Beyond what drove her to the castle, beyond her quest for knowledge or the simple mask of kind intentions... deep down, Lisa was hungry too.
Turning Point is a Castlevania (2017) fanfic written by lurker_writes, and can be read on Archive of Our Own here
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This fanfic provides examples of:
- Anti-Hero: Alucard has a much stronger moral compass than his father, but he is also willing to kill the people responsible for his mother's near-death and he isn't above conning a merchant by "selling" his magic sword if it means providing for himself and his mother.
- Ascended Extra: In Season Two of the show, there is a mention of an old village healer who was being run out business by Lisa's more effective medicine, so she told the local church that she was a witch, but is otherwise never seen on-screen. Here, though, she was the first to suffer Dracula's rampage for his wife's near-death, being made an example of to the rest of the village.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: According to Hector, the same healer who accused Lisa of witchcraft also liked to poison cats.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Dracula surmises one of these for the old healer that had Lisa accused of witchcraft.Dracula: They tried to burn her alive, and so I think I will leave you alive also. I will spike you up that you might live for hours. Or, mmm. The rain shows no sign of stopping. Perhaps I will force your mouth open to the sky. You cretins like to baptize your witches with fire, but of course, you are a good, faithful woman, aren't you? So let us see how long until you drown.
- Does Not Like Magic: Being a woman of science and humanist thinking, Lisa abhors magic and its tendency to throw out logic and its arbitrary rules out of principle.
- For Want Of A Nail:
- The biggest divergent from canon is that Dracula returned just in time to save Lisa from the witch-hunt and turn her into a vampire to heal her wounds.
- In-canon, the Bishop responsible for Lisa's death is killed over a year after by a Blue Fangs. Here, Dracula has him captured where he tortures and kills him personally.
- In-canon, Carmilla joins Council of Vampires alone on behalf of Styria. Here, she is joined by Lenore on Morana's recommendation.
- Alucard meets Sypha as the Speaker's caravans are traveling, as opposed to meeting her with Trevor beneath Gresit.
- I Have No Son!:
- When Dracula loses his temper and kicks Lisa out, he says to "take your half-breed bastard with you." It is not until after does he regret it.
- Inversely, Alucard takes his mother's banishment better than she did, refusing to even talk about his father for any long duration of time.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In Chapter 2 of Hunger, Lisa finds Dracula healing after a Vampire Hunter threw holy water in his face. She correctly deduces that a vampire as worldly as he simply wasn't ambushed by an amateur human, but rather he protected one of his vampire subordinates from being dunked instead.
- Mood-Swinger: When Dracula and Lisa decide to court a relationship, he offers to wear a muzzle (though Lisa likens it more to a torture device) designed to keep vampires from biting people. He compares the will to feed in vampires to human libidos, in that it can come suddenly without warning and that while he is usually The Stoic, he doesn't trust himself not to attack Lisa at any given moment.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Trevor is under the impression that all vampires are Always Chaotic Evil and sees whatever humanity Sypha sees in Lisa as nothing more than a ruse. Lisa responds in-kind by attacking him, seeing him as exactly the same as the people who tried to kill her for accusations of witchcraft; just another man who wants to kill her for "her own good".
- Pay Evil unto Evil: While plenty of vampires like hunting and/or making chattel of innocent people, Dracula has made it his modus-operandi to hunt people who have it coming, Vampire Hunters being the easiest to find. While Lisa would prefer he didn't kill at all, she much prefers that he keeps his rage towards self-defense.
- Poor Communication Kills: When a newly sired Lisa is afraid of just how different she will be as a vampire, she phrases it as like being an animal. Taking it personally, Dracula renounces her and then Adrien too when he comes to her defense. It is not until his rage cools down does he realize what he did.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Dracula finds the fact that Cho keeps humans as slaves to be "barbaric", even humoring the idea of her giving him one of the children at her keep for himself as tribute. Isaac remarks that if he did, he would have only spoiled the child.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Lisa's death at the hands of the Bishop of Targoviste was what kicked off the plot of the original series. Here, Dracula makes it in-time to sire Lisa before her burn wounds kill her.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Dracula has a history of making every Roaring Rampage of Revenge a spectacle that only escalates the problem, this being one of the reasons Adrien offers to do it in Targoviste instead.Adrien/Alucard: That is why we do not need you — you — ugh, appearing in a cloud of flame or raining blood from the sky or tearing apart the entire population and posting them on pikes outside the gates. Mother would never forgive it. It would be more than she can bear, and it will only drive them to further and fiercer witch-hunting.
- Tranquil Fury: While Dracula makes his wrath loud and public, Adrien prefers to be quick and efficient.Adrien/Alucard: I will go, Father. I will go. I will watch, and I will listen, and I will find the people who plotted to do this to us... and I will kill them, that they may do it to no one else. No one but they will know it was the House of Țepeș that brought their deaths.
- Vegetarian Vampire: Being a doctor, a humanitarian and a freshly-sired vampire, Lisa refuses to feed on human blood, be it fresh or in stores. After she grows used to her new state, she decides that she would not be against feeding on animals, regarding how "[a] wolf still deserves to eat." Since humans are vampire's nature prey, animal blood leaves a bad taste in her mouth.
