Topic: A new female lead?

[K.G. Morder]

It far predates the USA, and predates Britain too for that matter.

Ah, alright then. Still though, not every place in the world does it, was the point.

[Nagumo]

If they would ever want to have a female Belmont as a character, I doubt they find themselves unable to do so because of surname complications.   

[TheouAegis]

Metroid-style speed-run female Belmont!
No, no, I don't mean beating the game under a certain amount of time let's you see her naked or in just her bra and panties. This is IGA we're talking about! Beat the game in record time and it's secretly revealed to you that she's a cross-dresser! And that's the "good ending"!

[crisis]

[thernz]

If they would ever want to have a female Belmont as a character, I doubt they find themselves unable to do so because of surname complications.   

Or they could just not care about that. It's not like the process of picking the heir is detailed.

[X]

Maybe IGA should bring back Sonia Belmont into a new game and give her a new story?

Only as long as he doesn't degrade her into a second-rate character or something any less then what she's supposed to be; A warrior.

[TheouAegis]

She's almost packing in that pic.
That's the "Bad Ending" in IGA's version.

[Nagumo]

Or they could just not care about that. It's not like the process of picking the heir is detailed.

Yes, I thought about that too. And it's kind of what I meant.   

[uzo]

Though it hasn't been explicitly mentioned, it's implied that the heir carries on the whip through the bloodline and passes that whip and their skills down through to the children they raise. Which is why it makes sense that all the Belmont warriors have been male and kept their surname. There may also be the explanation that Sara's soul only accepts male Belmont warrior heirs, otherwise it sucks the life out of you (see also; John, Jonathan).

I do recall a curious comment in Harmony of Dissonance though, where Maxim wanted Juste's title which suggested it was the heir's title but also suspiciously named "Vampire Killer". I'm not sure if it was explicitly said, but it sounds like Maxim wanted to be the heir to the whip. Anyone have any clarification on that and or a better translation from the original?

[TheouAegis]

But a lot of male genealogical traits are passed down through the mother, from grandfather to mother. A purely male Belmont line would degrade the lineage over time. At some point in the Belmont history, a woman had to posess the power of the Belmont bloodline in order to pass it down to her son, otherwise eventually the Belnades/Vernandez (transliteration can be a bitch) bloodline would eventually overtake the Belmont bloodline.

[Husky]

also remember Belmonts aren't the only ones to weild Vampire Killer, If memory serves me correctly wasn't Nathan's from Cotm, (I can't remember if EGO/IGA removed this from cannon) sirname Graves. and Reinhart's sirname was Schnider, both weilded Vampire Killer, and never had menchion of ill effects, but then again the CV time line has been so poluted with BS that cannon is extreamly questionable.

Sooo Maybe they can do the While the Belmont clan was out of action and the whip was changing hands and being held for a heir have one of them be a female protagonist, a strong woman   

[K.G. Morder]

Nathan used the "Hunter's Whip". It wasn't vampire Killer. (could be a mistranslation, but its not the only time a non "Vampire Killer" whip has been mentioned, the second being Julius' apprentice in that novel, so its not a stretch.)

And Reinheart was originally supposed to be a Belmont character. Schneider Belmont if I recall.

[Husky]

Julius was in a novel?

[K.G. Morder]

Akumajo Dracula: Kabuchi no Tsuisoukyoku (rough translation: Demon Castle Dracula: Ricordanza of the God's Abyss)

Takes place a year after Dawn. Soma and Mina make a cameo role.

[Zydalc]

Shanoa was a step in the right direction,

Oh one more thing to add, The entire Order of Ecclesia game is just a side story which made Shanoa irrelevant and her involvement is not remembered in the main storyline which also shows that IGA is obviously sexist.