Heartwarming / Castlevania (2017)

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Season 1

Witchbottle

• In only a few minutes, the Animated series shows you exactly why Lisa was able to turn Dracula around. She is not only smart, but quick-witted, fearless, and curious. The Lord of Darkness is intrigued by the end of a single conversation.
  Dracula: I've known you two minutes, and you offer for me to walk the Earth like an ordinary peasant, while I give you the knowledge of immortals, the true science.
  Lisa: They won't be peasants anymore if you teach them. They won't live such short, scared lives if they have real medicine! They won't be superstitious if they learn how the world really works!
  Dracula: (chuckles) Why should I do that?
  Lisa: To make the world better! Start with me, and I'll start with you.
  Dracula: (now smiling and bowing to her) ...I think I might like you.
• When he finds out about Lisa's death, Dracula's last act of kindness is to warn her elderly neighbor, who came to pay her respects to Lisa's memory, to take her family and run before he unleashes his vengeance.
  Dracula: I do this last kindness in her name, she who loved you humans and cared for your ills. Take your family and leave Wallachia tonight. Pack and go, and do not look back.
  • Further, the old lady calls him "Mr. Tepes", not "Dracula", and adds that Lisa would talk about him. As if more evidence was needed that the two were Happily Married.
• Alucard begs his father to not avenge his mother to excess. It doesn't work, but it shows how well Lisa and Dracula raised Alucard before she died.
  • Assuming the series follows game canon, Lisa's last words become even more Heartwarming, because they're to Alucard, not Dracula. Thus this scene becomes Alucard fulfilling his mother's last wish.

Necropolis

• When Trevor sees the Elder Speaker getting harassed by two corrupt priests, he at first tries to convince himself to leave...but doesn't. And helps the Speaker.
• The Elder Speaker thanking Trevor for saving him, even though his violent means of protecting him from corrupt priests clashes with his own pacifism. In a lesser story, the Elder Speaker would've told off Trevor for using violence. Not here. Instead, although he does voice he doesn't approve of violence, the Elder Speaker also lets Trevor know his standing up for him is much appreciated.
• Trevor promising to bring back the Elder Speaker's grandchild (either alive or the body) if the Elder promises to leave so he and his followers won't be targeted.

Labyrinth

• The Elder Speaker reuniting with his lost granddaughter, Sypha. They share a warm hug and Sypha apologizes for not finding the Sleeping Soldier, but her grandfather stops her, saying he's just happy she's alive.

Monument

• Trevor Belmont. He spends the first three episodes angry at the world (justifiably so, as the intro in Ep.1 shows he watched his home get burned to the ground and probably saw his whole family die) and muttering about how much he doesn't care about the world, or the people of Gresit, but when it's time to put cards on the table, Trevor is always ready to stand up for the defenseless. When the demon horde attacks, he leaps without hesitation into organizing a proper defense. Because he's a Belmont. And that's what Belmonts do.
  • Highlighted by Trevor's speech in the previous episode to the corrupt priests leading the mob when he finally stops pretending he doesn't care and agrees that yes, he will stand up and risk his life for people he doesn't know, even after they've rejected and scorned him.
  "My family: the family you demonized and excommunicated, has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. We do it anyway. And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has never frightened me."
• A subtle one for Trevor is his defending of Lisa — Given his backstory and family history of slaying monsters, one would think Trevor wouldn't care about Lisa's unjust murder because she was the wife of Dracula and even disrespect her name. But does he? No. He instead sympathizes with Dracula's anger and rips into the corrupt priests and the Bishop for the unjust execution of her.
• In a twisted sense, Dracula's demons make sure that they find the bishop who ordered Lisa's execution. Then they give him "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how he has betrayed his God, then kill him, but not before thanking him for being the true reason why they are released from Hell in the first place.
  Blue Fang: But we love you.
  • In a sort of philosophical way, it kinda brings God into a good light here too; Despite what the bishop kept saying about how this would be the will of God... the Demon outright says that he's making Him disgusted with the church he's in charge of. After all, God Is Good and thus this disgusting display isn't exactly a good thing... and also brings to mind that two certain individuals did come to save the day...
• Just when you think all the members of the Church in Gresit are corrupt assholes and brutish thugs, a low ranking and obviously scared priest steps up to assist with the defense of the city by consecrating holy water.
  • There's even a small remark from Trevor that he didn't really think the Holy Water would work (considering all of the priests he's met so far), even he's surprised there was at least one noble priest left.
• Sypha thinks that her rescuer Trevor is a Jerkass. She still comes to save him from the angry mob because he saved her life and her family's life, taking their place as The Scapegoat. Then when it seems her savior, Alucard, is about to kill Trevor, she pulls her fire on him and demands that he let Trevor go.
• After Alucard and Trevor's fight, Trevor remarks that he never intended to survive against Alucard, which Alucard finds funny. It's the first time these two treat each other with anything beyond bitter hostility, and considering their relationship as the series develops, it can easily be pinpointed as the moment they first started to like each other.
• Alucard's relief when he sees that Trevor and Sypha fulfill the prophecy of a warrior and a scholar coming for him. He then grabs his sword and tells them they have a chance to fight his father.

