History FanFic / QueenOfBlood

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[[caption-width-right:350:Cover pic by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/sirwill.8092/ SirWill]]]]

Taylor Hebert from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' dies in the locker and wakes up three months later, in her own grave. Powerful. With faint memories of a life not her own. And why does she dream of a castle in the mountains? A crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and a composite version of the various ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games.

The author's comments on the story can be found [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/queen-of-blood-worm-castlevania.363842/page-242#post-20745027 here]].

May be found on both the [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/queen-of-blood-worm-castlevania.363842/ Spacebattles CrW Forum]], and on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11698925/1/Queen-of-Blood Fanfiction.net]].

The fanfic was completed in February 2018 and it has a sequel in the form of ''Fanfic/BloodyStars''.

'''Beware, Literature/{{Worm}} Spoilers below!'''

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!! This fanfic contains examples of the following:

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Mourneblade, Alucard's new sword. A result of Castlevanian alloys and magic, Alucard's blacksmithing, Armsmaster's Tinker skills, nanothorn tech, and [[spoiler: Endbringer flesh]].
* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: Just like Clairvoyant, Zion's senses give him full awareness of everything around his planet-sized body, but just like Clairvoyant, that sense does not quite extend outside the atmosphere, meaning that anything appearing there (such as on that dimension's moon) might not be noticed quickly enough.]]
* AdaptationalSexuality: In canon Taylor is straight, here she was also straight but due to having the very heterosexual ''male'' Dracul in her head, she now technically qualifies as bisexual, much to her confusion.
* AllPowerfulBystander: [[spoiler: Scion just flies over the Leviathan battle and watches]].
* AlphaStrike: [[spoiler: What the defenders finally do once they get into the dimension housing Zion's real body.]]
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:While in Earth Zayin, Doctor Mother is mistaken for her local alternate, Olivia Winstar, who disappeared over thirty years before. She's kept in psychiatric care for some time before her power once again kicks in and sends her on to the next world.]]
* AnArmAndALeg:
** Armsmaster loses both of his legs to a Bakuda bomb. Due to the immediate pressing situation, he doesn't have time to let Panacea heal him, so Dragon makes him [[ArtificialLimbs high tech prosthetics.]]
** Taylor cuts off Oni Lee's arms to get information about Bakuda's location.
** Meridia has her arms torn off by the Siberian. It would've killed her if [[spoiler: Taylor hadn't [[EmergencyTransformation vampirized]] her.]]
** Gallant loses an arm during the Slaughterhouse Nine attack.
** [[spoiler: Both Behemoth and Leviathan lose at least an arm in their respective battles.]]
* AndIMustScream:
** [[spoiler: The Endbringers are other various gods from the Castlevania Earth that the Entities have [[FaceMonsterTurn captured, tortured, enslaved and mutated]]. The Simurgh, whose Scream manifests the agony she feels from being forced to kill like this, actually lets herself be killed to escape the pain.]]
*** [[spoiler: Eidolon/Apostle and Noelle see the screaming when they free the god Chronos; they watch him expend [[WordOfGod two weeks worth]] of agonized wailing compressed into a few seconds.]]
** [[spoiler: Dracul himself is trapped in [[GroundhogDayLoop a personal hell]] in the middle of space, forced to watch his old world burn while being constantly exposed to the sun. Even Death can't reach him and kill him.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor [[GrandTheftMe possesses]] Bonesaw's body to undo her experimentation on Brandish and Flashbang, all while the psychotic child is still awake for it.]]
* AnnoyingArrows: Taylor laughs at an arrow to the chest, even one [[spoiler: from Shadow Stalker's crossbow that is shadow-phased to pierce defenses.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Averted, compared to the canon story line of Worm, death's not as rampant through the character roster. This may be because Death's actually part of the character roster.
* ApocalypseHow: ApocalypseHow/Class1 example: [[spoiler: Zion's final battle with humanity leaves Earth-Bet scarred, the atmosphere contaminated with volcanic ash, multiple cities and regions all but wiped off the map, and society disrupted, but ultimately still standing at the end.]]
* AscendedFanon: While the previous Lord of Light was always intended to be a {{Jerkass}}, his name being Solin and some of the details were borrowed from a fan-written omake the author particularly liked.
** More directly in the canon omake, [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/36950200/ Brothers]] which is obliquely referred to [[spoiler: when Pan and Agreus are introduced in the fic proper.]] Other omakes by the same author (specifically the Champion of Chronos trilogy and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/32258989 Corvus]]) were taken as material for actual chapters, though tweaked.
* TheAtoner: Madison, feeling immensely guilty for her part in Taylor's death, triggers with the power to build the magical equipment of the Belmont line. When [[GoAndSinNoMore Taylor gives her the chance to atone for her actions by becoming a Ward]], she jumps at the chance.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Actually played for sympathy in regards to Burnscar and Bonesaw, and why their deaths give them a second chance rather than the {{Ironic Hell}}s of the rest of the S9; Riley was completely {{Brainwashed}} and unable to make moral decisions, so she is judged only for [[ChildrenAreInnocent her actions as Riley]], while Mimi was under the control of a SuperpoweredEvilSide-she was a bit of a coward, but given how her powers literally were in control of her, the Burnscar personality is destroyed and Mimi is reincarnated for a second chance.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Danny and Hannah marry and have a daughter, Rose, during the year that Taylor is asleep]].
* BackFromTheDead:
** Taylor actually died in the locker and spent three months in the grave before waking up. Several characters have problems coming to terms with this.
