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.
Has someone wrote a fanfiction/made a fanart where he’s a power bottom or are y'all cowards ?
Do i have to do it ? Cause the temptation sure is there.
op how dare you hide these in the tags.
ALSO YES YES A MILLION TIMES YESS! MY HEADCANON!
uhh the best I’ve done so far is a crossover fic where Walter sits in another vampire Von Krolock’s lap… and then crossover art of him in Der Tod’s lap… and a WIP of him in Mathias’ lap– why is this man so easy to imagine climbing into people’s laps when he’s so big?? Or is it just that I have a problem?
I definitely wish to write something with him bottoming. I have this headcanon that he and the Succubus are married (or as married as two godless creatures can be) and she doms him because he grows tired of the power dynamics he has with the hunters he lures in leaning towards him topping.
pls if you make power bottom Walter content I’ll do it too, consider it a trade–
More self-indulgent crossovers. Walter Bernhard from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence and Der Tod from Elisabeth das musical.
Prior to watching Elisabeth, my plot of “Death seduces mortal Walter Bernhard” was met with “like in Elisabeth!” by friends. So, I went into the musical knowing I was going to cross it over with Castlevania.
The concept? Castlevania’s Death and Der Tod? Same guy.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