Season 2

War Council

• We get to see Lisa working as she helps aid an old lady. As she works, she holds up a locket with Dracula's portrait and admits while she is sad she doesn't get to see him since he's traveling, she is glad he at least gave her the knowledge to help others.
  • Somewhat tearjerking and heartwarming? This was the same old lady who was the only one to visit Lisa's burned down house and offer her flowers.
• Alucard drawing a picture in the dirt of his mother and father. He reminisces how his mother never liked the name the vampires gave him, saying that he was the opposite of his father. He then says how she loved both her husband and son, wanting them to be their own person.

Old Homes

• Alucard telling Sypha that he's sorry she had to leave the Speakers, and he hopes she would be able to reunite with her family in happier circumstances.
  Sypha: See? He knows how to be nice!
• Trevor and Sypha becoming a little closer and actually teasing each other more over sniping.
• Trevor and Alucard, too. The "Eat shit and Die/Yes, fuck you," exchange is clearly coming from a place of, not quite warmth yet, but male bonding nonetheless.

Shadow Battles

• A flashback shows a young Hector finding a dead puppy out in a field and using necromancy to reanimate it. It initially looks horrifying and creepy with a blue glow in its empty eye-socket. Then it looks up and the other side of its untouched, adorable face is shown. Despite it being necromancy, the puppy is still playful and happy, following Hector back home — where the mood shifts with his mother screaming in horror. Nevertheless, the scene offers a peaceful, unique view on the practice of necromancy, and the compassionate person Hector is deep inside.

Broken Mast

• After a long day of research, Trevor looks over to find an exhausted Sypha staring into space:
  Trevor: You okay?
  Sypha: Tired.
  Trevor: Sleep then.
  Sypha: ...a bit lonely.
  Trevor (indicating that Sypha should sit next to him): My dusty old sheet is big enough for two. And nobody was ever lonely in this house.
  Sypha: Thank you.
  • After a while, Sypha falls asleep with her head on his shoulder.
  • Everything about the Belmont family house seems to indicate that Trevor's childhood was, up to the point it all went to hell, a happy and fulfilling one. Badass Family of monster hunters though they were, the Belmonts were a family first, and obviously cared deeply for each other.
• Dracula and Isaac have a close relationship, based on respect and trust. In a flashback, we learn that Dracula saved Isaac from a group of murderous magicians:
  Isaac: [lifting a glass to Dracula] The only person who ever lifted a hand to protect me from anything. And he was not a human.

Last Spell

• Despite Isaac's brutal murder of Godbrand, the way he disposes of his ashes seems rather respectful in a way.