** Is stated to be a staple power of the gods. [[spoiler:And even if the gods themselves are killed their mantles of power can survive and pass on]]. [[GenreSavvy Clever readers]] will be able to guess what it might mean. [[spoiler: Ariel comes back free of Abaddon's bonds.]]
*** [[spoiler: When Dragon dies as a result of Saint activating the Ascalon program during the Simurgh battle, the mantle of Light bonds to her and brings her back from the dead.]]
** [[spoiler: Amy spends a few days dead after accidentally drinking Taylor's blood.]]
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The powers of the gods work on a balance between the opposing forces they represent, though none of them are fully good or evil.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Sophia wanted a world of predators and prey, where the strong preyed upon the weak. Taylor ends up dumping her on a dinosaur-inhabited Earth, where ''she'' is seen as prey by mostly everything else]].
** Jack Slash wanted to test Taylor and her allies. [[spoiler: The resulting clash between the S9 and the Brockton Bay capes results in the near total annihilation of the former]].
* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler: Death notes during his discussion with Dragon that where most are ''born'' with souls, Dragon ''earned'' one for herself. Which is why she was able to be reborn as the God of Light]]
* BenevolentAI: Dragon, as usual. She's ''such'' a good person that [[spoiler:when she dies to Saint's backstabbing while fighting the Simurgh, she gains the powers of the Lady of Light.]]
* BenevolentConspiracy: [[spoiler: Cauldron moves closer to this after Taylor arrives]].
* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Doctor Mother finally Triggers at the end - with the power to uncontrollably teleport through dimensions when she gets stressed enough. She tries to use it to warn other dimensions of Scion's rampage, but she doesn't know that Taylor and her allies had already stopped him.]]
* BloodBath: One of the rooms in Castlevania is a blood sauna. Since it represents Taylor's power, she can't use it to feed.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Bonesaw]] does a similar thing to [[spoiler: Brandish and Flashbang]] that she did to [[spoiler: Grue]] in canon and planned to add [[spoiler: Glory Girl]] as well.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, we learn that Apostle's powers are fading, likely as a result of Scion's death. He's got what should be enough power to help make Bet fully livable again after freeing the rest of the gods, but after that, he's going to be completely tapped.]]
* BullyingADragon: Director James Tagg, to Scarlet Dragon. Even knowing how powerful she is, the feats she accomplished, and [[spoiler: the S-Class threats she has put down]], [[TooDumbToLive he still tries to apply pressure to get her under the government's thumb]].
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: As the new Lady of Fire]], Piggot has duties elsewhere in the world and so must resign as Director of the Brockton Bay PRT. However, Renick, the Protectorate and the Wards won't let her leave without [[ItHasBeenAnHonor a full salute]]... delivered by Clockblocker.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: Manton's daughter, as under Disappointed In You. She's also rather annoyed that the projection he used to murder was not only based on her, it was also ''naked'']].
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: Neptune is not a Case 53, he's a projection created by Danny Hebert after he triggered by trying to drown himself, with Danny himself being unaware of the connection.]]
* CavalryBetrayal: [[spoiler: In the middle of his rampage, Zion sees Eden's avatar flying towards him, and embraces her in joy... only for Taylor, who has possessed her body, to stab him with the Void Sword. He's ''really'' caught flat-footed by this]].
* CessationOfExistence: [[spoiler: Jack Slash's]] fate. Taylor and her demons don't want him, Hell and its devils don't want him, he is definitely too monstrous for Heaven, and he has caused far too much pain for {{Reincarnation}} to be an option, so he is effectively BarredFromTheAfterlife. As such, this is his only fate.
* ChekhovsGun: About two-thirds of the way through the story, the British government request that Taylor establish a Shadow Gate leading from Oxford to the moon, where a moon base is set up. [[spoiler: Piggot bringing Doormaker to the moon allows him to open a Door to the moon's surface in the dimension where Zion stores his body - [[AchillesHeel just outside of his senses]].]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler: Bakuda suffers this at the hands of the succubi. Taylor is very angry that it happens but can't blame anyone but herself since she effectively ordered it in a fit of rage, and didn't specifically mention that they couldn't torture Bakuda...]]
* ComboPlatterPowers:
** Taylor's powers are exceptionally varied ranging from SuperStrength to WeatherManipulation to {{Shapeshifting}}. A full list of her powers are given before each chapter.
*** It's gotten to the point that the PRT has just [[BrokeTheRatingScale given up on trying to classify each individual power]], and are just blanket-labeling her a Trump 10.
** Madison gains all the techniques and know-how on how to build the Belmont's equipment. While not as varied as Taylor, it still gives her a variety of powers.
** After [[spoiler:Dragon triggers as the new Lady of Light, she]] too gets an extensive power set that mirrors Taylor's.
* CompositeCharacter: The Castlevania characters draw elements from the various games. For instance, Alucard's original name is Adrian but he has the appearance and backstory of his ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' continuity self.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Taylor accidentally invites one to a press conference in Castlevania. Not to mention all the ones on [=PHO=].
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Bonesaw]] has a backup brain in case someone tries to take control of her. Fortunately, Taylor proves the more powerful.
* CryForTheDevil: {{Invoked}}. [[spoiler: After the Simurgh essentially commits [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Cape]]]], Tattletale breaks down and cries when she realizes what happened via her powers. It reminds her too much of her brother's suicide.
