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Lovers in Sorrow🖤🥀

Maria Renard & Alucard

i like to play with them like jpegs

AlumariaCore I made by myself because I love them sooo much🥰💕

Stay forever with you❤️

Maria & Alucard

(Studying yoshitaka Amano artstyle)

Hear a goddess happiness cries An endless timeless lullaby

breaking those spikes is… reeeeally satisfying

I did some experimenting with this one. I love drawing letters, but… do not expect this font again ahaha.

MARIA!!! don’t worry, we will see more of her, and we will learn why Richter is being a jerk. 

also the last bit is a thing @slightly-mental actually did

Previously, in Castlegaynia…

Castlegays #1

Part 3 of the fic is almost done. I need to stop being lazy and finish it. Have a sketch which loosely hints to what’s to come.

Back at it again with the CV memes.

アルカードとマリアとスマブラ漫画  by SUNASU

Alucard & maria together bc I love drawing these two so much

悪魔城ドラキュラ詰め合わせ  by   もみじ

Slumber

With each love I cut loose I was never the same Watching still living roots be consumed by the flame I was fixed on your hand of gold Laying waste to my lovin’ long ago

Would that I - Hozier

richter hair when

On Alucard and Maria

Are there actually fans advocating for Alucard to be written as Maria’s father figure in the new season of Nocturne? Like that would be a good thing and not infinitely creepier? I don’t think they’ve thought this through.

Alucard is the single most popular character in the franchise. He’s also probably the most shipped character. And yet he has only had one canon love interest in the decades since he’s existed. It’s Maria. And you’re telling me that you think that because he’s 300+ and she’s 17-18 when they started living together in the games, that it would be grooming. However, somehow him inserting himself into her life at age 16 when she’s just lost both her parents wouldn’t come off like grooming!?

Does this man look like he should be picking up random children!? He’s literally terrified of his own cursed blood. Maybe LISTEN TO HIM.

I’m convinced fandoms have forgotten what that word means. Grooming has specific features. It doesn’t just mean “older guy and younger girl.” A relationship with an age gap or an uneven power dynamic can be exploitative or abusive without being a case of grooming. Grooming specifically refers to the process of forming a relationship with a child with the intention of leveraging that relationship and trust to train and prepare (aka brainwash) your victim for the harmful activities the groomer wants to normalize. The relationship Alucard and Maria have in the games is in no way grooming. You know what would be grooming though?

Coming into a 16 year old’s life when she’s vulnerable, traumatized, and recently orphaned only to insinuate yourself as a new father figure. This is so highly inappropriate and a huge red flag. Consider what you’re actually asking for here. These characters do not exist in a a vacuum. They have a long history together as each other’s only canon love interests. You cannot fully extract them from the games, art, interviews, audio dramas, animations, and more where they’re depicted as a couple. There are decades of this precedent and you are asking Netflix to knowingly take the characters with an established romantic dynamic that the audience is already primed to see as romantic and instead portray their meeting as him trying to be her new daddy?

“Oh look! Alucard and his… daughter? Yikes.” This is an official advertisement btw.

THAT is grooming! Think about the optics of this! It would be abysmal! No it would NOT fix the problem of their age gap to make him act like a groomer and get in good with her as a dad. You just cannot completely extract them from the legacy of their relationship in the source materials. It will be incredibly creepy and textbook grooming if you get your way.

Is this really what you want to associate with an “adoptive father Alucard”? Because the art we create doesn’t exist in a vacuum. All the old content—official and fanmade—is still going to exist.

What is so objectionable about the original dynamic anyway? It’s a pretty fun subversion of the tired and problematic vampire trope of “vampire man stalks teen girl and coerces her into being his”. Instead in their original relationship, Maria is the one who pursues Alucard! It’s the young woman who takes initiative and is given the agency to go after what she wants. She courts and woos him. That’s part of the fun!

Yes, Alucard is 300+. He’s also a fictional creature that doesn’t actually exist IRL and stays eternally young. There are no actual people who will ever have his problem of staying 20 forever so it’s rather silly to say he can’t date any humans because of course he will have an age gap with any of them.

The only real problem I have seen people bring up is Maria’s age, but from what I can tell, the show’s already fixed this. Check it out.

In The Games

Rondo of Blood: Maria is 12. She and Alucard do not meet. Richter is a brother-figure and not romantic.

There is then a 5 year time skip.

