Why is a "tainted soul" needed in order for the whip to gain it's "complete form" and why does this make the whip so effective against vampires? What's the purpose of the "soul and blood contract" (from the Japanese version) between Leon and Sara?
well there is no greater thing then the soul, as holds a part of the divine, a part of Christ.
And the blood "is the soul.
The soul is not separate from the body.
Gen 2: 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The body combined with life (blood) become a living soul. Therefore is is very easy to then make the short cut and say the (soul) life is in the blood. In other words without the blood the animal or human dies. Gen 9:4 and Lev 17: 11 make it clear that when the blood of the animal was spilled it was the life that was being taken.
Gen 4:10 The Lord said to Cain about his murder of Abel his brother, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground." Of course the blood could not speak but God could see a great crime and sin that had been committed and it needed to be redressed. The life of Abel represented by the blood had been taken away.
also she is a redeemed sinner, who has given her life for others.
Luke 15:7
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Also some belive that Jesus has left behind the old body and brought his inner divine self, the Christ body, into his consciousness, and made it his own reality and it said we can do that too because we are all come from the divine, and we all have that divine essence, or the Christ body, within ourselves.
i think thats what she did when she whent in to the whip
she reapted by becoming the whip thus a holy scarfice, as when there souls joined, leon being chousen by god cleansed her soul, thus letting her to reach that state. thus the blood packed was made
she gave him the power to slay, so that no one else would ever have to meet with the same fate she did. And she trusted him to one see it to the end, and he tutested him ennuff to enter a blood packed with him.
And i also think that you can't trick the ritual, i could be wrong, but i think thats why its so hard to do. cos the steps are very hardcore.
And it has to be 100% real, i don't think you could just have someone you know get bitton then do it on them.
no it has to be pure.
I don't really agree with that statement. There's often still an underlying logic behind magic. For example, the reason why Arthur is able to pull the sword from the stone and everybody else failed was the sword judges the worthiness of whoever tries pulling it. It's not because the sword felt like getting pulled out that day. Even if you write a story about magic, you still need logic otherwise anything can just happen arbitrarily.
Ahh i ment plot magic, as anyone woth there salit knows that magic has logic to it. no i ment the story teller playing the
"oh its magic you don't have to worry about it as it just works"
but to BTH i think that as her soul joined with leons she can sense the the holy power in his soul/ blood. and so all belmont must have the same, or very similar energy signature coming from there souls
As death said
"The color of your soul... You must be a Belmont..."
I don't know if thats in the JP one.
But if it is, then its what i've thought for sometime. And so then if thats the case then morris clan would not matter how close thay are linked, would have a diffrant energy signature coming from there souls. And the signature the belmonts have is the one that is needed.
And i really don't see the belmonts being unable to touch the whip cos it could kill them. as its holy magic its never going to go away.
and as what happen to Richter
I understand why he left out of shame
the belmonts are these super holy fighters that are known as the worlds best vampire hunters.
Richter in particular, as at that time he was seen as the most powerful member. and they
have the Vampire killer.
yet even they still can't resist the counts evils. and I think there was more then just shame. think about it,
Richter was used and things could have been very bad if alucard had not stepped in.
So I can see why he passed it on