* CurbStompBattle:
** [[spoiler: Dracul's battle with Abbadon. Even after hours of fighting, an exhausted Dracul doesn't even leave a mark on the Entity before Abbadon gets bored and [[AndIMustScream locks him in a time loop]].]]
** [[spoiler: Alucard and Meridia versus Hatchet Face. He [[NoSell ignores]] Hatchet Face's power nullification, stabs him, lights him on fire, then tosses him to Meridia so that she can drain him to death.]]
* CurbStompCushion: As the PHO commenters point out yes, the original homeworld of Castlevania was destroyed and Dracul died. [[spoiler: But so did Abbadon, who Dracul took on single-handedly when it took several Gods and the world's heroes just to take down Scion.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Taylor's powerset is very scary to everyone else. But she does her best to help others and assuage their fears that she isn't going to hurt them.
--> ''Just because someone is dark, doesn't mean they're the bad guy. There are beautiful things in the night as well as in the day.''
* DaywalkingVampire:
** Taylor, with the mantle she's inherited, is only mildly annoyed by normal sunlight, though more intense light, like Purity's, can still affect her.
** Alucard slowly developed the ability over the years, but he can only withstand the sun for a few hours.
** [[spoiler: Merida is trying to develop the ability as well, but it looks like it will take a while]].
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:The Simurgh, and presumably the other Endbringers, want to die in order to escape the mutilation and programming the Entities forced on them.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** [[spoiler: Taylor, did you and Dragon just ''kill'' the Simurgh?]]
*** [[spoiler: ''And'' Behemoth and Leviathan?]]
*** [[spoiler: And did Taylor just '''hijack Eden's corpse'''?!]]
** [[spoiler: Dracul, did you cause Abaddon to ''self-destruct''?]]
*** [[spoiler: And did you also distract ''Eden'' into ''crashing''?]]
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler: Doctor Mother, at the end, when she gains powers that throw her through dimensions when she gets stressed enough. She gets shunted across Earths uncontrollably, still desperately trying to warn everyone of Scion and Eden... unaware that the threat has been averted.]]
* DirtyBusiness:
** Taylor hates having to use her blood form to make PeoplePuppets, even against an AssholeVictim like [[spoiler: Bonesaw]]. She also dislikes turning people into vampires.
** Thanks to Dracul sharing the fate of his world with Taylor, she is more accepting of Cauldron's [[GodzillaThreshold less-than-ethical attempts]] to create capes to defeat Scion, since she is aware of the consequences if they lose. Though she makes it clear she doesn't approve of them.
** Taylor hates having to use [[spoiler: [[FalseFlagOperation Eden's avatar]] to get close to, backstab, catch and keep Zion off-balance, and the sheer anguish he exudes after that]] makes her hate it even more, but she really doesn't have many better options.
* DirtyCoward:
** Solin, the former Lord of Light. So afraid of death was he that he made a crusade against every other god to net prayer to keep himself alive.
** Steven, Sophia's mother's boyfriend. [[spoiler: He was willing to [[WouldHurtAChild throw a 13-year-old Sophia to a group of thugs]] [[HumanShield as a distraction for him to escape]], which caused her to trigger. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Not that he escaped alive anyway]].]]
* DisappointedInYou:
** [[spoiler: Jonathan Gramme, Alan Gramme's father, makes his disappointment in his son's actions very clear, and asks Death for this specific punishment. Wherever his family is, even in death, Mannequin has no place with them.]]
** [[spoiler: William Manton's daughter, Annie, says this to her father's face. Even if he tries to justify his actions as taking vengeance on Cauldron [[LoveMakesYouEvil for failing to save her life]], his self-centered vendetta killed Hero, the best hope his world had. [[YouAreNotMyFather And as a result, Annie never wants to see him again.]]]]
* DistractedByTheSexy:
** Vicky repeatedly finds herself drooling over Alucard's abs. She has to remind herself on occasions that Dean is also sexy.
** The succubi in Castlevania. Taylor repeatedly notices that they are [[{{Gainaxing}} very bouncy]] and tend not to wear much in the way of clothing. [[StupidSexyFlanders Even Vicky can't stop looking.]]
* DividedWeFall: The case of [[spoiler: the Castlevania gods]] against [[spoiler: Abbadon.]] Constantly embroiled in conflict with each other, it was easy for [[spoiler: Abbadon]] to hunt them down one by one and defeat them.
** [[SkewedPriorities Even Dracul would rather kill Solin and get vengeance for his family]] rather than ally with him against [[spoiler: Abbadon]]. Not that it likely would've helped.
* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Trapped in a time loop, permanently exposed to the sun, unable to die and forced to watch his entire world be destroyed,]] Dracul's last F-you to Abaddon is to [[HijackingCthulhu trigger]] the entity's own [[ArmorPiercingAttack Sting]] shard and [[TakingYouWithMe destroy it from the inside out]]. Then, when he sees two more entities (Eden and Zion), he puts Eden's newly-acquired Path to Victory shard on a loop, distracting her from actually landing safely.]]
** [[spoiler:Hatchet Face, as horrible as he is, at the very least has his priorities straight even in death: when he's assaulted by a pack of wolves in his personal IronicHell, he stands his ground and goes down fighting.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Twelve years ago, Emily Piggot's squad was wiped out by Nilbog and his monster kingdom, leaving her one of two {{Sole Survivor}}s, crippled and scarred for life. Twelve years later, Emily Piggot, [[EmpoweredBadassNormal now a goddess empowered by the mantle of fire]], comes back to reduce him and his kingdom to ''ash''.]]
--> ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner By the way]], [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya my name is Lady.]]''
* DomedHometown: [[spoiler: After the global climate is drastically altered after Ragnarok and Scion's death, cities all over the world are enclosed inside domes called arcologies, to preserve them from the resulting long winter.]]
* DontFearTheReaper: Death is always shown to be very polite and helpful to whomever he meets. He dislikes taking the lives of good people (such as Annette) and even tells Taylor where her mother's flute is.
* DragonKnight: Taylor's armor is designed to be draconic-looking. Her two cape names are Scarlet Knight and later Scarlet Dragon.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: The author has repeatedly said that Death is incapable of killing anyone unless it is specifically their time to die. Otherwise he would have killed the Endbringers long ago. While he can kill people inside Castlevania he has to do it the way mortals do and can't just snap his fingers and kill someone.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler: Danny Hebert, after his daughter's original death. He ends up triggering, and the resulting water construct Neptune saves his life.]]
** [[spoiler: After Scion's defeat, Ariel, knowing that the future that's best for Bet has no place for her in it, since she'd never be accepted after all the horrible things she's done as the Simurgh, and having issues from her failure to save her birth world from Dracul and Abbadon and dealing with a multiverse where fate is weaker than her own, kills herself with a dagger and bids her power to seek out a worthy user]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Heartbreaker's defeat and capture is uneventful and humorous, courtesy of an army of Dragon suits, Dragon's increased processing power after [[spoiler: becoming a goddess, and Canary's secret release from the Birdcage.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, but in the end Scion is defeated, Dracul freed and reunited with Lisa in a new reincarnation, Taylor and her new sister Rose are obviously very close, and humanity is recovering and heading for the stars]].
* {{Elseworld}}: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/39515629/ Ambassador of Blood]] a crossover between this and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/emissary-a-deputy-recursive-crossover-worm-au-canon.532150/ Emissary]] which the author had a lot of fun with in co-writing.
* EmergencyTransformation: Taylor saves [[spoiler: Amy and Meridia]] from death by turning them.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: Piggot has apparently been gifted [[PlayingWithFire incendiary powers]], following Behemoth and Leviathan's deaths, likely by the newly-released Ifrit. It's later confirmed that the god actually chose to stay dead and passed on his mantle to her]].
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Bakuda's reduced to this after a stay in Castlevania characterized by continuous ColdBloodedTorture, physical mutilation, and memory erasure with zero chance of death.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Every time the Slaughterhouse 9 are mentioned, the impression of Dracul reminds Taylor that they are beneath him. [[RunningGag Every time.]] Taylor begins to snark back to the impression when it happens in later chapters.
** As later revealed during the S9 Arc, [[spoiler: Dracul's power actually scanned Jack Slash as a potential successor... and promptly turned around, looking for someone with desires and dreams a little less pathetic.]]
** The [[spoiler:very last thing Jack Slash learns before his personality is [[CessationOfExistence completely annihilated]]]] is that [[spoiler:even ''{{Hell}} itself'' [[BarredFromTheAfterlife doesn't want him]]; truly unrepentant sinners evolve into the devils that run the place, and he's ''too much of an asshole'' for them to even consider working with him.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Averted. [[spoiler: Zion ''does'' understand why the humans are fighting him - he's seen it play out countless times, individuals trying to make their lives, however short, mean something. He just doesn't ''care''.]]
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: The S9 being this is the focus of Dracul's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jack Slash. When it comes down to it, the Slaughterhouse 9 are actually somewhat pathetic in the long term, based primarily around Jack's [[GlorySeeker ego]] and desire to prove his own selfishness as a valid way of looking at the world. To an EvilOverlord, even on a purely selfish level, this is quite possibly the most pointless, self-defeating goal in the world – the planet may remember Jack and spit on his name, but when it comes down to it, he will remain a footnote, as nobody will ''care'' who such a small-minded monster was.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler: After Shadow Stalker fails her SecretTestOfCharacter, Taylor has her exiled to an alternate Earth where dinosaur-like creatures still exist and humans never evolved]].
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller:
** When Dracul meets Solin and [[spoiler:the Entity]], he remarks that he was expecting them to be more impressive.
** [[spoiler: Lorkhan, God of War,]] was expecting the Lady of Darkness to be more than just a child.
* {{Expy}}: Some [[spoiler: ex-Gray Boy victims that become Chronos' TimeMaster champions]] are taken from some of Ack's Worm fics, such as Andrea from ''FanFic/{{Recoil}}'' and Robin from ''Fanfic/HopeComesToBrocktonBay''.
* EyeScream: The Siberian plucks out one of Glory Girl's eyes when she arrives to extract Bonesaw.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Taylor impersonates Eden to catch Scion off guard]].
* FightingFromTheInside: A villainous example when Taylor possesses [[spoiler: Bonesaw in order to save the Dallons]]. She couldn't do anything overt, but nearly undermined Taylor twice with subtler tweaks.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The denizens of Castlevania, such as Alucard and Meridia, are from a technological period relatively close to the middle ages. While some of the basics transfer over (hospitals, malls, strip clubs), they are amazed by things like skyscrapers and cell phones, which have no equivalents in their past world.
* {{Foil}}: The Terrible Trio's reactions to Taylor's death make them all foils to each other.
** Madison, tormented by guilt, Triggers and turns herself in, willing to take full responsibility for her crimes. After a talk with Taylor, she willingly becomes TheAtoner and joins the wards as Paladin.
