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Post by mortem on Feb 25, 2023 1:31:47 GMT -5
I have no idea which board this goes on, so I Am Guessing. If I'm wrong, I am so so sorry ^^"
I was wondering what crafty hobbies Mina Hakuba might be into (crocheting, cross-stiching, wood working, etc.) (y'know... for purposes....), but this question could apply to any character in the franchise tbh. Which characters do you think would be into crafty stuff, and which hobbies do you think they would have? There could have an actual reason for it, or it could just be the vibes
Personally, I think Julius Belmont would enjoy wood carving. I like the thought of him actually being a cowboy and growing up on the Morris family ranch or w/v, and I really like the thought of him inheriting Quincey Morris's Bowie knife from Dracula (1897), so I feel like wood carving would be a natural hobby for him to pick up. Meanwhile, Yoko Belnades strikes me as someone who would enjoy collecting crystals. Not even for magic purposes, mind you. She just strikes me as someone who has whole drawers filled with shiny trinkets because she likes them, which isn't quite a "crafty" hobby, but regardless -
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Post by draculaura on Feb 25, 2023 1:39:13 GMT -5
To me Richter is also a wood carving guy. He was, of course, raised by legendary interior designer Juste Belmont, and I see him as having naturally picked up some of this, but leaning more towards the physical side of things over design. So while Juste enjoys painting, sketching, architectural drawings, spending an unholy amount of time debating between two different colorways of the same wallpaper, etc., Richter is more into picking up a saw and actually building furniture and little carved sculptures :)
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Post by leonbelmont on Feb 25, 2023 1:55:46 GMT -5
I think that Leon can sew. I think that if you lifted Leon up and put him in the present day he'd start a historical clothing youtube channel. I also think Trevor can sew, but it is way more of a like... quick mending type thing than Leon, who I think would enjoy the whole process. Trevor isn't drafting up new clothes and patterns, he is fixing the holes in the cv3 unit's clothes and taking sleeves off his shirts in hot weather and putting them back on when it gets cold. I also think he's the only good cook of the cv3 crew and is, relatively speaking for a guy in the 1400s who is on the road for the whole game, pretty fastidious about food safety. That's less crafty necessarily but it is a hobby I think he has that's important to me.
I've definitely written Soma sewing plushes before... I don't think he realizes he can use those skills to fix his own clothes though. Alucard I think has a whole variety of hobbies and crafts he practices, and I think he is only learning more after sotn. He can draw and paint he can sculpt he can garden he can knit he... is never better than Trevor is at sewing and definitely never better at cooking. I think his hobbies only get stranger and more esoteric as time goes on. He is making a bonsai stop motion film.
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 25, 2023 1:58:04 GMT -5
i think richter likes to sew and embroider, i have this headcanon that he designs patterns for people he loves and then sews them onto things like clothing and other cloth items to give as a gift. i see richter as being thoughtful and emotional, but has very little outlets to express it (being a vampire killer and all) so something creative and quiet like sewing becomes a good hobby. alucard has many crafts i think, including pottery and painting as well as even metal work like blacksmithing and art of that sort. i also think richter loves to cook, and i like maria being a good wood carver not sure why.. and annette likes basket weaving i think, and pressing flowers! maybe even writing letters. not quite related but i also think alucard is a very talented musician
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Post by eclipseoffangs on Feb 25, 2023 2:14:50 GMT -5
something something. obvious joke about juste being an interior designer
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Post by biofreak659 on Feb 25, 2023 2:21:20 GMT -5
By virtue of being in the pre-mass production of clothing era, I'd say that everyone pre-PoR has at least a few sewing skills, but as for it being a hobby... I think Lydie made her dress and tatted all the lace and such.
I have an anti-craft head canon that Yoko is absolutely useless at homey skills, ie can't stitch, last time she cooked she set the oven on fire, not trusted with anything other than safety scissors, etc.
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Post by mahoshojo on Feb 25, 2023 2:42:19 GMT -5
Most of these are a little closer to art, but:
I figure all the major Belmonts are good at cartography, since the maps of the castle that show up in the games were likely drawn by them or their ancestors and would have to be constantly updated each generation to match the castle's shifts in location/architecture. This would probably translate to them being pretty skilled at drawing in general in their personal lives even if not all of them would be actively interested in it.
Alucard's entire upbringing (you know, in a castle with a rich dad) gives me the impression he was probably trained in some sort of art growing up, but I don't have any specific ideas about what exactly. Maybe portraits.
The way Maria's items in the Rondo manual are drawn in this more childish/cute style than Richter's items are on the same pages (plus the flower borders on her game over screen) makes me think she drew those herself and probably enjoys art as a hobby even if she's not necessarily serious about/great at it. For some reason I can also see her being interested in scrapbooking.
I'm sure other characters are skilled too though; these are just the ones I've actually thought about in detail.
