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I think a lot about how Christopher went and fought Dracula all alone and things went wrong, but the whole Soleil situation was swept under the rug so when Simon was looking up to Christopher a lot he only saw him as “cool hero man who did everything by himself, you should be like him” and went off into Castlevania all alone and what do you know things went wrong, but somehow the whole quest to break the curse story got told wrong somehow, so Maxim thought the Dracula revival was on purpose and only saw Simon as “cool hero man who did everything by himself, you should be like him” and went off into Castlevania all alone and things went wrong, but somehow the whole ghost castle situation must not have been told about, so when Richter looked up to Maxim and Juste and everyone before them he only saw them as “cool hero man who did everything by himself, you should be like him” and went in Castlevania alone and even though he had Maria to help him he already had this idea of what high expectations he had on him to be like everyone before him and things went wrong—

The Professor Layton games are very funny on many levels but I think the funniest part how they've set up this quaint world full of whimsical characters and then every game we get some more genuinely dark and tragic backstory for our mild-mannered main character.

Like, oh haha, this bland looking dude has a kid sidekick and lives in a world of Scooby-Doo logic. He's also a master swordsman who has lost half the people he's ever cared about in a number of deeply traumatic circumstances.