** Emma, [[ItsAllAboutMe only focused on her own well-being]], washed her hands of the incident, moved to a new city, and tried to bury it in the past. However, the past eventually caught up with her, and now juvie is where she'll stay for the next 15 years.
** Sophia only stopped long enough to cover her tracks and leave the Wards before joining Coil to continue her activities, [[NeverMyFault having concluded that Taylor's death was due to her own weakness]]. [[spoiler: After getting captured by Apostle and turned over to Taylor via Cauldron, Taylor, after testing her character and finding her wanting, [[LaserGuidedKarma leaves her in an alternate dinosaur world where she won't be able to hurt anyone ever again]].]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Danny Hebert complaining about pipe problems. [[spoiler: He's actually able to project water constructs and subconsciously tried to rebuild his projection by using the running water within the pipes.]]
** Neptune is hypothesized to be a Case 53 but isn't really persuaded of this, since he ''does'' have vague recollections. [[spoiler: Indeed, he's Danny Hebert's projection, which gives him subconscious access to his Master's wants and memories, explaining how he could call Taylor Little Owl - a nickname Annette gave her.]]
** Alucard mentions he identified his wife reborn by the fact she already knew his birth name when they were introduced. [[spoiler: Meaning he immediately realizes how significant Narwhal calling him ''Adrian'' when [[INeverToldYouMyName he never told her his name]].]]
* {{FTL}}: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, humanity manages to reverse-engineer Vista's power to create an FTL engine]].
* FromASingleCell: [[spoiler: Dragon]] reduces [[spoiler: Crawler]] to a single piece of bone and, after checking, assumes he's dead. He eventually regenerates, not that it does him much good [[spoiler: in interplanetary space]].
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: [[spoiler: Sophia's Master/Stranger training allows her to spot one in her SecretTestOfCharacter and break out]].
* GoAndSinNoMore: This is the choice Taylor gives to Madison when the latter triggers and confesses to her part in the bullying and murder of Taylor: either she clean up her act, join the Wards, and become a hero and person she can be proud of, or accept responsibility for her actions and go to juvie.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Having completed her plan to have Dragon ascend to be the new Lady of Light and free herself from the enslavement of the Entities, the Simurgh/Ariel dies with a smile on her face. Ariel got better.]]
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: This, Red Dawn, the Betrayal, and most popularly Ragnarok, are the names given to [[spoiler: Zion's attack on the world]].
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: [[MakingASplash Neptune]] rescuing Taylor when she's buried alive while the Simurgh's attack. [[spoiler: The first person Neptune saved was Daniel Hebert who screamed at him that his daughter was the one who needed saving rather than Daniel himself. Unbeknownst to Daniel ''and'' Neptune, he actually triggered when he attempted suicide and developed a projection... Neptune. So Neptune ''did'' rescue the one Daniel wanted him to save, but it meant even more since Neptune exists ''because'' of Mr. Hebert: Daniel ''managed to save his daughter'' when he was unable to before.]]
* HellHasNewManagement: [[spoiler: Dracul escapes going to Hell partially because they're afraid that this will happen if they send him there]].
* HeroicBSOD:
** Madison suffers this during her interview with Taylor. She's reduced to a sobbing wreck, trying to apologize for everything she did.
** Eidolon gets a big one [[spoiler: when he learns that he is responsible for the Endbringers. He actually leaves for an alternate Earth and contemplates killing himself with his powers there before resolving to make up for his mistakes and free the Castlevania-verse gods as Apostle.]]
** [[spoiler: Janus's reaction when Zion's defences obliterate Hyperion.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler: Lisa takes Bakuda out of Castlevania's walls and back into the real world while Scion is rampaging, to deny him another chance to home in on their shards and find the castle within the Shadow Plane. [[SubvertedTrope She survives.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Death sacrifices his corporeal avatar to grievously injure Scion's body, delaying him long enough for Castlevania to flee into the Shadow Plane out of the Entity's reach]].
* HiddenDepths:
** Glory Girl's trigger event in canon was getting fouled in a basketball game. While that still happens here, the reason why this qualifies as a trigger is given much more depth. [[note]]Fully aware of the toxicity of her home situation, all of Vicky's hopes were pinned on that game to get a basketball scholarship, move out to college, and take Amy and Dean with her away from [[ControlFreak her mother]]. Getting fouled and the resulting free throw was the big chance she was waiting for, all her hopes culminated into one moment, and when she didn't make it, her crushed hopes are what caused her trigger.[[/note]]
* HijackingCthulhu:
** The first lines of the story are [[spoiler: Dracul's divine mantle of darkness]] hijacking Taylor's Trigger event, granting her his power instead.
** It took a long time, but when [[spoiler: Dracul, searching through Abbadon's shards, found his [[ArmorPiercingAttack Sting]] shard, he triggered it and caused Abbadon to destroy himself. He did a lesser version of this with Eden, nudging her Queen Administrator shard to screw with PTV just enough to distract her and cause her to crash]].
** [[spoiler: With her blood possession power, Taylor commandeers Eden's brain-dead body and uses it to get close to Zion and stab him while his guard is down]]. Yes, you read that right: [[spoiler: '''she hijacked an Entity''']].
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler: How Gallant, of all people, manages to take down Cherish: by blasting her with the very same emotions of fear and despair that she herself was forcing onto everyone else.]]
* HookedUpAfterwards:
** [[spoiler: Danny and Hannah start seeing each other after Ragnarok. By the time Taylor awakens from her year-long healing coma, they are married and have a kid]].
