Topic: Picking the best of the Belmonts

[Holy Diver]

Who cares if Juste never defeated fully resurrected Dracula.
He can shoot shiny stuff, he is superior in interior design to any character in series and possibly nailed a french maid rougly 500 years before it became a mainstream fetish. If that's not awesome, then I don't know what is.

[FanOfDracula]

    Good point...  xD

[zangetsu468]

They were the best of the Belmonts, they were the worst of the Belmonts..

[theANdROId]

Okay, another question to anyone who wants to know exactly what I'm doing or just doesn't care if there's no "surprise"

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I have a friend that's an extremely talented artist who is going to paint something for me.  He recently did a close up of Sting and divided the picture into 5 parts, painting each differently to match ways that Sting has done his makeup.  That's where I got my idea, which was to have a picture of the castle gate across the background with 5 different Belmonts in front of it.

Now in regard to my question:  While I greatly appreciate everyone's input about the best 5, I was considering switching out Christopher for Richter.  If I did this, I could put Richter on one end and Trevor on the other and maybe make a neat artistic comparison since both *kinda* fought alongside a trio of partners.  My friend says he could probably add those partners to the scene.  Neat idea?  Are the two different depictions of Alucard too different to work?  Thoughts or ideas about that?  Should I do young or old Maria? 

[X]

Artist's choice in my book. Go with what you want 

[Shiroi Koumori]

Do what feels right to you.
The partners are a nice touch too, all versions of Alucard are good. Hahaha.

[zangetsu468]

I can see it now.. I think the Trevor > Richter idea is fantastic.. I can even see their VK's framing the whole scene artistically... Simon with his back to the viewer facing the castle gates.. The list goes on

[theANdROId]

I have another question and I'm curious what some of you might think and why.

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If you recall, I was making a parallel between Richter and Trevor both fighting Dracula with some partners.  On the side where Richter will be painted, which Maria would you choose and why?  The young version is the one that partnered with Richter, so it makes sense to use her.  However, Alucard didn't really come along until later, which means Maria would be older, so it could make sense to use her. What are your thoughts?

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Richter may not be the best, but he's the hottest

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[zangetsu468]

Richter may not be the best, but he's the hottest

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Still my favourite artwork of any CV