Tried my hand on the @powerhouseanimation ’s Castlevania art style by Making a Lament of Innocence anime poster because I love this show so much and this game as well :’)
Ahhh this is lovely, it’s perfect. The shading, the expressions, Walter’s cape, Mathias’ grip on the rosary, the FIRE–
hhhhh ahhhh I really like this, it’s lovely, people look at thissss
How it started: Walter Bernhard wants to achieve immortality because his father was a mortician obsessed with his youthful beauty that locked him away and dressed him up like a doll
How it’s going: Walter Bernhard wants to achieve immortality to kiss der Tod so many times
I’ve become obsessed with Walter Bernhard and the backstory I’ve written for him. Since, you know, I’ve been robbed of ever knowing his canon backstory other than the fact that his mother Bianca may have sold his soul to the devil. If they deny me canon, I’ll continue to write my own.
A young man is abandoned by his mother and sheltered by his father, a mortician, led to believe that his mother died in childbirth despite his own memories of her. Perhaps they were a dream.
And then an alluring stranger appears and sweeps him off his feet, promising him freedom and love and eternal youth.
Walter knows he’s chasing his own Death, but all that he has besides the man is his father. And he loves his father, he knows that he wants only the best for him, and if Vati knew…
Oh, if Vati knew and disapproved of Walter’s dalliance with Death, the boy would cease contact immediately and run back to his father’s arms, for that was the only comfort the boy had ever known.
Hahahaha so you know how I watched Tanz der Vampire? Great musical by the way, check it out if you like vampires.
But so, predictably, I have the urge to make a crossover with Castlevania.
AND IT ALL STARTS WITH MY FAVOURITE VAMPIRE WALTER BERNHARD!
So, Graf von Krolock knows Walter Bernhard. Though they aren’t related, Walter calls him “cousin” as a term of endearment. He’ll often try to spoil the other vampire with new “pets” that he catches himself. He’s possessive of Krolock, not necessarily in a romantic sense but far too corrupted to be familial.
Krolock takes the behaviour towards him in stride, not quite caring either way. He has the barest of affections towards Walter as a source of company.
He loses contact with Walter in the late 11th century after hearing news of the other vampire’s latest rendezvous he had planned. A young brunette named Sara Trantoul and her blond fiancé, Leon Belmont.
The strangest thing happens, Krolock begins to miss Walter’s company. He sits lamenting until news of a new Count, an outsider, spreads through Romania.
So, I’m of the opinion that it’s less impactful if we assume Mina Hakuba is a reincarnation of Lisa. Like, I will give Elisabetha the benefit of the doubt once. She wanted to check up on her soulmate after he went batshit. But after the second time he goes against her pleading for him to not be a bitter bitch, I want her to be over him. Babe, he’s not worth it.
Besides, Soma and Mina don’t have to be reincarnated lovers for their relationship to mean something. They could honestly just be friends with the power of hand-holding on their side.
But like, I had this thought looking at art like…
“Mina doesn’t even look like Elisabetha/Lisa. She honestly looks more like… Sara.”
huh. The doe eyes, Sara’s buns and Mina’s hair ribbons, holding greenery,,, they’re just so sweet-looking.
I still believe that Soma just having a genuine friend he made without interference of fate is sweet. But hell, if there’s anything I love as much as denying popular headcanons, it’s creating new, unpopular ones.
I love Walter Bernhard. I hate his name. I also love his name? I hate and love the fact that they gave him the least sexy name possible and then they made him…
-they made him like this.
Do you think they named him first? Told Kojima to create a design for a man named “Walter Bernhard”? Or did she do this lovely design and they said: “…Walter… that’s his name.”
I love that his name is Walter Bernhard and still I am simping for him, that is power.
The second I finished with my drawing of Vampire Leon, my brain demanded I draw Walter reacting to seeing the turned Belmont for the first time after being resurrected.
So, when I was still drawing Vampire Leon, I had the thought that I just love that nearly all the Belmonts have a belt where there shouldn’t be a belt and not many of them wear real belts around the waist.
I’m not gonna cover every design of the characters, that would kill me, but like… look at all these Belmonts.
Leon:
belt around coat and belt around thigh, the starter of the trend. the belt around the coat is not doing anything that metal girdle isn’t already
Sonia:
belt around coat and white choker around neck, I’m counting this as a belt. I guess her belt is keeping her coat closed this time at the very least?
