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Castlevania Discussion Thread: Simon's Quest

Just finished the season

I'll admit, I didn't really see Drolta's betrayal and Bathory dying like that coming though the backstory parts started to pile up to show Bathory wasn't really the one calling the shots.

Speaking of them, reborn Drolta is very busted, on par with a 300 years old Alucard and she can now control her hair/appendages, walk in broad sunlight and create weapons and turn her limbs into them. Drolta is also 1000 years old. After she drinks Bathory's blood, she becomes Sekhmet herself (though incomplete). At that point, she's strong enough that Alucard has to give his all and be very serious, with eyes getting red and all. At that point, she's also capable of regenerating her sliced off forearm in seconds and unleashes a wave of energy that freezes Alucard and Richter in the air while they were lunging onto her. She can also project red energy.

Bathory isn't an interesting villain, far from Dracula of course or even Death from the first series (still my favorite character in this verse) but in battle, she's busted. Girl takes countless strikes from magic, whip, elemental powers, a frickin dragon and she keeps going, she's super acrobatics, suplexes the dragon several times, can project red energy and red-and-black flames, create barriers, deflect energy beams and cause immense shockwaves and an overwhelming aura. She resists possed by Sekhmet Annette attempt to unite their soul so she should get Willpower Manipulation (since her will allowed her to overcome Sekhmet's) and Soul Manipulation. Still don't know if her ability to summon eclipses can be used for a tier though, the season does confirm it's not the first time however. It takes Richter, Annette and her creatures and Juste supported by possessed Annette trying to take control Sekhmet soul (Bathory has two parts at this point) to defeat her.

Juste regains his magic in episode 4 and boy, does he pack up raw power. Fire beams, balls and flamethrower-like attacks, ice shields, knives, spikes, floating platforms,, golden electricity. Dude doesn't even use weapons anymore, only spells, his arsenal is even more diverse than Richter's and much more destructive.

Speaking of Alucard, he now has the ability to create a flaming meteor/ball of magma from his cape, can teleport in beams of light and has magical daggers that emit blue energy and that he can somehow recover no matter how far he throws them. He can also turn into a swarm of bats (though I don't remember if he could in the first series). Sekhmet Drolta holds her own and manages to hold his magma ball and redirect it to Richter but with difficulties.

Maria is now capable of summoning dark monsters and even a dragon she can ride. She has a lot of trouble at first because summoning them necessitates negative emotions and it's stated it can corrupt her. It's also implied she's basically corrupting her normal creatures into monstruous forms. Near the end of the season, she's much better at controlling them and can command them without much difficulties.

Richter is basically the same but a stronger version. During the final battle, he covers his hands with ice and deflect Alucard's magma ball after it was thrown to him by Drolta. After Sekhmet's soul left Drolta's body, he tanks a brutal punch to the face from her (spitting some blood aside with a defiant look) and punches her with his magic, causing blue fractures to appear on her body, and can react to her appendages and strikes, even avoiding some of them without moving from his spot, just tilting his head. Eventually, Alucard lands him his sword and when he takes it, the blade becomes charged with blue energy and becomes much thicker (can't remember what it references but it looks like the Moonlight Sword from the Fromsoftware games) and slices Drolta in half, the impact being so strong it even slices a tower or building part.

And feats aside, Old Man Coyote really intrigues me. It's heavily implied he's a demon (one of his names is Mephistopheles after all), if not Satan himself but some theorize he might be a reborn Death. I would love if it it was the case.
 
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