For Love

• Though both are undoubtedly villains, Isaac's willingness to sacrifice himself to save Dracula, and Dracula instead saving his life:
  Dracula: You would give your mortal life to preserve my immortal one? You are the greatest of your people, Isaac. You have a soul, I think. Perhaps that is more valuable to the world to come, than a dusty collection of books and apparatus. Or perhaps you simply deserve a better fate, than to die instead of me.
  Isaac: I choose my death, as I chose my life.
  Dracula: Then I regret only that I have taken a choice for you. (throws Isaac through the Transmission Mirror)
• Alucard confronting his father again saying that he will stop him. When questioned by Dracula, Alucard mentions that he isn't alone this time with Trevor and Sypha appearing from behind Alucard to join him on both sides.
  Dracula: You couldn't stop me before.
  Alucard: I was alone before.
• When Sypha gets hurt, Trevor is immediately up to start punching Dracula in the face, despite it not doing any damage to even Dracula's mustache.
• Sypha seemed to be doing a lot of damage when blasting Dracula's face with fire, but she only stops because Dracula started to duck it so Alucard was also in range of the spell and was getting hurt as well.
• As Sypha tries to push back Dracula's fireball spell, she struggles to keep her footing, until Trevor stands behind her and supports her by pushing his back against hers.
  • They're still not making any headway, until Alucard joins in, using his sword and telekinetic power to tip the balance and send the sphere back at Dracula. All three had to work together for victory.
• What causes Dracula to stop his blood-rage? Being back in Alucard's room, and he collapses in on himself as he starts realizing in horror that he was killing his own child.
  Dracula: Lisa... Your greatest gift to me... and I'm killing him. I must already be dead.
  • Dracula willingly lets Alucard stake him in the heart, because he loves his son and would rather die than kill him. For that matter, during their fight Dracula visibly stops himself from clawing Alucard through the chest again. He can't bring himself to murder his own son.
  • A fading Dracula appears to be trying to hold his son's face one last time before he dies. Despite the pain, he probably wanted to show his son how much he still loved him.
  • Alucard is visibly shaken at having dealt the deathblow to his father. Trevor tries to tell him that killing Dracula saved countless more lives. Sypha adds that while this is true, it's alright as Alucard still needs to mourn his father, and the good man he may have become.
• The three look at a family portrait of Lisa and Dracula with her holding a baby Alucard in her arms.
• Sypha in the end takes Trevor by the hand and her arm on the trembling Alucard and leads them into the sunrise after they had accomplished their mission.

End Times

• When Alucard states his intention to treat Castlevania as his grave, Trevor actually gives him the Belmont Hold, which holds all the information his family collected over the years, to guard. He says that Castlevania is the information his father gathered while the Hold is the information his mother's people (humans) have gathered so all this information represents him. Trevor asks that Alucard make something of these gifts and not just die, hoping to give a friend a purpose in life.
• Sypha wants to go adventuring after the battle, and wants Trevor to come with her. She points out how much Trevor has matured since she met and he agrees, stating that for the first time in years he has a life to live. They proceed to sit down for a well-earned rest and watch the sunset.
• A bit tearjerking, but once Alucard settles down in the chair, he looks up to see an apparition of his younger self, playing tag with his mother. The two of them are laughing joyfully.
  • Earlier, Alucard sees what seems like a ghost of his father walking down the stairs, looking happy for the first time in the season before he soon fades away.

Season 3

• Any scene between Striga and Moranna throughout the season. It shows that while they are evil, they do love each other.

Bless Your Dead Little Hearts

• A quick shot shows that Alucard is rebuilding the Belmont estate.
• While it's both a mixture of funny and tearjerking, Alucard making dolls of his friends shows how lonely he is and misses their company.

The Reparation of My Heart

• An old shopkeeper in a city Isaac visits notes that he's a forgemaster. Rather than be scared, the old man (implied to be a sorcerer of some kind) chats with Isaac about their beliefs. When the item Isaac was looking for has been sold already, the shopkeeper finds a similar item, and gives it to Isaac as a gift, joking that he'd like to have a forgemaster owe him a favor when he goes to hell. Isaac even laughs.
• While there's no grand declarations or anything, it's clear Trevor and Sypha love one another and are genuinely excited to be hunting monsters together. They share a bed, have an active sex life, and are total cuddlebugs any time they're alone.

Investigators

• Trevor and Sypha musing on the things they've seen in their travels, the people they've helped, and admitting that being together is good for them.
  • Sypha later shows that she has Trevor wrapped around her finger, and he bloody well knows it, when she teases him about giving in to her desire to investigate the Priory the moment he looks into her eyes.

• Isaac and The Captain have a pleasant conversation in his cabin as they travel, with the Captain respecting his beliefs and practices, offering him water with lime without complaint after his alcohol is rebuffed and inquiring about his methods of meditation without deriding them, and speaking about Isaac's abilities as a forgemaster and time with Dracula without judging him. The talk is capped off by him asking Isaac what he would eventually do with his life after he attained revenge, and poses if he might use the knowledge he has gained to teach humanity to be kinder than they currently are.

