As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- As Anette recounts to the others how she met Edouard, she says he saw her "aura" as pink. Although Annette is likely joking when she says that green is her favorite color, it could mean something else. The first time she sees Edouard performing, he's wearing green as he does in present day. Seeing how close the two are, Annette would have a reason to like the color green.
- When Annette uses her powers to stitch Maria's wounds closed, it seems an odd ability given she works with earthly materials. Voodoo practices were mainly used as a form of healing, so it fits in Annette's skillset to be able to magically stitch a wound closed.
- Also, Annette's powers primarily work on metal. The fundamental component of human blood is hemoglobin, which is based on iron. This can also help further explain why it's easier for her to close open wounds, but not fix broken bones.
- Olrox looks slightly annoyed when the other vampires refer to him as a "dragon". The form he takes is a "coatl", which is more of a winged serpent than a dragon. As a Native, he would probably find the inaccurate Western or European views to be mildly insulting.
- Edouard's singing evoking the turned Night Creatures' previous life memories, is similar to how music is used in therapy for the elderly with Alzheimer's to help them recall their lost memories.
- In keeping with the theme of colonialism in this show, it makes perfect sense that the main villain - a white European-born aristocrat - gains her powers by taking the blood of an Egyptian goddess, and using it for her own ends.
- The vampire Richter kills in the first episode declares that everything will be over at the full moon. But isn't a solar eclipse a new moon? That's because it's not a real solar eclipse, but dark magic blotting out the sun. Annette says that the sun vanquishing the night is the real natural order, and even eclipses are part of it (even benevolent, like in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow); Bathory blocking the sun is yet another violation.
- Olrox regards the plan for an eternal eclipse with disgust. In Aztec mythology, the sun is extremely important, to the point where humans were sacrificed to the sun god so it never goes out. Eclipses too were evil goddesses (Tzitzimitl) devouring the sun; sounds like Bathory's Evil Plan?
- Maria uses three of The Four Gods: the tortoise, the phoenix, and the tiger. But where's the dragon? The Azure Dragon might look a little too similar to Olrox's coatl form to use comfortably around Richter.
- Or the show is saving dragons for when she levels up.
- Where does Maria's link to the East Asian Four Gods come from (besides the out-of-story reason that she had those powers in the games, which originated in Japan)? Her mother Tera says she fled 4000 miles (give or take) from Russia, which seems to indicate Siberia. Siberia neighbors China, and given that Speakers are nomadic, they might have picked them up from China.
- In a twisted sort of way, it makes sense why Emmanuel would consider vampires a lesser threat to the Church than the revolutionaries. Unlike the revolutionaries, who can physically barge down the doors of a church and tear it apart from the inside, vampires are harmed by Christian iconography, which would make them less of a threat to the actual literal foundations the Abbot is so obsessed with protecting. Of course, this only works if God approves of the people running said church, though he's deluded enough to believe he still has God's favor.
- Another hint that Olrox may not be all for Erzsebet's plan? Unlike the other vampires, he's the only one shown to feast on a passing human noble - whom Drolta says they are aligned with. The rest of the vampires who follow Erzsebet feed on the revolutionaries or peasants.
- Olrox's skepticism about Erzsebet's divinity and later shock at witnessing her power takes on a new dimension when one considers his own power to turn into a Feathered Serpent, the favored form of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Since he can take a form that could be considered divine without any of the godly powers associated with it, he might have assumed the same was true of Erzsebet's Sekhmet form.
Fridge Horror
- Unless the Abbot’s devil forge machine works differently from Hector and Isaac’s, it works by summoning damned, and only damned, souls. He summoned Edouard.
- The machine is pointed out by Olrox to work differently from the devil forging he's familiar with, and might instead be enslaving the souls of those to whom the corpses once belonged. This is arguably even worse, as rather than damned souls who might at least be argued to deserve their fate these appear to be innocent people twisted into monsters, enslaved by the Abbot to participate in horrible atrocities, and killed by the heroes.
- It may well have been the demon’s plan in giving him the machine; even if he should pull off a Faustian Rebellion, he’s still the worst sort of necromancer. Furthermore, most Night Creatures probably treat being summoned by a forgemaster as a welcome reprieve from Hell, justifying their loyalty. This power makes him a spiritual slave master instead. His soul is almost certainly damned at this point.
- Edouard was a mulatto, a man who was of mixed white and black ancestry. Even though he was born free (unlike Annette), he would be aware of what kind of life he would be subjected to if he hadn't been lucky enough to be born to free parents. Yet in death, he finds himself in a wholly different form of servitude...
- As Richter gives off his Badass Boast towards his vampire adversaries in the church, he has a full-grown panic attack when Orlox (the Vampire that killed his mother) catches his attention by referring to the former as "Little Boy Belmont" (the very line Orlox used during their last encounter). This prompts Richter to flee the Abby and unintentionally abandon his comrades.
