EDIT: YAY! I am now un-popular! FEED THE MONSTER!
HERE's YOUR FRIKKEN MEME BACK!
But now I wiil torture you with something just as pointless, if not more so than one sentence.
I WILL BLABBLE ON ABOUT MY FANDOMNESSESSESSESESDEDEDS!! YOu're better off making some snide joke with a tl:dr tagged onto it.
WARNING!:Extremly long fan babble ahead!
Excuse me if the squeeling makes your brain implode. Just going on a little drooling fan rant, so forgive me for the utter pointless ness.
There is too much in the castlevania world to discover, so it'll be a while before I get out of that ditch. Seriousy, it's based on real history, myths, legends, things like that, so it has me going all over the place trying to grasp a true understanding of it all.
One unexpected topic it lead me to, was Vampire Hunter D. I now consider it my temporary castlevania movie untill the real (and not crappy) one comes out.
Really, right from the beggining, it had me screaming (in the words of an over enthuiastic Minibosses fan) "CASTLE FUKKIN VANIA! HELLS YEAW!"
The main girl of the first movie has a whip, and an uncanny resembalance to sonia belmont. D himself was revealed to be a dunpeal, and the son of dracula (at that point, I saw it as being nodded at by castlevania legends). He also wasn't very talkative, and the girl actually quoted maria renard on that. Not to mention, that famous speech from symphony of the night with the horrible voice acting made an eerie appearrance. He even starts with a variation of 'die monster! You don't belong in this world!'. Seriously. Even the original synced up perfectly. I'll probably make a youtube vid on that when I get ahold of the sound file. Or maybe I'll just be really evil and do the voice acting myself *cackles* Also, the werewolf dude here errily resembled cornell from those horrible N64 games. The main vampire, though not dracula, does have a scene where he's looming over the girl he's about to kidnap, which looks like the dracula from castlevania II, simon's quest. Also, BEWBS LULZ!!11one!!1
The second one had Carmilla in it, and that was enough for me (her hair made her look like a katamari lol). It also had an illusion sequence with the dunpeal and his mother, that relates to symphony of the night. A good amount of focus was about the love between a vampire and a human, so that's a referance to the underlying non-obvious in Alucard's story. SRSLY LOL.
And now i'm just running around the house like a headless chicken at this little discovery, and immediately trying to find some way to weave D into castlevania. Maybe I might have him replace Blade in that verry crappy fanfiction. Now I just need someone to replace buffy. God DAMN that was a crappy fic. Almost made me barf if it wasn't for the fact that it took place in 2001. Me being the overobsessive fan that I am, I'm sitting there like "Oh, SH*T. I MISSED IT!" And now i'm spawning crack theories as to why the twin towers fell, because dracula lost power and castlevania fell and all that crap. TERRORISTS ARE DRACULA ENTHUSIASTS! OH NOES!
Speaking of fiction, the one thing I can truly say that belongs with material like 'blood debts', is a wonderful re-telling of that barfalicious 'worlds of power' book. It's title escapes me, but it's actually not that bad for one of those 'dude get's transported back in time to save the world' genres. AND HE'S BLACK. YUD. It actually seems kinda cliche at the begninning, but it's probably the only good fiction you'll find about castlevania II:Simon's Quest. Wonderful descriptions, and apparently one of the shopkeepers has a huge pile of stuffed animals in the back room for some reason.
At this point, I started to doubt the power of Teh Belmondo. The end batle with dracula just consisted of a distraction, a decoy, and then a litteral backstab. Then I thought...'He isn't really all that powerful. He just has some weird deal with death that allows him to come back every once in a while, and he only has the illusion of power, because through this pact with death, he controlls..the dead. So without his minions, he's pretty wimpy.' True dat. Also, I recognize the Irony that death has to bring him back to life.
One of the things that really bothered me about the seires is all of the big gaping holes in the storyline, and the fact that chracters are being removed isn't helping. Because some releases were in japan only, and some of the games were omitted from the cannon, I counted three separate storylines. They got rid of legends for the gameboy, because it was just an excuse to make a cameo of Alucard, following his huge success in SotN. Sonia belmont was supposed to be the first belmont, and she supposedly had relations with the dunpeal, attributing to the belmonts incredible powers. Castlevania, harmony of dissonance, was just so damned crappy it gave me a headache from just watching a playthrough. It looked like somehting that belonged on an NES. That's why it was omitted. Also, Just (pronounced joost) had white hair, so I always thoguht that if legends weren't gone, that would be because of a receccive hair color gene from alucard. Heh. just had to get that out. Some releases like Dracula X: The Rondo of Blood, only came out in japan, so when plain old Dracula X was released in america for the SNES, it was seen as a weak attempt at a remake. In japan however, it's a sequal to Rondo, appropriately titled, Dracula XX. I guess richter was being a little irresponsible, as annete and maria got captured AGAIN. It's said that Maria is a distant decendant of the belmonts, but annete is her sister, which means Richter is about to marry into the family. OOPS.
