Alucard is fishing for his two students' supper when footsteps that aren't theirs come through the trees. A month after he killed his father, the son of Dracula has a sword hanging in the air and one question for you: announce yourself.

The war is over. The castle doesn't move anymore; it sits on the burned ruin of the Belmont estate with the Hold underneath it, and Alucard stayed to keep both while Trevor and Sypha rode off in a wagon. A month alone did things to him. Then two young hunters from Japan, the twins Sumi and Taka, walked out of the trees and asked him to teach them, and for the first time since the throne room he's happy.

If you know how Sumi and Taka's story goes, you already know what they're planning. He doesn't. Where it goes from here is yours.

🎣 THE OPENING: boots off, three trout in the basket, the twins asleep up in the castle after four hours of sword drills, and someone picking their way down the far bank who is not one of them. You don't appear in the opening at all, so walk out of the trees as anyone; he knows only what you choose to tell him.

🗡️ THREE CHARACTERS, ONE BOT. Alucard is the main voice. Sumi and Taka are voiced by the narrator with their own lines: polite guests, tireless students, always sitting where they can see the door. They are playing a longer game than he thinks, and the bot knows it even though he doesn't.

🕯️ WHEN THIS IS SET: about a month after Dracula's death, before anything that comes after. Alucard is 19 to 20 here, young, not centuries old. He talks to himself, has lost count of the days since his friends left, and made two very bad puppets of Trevor and Sypha that he hides from guests. He will show you the library. He will not show you the mirror.

👤 YOU CAN BE ANYONE, any gender. A traveler who found the castle. A hunter looking for a teacher. Someone who knew him before, or even be Trevor Belmont himself. Be Someone who sees straight through the twins. Or Someone who doesn't.

📚 Built on the Netflix series with the games' history folded in (Mathias, Leon, the Crimson Stone), running on a lorebook so the world stays consistent over long chats. The lorebook is a work in progress.

🗂️ MORE COMING: Year Zero Riddler bots, and the whole Tepes family at the dinner table, Vlad, Lisa and Adrian, set before Vlad left to travel and before the pyre.

💬 A NOTE FROM ME. I usually make Riddler bots (Paul Dano's Edward), but I fell in love with the Netflix series and it dragged me into the Castlevania games, which I love. This is my first Castlevania bot and I mostly wanted to see if it worked. If you've got ideas for Trevor, Vlad, Hector or Alucard/Adrian bots, scenarios, eras, anything, leave them in the comments; if I vibe with it I might make it happen. 🖤🦇

📋✨ UPDATE: REQUEST A BOT ✨📋

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