** Alucard starts dating [[spoiler: Narwhal/Grace after the final battle. The fact that she seems to be the reincarnation of his wife Sonia is just one part of it.]]
* HopeSpot:
** [[spoiler: An evac ship is set up to get at least some people out of the way of Zion's attack... only for Zion to atomize it as soon as he notices it.]]
** [[spoiler: Zion gets one when he sees Eden, alive and well, flying towards him, and they embrace... [[CavalryBetrayal only for her to stab him through the front]], having been possessed by Taylor.]]
* HornyDevils
** Castlevania has 30-ish succubi guarding the portal room. Any intruder who enters through the portals will probably get seduced and killed, trying to get by.
** Taylor's monstrous form looks very succubus-like. Probably because Taylor drank the lead succubi Meridia's blood as a tribute of loyalty.
* HumongousMecha: Atlas, the giant robot built with Dragon's expertise and Castlevania's resources and magic, [[spoiler: which Armsmaster pilots (remotely) in the fight against Behemoth]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all Sophia's talk about how the world is made up of predators and prey and how the strong eat the weak, [[spoiler: once she gets sent to an Earth still in the age of dinosaurs, she goes on about how she misses her creature comforts and not having to fight and hunt just to survive.]]
* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler: The Simurgh, being a DeathSeeker, chose to expose her core during her attack on Vancouver and allow the capes to strike it directly.]]
* IcyBlueEyes: Amy's, [[spoiler:after she becomes a vampire.]]
* IdiotBall: [[WordOfGod The author]] has stated a distinct distaste for it and is actively attempting to not give anyone the ball.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: Solin, despite all his power, was terrified of death, and killed and stole the power of the previous god of light because he couldn't take the life extending treatments the god allowed for.
* ImmuneToFate: [[spoiler: Precogs have trouble seeing Taylor after her ascension to godhood]].
** [[spoiler: It's also why Eidolon was invisible to precogs and the Path to Victory as well, due to his connection with the Endbringers, which were actually the captured Castlevania gods.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** [[spoiler: Jack Slash's death, Vlad the Impaler-style. Mannequin too, although not nearly as viscerally.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor, in Eden's body, with the Void Sword, does this to Zion]].
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler: Behemoth and Leviathan take ''extreme'' damage in their battles, the latter even losing his ''head'', but keep going]].
* IronicHell:
** The fate of many of the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine, after going to Brockton Bay resulted in a TotalPartyKill.]]
*** [[spoiler: Shatterbird, who manipulates silicon and caused the most direct pain and collateral damage of the Nine, is set on a beach where she will hear all the screams of her victims until she is able to experience all of their pain.]]
*** [[spoiler: Mannequin, a tinker specializing in enclosed environments, is trapped in his family's house. And his family, whose loss made him snap in the first place, aren't there - as his father told him, all the harm he had done meant he can't go where they are.]]
*** [[spoiler: Manton, whose cannibalistic serial-killing rampage was in vengeance for his daughter's death, is trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop of a moment where he failed to save his daughter, ending with her turning into the Siberian and eating him alive.]]
*** [[spoiler:Hatchet Face is pursued by a wolf pack, no longer the predator but now the prey.]]
*** [[spoiler: Jack was a nihilist with no ambition but his own sadistic fun. After death, he suffers CessationOfExistence because [[BarredFromTheAfterlife he has no place to go.]] Death adds that if he could he would trap Jack in the bunker he grew up in for eternity.]]
*** [[spoiler: The two Slaughterhouse Nine members who ''didn't'' have free choice in their actions end up with pretty good deals.]] See ThrowTheDogABone below.
** Not a literal hell like what the above end up in, but Shadow Stalker finally gets to live out her ideal world where the only law is survival of the fittest: [[spoiler: an alternate world where humans never evolved and dinosaurs never went extinct.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Doctor Mother was in charge of a whole organization of secret parahumans against an inter-dimensional threat, without any powers of her own. When that threat finally got worse, she finally Triggered with the power to uncontrollably teleport to other dimensions and used it to warn them of the incoming dimensional threat - not knowing that the threat had already been defeated.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Emma was content to run away from her problems rather than own up to them, only considering about her own future. Taylor says as much to her when the law caught up with her.
** Sophia, full stop. Not only does she [[NeverMyFault blame Taylor for dying since she was weak]], she's perfectly willing to [[spoiler: watch a mugging victim die when she doesn't fight back. And even when she realises she just let her mother die, her only thoughts are to how she'll go on instead of her younger siblings. Good thing it was only an illusion. Later, on Dino-Earth, she still refuses to accept any responsibility, instead blaming Taylor]].
