I always thought that Van Helsing was some where down the line was related to the Belmont's.
I had it in my work that they where the last to keep the whip until the Belmont's retuned. And it makes sense really, as he was a BIG part of the book, sooo its no shock that he would have a link to the Belmonts.
I never saw it playing out just like the book.
it makes a ton more sense just being an adaptation of the book like the 1992 film.
It wasn't really anything like the book at all, BUT it did have hints of it. Like having Arthur Holmwood in it, and that sort of thing. And I think its the same when it comes to CV, I don't think it follows the book 110%.
And thats ok, I think it fits better then trying to fit the two tougher.
As far as we know, Portrait of Ruin upheld the connection by doing nothing at all to revise things in that regard. It's a straight up sequel that largely plays the predecessor perfectly straight with the exception of a few twists the original had no way of implementing: overuse of the VK can kill a "impure" blooded Belmont descendant, for example.
That being said, and this is strictly an aside, I do wonder what the whip's operative standards of "pure blood" are, since by the rules of marriages and indeed general reproduction, bloodlines become more and more varied and muddled over generations by design to lessen the chances of dangerous mutations and deformities associated with inbreeding. I highly doubt the Belmonts engage in hardcore incest to keep things "purely Belmont", so by the time Johnny Morris is swinging from chandeliers in World War 1, the Belmonts and the Morrises were probably equally "pure" and mutt-blooded, especially if one ran a DNA test comparing a Belmont and a Morris in 1917 with Leon Belmont from nearly a thousand years earlier. I mean, even if the Morrises were descended from a daughter who didn't become the "Belmont Heir", is her blood and therefore descendants "less pure" for having not been the heir?
These lineage-based magical locks are confusing as heck, and I generally roll my eyes at them for exactly this reason -- such a lock could only work effectively within a few generations of whoever served as the genetic baseline, after which point things get muddied enough that either it doesn't work for anyone at all or it starts working for a whole bunch of unintended false positives. The longer that seal exists, the less reliable it's going to get.
Methinks maybe the Belmonts should have thought that one through a little better.
Or it's a lot more recent, having been placed sometime in the 19th century, in which case... yeah I guess it might still work in WWII. Maaaaybe.
End side rant. Thanks for tuning into yet another episode of "Lumi overthinks absolutely trivial bullshit"!
And its a simple aswer really God's will, science has 100% no place here.
Anyone who was from the main line was a pure belmont,
like let say that that leon had a sister or brother, and they went on to make the morris family.
BUT leon who got the whip and made it into the Vampire Killer would be considerd a part of the main line. thats the thing you're missing. HE made the whip complate and that is what makes his line pure. Its all about the Whip.
Thus no matter how long the line whent or who they married as long as they came from leon. There a pure blooded Belmont.