Topic: What else do the Belmonts do?

[X]

Victor Belmont is an oddity, as we do not know of his whereabouts.  We know that although he rejected the title, some force that manipulates Time (we should ask St.Germaine or Aeon) pulls him to Sonia's time, thus creating an alternate timeline.

Pulls him to Sonia's time? Sonia was of the 1450's and Resurrection takes place in 1666. Just before Simon's time would be more accurate. Just FYI    I also read something interesting about Resurrection's back story not too long ago; specifically regarding Sonia. Apparently she wasn't brought to the future from the 1400's. Instead she was Resurrected from the grave. I think that's why the game was titled resurrection. It would also explain why she's sporting what appears to be a set of Holy armor.

[mistressalucard]

We don't really hear much of Leon's life prior to the game, but I personally got the feeling he was of noble birth and his parents were gone so he still had his lands when he went back.  I know the church held a lot of political sway but if he was well respected and he came back with what happened, my guess is he either reclaimed his lands or gathered supplies and headed to search for Mathias the rest of his days.  I can see him becoming very fixated on finding him but he never did, so..  enter the wife and son who he passes the story down too.

Fast forward to Trevor finally runs into Mathias/Dracula, ect

[The Puritan]

Didn't some source (one of the artbooks maybe) say Leon's indeed an orphan and became a knight at 16? Don't quote me on that though.

[Nagumo]

You are correct. The source is the LoI Perfect Guide.

[Tuxedo Mark]

Sonia: Worked for her grandfather, probably apothecary

The Japanese manual says Sonia is the daughter of aristocrats and lives in a mansion.

I'm not sure what kind of work that she'd be doing.

I imagine, in between training sessions with the whip, she engages in upper-class "snob" hobbies (hunting, horseback riding, piano-playing, etc.), lays any boy or girl of her choice, and takes over the aristocratic duties (whatever those are) from her deceased(?) parents.

[uzo]

I hope you don't think that description mirrors reality in those times.

[Mooning Freddy]

Juste: Interior Decorator

LMAO!

Simon: Lumberjack
Reinhart: Bodybuilder
Nathan: Horseman?
Maxim: Bullfighter!

[X]

The Japanese manual says Sonia is the daughter of aristocrats and lives in a mansion.

I'm not sure what kind of work that she'd be doing.

I imagine, in between training sessions with the whip, she engages in upper-class "snob" hobbies (hunting, horseback riding, piano-playing, etc.), lays any boy or girl of her choice, and takes over the aristocratic duties (whatever those are) from her deceased(?) parents.

I've heard about Sonia being from a well-off family as well, but I think the "snob" bit is way off the mark. Through the whole in-game story Sonia does not, at any time, show the traits described in the above. She has common sense, an iron will, does not complain about her current occupation (Vampire hunter), and is willing to lay down her life for those who are suffering under the tyrannical grip of Dracula. And in reality many aristocratic families are not snobby. That's more of a recent development through manga and romance novels.

[Thomas Belmont]

Okay, we know that Dracula comes back ever 100 years or so and then who ever the Belmont de jour is has to go and stop him, but what else do they do? 

I mean, not every Belmont is going to end up fighting Drac, right?  So what are they doing inbetween Dracula revivals?  For that matter, what do they do after they put Dracula back in the ground?  After Simon killed Dracula, put him back together, and killed him again, I can't really picture him just settling down and hanging up the whip.  Simon I can see just going off and hunting other big evil monster masterminds around the world (which could be good for a few spin-off games) but some of these guys I just can't picture doing that sort of thing. 

I wonder if any of the family ever feels like they just aren't going to get the chance to prove themselves.  "Dracula was killed 15 years before you were born.  You're probably never going to get a chance to fight him.  You're just going to have to settle with fighting Graf Orlock and Count Wampyre."

The Belmonts are vampire/monster hunters. I'm sure there are many vampires and monsters running around in the Castlevania universe, take Walter Bernhard and Joachim for example, and that the Belmonts are always needed.

[A-Yty]

I wonder if any of the family ever feels like they just aren't going to get the chance to prove themselves.  "Dracula was killed 15 years before you were born.  You're probably never going to get a chance to fight him.  You're just going to have to settle with fighting Graf Orlock and Count Wampyre." 

Richter. He was under a spell, but that desire to be a vampire hunter for the rest of his life didn't come from nowhere, did it?

