arachenerd
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Post by arachenerd on Feb 25, 2023 16:04:29 GMT -5
i was mostly thinking of castlevania: judgement, but if you like a character that has had different interpretations over time, i want to hear your thoughts on what you think was good/bad about it
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Post by wygolvillage on Feb 25, 2023 16:11:37 GMT -5
Bit of a weird one but I like Grimoire of Souls!Shanoa a lot! Being a construction of a character who struggled with memory and the concept of "self", out of the memory and imperfect archival of an almost forgotten life, into a new and different "self" seperate from the original and without the memories that just weren't archived (i.e, she would probably only remember the parts of her life when she was fighting), is kind of fascinating to me. {(Spoiler)} She's essentially reliving the traumas of Ecclesia as well, with Seward being in the "Barlowe" role here. I also think her interactions with the other characters are really fun and sweet. It's nice seeing Shanoa with emotions, and I love how well they balanced that with maintaining her weirdgirl aspects. I also got like, weirdly attached to the idea of Hermina X Lucy X GoS!Shanoa as the chapters were still coming out. Idk it's cute Edit: Also forgot to mention that I love it so much that she got to see Albus again :')
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draculaura
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Post by draculaura on Feb 25, 2023 16:32:55 GMT -5
Alucard in the Sonic DoS hack I'm also fond of how GoS interprets Trevor. Guy who has so much friendship and everyone loves him <3
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 25, 2023 17:19:01 GMT -5
original rondo of blood richter is my favorite as opposed to other iterations (sotn doesnt count since its the sequel-), i wont be a total hater but i really like that richter was inspired by shounen protags in both design and personality. the fierce compassion and power combined with a big heart (in fact, in jjba all star battle r, jonathan has a voice line referencing richter!). i also prefer the original game itself because of annette and the dialogue and style etc.
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Post by mortem on Feb 25, 2023 20:35:25 GMT -5
Do fan interpretations count? If so, my favorite interpretation of Soma Cruz is from the fanfics "LAUNDROMAT" by mumagi and "Great Powers; No Responsibility" by Junipei. I love how these writers portray him as a reckless teenager who has suddenly had all this power (and baggage) thrust onto him, and who doesn't really know what to do with it. As a result, he misuses his powers for crazy stuff; he sneaks into Hammer's shop to avoid the Dracula cultists and ends up crying about all the reincarnation nonsense he's been dealing with; he accidentally turns Mina's plant into an Alura Une; so on and so forth. From a story telling standpoint, I already love these fics for tackling what must be a very stressful, chaotic time in Soma's life, but these writers also manage to infuse him with such a fumbling, endearing sense of humanity, and I really appreciate it
Just, hot mess!Soma, am I right? He's so good
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 25, 2023 20:44:40 GMT -5
Do fan interpretations count? If so, my favorite interpretation of Soma Cruz is from the fanfics "LAUNDROMAT" by mumagi and "Great Powers; No Responsibility" by Junipei. I love how these writers portray him as a reckless teenager who has suddenly had all this power (and baggage) thrust onto him, and who doesn't really know what to do with it. As a result, he misuses his powers for crazy stuff; he sneaks into Hammer's shop to avoid the Dracula cultists and ends up crying about all the reincarnation nonsense he's been dealing with; he accidentally turns Mina's plant into an Alura Une; so on and so forth. From a story telling standpoint, I already love these fics for tackling what must be a very stressful, chaotic time in Soma's life, but these writers also manage to infuse him with such a fumbling, endearing sense of humanity, and I really appreciate it Just, hot mess!Soma, am I right? He's so good i think they should! its fun. also this is really cool, i like soma being very troubled and the whole sorrow deal interacting with that in a very troubling way.