Symphony of the Night: Maria is 17. She and Alucard meet to save Richter. At the end, Alucard says his goodbyes and intends to return to a life of solitude. Maria goes after him because she has developed feelings for him and doesn’t want him to suffer a life alone.

Maria is given agency to pursue what she wants and prove herself even against Alucard’s resistance and hesitance to let another person into his life.

They spend a year together before we get the audio drama.

Nocturne of Remembrance: Maria continues to try to get close to Alucard. They end up saving each other’s lives and in the end he finally confesses his romantic feelings for her. She is an adult and perfectly able to make her own choices. She chose him. He admits he returns her feelings.

How fandom can look at a story about a young woman subverting the trope and chasing the vampire to get what she wants—basically an anti-Bella Swan—and still find a way to disempower her just so they can pearl clutch? I couldn’t tell you.

So now let’s look at what the show did.

In The Show

Nocturne S1: Maria is 16. She’s been aged up from 12, probably to give her a more active and believable role. But this also means she’s within a normal age to start feeling attraction and expressing her wants. Within her society, she’s even considered of marriageable age. However we are spared the discomfort of our modern values clashing with her contemporaneous ones because Maria in this season isn’t interested in romance. She’s interested in revolution, equality, justice. They’ve portrayed her with so much love and strength. There is no indication they’d betray her by writing her as the child victim of a male suitor. In fact she only meets Alucard in the final few seconds of the season and the two do not even speak a single word to one another.

Now let’s remember the games had a five year time skip. The show only needs two years to get Maria to the adult age of 18, but assuming the follow through with the timeline and go for the full five?

Maria will be 21.

21.

Fan concept for adult Maria. Credit:@esp-art

Are you telling me a 21 year old woman is not old or mature enough to make her own decisions? How is this not a total infantilization of women? Do you think a 21 year old badass vampire hunter needs protection from the ace depressed dhampir boy who just wants to sleep and has in no way tried to pursue her until after she expressed consistent and persistent interest in him?

It is not “grooming” to meet someone when they were younger and then meet them again years later as an adult. That’s a thing that happens! In real life! Adults can still make decisions for themselves! It is only grooming if Alucard behaved in a way that would manipulate teen Maria and put her under his control and authority before she can consent. There is no indication that Alucard in the show is going to do this. And yet the fandom is basically demanding it by saying he should make her “his baby girl”?

And what of Maria’s feelings in all this? She just lost her mother and was betrayed by her father shortly after discovering he even existed. She has lived her whole life without a father. She is in no desperate need of a new one. And if she does need a family member, she already has one! Richter is 19 and is her trusted adoptive brother. Why wouldn’t she go to him over a total stranger she just met and who is half vampire - literally a predator creature that feeds on humans!?

Yeah, hi, Richter Belmont still exists. He and Maria consider each other family. Why would you want her relying on a strange man she just met as a “father figure” rather than her trusted and loving brother?

Have none of you even considered how Maria would feel if Alucard even tried to fill the paternal role? He’d have to force it on her through manipulation and coercion. No way she would want to view him that way. Especially considering she is 16 and likely to be as attracted to the sparkly 20 year old looking sculpted marble beauty as anyone else!

Don’t mind the beautiful eternally young man who looks made of pure porcelain and light. No teen girl has ever been attracted to this, right? No way it could be exploitative and creepy for him to present himself as her new daddy, giving himself authority and influence over her as his child to mold as he wishes, right? Oh yeah, this is MUCH better than Maria pursuing him of her own volition once she becomes an adult, right guys?

We are truly in the stupidest dark timeline.

Frankly, I don’t care if Netflix has them get together or not. They would work just fine as friends too. I just sure as hell hope they’ll ignore the fans clamoring for a creepy daddy/daughter dynamic. Dressing it up as “concern” won’t hide that for some it’s a fetish, and for others they’re just useful idiots who haven’t thought it through.

I implore you to think it through.

thinking about...them

Some more illusion

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Alumaria/mariacard sketch💕

This actually a wip Btw😅

Maria….in white dress..ngh..

annette seeing adrian being haunted (in the good way) by ghost trepha

Castlevania S3 - Episode 9 [fixed]

What an icon in these trying times

Thinking in playing the Game Boy Castlevania games and i learned the now not-canon lore of Sonia Belmont and Alucard from Castlevania Legends...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALUCARD FUCKED A BELMONT AND HAD A CHILD WITH HER?!