I'm thinking something like exorcism. They have a couple hundred years worth of experience with fighting supernatural creatures both corporeal and non-corporeal. If there was ever a time when demons and vampires would have been seemingly absent, they'd probably be fighting on a mental level. And if not that, being a soldier. With all that combat experience, I can't imagine them warlord chromosomes being used to plant flowers.

Victor might have been interesting in this sense. I think he was supposed to be a mercencary with no interest in altruistic bad guy killing.

Hey, a modern Belmont could be a psychiatrist! Battling personal demons and the ghouls of the mind. Make that into a psychological horror game, Konami.

[A-Yty]

I've heard about Sonia being from a well-off family as well, but I think the "snob" bit is way off the mark. Through the whole in-game story Sonia does not, at any time, show the traits described in the above. She has common sense, an iron will, does not complain about her current occupation (Vampire hunter), and is willing to lay down her life for those who are suffering under the tyrannical grip of Dracula. And in reality many aristocratic families are not snobby. That's more of a recent development through manga and romance novels.

Leon was a baron, but he wasn't snobby at all.

[X]

Leon was a baron, but he wasn't snobby at all.

No he wasn't. And that may have been due to most of his time training as a Knight. When learn about the art of war, horsemanship, archery, sword fighting, helping those less fortunate, and whatever else comes with the Knight's title then you really don't have time nor the luxury to be ignorant to others.

[FireSeraphim]

I have my own set of theories on what Trevor, Simon, Juste and Richter did as regular jobs when they were not dealing with Dracula.

Trevor & Simon: More likely they were both mercenaries, the gear that both of them are wearing is not something I would see on a farmer or a huntsman in the 15th and 17th century respectively.

Sidenote #1: I wouldn't be suprised if in the Castlevania timeline the Bohemian War was a retroactive way for the church to cover up the fact that Trevor Belmont was fighting Dracula whereas Simon might have actually fought in the Nine Year's War.
 
Sidenote #2: This would mean that the events of Simon's Quest occured just a year after the end of the Nine Year's War, Imagine the implications of Simon heading strait back to the battlefield after kicking Dracula's ass the first time only for the War and his wounds from Drac causing him to be in the state he is in CV2: Simon's Quest

(Jeez Fire, way to amplify Simon's badassery so that not only did he kicked Dracula's ass twice but he fricking survived the Nine Year's War)

Juste: I intially though that Juste might have been a merchant of the Hanseatic League, but I recently read the wikipedia article on said league and really the likeliness of Juste making a small fortune working with the league now seems rather slim since the Hanseatic League was going downhill in 1748 due to the fact that the world was changing around it and the League couldn't keep up with the changes. However the league did persist till 1862, so it might still be possible for Juste to be a somewhat successful league merchant.

Richter: He might have been a merchant as well, although an independent one. The way Richter and Juste both dress practically screams 18th century merchant to me since the nobility weren't the only ones wearing Justacorps like Juste's and Richter's. Infact I would say that both of them were well off enough to be able to afford the clothes they wear but otherwise still did work, I notice that most of you guys prefer to go with the "Belmonts as nobility" angle, Instead I prefer to see the Belmonts as common down to earth people like you and me. Heroes who work to make a decent living, but sometimes tend to get lucky.

[Dracula9]

It's obvious, isn't it?

They Trevorse the countryside, Granting graces upon the oppressed and Syphaning the evil out of the world one bit at a time. The seismic pressure of all that bad mojo is measured on their Richter scale (patent still pending after hundreds of years), and they go out and smack the crap out of it. After all that, though, they go to the taverns and end up Ralphing all over the place and swing around on church steeples, becoming the Bell Mounts.

But, on a serious note, I would imagine that they branch out and take care of more isolated areas of monster infestations or other Greater vampires, similar to the Lecarde or Morris families did for a time. I'm sure they also take a ton of time to keep up their training, which is just as spiritual and mental as it is physical, given that a number of the family were agents of God.

[X]

Richter: He might have been a merchant as well, although an independent one. The way Richter and Juste both dress practically screams 18th century merchant to me since the nobility weren't the only ones wearing Justacorps like Juste's and Richter's. Infact I would say that both of them were well off enough to be able to afford the clothes they wear but otherwise still did work, I notice that most of you guys prefer to go with the "Belmonts as nobility" angle, Instead I prefer to see the Belmonts as common down to earth people like you and me. Heroes who work to make a decent living, but sometimes tend to get lucky.

In SotN and the DXC Richter is wearing a type of nobleman's outfit. But in the original Rondo of Blood Richter is sporting a type of martial arts Gi and he knows martial arts as well. I think that besides his vampire hunter training, he was also tutored under a martial arts master.