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« Last post by zangetsu468 on July 29, 2024, 06:49:09 AM »
The BE (Bad Endings) in my sig are the “What if’s” of the CVerse. The signature itself represents the timeline, with three distinct continuities, CV judgement sitting outside of these.
There’s no one choice that made everything so, there are rather some possibilities if we dig a little bit deeper, bearing in mind a lot of this is purely head canon(me not believing it goes against any of the lore):
• CV Legends, while existing in its own timeline, can be considered the first true deviation of the series. I won’t go into this too much, suffice to say it does involve a female heir to the Vampire Killer(despite all the others, ever, being male Belmonts) and Alucard awakening earlier than the main timeline.
• CVII Simon’s Quest, is chronologically the first alternate scenario in Iga’s timeline. If Simon took too long and either succumbed to his mortal wounds either after defeating each other / during the final battle, depending on how one interprets the endings.. This eventually leads into the events of Legacy of Darkness.
{Side note: CVII is a bit of an odd one, as Simon has to fight Dracula due to being “attacked with Dracula’s Fang”. Technically there should have been an option to find all the body parts, which would have resulted in Dracula’s demise and likely, no final battle}
• Rondo of Blood has various endings, based upon who Richter and Maria save the rough out the game. Failing to save Annette, results in the Belmont’s lineage being compromised and eventually, Reinhardt Schneider wielding the Vampire Killer.
• Legacy of Darkness/ CV 64: These have their own bad endings which can result in some headf***ery
• SOTN: Not so much a deviation, however, Galamoth is from the future.(Kid Dracula) There must be a timeline where Alucard defeats Dracula, but not Galamoth, either because he wasn’t there OR he chose not to challenge him. Galamoth’s defeat in the distant future of KD ensured , he travelled back to 1797 to intercept Alucard in the inverted castle(potentially when he’d be the most worn out or because he gained access via the underworld/ demon realm to do so). Alucard beating him technically breaks the cycle of the timeline, which possibly does not lead to KD occurring again. (Unless Galamoth’s birth in the distant future, guarantees his perpetual return.)
Other mentions not listed in the sig:
• Dawn of Sorrow: If Soma succumbs to becoming Dracula, Julius wields the VK once again in order to destroy him. Canonically, it makes sense that he can, as Soma is big D reincarnated and we know the Vampire Killer’s rage was no longer present after Aria of Sorrow. By DoS, Julius is substantially nerfed, which although was a gameplay mechanic, the lore fits both scenarios.
• Curse of Darkness: One which doesn’t necessarily impact the tineline(s) we are aware of. We know that from Saint Germain’s intervention, Hector was originally Dracula’s vessel. Somehow out of SG merely appearing in the past and noting he’d already witnessed the final battle of 1999 or the ‘Demon Seal War’ of humanity vs Dracula, Hector chooses a different path by not succumbing to Dracula’s Curse(which is at this point, a residual and lasting one over the land of Wallachia/ Valacia). CoD being a side story/ gaiden means this should only impact Hector’s destiny.
See, Zelda did this much better with ALTTP and the “Hero is Defeated timeline”(which I’ve posted twice about in great detail). Although it p!she’s a lot of fans off, the original fallen timeline, essentially created the subsequent two additional ones, if one believes all three exist together and have all occurred in one multiverse. Essentially it goes that The Master Sword chose Link as it’s wielder due to recognising him via blood descendant and spiritual successor. However, as a child, Link couldn’t properly wield it and ended up defeated. This spawned a series of events whereby the timeline was corrected and the original timeline lived on, absent of a hero. The new timeline further fractured into two, with the Hero of Time only existing in one of the tree mentioned timelines
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