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arachenerd
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Post by arachenerd on Feb 26, 2023 21:57:26 GMT -5
Do fan interpretations count? If so, my favorite interpretation of Soma Cruz is from the fanfics "LAUNDROMAT" by mumagi and "Great Powers; No Responsibility" by Junipei. I love how these writers portray him as a reckless teenager who has suddenly had all this power (and baggage) thrust onto him, and who doesn't really know what to do with it. As a result, he misuses his powers for crazy stuff; he sneaks into Hammer's shop to avoid the Dracula cultists and ends up crying about all the reincarnation nonsense he's been dealing with; he accidentally turns Mina's plant into an Alura Une; so on and so forth. From a story telling standpoint, I already love these fics for tackling what must be a very stressful, chaotic time in Soma's life, but these writers also manage to infuse him with such a fumbling, endearing sense of humanity, and I really appreciate it Just, hot mess!Soma, am I right? He's so good ya idm fan interp!! thats fun too
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Post by walterbernhard on Feb 27, 2023 17:50:18 GMT -5
Honestly? I'm very much a "LOS wasted Walter's potential" person. I love the interpretation: a shitty occultist who pretends to be nice and manipulates people for fun (as opposed to a shitty vampire who is just a bitch, appreciate him really) but he died before they really did anything else. So my interpretation of him is probably my favourite.
I also enjoy Death in GOS, to be honest. One of my favourite iterations of the guy. Something about him just appearing at the worst times really works for him, opposed to something like in POR or HOD, where he's just There At A Time To Be A Bit Inconvenient And Leave for a good deal of it.
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richterbelmont
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Post by richterbelmont on Feb 27, 2023 18:19:58 GMT -5
im extremely obsessed with a lesbian/transgender reading of richter wherein religious homo/transphobia is a part (not the whole) of why richter became so drastically different from an ideal belmont in sotn with the possession. also obsessed with richter having an angle of revenge against the church in sotn, for the treatment that he and every other belmont had endured. i think it gives annette a lot of opportunity to be important to the narrative which obviously didnt happen in sotn, and i find that disappointing..
i think that if she is involved with the pressures that the church had put on richter, it can also connect to the succubus in sotn who uses peoples emotions and traumas in order to manipulate them. it seems that the way her nightmares work is that she impersonates *someone* very close to the subject, so annette playing a more central role in richters desertion would allow her to gain the upper hand in deceiving richter (so that he may become possessed)
ive actually written a fic or two about this, detailing events after the disappearance and what led to the possession. the lesbian/trans reading extends even to juste, who also faced homophobia from the church, but ends up being compulsively heterosexual for a long time before he realizes, which is to contrast against richter who was not able to do this (also again, this is just an interpretation of mine, one that ive only barely touched on in this post)
since im already embarrassing myself i might as well also bring up my interpretation of the belmonts where they are neurodivergent as hell and most of them have tourettes, including juste and richter namely. to be specific i think juste has tourettes and ocd, which i can see in his behavior, the way he impulsively lied to avoid explaining things to lydie, as well as his rudeness in general and knack for collecting and sorting (the furniture, of course)
and richter? the most bipolar/tourettes character ive ever seen. the loss of control and grandiosity of the possession in sotn, even things like item crashing reminds me of how tics work in the brain (there can be a large buildup of energy that you must release- sometimes violently). in all of the scenes we see richter possessed in, he is acting like someone in a manic episode and we love that rep<3 some folk think these kinds of headcanons take away from the fantasy aspect, but i think its very interesting to incorporate psychology and other science-based things into fantasy!
(...i am tempted to make a lgbt/neurodivergent headcanon thread)
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Post by wygolvillage on Feb 27, 2023 18:42:18 GMT -5
A LGBT headcanons thread sounds like fun so I encourage it
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trevorbelmont
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Post by trevorbelmont on Feb 28, 2023 17:56:07 GMT -5
my best friend interprets grant as the certified Sane Person in the castlevania iii gang as opposed to the general kind of almost stereotypical laid back and jokey thief type interpretation i see a lot more often, and its kind of become the definitive way i see grant. alucard hits me as the type you think is sane and then trevor asks him if he wants to help him do something Deeply Concerning and alucard will be like "you know what sounds lovely lets do it now"
also my personal headcanon is that grant is a really good cook and hes the one who made trevor the curry that you can steal from him in curse of darkness! i care them
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