I Have a Scheme

• While they are devious villains with wicked plans for humanity, the bond between Carmilla's allies is nothing short of heartwarming. In particular, Striga and Morana are devoted lovers who thank Carmilla for helping them come together.

A Seat of Civilisation and Refinement

• Alucard actually smiling again as he spars with Sumi and Taka. Their sparring soon turns into a friendly dog pile with all of them laughing on the floor.
• Sypha actually takes ale with Trevor now when he goes to the tavern, saying she's learned to enjoy some of the rougher things in life.
  Trevor: She means me.
  Sypha: I mean him.

The Good Dream

• Alucard admitting that Trevor would like having a new generation of vampire hunters learn all of the information that the Belmonts accumulated over the years and hopefully pass it on.
• Sypha and Trevor in bed discussing Saint Germain. They rightfully suss out he's a conman, but they also note he dropped the act almost instantly around them because he's just that lonely. You can tell they're thinking about both themselves and Alucard while discussing him.
  Trevor: Did we fall out of our story into someone else's? Again?
  Sypha: Silly. It's all our story.
• The Judge, while annoyed that the boy he already admonished for running is still doing it, offers him a secret. He tells him where his secret apple tree is and if he wouldn't run around so much and not tell a soul, he could get three apples. This stabs us in the back come episode 10.

What the Night Brings

• Sypha relates a story of Trevor breaking a man's leg in three places for hurting a cat. Trevor acts embarrassed and makes excuses, but it just further shows how good-hearted he is.
• While it can come off as sinister in light of later events, the scene of Sumi and Taka discussing Alucard's generosity to them and his loneliness (while Taka even apparently plays the flower petal plucking game) is really sweet.

The Harvest

• At the end of the nine circles of hell, we see Dracula and Lisa were reunited together.
  • Lisa was just a normal human, and by all evidence a good person. Even if she were cast into hell she wouldn't have deserved to be placed in the darkest, worst part of it all where a demonic monster like Dracula would be. Which can only mean she traveled there to be with her husband.
  • And Dracula, despite all the power he wields, is content to just be with his beloved wife, instead of taking over hell or plotting for his return.
  • The place where we see them? Not some opulent castle surrounded by minions, but the burnt down remains of their humble home. You get the sense that even hell is no torment for either of them so long as they have each other.
    • Dracula reaches towards the portal as it closes, which begs the question—was he truly seeking to use it to return to Earth, or to close it as it threatened to take him away from his wife?

Abandon All Hope

• This exchange between Sypha and Trevor:
  Trevor: Sypha, do you have my back?
  Sypha: Always.
• Saint Germain saves the day by pulling off a Xanatos Gambit that both re-unites him with the woman he seeks while also closing the portal to Hell.
  Saint Germain: THANK YOU! THANK YOU BOTH! I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN! (disappears)
• Even despite the Downer Ending of the season and Sypha's crushing disappointment, her relationship with Trevor is never in question.
• In a brief moment, after Isaac finds the Magician's mirror, he takes a moment to look in on Miranda, who gives him a wave, happy to see that he won.

Season 4

Murder Wakes It Up

• When a Horse with a dead man riding it arrive at Alucard's castle, Alucard sees on the dead man's hand is a note. It states that a nearby village is begging for his help as monsters are attacking his village. Alucard places the body on the ground, realizing the man did not stop riding, even in death, just to get the message to him. Out of respect, Alucard decides to bury him, realizing that his efforts deserves as much.

Having the World

• Hector and Lenore banter during the former's attempts to craft a new Forgemaster hammer. Lenore teases him repeatedly in his wording, and Hector fires one right back just before she leaves. Looking aside from how things went between them in Season 3's ending, it seems there is some genuine care on both sides.
  • Lenore venting her worries and frustrations about where Carmilla's mind is going, along with her "schemes". She trusts Hector enough to know he'll listen to her seriously unlike Morana and Striga who don't see her as anything useful.
  • Lenore also mentions that she's been standing up for him every time Carmilla loses more of her patience.
• While tearjerking, Lenore trying to steer Carmilla towards reason when asking her if conquering the entire world would finally make her happy after having men taking everything away from her. For the first time since her appearance, Carmilla seems genuinely honest in her emotions when she admits she doesn't really know if she would ever feel satisfied. But, she will continue in her perseverance because if she can achieve her goal, that would be enough for her.

