Some abilities for Soma Cruz (Castlevania)

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

Here are some unconventional abilities Soma Cruz can obtain via collected souls. A few of these abilities are already on his page, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to name them here as well.

Some Aria of Sorrow abilities:

Alura Une --- Description: Restores health. --- Self-healing.

Dryad --- Description: Grows stronger by stealing HP from its enemies. --- Soma throws a plant that drains the ensnared enemy of health, one fourth of which is given to Soma.

Gargoyle --- Description: Immunity to petrification.

Killer Doll --- Description: Mesmerizes the enemy. --- Hypnosis. Rather ineffective in-game.

Killer Mantle --- Description: Ability to swap HP and MP of enemies.

Lubicant --- Description: Gains strength as it loses HP.

Mandragora --- Description: Kills enemies with scream. --- He throws a weird plant with sound manipulation.

Shadow Knight --- Description: His shadow fights beside him. --- Think Dante's Doppelganger ability, but a little less versatile.

Succubus --- Description: Absorb enemies' HP when an ordinary attack is delivered.


Some Dawn of Sorrow abilities:

Imp --- Swaps a monster's MP with its HP.

Succubus --- Regain HP by drinking blood. --- Charge at an enemy to drink their blood to regain health.

Iron Golem --- Description : A golem with an impenetrable durability. It has no known weaknesses. --- Transformation and Invincibility.


Sources: Various guides on GameFaqs, will provide links if needed.


Ok, I request that the following be added to Soma's list of abilities: Hypnosis, Transformation (more specific than shapeshifting), Duplication, Absorption (of life force, souls, and mischellaneous energy), Sound Manipulation (he's got it in other forms than just the shockwaves), Self-Healing, Invulnerability, Statistics Amplification, Immunity to Pertrification

I'm not quite sure what to make of some of Soma's capabilities of changing the statistics of enemies. Furthermore, should Dracula possess all of Soma's abilities, since he, too, possesses the Power of Dominance? Input is highly welcome.

 

[Xanxussama1010]

Soma's alibities should be ok to add IMO.

Not sure about Dracula since there're not any feats show about he absorbs several type of souls like Soma. So I can't confirm that.

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

Soma's ability to absorb souls is possible through the Power of Dominance, which the Dark Lord (Dracula) is destined to always have. Therefore, Dracula should have anything Soma has. Besides, Dracula draws his power from Chaos, the source of all demonkind. The only weird thing about all of this would be that the Belmonts have some crazy resistances, but we frequently see them resist petrification, poison, time manipulators, almost every soul/mind hax you can think of, and more, anyway.

 

[Antvasima]

I suppose that this seems reasonable.

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

@Ant

Thank you for your support! I take it you approve of adding these abilities to Soma's page and adding Soma's abilities to Dracula's page?

On another note, would it be ok if I made a profile for Chaos sometime in the future? It is the being from which some important characters scale, and Soma's ability to fight abstracts being on his profile threw me for a loop for a bit before I realized it referred to his defeating Chaos. I'm going through the Chrono games again to help Cal out with some things, but I can make the Chaos profile as soon as I'm done with that and have read a certain Castlevania light novel.

EDIT: Oh, cool, I found the light novel. Now I possess the power of citations! Check it out, Xan!

 

[Antvasima]

Adding them to Soma's page seems fine. I have no idea about Dracula, or Chaos.

 

[Xanxussama1010]

You can freely create Chaos profile if you have knowledge about him.

I'm ok about Dracula, but I'm not the one who expert in Castlevania enough to decide that, sorry.

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

Ok, it seems it would be best to wait before adjusting Dracula's profile or creating one for Chaos because A): I don't how how to create profiles yet, anyway; and B): pretty much everything on Dracula's page is accurate and supports my claims, but he is in dire need of citations for some of his unconventional abilities (drawing power from Chaos, his impressive regen, etc.). He's so complicated I may need to write a blog explaining the strangeness of it all. Soma's a-ok, though.

 

[Xanxussama1010]

I think create page isn't really hard. But if you have a problem for do that, I can create it for you if you can give Chaos data to me.

 

[Antvasima]

Here is a page with advice for creating profiles:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Standard_Format_for_Character_Profiles

 

[Follow_Doctor_Freeman]

Thank you both very much! I'll try to get some pictures and citations first; then I will try my hand at creating a page next week once I feel confident that I am up to the task. In the meantime, Xan, do you think you could find some other people who are knowledgeable of Castlevania? I feel there should be no need for dispute if I provide citations, but it would be good to have people who can help me keep my logic sound and accountable.

 

[Xanxussama1010]

Well, I think Darkanine and Matthew should be best choice. They're main leaders to bring massive Castlevania update at all.

 

[Sparda_20000000]

Do the Lord of shadows charters have their own pages

 

[Xanxussama1010]

^ No, but you can create their profiles if you have knowledge about them.

 

[Sparda_20000000]

The only castlevaina game I've played is symphony of the night