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Just finished Castlevania:Nocturne ( I know I’m behind on the hype but what can you do.) and I liked it, just not as much as OG Castlevania.
This is coming from someone who had never even heard of the games until I watched the series.
I liked Richter, but he did Trevor’s thing but worse. I felt more for Trevor and felt like he was a character that could actually exist. Richter felt a little too Shounen protagonist.
No emotional connection for Maria for me, but I loved Sypha. I feel like they’re pretty similar characters but again, Sypha felt more real.
Loved Annette, maybe a little annoying at times when it came to her lineage, but I see why she is the way she is.
Edouard is absolutely amazing I love him. Wish we had more of him but I am incredibly interested in seeing how a Night Creature can remember how it is to be human. His songs really were the best part of the show.
Olrox needed more screen time. I love our dragon vampire boy who pretended not to care but really did. (Why did he help Belmont &co?)
And we love the anti-church themes throughout. It gives the Church in Gresit vibes. When the bishop was eaten because god wasn’t in his church.
Maybe if the inciting incident was better I’d like it more. I felt a lot for Dracula and understood his cause but feel nothing or Erzebet and her cause.
And of course, my favorite character from the OG series showed up. Alucard.
The eyes of Castlevania: Nocturne 🦇
world's most devastating break up
Now I wanna know
Do you think Mizrak washed his face in a nearby fountain on his way back to the church or did he just go and meet Drolta with another vampire’s ball stank wafting off his beard?
Listen you cannot give me characters that are thematic opposites and not expect me to go absolutely feral over them
The thing about Erzsebet is that she's a very unsubtle colonialism metaphor.
Olrox likens her to the Spaniards who invaded his land and slaughtered his people, She speaks of how she wants to conquer Europe and later the "New World" because she considers it her divine right to do so (The Manifest Destiny ideology that made invaders believe that they were divinely ordained to destroy the native population and settle on their land).
She tells the Night Creatures in episode 8 to silence Edouard's singing. During the French Revolution, music and songs were considered a fundamentally important part of it (him singing the songs he used to sing when he was a human could also symbolise his rebellion against his nature as a Night Creature, beings that were considered nothing but bloodthirsty, mindless monsters that held no memories of their past lives)
Even the great power she possesses is not her own, it was the blood of Sekhmet, an Egyptian goddess, another land she conquered and stole from (Drolta says that she was an Egyptian priestess in life, making me believe that Erzsebet was the one to turn her)
She promises slave-owning vampires that as their Messiah she will return the world to it's "natural order", where the slaves that revolted against them will become their property again.
This directly contradicts what Annette's mentor said. That slavery may seem like this practise that always existed to people like Annette who was born into a family of slaves, and lived the majority of her life in chains and people like Comte de Vaublanc who was likely born into a family of slaveowners, someone who spent his entire life enslaving and abusing people. But ultimately, humans did not come into this world as slaves and slaveowners. Turning slavery into something that is not natural and inevitable but rather a man-made evil that can be defeated.
Idk i noticed those things while watching the show and i saw no one in the tags talking about it so I decided to write down my thoughts.
You know how in Castlevania: Nocturne Olrox get's really fucking annoyed everytime someone calls him "a dragon"? As I see it, is because he gains his powers from Quetzalcoatl, you know, the god who was a feathered serpent
It's up for debate, but dragons are not really a mesoamerican concept. To say that Olrox is a dragon is to make his culture invisible and not acknowledge his aztec origins
(I haven't finished the season, so if any of this is really obvious later, just ignore I posted this hahaha)
The way that Olrox’s heritage and romance completely recontextualized his character. We first meet him when he kills Julia, and that’s bad no matter how you look at it, right? Wrong. Julia is a white European who came to the Americas and killed Olrox’s Mohican lover. Olrox retaliated, which is bad, yes, but how else was he going to get justice? No government would ever try a vampire hunter for the murder of a vampire, and no government would prosecute a white woman for harming a Native American. People like her were committing a state-sanctioned genocide. Even the suggestion of legal justice is ridiculous on its face. Julia’s death was wrong in the sense that violence doesn’t solve violence, in the sense that revenge begets revenge, but that’s it IMO. Olrox didn’t go any further—he didn’t torture her, he didn’t kill her son, AFAIK he didn’t kill anyone else that day. The only time we see him kill another human is in France when he kills a European noblewoman, the exact kind of person who profited most from the violence inflicted on him and his people. What I’m saying is that I’m dead serious when I say Olrox did nothing wrong
If you need more fanfics of Olrox and Mizrak, let me share this diamond with you
Five Suns
MeZaKi93
Summary:
"By lying to myself I lied to you, too... and I hoped my actions spoke louder than my words."
Olrox didn't want to allow himself to love again, but when he did, it gave him new purpose. New reason for his quest to protect his home and his world from a self-proclaimed goddess whom only a god could possibly oppose - even if he thought he was merely imitating one. The darkness was starving the land and it was time for a new Sun to rise.
The first half is set before the end of the season finale, the second part is after. Olrox-centric, inspired by the serpent-form he took in the first episode that is *not* confirmed to be Quetzalcoatl, but might as well be. Hope you enjoy!
Notes:
In Aztec mythology, the world was born when one of the gods sacrificed themselves to be the Sun. The world was destroyed four times and we currently live in the fifth world. I took inspiration from the fact that Olrox's serpent form - I know everybody calls it a dragon, but what if it was something else? - is most likely based on Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent who is a god of light, life and wisdom for the Aztecs. This is an interesting note if it's true and I played with this thought when I wrote this story.
Olrox is the most interesting character in the whole cast of Castlevania Nocturne (at least until we see what Alucard will do in season two).
His understanding of human nature and the fact that he doesn’t want to attack ‘peasants’ but rather prefers ‘drink blue blood’ leaves me alone with the thought that he is hundreds of years ahead of his time. Many people think that us latinoamericanos didn’t have any type of resistance, but trust me when I say, that’s far from the truth; Olrox is the best way of putting it, he understands the thinking of colonialists and also understands the importance of being silent and letting the other speak, he doesn’t show his cards until the counterpart is vulnerable, he does the same that Native American revolutions did back then.
AND I LOVE HIM FOR THAT.
IM SO FUCKING TIRED RN
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IM SO FUCKING TIRED RN
This was supposed to be a sketch lol
(also yeah there is an alt ver)
Im ashamed to say it , but I have gender envy of olrox and Alucard 😞
CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE (2023-) I 1.06 "Guilty Men to Be Judged"
Olrox was so hot and for no reason like......look at the material!
see how you can design poc vampires without making them ashy 💁🏽♀️
"Do you have a god to put a last prayer to, Belmont?" "Let's do this again, somewhere more comfortable."