Walk Away

• Instead of leading his night creatures onward to kill more humans and replenish his army, Isaac actually has them rebuild the city and bury those bodies too mangled to be used as materials. His reasoning? The people that perished at the Sorcerer's machinations deserve to rest, and after Isaac's moved on, new people might pass through and settle down in the empty buildings. Surprisingly idealistic for his character.
  • His chat and offering of berries to Flyseyes, as well as his musings to the Sorcerer's statue, shows that Isaac has actually been thinking about his course in life, about being more than just someone trying to carry on Dracula's vengeance.
  Isaac: One day, Hell will be emptied, and its doors will rattle in the wind.
  Flyseyes: …What?
  Isaac: Through my hand, God lifts the damned from Hell in His mercy, to enact their penance on the earth as my soldiers.
  Flyseyes: Yes!
  Isaac: Should their penance on Earth be eternal, too?
  Flyseyes: I-I… do not know.
  Isaac: Neither do I. We should find out together.
• Morana and Striga have an honest heart-to-heart in their tent about whether or not they should carry out Carmilla's plans. The biggest concern for them is that Striga would have to fight forever to maintain the conquered lands, while Morana remains in Styria coordinating supply lines. Away from each other.
  • They also discuss the suffering that would come from the Forever War Carmilla's plan would cause. Specifically, it's in regards to the humans. Although they both admit as seeing humanity as little more than livestock at best, neither of them would wish to perpetuate pain and misery against even them when there is no purely beneficial reason.
  • When the humans attack, Striga's first concern is making sure Morana is safe in her special coffin.

You Must Sacrifice

• At the start of the episode, Trevor leads Sypha away to an abandoned house, into the bedroom... where they can just sit down, catch their breath, and talk for a few minutes. He says that they work best "when {they've} got time to think and talk things over." Sypha agrees (jokingly), and they have a calm conversation about acting instead of just reacting like they did in the previous season.

Back In The World

• Much of Alucard and Greta's discussions as they shepard the latter's people to the castle. Poor Alucard's mood rises again since his time with Sumi and Taka, which by the way Greta sympathizes with how it ended.
  • It's also brief, but Alucard fondly remembers a certain ally of his who would've liked Saint Germain's knack for coming up with alcoholic beverages. Saint Germain even opens up a bit about his own former companion, being genuinely touched when Alucard wishes him luck in seeing her again.
  • Alucard even unknowingly repeats some moments of when his parents first met, such as when Dracula bows to Lisa as he lets her look around his castle, but Alucard openly greets his new guests. It's also hard to notice because of her complexion, but Greta is blushing as she walks by the bowing dhampir.
• Sypha quickly taking up a leadership position after she sees how horribly led the people are, directing people on how to use their resources as well as trying to make sure they're actually looking after themselves. This foreshadows how she takes up a bigger leadership role when she decides to stay at Alucard's castle.
  • Trevor takes a moment on the sidelines to view her efforts with a smile, clearly happy his girl's bounced back from her depression.

You Don't Deserve My Blood

• Isaac sparing Hector's life before his final fight against Carmilla over the control of Styria as well as abandoning his goal of human genocide after taking the Captain's advice. Hector for his part doesn't offer any resistance when he believes he's about to die and is genuinely surprised that Isaac says he'll spare him.
  • The Styrian castle is under attack, and defeat seems eminent. So who does Lenore rush to save? Not her sister, Carmilla or her fellow vampires, but Hector. Of all her words and deeds over the two seasons, that more than anything else shows how she truly felt about him.
  • Hector repeatedly directs Isaac away from Lenore, and the most his cage seems designed to do is keep her trapped but not harm her in any way. For a misanthropic Forgemaster, the guy's a sweetheart.
  • Isaac also helps Hector free himself from Lenore's enslavement by lending him his knife and cauterizes his severed finger wound afterwards. He even sincerely thanks Hector for his sacrifice.
  • Just the conversation they have after it was all over. Just a civil conversation about what's next for the two of them. It is clear Isaac has changed, and so has Hector.
  Isaac (while smiling): I'm going to live.
  • Not to mention their thoughts about the plan to resurrect Dracula. Isaac understands that Hector truly wants to make up for his part in their friend's betrayal (while pointing out that it was minuscule in comparison to Carmilla's actions), but encourages him to let Dracula rest. That there also proves that Isaac probably knows Dracula best of all of his followers: he realizes that Dracula would be content dead, so long as he is with Lisa again.
• Striga and Morana heading out west and leaving Styria after Carmilla's demise in the end of the episode could count as this since not only is it a case of both Heel Realisation and Even Evil Has Standards but it's also a case of both Even Evil Has Loved Ones and True Companions for both of them. It helps the fact that they're the only Sisters who are still alive in the end, following Lenore's suicide in the Grand Finale.