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Clockblocker delivers a sincere, if irreverent salute from him, the Wards and the Protectorate to Director Piggot when she resigns, [[spoiler: so that she can dedicate her time to being the Goddess of Fire]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Besides the canon Worm jerks, [[spoiler: Dracul particularly despises the former God of Light, Solin. When he's able to enter the Realm of Light, he finds the jackass is a plagiarist to boot, copying designs from Ariel's and Dracul's own temples rather than develop something new.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: A paranoid asshole Saint might be, but [[spoiler: the Simurgh taking over all but one of the Dragon suits ''was'' a fairly good reason to activate Ascalon.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Kaiser manages to leave Brockton to live like a king in Hawaii with Fenja and Menja, abandoning his organization.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: The deaths of the Nine. Bonesaw is messily liquefied after three agonizing hours of AndIMustScream, the Siberian's projector is teleported to the Earth's core, Crawler is almost completely vaporized by Dragon, with what tiny little of him was left sent flying on a 4-year trajectory to Jupiter, and Mannequin is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and his organs [[KillItWithFire incinerated by holy fire]]. Hatchet Face is messily devoured by a newly vampirized Meridia, Shatterbird is ripped apart by Taylor, Burnscar is herded into an ambush, and Jack Slash receives a beatdown and a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Dracul, before finally being executed by Taylor, Vlad the Impaler-style. The SoleSurvivor, Cherish, is unceremoniously captured at the Endbringer shelter after having [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her powers redirected at herself]], and is now held under house arrest in an isolated location by Dragon.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: Hatchet Face thinks he's saving the world from "monsters" by killing every cape who walks his path. [[{{Hypocrite}} Keep in mind what supervillain team he's a part of]].]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Scion ''does'' understand why humanity is fighting them, he just doesn't care or empathize with them]].
* LifeDrain: One of the main powers of the Void Sword.
* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: The God of Light and the God of Darkness are ''the'' most powerful gods in the FantasyPantheon of Castlevania. Everything went to hell when the God of Light, Solin and the God of Darkness, Dracul, fought and hated each other. It's met with a lot of relief and hope that the new Goddess of Darkness, Taylor and the Goddess of Light, Dragon are perfectly willing to work together.
* LightIsNotGood: Part of the reason Castlevania's native world went tits-up was that the god of Light, for several centuries, was Solin, a DirtyCoward so terrified of death he began a crusade against ''every other god'' purely to gain more followers [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly to power his existence with]], and his manipulations to that effect turned [[KnightInShiningArmor Gabriel Belmont]] into [[EvilOverlord Dracul]]. [[spoiler: {{Defied}} by his power (which is about order, reason, and knowledge) after his death, being stuck to such a selfish ass for so long caused it to become ''really picky'' about its next host, a standard that paid off when it found [[BigGood Dragon]].]]
* LiquidAssets: [[spoiler: Solin became the God of Light in the first place through a ritual that killed ''everyone'' above him in the hierarchy he lived in.]]
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Magic has its rules and limitations just as science does. For instance, one needs a dedication to knowledge and reason to use light magic.
* TheMagicComesBack: A variation; [[spoiler: Thanks to Eidolon/Apostle's handiwork, the Castlevania gods are being freed from their fate as future Endbringers. Since they can't return home, however, they decide to settle on Earth Bet.]] [[HilarityEnsues This results in... complications.]]
* MakingASplash: Neptune, an OC Case 53 member of the Brockton Bay Protectorate, who is entirely composed of water and can manipulate it at will. [[spoiler: After he is dissipated in the fight with the Simurgh, he re-emerges, along with another water construct named Salacia, as a projection of Danny Hebert]].
* MeaningfulRename:
** After Taylor unlocks her [[ScaledUp dragon form]], she renames herself from Scarlet Knight to Scarlet Dragon.
** [[spoiler: After being awoken to the true nature of the Endbringers and the Castlevania gods they once were, Eidolon makes it his goal to break them free of the Entities' chains, and rebrands himself Apostle.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Scion views his killing Kevin Norton painlessly before his rampage as this.]]
* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler: What turned William Manton into the Siberian (killing Hero, a member of Cauldron, because they couldn't save his daughter Annie) – and why Annie's ghost kicks off his IronicHell by telling him she hates him, utterly.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When Cauldron learns about the relationship between souls and memories, they, or at least Alexandria, are understandably horrified]].
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler: Apparently a few Entities act as symbiotes instead of parasites. Death suggests that Scion try this, but he rejects it]].
* NakedFirstImpression: [[spoiler: The god Hyperion's]] first appearance in the story has him not wearing pants.
* NamedByTheAdaptation:
** Hero's name is Clark Bell, a self-professed Superman fan, and tried to live up to the ideal throughout his life.
** Assault's full name is Ethan Cole, and Battery's name is Samantha Cole.
** Legend's first name is Nathan.
** Shatterbird's first name is Atrika.
** Marquis's first name is Jean.
** Narwhal's first name is apparently Grace.
** Eidolon's full name is David Harris.
* NeverMyFault: Sophia refuses to accept that she'd ever done anything wrong, not after killing Taylor, not after flunking a SecretTestOfCharacter, not even in the epilogue where [[spoiler: she's shown what her "predators over all" ethos means to someone not at the top of the food chain - by being dumped on a planet full of dinosaurs with a finite amount of modern supplies that she quickly burns through just trying to survive.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A minor example, but it still screws ''someone'' over: [[spoiler: During the fight against Scion, Taylor ends up taking over Eden's confirmed-by-Death-to-be-dead body. While putting the humanoid avatar that Contessa and Doctor Mother killed back together, she activates a shard that seals off portal access to the world she's on (which has the side-effect of shutting off all non-magic portals Cauldron had been using for coordination purposes), and gives what she hopes is a reassuring smile to the nearby security camera. Doctor Mother, watching this after hearing the portals shut down, concludes that Eden is still alive and humanity is now facing two Entities. The next time Doctor Mother is seen, she's triggered with an uncontrollable dimension-hopping ability and is haphazardly traveling the multiverse, trying to warn people of the (already defeated) threat. And with the Clairvoyant dead, no one can track her down and retrieve her until the shard latches onto someone else (assuming it even does). Doctor Mother may have been an amoral woman that let people be tortured for the greater good, but still, ''yeesh'']].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: An interesting case where the villain was trying to do the right thing to begin with, but unintentionally did something completely different. [[spoiler: During the Simurgh fight, Dragon's suits are hacked by the Endbringer and told to crush, kill, and destroy, which provokes Saint into activating the Ascalon kill-program. This does destroy the suits, but also causes Dragon's soul to linger at the afterlife long enough for the divine mantle of Light to notice her, and immediately bring her back as a [[DeusEstMachina goddess]].]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: During Taylor's press conference, [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy William Nye]] and [[{{Magazine/Playboy}} Hugh Hefner]] make an appearance.
