Topic: Which Dracula's origins do you prefer? SPOILER ALERT!!!

[Ahasverus]

It's too soon, we haven't seen Dracula yet in LoS. (Yeah we technically did but for less than 3 minutes with no clue about him so I dunno)

[Chernabogue]

It's too soon, we haven't seen Dracula yet in LoS. (Yeah we technically did but for less than 3 minutes with no clue about him so I dunno)

Yeah, we don't even know if he is Dracula at that time.

[JR]

From what I've seen so far, LoI. I liked the idea of Cronqvist becoming bitter with God and using immortality to spite him. LoS seems really interesting to me, and it could end in a cool way, but the epilogue also seemed like a Kojima-esque twist for its own sake, and it made the link between the Belmonts and Dracula needlessly incestuous.

Eh, but still, can't wait until Resurrection wraps some things up.

[VampirehunterB]

I'd prefer..no origin explanation at all...just the classic way nes introduced the series for the first time...Dracula simply exists, and the Belmonts kicks his ass..

[Mike Belmont]

Yeah, we don't even know if he is Dracula at that time.

Ok, Gabe is now Dracula, I think. How did he really transform in Dracula?

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Absorbing that force that TFO wants to absorbs before him? He became Dracula when he destroy the Combat Cross (yeah, that weapon dubbed Vampire Killer)?

I have see a similar recent poll, so if nobody wants to continue with this, it´s okay for me.

[K.G. Morder]

I think Gabe became Dracula t

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he moment he referred to himself as "the Dragon".

[Inccubus]

I like the Bram Stoker's Dracula version where he becomes a vampire through sheer force of will.

[Puwexil]

That's like Brauner becoming a vampire because he was really sad.

[kompwars]

Is LoS even canon?

[thernz]

So far it's self-contained in its own canon.

[Inccubus]

That's like Brauner becoming a vampire because he was really sad.

Nah. Becoming a vampire because you're really mad is cooler.

[Renonsgoods]

I think that Bram Stokers version became a vampire because of a form of demonic possession....there was never any mention of his wife's death having anything to do with it in the novel.  People need to stop confusing this character with the romantic slob from the 1992 movie.  The two have little in common.

Personally, I'm not overly fond of either of the Castlevania origin stories for Drac.  Both of them take the character too far from his roots as an evil vampiric monster.  But if I had to choose, I'd likely choose Gabriel's.  Yeah, the majority of his descent was presented only through narration from a third party (IMO they should have done this through an internal monologue like they did in the DLC)...but at least he was present and accounted for throughout the whole of the story.  I never could abide Mathias' entry into the series because he shows up at the two minute warning via a lame "AHA...I'm the REAL villain" plot device (EXACTLY the same way Satan shows up at the end of LoS).  Plus...you don't even get to fight the dude.  Not the resume of a future demonic vampire lord IMO.  Don't get me wrong though.  It played perfectly into the Dracula he eventually became...something of a joke.

As I said, I don't hail Gabriel as "the bestest Dracula EVA" or anything...I'm just picking the lesser of the two evils.  Mathias could've worked out to be a great start to the Dracula legend, but his initial showing was just too flat and implied.  Or maybe I just didn't care for his response to his wife's death.  Mathias loses his wife.....and says "I'm gonna become a vampire to piss God off" (about as epic as a child saying they're gonna refuse to clean their room to piss off their parents).  Gabe loses his wife.....and says "FUCK it all".  Speaking from experience, I can relate to that.

[crisis]

But Dracula shows up the last few minutes in EVERY Castlevania game

If we fought him at the end of LoI then people would say it contradicts CVIII since Trevor was the first to battle him.

The only reason Gabriel chose to become Dracula was because his enemies told him he would. Even after he clearly repents his sins & BEGS God to forgive him, probably a mere hours later he forgets all that & becomes a vampire anyway. That's pretty much it.

[thernz]

I thought Gabriel just wanted to talk to his wife again.
Then she lies to him and he goes on a globe-trotting quest to save the world, oh, and talk to her again because Zobek said the latter was an added bonus. NICE.

He was more like, "well that was for nothing " than "FUCK it all" after the ordeal imo. Then he became Dracula out of accident because, like, he needed to. Only person around with a high enough power level to save the world and all.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

The only main reason I need for prefering IGA's origin CV story (LOI) over Cox's (LOS) is that Iga kept the belmont vs dracula story intact and did not pull a asspull such as making a Belmont into Dracula for no apparent reason.

Gab becoming Dracula really just felt forced and out of nowhere.

Belmonts should be seperate from Dracula simple as that.

And by Cox changing that made me really dislike his origin story greatly since I am one of those fans who love the Belmont vs Dracula turmoil and believe that it should never be messed with.