The Great Work

• The discussion between Alucard and Greta sounds very reminiscent of the dialogue between Dracula and Lisa at the beginning of the series. He freely offers her food, armaments and whatever else they need to defend the people.
  • Plus there's his playing around with the orphaned children. While he's a bit awkward about it, the kids seem to quickly take to him and laugh.
• The little moment where Trevor gets a chance to talk about a new weapon he finds in Targoviste's underground treasure hoard. He just sounds so excited about talking about he learned as a kid, and Sypha even humors him in good nature.
• Trevor and Sypha giving Zamfir a The Reason You Suck speech as they point out she's not really doing anything to protect the people of the city and only looking after corpses in the mad hope they would save them. Unlike last season where they only reacted, Trevor and Sypha have learned to take a step back, analyze their situation and call out exactly why what Zamfir's doing is wrong.
  • Once she understands just how desperate and broken the woman is in her belief that by "saving" the royal family's bodies, they will in turn restore Targoviste, Sypha's tone softens and she shifts from berating Zamfir to gently encouraging her to move on and help the people that are still alive. This is after she'd been completely aggravated by Zamfir's arrogant behaviour the entire time of their acquaintance.

Death Magic

• After spending most of her time neglecting the people she swore she would protect, Zamfir jumps in front of Ratko's blade to protect a mother and daughter. As she slowly bleeds out, she smiles over to Sypha.
  Zamfir: Finish it for me.
  • Earlier the mother and daughter were the same people who Trevor approached when looking through the treasure near them. Likely moved by Trevor and Sypha speaking out on Zamfir not holding up to her word on protecting the people, they attempt to help Trevor by pushing Ratko away from attempting to kill Trevor even though they were clearly terrified.
• Trevor and Sypha jumping together through the distance mirror.
  Sypha: Do we know what's ahead?
  Trevor: Hell no. But when has that ever stopped us?
  (The two hold hands and prepare to jump into the mirror)

The Endings

• The way Alucard smiles when he sarcastically says "As if my day wasn't going badly enough, it's Trevor Belmont." shows that sarcasm aside, he truly is glad to see his friends again, when he might not have been nearly as happy to see them just a few days prior.
• Trevor willingly faced Death itself in order to protect everyone he loves, but not before telling Sypha "I love you" for the first time.
  • In episode 4 of season 1, Trevor battled Alucard to a near stalemate, with Trevor quipping that he never intended to survive the battle, only to kill Alucard before he could be killed himself. Come season 4's finale with the battle against Death, we learn that it wasn't just a snide remark... Trevor is truly willing to give up his life if it means doing the right thing. Even back then, before most of his character-development, he was always that same good person deep down, buried under layers of cold bitterness.
  • When he is thrashing Death with his whip, you can see a few Freeze-Frame Bonus of Sypha's image, showing exactly who Trevor is fighting for.
    • Alucard's, too. If there was ever any doubt the two were True Companions, this more than puts that to rest.
• As revealed in the next episode, Saint Germain, with his last breath, opened the infinite Corridor at the last possible moment to save Trevor from his final attack on Death.
• When Lisa and Dracula's souls are forcibly brought back to life via the The Rebis, the latter is cries out for the former in anguished worry.