Trevor:
belt across chest and belt around?? elbow?? also,,, could count those lil knife sheaths on his boot belts,,, also if you just glance closer and look at the chain connected to his belt that circles around his thigh,,, hot,,, but also really weird
Christopher:
belt around waist and something around his bicep, probably a fucking belt or bandages- does the thing around his head count as a belt? I dunno??
Soleil:
okay, i gotta give it to him, he’s wearing a belt where you’re supposed to, but it’s around his tunic for that aesthetic (and maybe to hold weapons)
Simon:
GIANT belt around waist but also belt around bicep and belt around neck??kinky
(what the fuck even are those things hanging from his leather corset?? they look like they’d whip around and hurt his legs?? masochist??)
Juste:
belt around waist and BELT AROUND LEG- WHY DO YOU GUYS NEED LEG BELTS?? FOR WHAT PURPOSE??
side note: I’m just now realizing how similar Leon and Juste’s designs are… they have a lot of similar design elements
Richter:
TWO BELTS!! TWO BELTS AROUND WAIST!!! THEY AREn’T EVEN HOLDING YOUR PANTS UP, DEAR
(don’t even mention what the fuck is happening with the belt situation in RoB/DXC I don’t wanna think about it)
now the question is do I talk about LoS Victor or concept Victor… eh, different timeline
Victor:
wow that’s just a regular ol’ belt around the waist. it seems that vampire hunting is not the only thing he rejected about his family legacy. technically the sheath around the leg could be considered a leg belt
Reinhardt:
studded belts around waist and wrists??? and BELT HANGING OFF WAIST, he looked at his Grandpa Richter’s clothes and said “but how do I give it more rebellious teen energy?” Ya know, at twenty-five
Julius:
no belt?? nobelt??SACRiLEGE??but it’s okay, stylish neckerchief instead
Maybe Julius has a secret belt hidden from prying eyes. Maybe he’s just wearing high-waisted pants, and if he took off his waistcoat you’d see belt.
Why am I thirsting over the possibility of a belt I’ll never get to see?
My uncle works at nintendo and he told me this is how Lament of Innocence REALLY ended and everyone was happy forever and it doesn’t break future canon at all.
A list of Castlevania AUs but it’s only Lament of Innocence
AU where Mathias can see and communicate with Walter even after his soul got absorbed. Bonus: Walter learn how to interact with Mathias in his dreams and take advantage of that to ruin his mental health. Like, killing him in the dream, wich seems too real to Mathias.
AU where Walter abduct Mathias when he’s a baby and raise him without ever turning him into a vampire, just to see how it would turn out. Anyway the bitch ends up making an alliance with Death and Joachim to kill him.
AU where Walter discovers Mathias is hella good with alchemy and kidnaps Elisabetha to force him to come and create the Crimson Stone for him. It works well, until Elisabetha dies from sickness and Walter tries to hide it. Also Leon eventually comes to their rescue. Or. Tries to at least.
AU where Mathias and Leon have a great life, giving up on the church to hunt the night together, until they die in their 40s (Mathias) and 30s (Leon). Elisabetha and Sara are still living and tell their story.
AU that starts like the previous one, with Mathias and Leon abandoning the church to hunt the night, except this time Elisabetha and Sara fights alongside them. And they all decided to live in the forest of Eternal Night to provoke the night creatures like “haha lol look at us living on your territory and not only surviving but KICKING Y'ALL ASSES TOO”. Optional Bonus: Elisabetha, who knows she’s about to die due to sickness, drink a vampire’s blood to turn herself. And now they have a badass vampire wife as their ally. Another Optional Bonus: Not only do they live in the forest of Eternal Night, but they start building a castle too. To spite Walter. And it will continue on as the generations pass. Spiting monsters becomes a Belmont and Cronqvist tradition.
Death, washing the dishes: Who the fuck used this pan?? Death: Wait. I the fuck used this pan… Walter: It was you the fuck. Death: It was I the fuck… Mathias: Who cooks rice in a pan? Walter: He the fuck.
I live for Mathias little gasp after Leon told him that defeating Walter and preventing others from suffering the same cursed fate was Sara’s dying wish.
Leon, arriving at the throne room: Where are you, Walter ?! Walter, appearing out of nowhere: Hi, sorry I’m late. I was doing a couple of things and got distracted. Death, following: I’m “a couple of things”. Mathias from behind Death: And I’m “got distracted”.
Leon, laying a map down: We need a plan to beat them. Mathias: Okay, listen up. First, we fill their shoes with wet cat food. Leon: Mathias: Judge me all you want, I get results.
Mathias: What if mayonnaise came in cans? Walter: Well, that would suck because you can’t microwave metal. Joachim: Good morning to everyone except these two.