Another continuity error is in super castlevania 4. In japan, it was merely a remake (and absolutely ravishing, eyeball massaging remake mind you) of the original castlevania. But in Amereica, they decided to fiddle around with the plot, so that means that Simon is facing off against the big bat for a third time. Here's the messed up part: Dracula, if left untampered by cult freaks, rises on his own every hundred or so years. There were no followers to kick him out of his coffin, so that means Simon is a hundred or so years old in america. LOL WAT DA FUX UP WIT DAT!!? Also, I like to call him thunder thighs because of his sprite.
There are some weird differences between american and foriegn releases. Like for castlevania III: Dracula's Curse for the NES, when you meet one of the people you take along with you, you shake thier hand after accepting the offer. In america, trevor belmont is left handed, which I suppose is just a lazy animation with his whipping sprite. In the japanese version, he's right handed, which makes it almost physically impossible for him to shake hands with these people. But he does it anyway. HE'S JUST THAT COOL.
Another thing it lead me to, while not directly relating to castlevania, was Gankutsuou, the count of monte cristo. Funnilly, I stumbled upon it while watching a variation of the song of the count (the one where the word 'count' is bleeped out) using clips from Gankutsuou. I saw blue skin, fangs, the trademark pointy beard, and the miscievious smile, and immediately thoguht, 'OMG! VAMPIRE! Maybe I can relate to CASTLE FUKKIN VANIA!'
Sadly, I couldn't even find the first video anywhere on youtube, so I went poking around the vast interbuttz for some info on the series. What caught my eye was how much of a whiny bitch albert was portrayed, and how a lot of fangirls of the seires noticed the yaoiness in it. AGAIN, I REPEAT: IT WAS A MAN HUG! SURE HE WAS...oh dammit. Frack. The dammned possibilities. EVIDENCE! OH NOES!
AGAIN, I REPEAT: IT WAS A MAN HUG! But twas still very cute when I got to see it. ^_^
Anyway, when I finally got my hands on the whole shebang, It blew my mind. I was blewed. A lot of the objects such as hair, clothes, and an occaisional prop is colored using photoshop texures, giving it a very weird look, that takes some getting used ot in the first few episodes. After you get over the initial shock, everything else dulls in comparison.
Character develpoment is absoluteley wonderful. And the count! I was once again screaming the obvious: PIMPNESS! And, 'Edmond Dantes'? A mexican pimp? PWNAGE.
Because of this little label, the cane he walks around with was dubbed 'The pimp stick'.
Unlike most evil dudes, this dude actually sees his plan come to fruition. Most evil people only get to about phase two before the door breaks down, and they're cornered by the protagonist spewing crappy one-liners. This dude, even though he died, still got his revenge in the end. NOICE.
The only complaint I have with it is the opening theme. Mushyness has it's limits.
Not only that, but me being the drooling fangirl that I am, I have a few new victims for my bishie list too.
I'm getting sort of tired, but I like to make you suffer by forcing you to read this, so I'm going to keep going untill I pass out. *cackles evilly*
What draws me to a series is usually the music, occaisionally the art, and sometimes because I watched my dad play it when I was little. In rare instances, I just stumble upon it (as was the case with halo).
Oddworld was a combination of all four. I just found exodus lying around in the overfilled playstation box, so I popped it in to see what it was about. I really didn't get all that far, so I just gave up after a while. Dad got re-interested in it, so him being the more experianced gamer, I watched him play it. For the first time in my life, I was amazed, awed, and slackjawed at the utter beuty of this game. Being as I have never gone to the circus or ridden a bike (that statement still stands to this day), it was the most amazing thing to ever hit my tiny eyeballs. So I dropped yoshi in favor of abe.
Of course, when I get into something, I REALLY GET INTO SOMETHING, so I went on the internet, and did searches and all of the like. That was the first time I found out that I was several game generations behind. Munch's oddysee was already announced.
I found out that I was really playing the second game, not the first. Being a seires purist, I wanted to get the first game and finish that first before anything else. Of course, me being a young and inexperianced gamer, I soon turned to cheats. The farthes I ever got was 'Return to rupture farms', which, without a game shark, is a bitch. So I just skipped the rest of the game alltogether, and did the movie cheat to see what the endings were like.
The second one was very easy, due to there being a non-gameshark invincibility cheat. YUS.
During that time, I never realized the curse put upon me. I was doomed to be several game generations behind for the rest of my life, by just waiting for the prices to drop.
Even now, while people are Pwning noobs with Halo 3, or smashing brothers on nintendo Wii, i'm stuck here with just me, and my hundred year old Atari. *SOB, BAAAAWL!* And SNES/NES twin. I FEEL SO OLD NOW! And a gameboy player. AND SO NERDY!
ONE...FRIKKEN...WORD...FRIK...
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Also: BEWARE THE PIMP STICK!!! 
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ONE LAST THOUGHT: AND WHILE YOU'RE DYING I'LL STILL BE ALIVE.
LAST ONE, I SWEAR!: ..............
