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[sonofdracula]

Who: Alucard and Soma
What: Needing to find things out for himself, a certain dhampir returns from the dream docks and is feeling things.
Where: Cloak and Dagger
When: After the masquerade
Notes: There will be spoilers for season 2 of Castlevania within.


[ It's at some point during the early evening that the dhampir finds himself outside the Cloak and Dagger; he's beginning to see this shop a little more frequently in an unexpected sort of way. For a moment, he stands there, wondering if this is wise considering what he has learned... what he has seen and the ways in which it grips so tightly at a heart that is broken for various reasons. Why does he find himself coming here? Why does he find himself searching out Soma like this? While the dhampir lacks what others would consider to be friends within his life, he knows so little of the other within the shop aside from what he's been told and yet... who else is there really for him to go to concerning this? Who else could... perhaps understand?

He lingers for only a moment longer before he finally steps inside the shop and he stands there, gently allowing the door to fall shut behind him and strands of blond to fall around his face. There is a lack of confidence within the dhampir, fingers tightly clutching at the hilt of his blade at his side, but not to restrain himself from lashing out. It's more to keep himself grounded, to not slip away into something akin to heartbreak. ]

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[sonofdracula]

[ He's silent as he listens to Soma explain though doesn't come to touch his glass. At least... not yet. To think that there is more to his father than he had allowed himself to let on... it's not so surprising, given the things he had seen his father visualize and "create", both physically and within books.

It's only after a moment and with his gaze still lingering on the glass that he thinks to ask. ]

What is it that you mean to tell me? Am I to inherit this curse?

[ Being his son and all. ]

[notquitedracula]

No. That... isn't really how it works. The curse seeks out people with very specific abilities - ones which you do not possess. [These will have to be left vague, for now, since season 3 may well turn everything we think we know on its head.] They seem to crop up about once a century, perhaps a handful at a time.

I was one of four, born in my time, who had those traits. It's possible that I inherited them from my ancestors - I can't confirm, but what I remember of your father's generals suggests one of my ancestors was Hector, who was himself a candidate for his resurrection.

[sonofdracula]

Hector.

[ He says the name softly, eyes still lingering on that glass before him. ]

The castle... I've been left in charge of it, as well as the Belmont house which the castle sits atop.

[notquitedracula]

One of your father's pet forgemasters. That may give you some idea of the abilities his legacy seeks out.

[Ah, now this is new information to him. Stories from when Dracula was out of circulation.]

Don't get attached to it. What Hector does to it when he transmutes your father's curse is... well. You'll understand in about three years.

[sonofdracula]

It seems I planned to sleep... to make my father's castle my grave...

[ Words he can still hear himself softly mutters to his comrades through what he had seen when "asleep" at the dream docks. ]

...but instead, the Belmont left me his home in my care... to make of it what I wished, whatever that may be.

[ While fleeting, he allows his eyes to lift from the glass to Soma, dropping back down then. ]

I see them within the castle... my father... my mother... ghosts roaming the halls.