It's Been a Strange Ride

• After everything that everyone has been through, almost everyone we've come to care about gets a happy ending. Including but not limited to:
  • Alucard has found a place among a community that he's helping to build on the grounds of the castle and the Belmont Hold. He and Greta seem to be on the cusp of a relationship as well.
    • Greta points out that Alucard has been spending much time with the orphan children, to the point where most call him "Father", which Alucard is touched by.
    • Greta also says to Alucard the same words that lit the spark of his parents' love: "I think I might like you."
  • The people of Danesti are seen investigating the Belmont library and the labs in Dracula's castle, and Greta and Alucard reveal that they intend to open schools there. After spending most of their lives running from monsters, the townsfolk will enjoy a level of education and quality of life that would have been unimaginable to people of their class and time period, the Belmonts will live safely in a village that doesn't fear them, and Alucard has fulfilled his mother's dream of using Dracula's resources to teach the world.
  • Sypha is pregnant, and rather than raise her child in isolation, she will have a community to support her, and Trevor, who didn't die after all!
    • The way Trevor falls from the horse that brought him to the castle into Sypha's arms is almost exactly like when they first first met in the Cyclops' lair (albeit, Trevor doesn't throw up like Sypha did). He then greets her with a gentle "Hello, love."
    • While it's mitigated by the fact that Trevor's revealed to have survived, his gravestone is planted at the base of the tree he adored playing in as a child. While the tree is still split-open and dead from being burned during the Witch Hunt of the Belmonts, flowers and vegetation have started sprouting from within.
    • Following her dropping him to the ground in exasperation and beginning to stomp away, this dialogue happens:
      Sypha: (face turned away) You are a rude idiot, Trevor Belmont!
      Trevor: I know.
      Sypha: (looks back at him with a smile and glimmering eyes) And I love you.
      Trevor: ...I know.
    • Sypha also letting herself cry and with full confidence, tells Greta "I think we finally won".
    • It's also worth noting that, at the start of season 2, Sypha was upset because she had never felt so lonely before. She had always travelled with the Speakers, and had never known life with so few people near her. Now, after everything she's gone through, she's back to living in a community like she's used to.
    • Though she initially turns it down, Sypha's noticeably touched by Alucard's request that she stay, with the unspoken understanding that he's offering to help her raise her child.
  • Hector is free of his servitude and has a new outlook on life, planning to write a book about his experiences to help prepare future generations to avoid the mistakes of the past.
    • Before Lenore walks into the rising sun — partially because she wants to see it for herself for once — her last conversation with Hector is tender and free of bitterness or malice from either of them. When she sees Hector has followed her outside so that she won't die alone, Lenore even gives him one last, genuinely kind smile as she dissolves into dust on the breeze.
      Lenore: Is that all there is to it? (notices Hector nearby, and smiles fondly) Hector, you are a silly man!
    • With regards to Lenore's last words, notice that she calls him a "silly man" instead of a "good boy", like previously. In her final moments, it just goes to show how much she, as a vampire, has come to care for Hector (a human) despite not only previously just seeing him as a pet, but also acknowledging herself that vampires have a very hard time doing so for others outside of themselves.
  • And last but not least, Dracula and Lisa are somehow alive again and ready to make full use of their second chance at life. The series ends on them lying in bed, calmly holding each other, after Dracula raises the idea of traveling again.
    • Among the things their discuss are their concern over their son, thinking a way to pay back the people they stole their clothes from, and moving to a calm town to live a normal life.
    • Concerning Alucard, the parents agree that they won't return to him and their old home just yet so he can have some closure. A bit saddening, but as Lisa muses, "perhaps, one day in the future..."
    • The final lines of the series:
      Dracula: I'm not going to get better without you.
      Lisa: And I was never going to be better without you.
      Lisa: We have a second chance.
      Dracula: And a brand-new future.
    • After all the Hell, figuratively and literally, they both went through, they finally got the happy ending they deserved.
• In a bittersweet way, even Carmilla, Lenore, Striga, and Morana are finally freed from the unending vampire thirst for power, and Styria will be the start of a better kingdom, just with Isaac at the helm. Per Isaac's conversation with FlysEyes, he's attempting to start a land where those beings condemned to hell, including the vampires, can be freed from it and serve their penance on Earth. This would, logically, include the vampire sisters.
• Prior to Trevor showing up alive, Alucard is incredibly tender about telling Sypha to stay in Belmont Village while she's grieving.

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