Topic: Is the girl in the pink dress in Rondo of Blood really Laura?

[Pentagram-cracker]

In both Rondo of Blood and The Dracula X Chronicles (which is a remake), there's a boss fight with Carmilla where you face a giant naked form of Carmilla as she floats on a giant skull and then you fight a beautiful vampire girl in a pink dress who looks very much like Carmilla in Circle of the Moon. However there was a similar enemy to the girl in pink that appeared in Portrait of Ruin who was named Laura (after the heroine of the novel Carmilla). Because of this a lot of fans seem to think the same girl who appeared alongside Carmilla's giant nude form in RoB and DXC was actually Laura, even though her name was never revealed.

I think it could be possible that it wasn't Laura, but actually Carmilla. The reason is because a. she looks a lot like she did in Circle of the Moon and b. both the giant boss and karate-kicking woman in bondage you fight have the exact same hair and skin color. I think maybe the vampire in the refined pink dress was Carmilla and the woman floating on a giant skull was like her evil soul. The dress form was like her normal undead body walking around and trying to feed on the hero, and you had to destroy her soul in order to destroy her body.

What do you guys think? Discuss theories about this here.

[Inccubus]

A) No she doesn't. The only similarity is that they are both wearing pink garments. Even their hair colors are different.

B) No they don't. In RoB, Carmilla has light blue hair and medium-brown skin, where as Laura has bright blue hair and fair skin.

C) PoR made it canon that the girl is Laura.

[Koutei]

even though her name was never revealed.

She had already been written Laura by the Japanese Rondo of Blood guide in 1993.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/2/rob-guidebook.htm

Official Guide Page 59 "Kamīra and Raura"

[Pentagram-cracker]

Ah OK... I feel embaressed now. 

[X]

Nothing to be embaressed about. I was trying to figure this out too eversince seeing her in PoR. I always thought that the RoB Carmilla fight was something like this: You had Carmilla's vampire spirit afloat on a giant skull while her human counterpart strattled the room waiting to catch you off-guard. Then after you fought off the spirit, Carmilla's true form is revealed and starts ninja-kicking the living s**t outta you.

-X

[Pentagram-cracker]

Yeah that's what I thought too. Especially since Laura in Rondo of Blood and Carmilla in Circle of the Moon look very similar.

Maybe Laura was trying to disguise as Carmilla? 

[Abnormal Freak]

How do their looks factor in? They're different games developed by different teams at different times. Elizabeth Bartley dresses kinda like Carmilla in COTM. COULD THEY BE THE SAME PERSON? (Well, OK, it's possible they could be, since Carmilla in the novel was somewhat inspired by Elizabeth Bathory, whom of course Elzabeth Bartley was based on, but I doubt they're intended to be the same person in Castlevania.)

[Pentagram-cracker]

Oh I get it, that was supposed to be sarcasm...

I guess I should explain that the only Castlevania games I've played are The Dracula X Chronicles and the unlockables Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night. I'm pretty new to the series so I don't know everything about the characters other then what I've read. I assumed that Laura was never named in the original Rondo of Blood and was only named in Portrait of Ruin, and because I thought Laura was dressed very similar to Carmilla in Circle of the Moon with the pink dress and brown hair I assumed it was possible that it may have been Carmilla we were fighting. You can't deny that they look very similar even with the fact that they were designed by different people or whatever, and for the record I think Elizabeth looks nothing like Carmilla/Laura so that was a pretty poor observation to make just for the sake of being a smart-ass.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Actually Bartley does resemble both Laura (RoB) and Carmilla (CotM), or rather Carmilla (CotM) resembles Bartley (CVB) and Laura (RoB).

Ha ha! We're Castlevania geeks!

[Abnormal Freak]

and for the record I think Elizabeth looks nothing like Carmilla/Laura so that was a pretty poor observation to make just for the sake of being a smart-ass.

You don't see a resemblance? :p It wasn't an "observation for the sake of being a smartass" (though it did have smartassy motives behind it).

[X]

I think the only resemblence those two have is their bust-size 

-X

[Abnormal Freak]

What about the pink lacy goodness accompanying those ample cartoon bosoms?

[Inccubus]

Yeah, seriously are you guys looking at the same picture me and Freak are?
I'll admit that CotM Carmilla ALSO has some similarities to RoB/PoR Laura, but to the black bondage outfit, not the pink dress.
That pink dress in RoB/PoR is like a nightgown looking thing, not a poofy, ruffly pink & red dress.



If anything the CotM Carmilla looks like a cros between Elizabeth and Vampire Laura.

[Belmonto]

She had already been written Laura by the Japanese Rondo of Blood guide in 1993.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/2/rob-guidebook.htm

Official Guide Page 59 "Kamīra and Raura"

Alternative title for Rondo of Blood.

[Abnormal Freak]

So if Reincarnation of Blood is the English-printed subtitle for this official guidebook, why does it officially get named Castlevania: Rondo of Blood outside of Japan? D: Name recognition? Is that even a proper translation? Ha.