Post by draculaura on Feb 25, 2023 1:23:30 GMT -5
I feel a bit presumptuous making an entire thread for my own stuff, but since this series has gotten so long and has been pretty well received over in the Vampire Hunters' Union, I figured I might as well share it here.
This is an AU in which Castlevania's ~chaotic energy~ caused Richter to become a vampire after his time spent there in Symphony. In order to protect Annette and their kids from becoming targets and, in the kids' case, from the Belmont legacy, he left home and kept in touch with the family via letters. Maria and Alucard went with him, and the three of them moved into Berkeley Mansion (remember, the first dungeon from Castlevania 2?) and lived there together for many years. He and Alucard stayed together after Maria's death, including into the Sorrow era, when the majority of the story takes place; The actual fics largely focus on Richter and Alucard's relationships with the Sorrow crew, and the desire for freedom and family vs. the fear of changing the status quo.Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series!
I've made Richter and Alucard's relationship purposefully somewhat ambiguous. If I were to put it into words off-record I'd say it's more or less a QPR + FWB situation (although the latter fact is unlikely to actually come up in the narrative), but I wanted to make it relatable to many different types of LGBTQ+ experience, as well as provide some representation for people whose identities and/or relationships don't really fit most labels. For that reason, you won't really see them refer to their relationship with any terms other than "roommates", "old friends", or ambiguous "family".
The fics can be found here. I'd love to hear anything anyone has to say about it! As a bonus, here's the art I drew before I even wrote any of the fics, way back when I was first toying with the concept of vampire Richter:
This is an AU in which Castlevania's ~chaotic energy~ caused Richter to become a vampire after his time spent there in Symphony. In order to protect Annette and their kids from becoming targets and, in the kids' case, from the Belmont legacy, he left home and kept in touch with the family via letters. Maria and Alucard went with him, and the three of them moved into Berkeley Mansion (remember, the first dungeon from Castlevania 2?) and lived there together for many years. He and Alucard stayed together after Maria's death, including into the Sorrow era, when the majority of the story takes place; The actual fics largely focus on Richter and Alucard's relationships with the Sorrow crew, and the desire for freedom and family vs. the fear of changing the status quo.
I've made Richter and Alucard's relationship purposefully somewhat ambiguous. If I were to put it into words off-record I'd say it's more or less a QPR + FWB situation (although the latter fact is unlikely to actually come up in the narrative), but I wanted to make it relatable to many different types of LGBTQ+ experience, as well as provide some representation for people whose identities and/or relationships don't really fit most labels. For that reason, you won't really see them refer to their relationship with any terms other than "roommates", "old friends", or ambiguous "family".
The fics can be found here. I'd love to hear anything anyone has to say about it! As a bonus, here's the art I drew before I even wrote any of the fics, way back when I was first toying with the concept of vampire Richter: