Chain 228: Castlevania (Netflix)

Chain 228: Castlevania (Netflix)

Location: Targoviste, Wallachia, 1476
Identity: [-200] Lord
Drawbacks: [+1500] Curse of Ellis, Ancestral Angst, Growing Horde, "The Good People", Cursed Existence, Bloody Tears, End Times

[100/2300]  Fortunate Indeed
[700/2300]  Your Dad's Fcking Dracula
[Free]      Pale Beauty
[1300/2300] Vampire Lord
[1400/2300] Bottle Of Blood
[Free]      Lord's Garb
[Free]      Servants
[1800/2300] Ancestral Home
[2200/2300] Travelling Castle
[2300/2300] Companion Import: Demona, Conspiracy

"I've been trying to put this off, you know."
>"Have you? Your actions speak otherwise."
"Oh, not that, this meeting with you. I've been... occupying myself out there, in wider the world."
>"As a monster might justify to themselves. Going out, saving what you consider innocents, at the price of many more lives."
"If I've learned anything over the years, it's that good and evil are typically little more than labels. I think it's safe to say that it's not the case here, though."
>"You can say that with a straight face when people are being burned alive?"
"Oh, no, you misunderstand me."
>"Enlighten me, then."
"I'm not saying it's good and evil at play in this world. They're ideals. Selflessness versus selfishness, to an extent. It's selfless to give of yourself to try to improve the world. It's selfish to force the world to obey your commands, even if it means you can make the trains run on time."
>"So the ends do not justify the means?"
"Once in a while, maybe, but the circumstances for that aren't as dire in this world. No, we don't have black and white, at least in this era, we've got black and gray. Might improve in a few centuries, but right now? No."
>"Then what is your solution?"
"To which, the black or the gray?"
>"Both."
"Try to get the church to smarten up, get the people in charge to act in a more mature way, and kill the monsters that go bump in the night."
>"You're one of those monsters, are you not, my child?"
"See, this is why I hate Draculas. One sank his fangs into me and now every time I meet them they're convinced they're my sire. In any event... I don't go 'bump'. I go 'hello, my name is Crux, you killed my wife, prepare to die'."

I can understand how Dracula could kill Galatea. If he hadn't sent half an army to do it, I'd have called bullshit, but he's got unholy magic on his side, and Galatea had the power to eradicate an army... as long as she didn't get struck by any fell magic.

Magic which I have seized and claimed at my own after killing him, while I, my clones, and the Conspiracy work to eradicate the rest of his army of darkness, incidentally.

I just wish I could understand how the fuck it is that I can't resurrect her. It's not in the afterlife that is a part of me, either. Did her soul go back to the universe it belonged in once she died?

As a final fuck-you to Dracula, I stole his castle, so at least there's that.