IF THEY KEPT THIS CANON THAT WOULD MAKE RICHTER HIS GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDSON?!

Juste: This is the vampire killer. The Belmont heirloom weapon that we use to kill Dracula and night creatures. A Holy weapon that can only be used by those who are worthy-

*Nino steps on his bare chest with a high-heeled boot, while holding the Vampire killer with a sadistic smile. They are both in bed, Juste tied up and Nino using a dominatrix outfit.*

Nino: After this night, this whip will also be called Juste Destroyer. Be ready~

Juste: Lord have mercy...

*The next day...*

Alucard: Why are you walking like that?

Juste: I dont feel my hips. *Putting another bag of Frozen Peas on his body while Laying on couch* And my body is sore.

Alucard: And why are you with the Vampire Killer?

Nino: You mean the "Juste Destroyer"? *Smiling inocent*

Alucard: Juste Destro-? *Notices Juste Face and realizes*

Alucard: Oh.

*Lacks sleep, creates this to add on my crackship list. Enjoy*

*Alucard looks at the city at night. Hundreds of years, and the world have changed. Even in other universes this rule remains the same. He wonders if in this world the same happened like his original world: Dracula, the Belmont family, the Great Castle War... He remember that he went to this world after hearing on his own world that after killing Dracula's Wraith the young Juste Belmont got sent into a portal to another world. Alucard followed him, and found out Juste fell in 2018 Japan, and fell in love with a member of Nakano family to the point He was willing to stay. Alucard knows that its not that simple. But he can understand the feeling, after all...*

Itsuki: You are still awake?

Alucard: I dont need sleep like you mortals. Also, i like watching the city from the top of this building. I love to see the changes that this world had in almost 300 years. Its all different but also the same.

Itsuki: I still dont believe in lots of things you and Juste told us. Like, monsters, Vampires, magic castles, you...

Alucard: He talked about me?

Itsuki: Like he was talking about a cool uncle or something.

Alucard: heh... In all my time on here, my duty has been 2 things. Taking care of the world so I could stop my father of destroying it... And taking care of the Belmonts. After all, they are the closest thing i have from a family.

*He looks at Itsuki with a teasing smile, the moonlight and the city lights shining across his fair skin, his yellow eyes looking at hers.*

Alucard: You consider yourself to be the older sister. You must understand why i care so much about them.

Itsuki: I do. But i learned one thing with a friend. If you care too much about someone, you must not forget to take care about yourself. *She puts a plate on his side, with a piece of cheesecake on it.* Here. I thought you could be Hungry.

Alucard: You thought or you were just attacking the fridge at night again?

Itsuki: *Blushes* I-its not my fault that correcting all these tests makes me hungry! Besides, i love sweets and i wont be ashamed of it.

Alucard: I know. *He gets up, taking a bite of the cake.* I saw you making it Last night. Its delicious.

Itsuki: Really?

Alucard: Could put the best bakers in the streets. *He hears Miku and Nino sneezes in their rooms, smiling a bit* What kind of lessons you teach in your school?

Itsuki: I teach both Maths and history. Now im correcting the history tests. Gosh...

Alucard: Considering that im a very old Dhampir, i would love to help you correcting the tests with you.

Itsuki: So sit down right here that im gonna bring the answer sheet. Oh and you can help me improve my next class!

Alucard: Go on. I have all night.

*Alucard and Itsuki spent the entire night together, discussing about the classes she would teach the next day and correcting tests and exams together. Alucard said to itself that night one thing:*

"When i first arrived at this world, i repreended Juste for wanting to stay and live a more peaceful life. But i did forgot thats a thing that one must experience to understand. After that night with her, all i can say its one thing."

"If i can choose, i wish i never leave her side too."

Juste: Should i ask you, Alucard. How did you found me so Quickly?

Alucard: Wherever a Belmont is about to do shit that will somehow ruin the world, the universe grants that im there to slap some sense on your heads.

Itsuki: He also fell in my room while i was correcting my students tests!

Alucard: Like i said, the universe knows best.

Alucard: Juste Belmont, how in the fuck are you in Japan in 2018 when you were supposed to be in 1748?!

Juste: Like the People on this generation say, im in love-therapy.

Alucard: ... What?

Nino: He has lots of issues and needs lots of hugs and sweets. Seriously, what the fuck did you threw at him at that time?

Alucard: Considering that he is a Belmont... My dad.