distress and call to action trope and subverts that later???? I also have always thought she ends up the Mysterious Woman somehow hmmmm it’s a hard headcanon to incorporate without just pulling a Dracula X chronicles and oh no she’s a vampire aaaaa but that’s been done 💀 I am also aware that not everything you write has to be 100% completely new and original and perfect but aaaaaaa