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 25, 2023 2:43:58 GMT -5
Most of these are a little closer to art, but: I figure all the major Belmonts are good at cartography, since the maps of the castle that show up in the games were likely drawn by them or their ancestors and would have to be constantly updated each generation to match the castle's shifts in location/architecture. This would probably translate to them being pretty skilled at drawing in general in their personal lives even if not all of them would be actively interested in it. Alucard's entire upbringing (you know, in a castle with a rich dad) gives me the impression he was probably trained in some sort of art growing up, but I don't have any specific ideas about what exactly. Maybe portraits. The way Maria's items in the Rondo manual are drawn in this more childish/cute style than Richter's items are on the same pages (plus the flower borders on her game over screen) makes me think she drew those herself and probably enjoys art as a hobby even if she's not necessarily serious about/great at it. For some reason I can also see her being interested in scrapbooking. I'm sure other characters are skilled too though; these are just the ones I've actually thought about in detail. ooooh cartography makes sense for them- i think richter would be lousy at something like that which kind of lends to him being a sort of outcast belmont
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Post by mahoshojo on Feb 25, 2023 2:58:18 GMT -5
Also just remembered one I forgot since she's such a minor character:
I headcanon (OG Rondo) Iris being into gardening as a hobby outside of the medical stuff. Part of it's her design's country girl vibes but honestly, most of it's probably just because of her name.
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Post by walterbernhard on Feb 25, 2023 3:24:40 GMT -5
I like to think Elisabetha would knit, it just feels very her. Though, I also feel like Dracula would specifically carve wood for instruments, and would set up a certain time of day to do that. Maybe also coffins, but definitely wood for instruments.
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Post by wygolvillage on Feb 25, 2023 10:42:36 GMT -5
Shanoa is canonically into sketching and has dabbled in photography, but I also think in post-OOE she's the type to dabble in a million different creative hobbies. She's spent so much of her life trained to destroy that I think she would find a lot of joy in creation.
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Post by mortem on Feb 25, 2023 17:21:46 GMT -5
Man, between Julius, Juste, Richter, and Maria's furniture building, Leon, Trevor, Richter, and Lydie's sewing/garment making, Annette's basket weaving, all of the cartography and art, and Alucard's jack-of-all-trades situation, the Belmont's and co. are halfway towards running their own general store. At this rate, they might as well set up an off-brand IKEA! :D (Actually, that would make for a very interesting AU - ) Upon further thought, since I already headcanon Mina as a plant girl, I think it makes sense that she would be into pressing flowers. Taking it a step farther, I think she would enjoy casting her pressed flowers into clear resin to make floral coasters/paperweights/etc. Or maybe she makes cool bookmarks? Ones with not only pressed flowers glued to them, but also different fabrics with fun textures, all sorts of different colors... I'm imagining some very eclectic bookmarks rn Btw, to everyone who suggested giving Alucard some Unhinged hobbies: I see you. I respect you. I would pay such good money to watch a stop-motion bonsai film made by this immortal mess of a man And to mahoshojo who suggested Belmont cartography: I love this headcanon so, so much, because it's such a great explanation for what we see happen in the games, but all I can imagine is future Belmonts trying to navigate this monster-infested nightmare castle while cursing their ancestors' horrific handwriting. Juste trying to read Simon's chicken scrawl, screaming "What do you MEAN the clock tower's this way??? I thought you said it was on the other side of the castle!!" And then he gets smacked in the face with a medusa head or something
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Post by yehor on Feb 25, 2023 18:13:13 GMT -5
The debate of what is craft, what is artisan, and what is art is an eternally raging battle in art history circles and for simplicity I'm just going to consider them different mediums within the same realm of what we call art.
Cross-stitching or embroidery might be a common answer for a number of characters... Those were a big deal in many Eastern European cultures and Romania was/is no exception. Romania isn't my place of experience but textile making in the areas of Ukraine and Central Russia is a deeply cultural thing with families/villages/regions having their own unique designs distinct from one another, and I've heard we're similar in that respect. And cross-stitching is just fun tbh
I do like to think the "in-between generations" that aren't expected to fight Dracula themselves, such as Juste, have other professions they work in. I think Juste makes clothes :-) Specifically the stuff he wears and some of the stuff Richter and Maria wear. He seems to take inspiration from Western (French, maybe? It's not what I'm familiar with) sources. (Of course in reality we know it's just that Ayami Kojima likes the way that stuff looks, and it does look cool, but it's more fun for me to think of it in-universe this way!)
We can also presume, if we believe the implications that Richter helped in founding Wygol Village, that he's got (or develops) some kind of construction, woodworking, or similar skills.
I like to think Shanoa kept drawing after Daniela's quests. :-)
The cartography thing is a really good point too! Come to think of it, they'd have to come by their weapons other than the whip somehow too, maybe they make some of them themselves?
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 25, 2023 18:21:27 GMT -5
ive always found it sad that the series never really represented cultural romanian things, but i guess no one could ever expect it too, which is what headcanon is for i suppose. i have ideas for culturally accurate casualwear for my favorites, ive only gotten around to drawing richter's though. another headcanon i have for richter is, well i guess its an extension of the cooking thing, that he likes to prepare things like smoked meat and fermented drinks. theres a romanian drink called vișinată that i can imagine richter being fond of making, i dont know why though. i think alucard would be impressed by the process as well as its effect of feeling "fizzy" in your mouth
i did figure as well that they would all most likely have some experience embroidering, though maybe not alucard. i like the thought of it being a therapeutic act for richter, both as its culturally significant which can bring a sense of fulfillment or community and just in that expressing yourself creatively is important
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