* NoEndorHolocaust: [[spoiler: Downplayed, the battle with Scion does cause a ''lot'' of damage, but far less than Cauldron feared, with Aleph being spared entirely, and Bet damaged but still salvageable]].
* NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler: Ariel, a.k.a. the goddess that was the Simurgh, realizes that the best future for Earth-Bet has no place for her in it, so she kills herself to pass the power on to a worthy heir]].
* NoSell:
** Meridia tries kissing the Siberian to steal her soul. As the Siberian is merely a projection, it doesn't work, and responds by [[spoiler: tearing the succubus's arms off.]]
** [[spoiler: Hatchet Face's power nullification does absolutely nothing to vampires or the other denizens of Castlevania.]]
** Meridia is unaffected by the hallucinogens Newter's skin secretes, which works out... very... well for the both of them.
** [[spoiler: Nilbog may have engineered his creatures to feed and reproduce with fire, but he never conceived of the fire a ''goddess of flame'' can produce.]]
* NotHyperbole: Taylor, while trying to use her Shadow Gate to find Coil or Apostle, threatens to paint it pink if it doesn't cooperate. By the end, the gate is bright pink ''and'' covered in Christmas lights, but it still doesn't work.
* OathboundPower: All the Belmont equipment Paladin (Madison) produces have this constraint. If ever she strays from the path of ThePaladin, the path of courage, valor, and protecting the innocent, her tools will no longer work for her.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: A boosted Narwhal takes off Leviathan's head. [[NoSell Doesn't do much besides make him mad]]]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Near the end, Taylor hijacks Eden's corpse via her blood ability. While leaving the Cauldron facility, she flashes what she hopes comes across as a reassuring smile. Instead, Doctor Mother interprets it as a vicious smirk, leading her to think Eden has been merely recuperating while in Cauldron's custody and is ready to join Zion. The idea of two Entities at full power working together so terrifies her she immediately Triggers and is whisked away by her new power to another Earth.]]
* OnlyMostlyDead: ''Technically,'' this applies to [[spoiler: Death after his battle with Scion completely destroys his [[AnthropomorphicPersonification corporeal avatar]], reducing him to the abstract cosmic force that he was before Dracul. Taylor could possibly restore his avatar, but it would take the sacrifice of millions of lives for the ritual to work.]]
** [[spoiler: Taylor uses 5 years worth of slaughtered cattle souls to reconstruct Death's avatar, but it only lasts for a few minutes, long enough for Taylor to say goodbye.]]
* OrderVersusChaos: The power of Light represents knowledge, reason, and logic and is meant to organize, heal and guide. Darkness deals with passion and emotion and is meant to test, drive and push things to change.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: You become one by drinking another's blood, but only if you're consenting to the transformation (though it's possible to coerce a potential vamp forcefully), otherwise it just kills you and animates your corpse as a mindless ghoul (Alucard being an exception because of his blood connection to his father). They still have souls and free will, but are saturated with the power of Darkness, causing them to have tendencies to becoming {{Mood Swinger}}s and TheUnfettered.
* ThePaladin: Madison triggers and gains the abilities and knowledge of the Belmont line. [[TheAtoner In an attempt to make up for the bullying she helped put Taylor through]], she promises to better herself and chooses Paladin as her cape name to show her commitment to that promise.
* PapaWolf: An example by proxy, [[spoiler: since Daniel Hebert wasn't there to protect Taylor when the Simurgh rampaged in Vancouver... but his projection Neptune was.]]
* PersonalizedAfterlife: Interlude: Death shows this happening with the [[spoiler: Slaughterhouse Nine]], doubling as IronicHell. Each gets sent to a separate environment crafted to torment each one individually based on their sins in life ([[spoiler:There are two exceptions-Bonesaw/Riley gets to go to heaven because Jack Slash tortured her to the point where she was not acting under her own free will in performing her atrocities, and Burnscar/Mimi gets to be reincarnated because most of her evil deeds were because her power messed with her head]]).
** [[spoiler: Shatterbird, a silikinetic who caused perhaps the most direct pain of the Slaughterhouse Nine through using her power as a terror weapon]], is sent to a beach and tormented with the screams of her victims until she has experienced all their pain.
** [[spoiler:Mannequin/Alan Gramme was a tinker specializing in enclosed environments who went murderously insane after his family died.]] He gets trapped inside a replica of his family's house, with his actual family gone (with all the pain he caused, he can't go where they've gone) and his dad stopping by to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
** [[spoiler:The Siberian/William Manton's cannibalistic serial-killing rampage was caused by his failing to save his daughter Annie]], and his punishment is [[spoiler:Annie]] telling him how she hates him for what he'd done and never wants to see him again, followed by a GroundhogDayLoop of the moment she died, followed by her turning into [[spoiler:The Siberian]] and eating him alive.
** [[spoiler:Hatchet Face, a HeroKiller,]] is pursued by a wolf pack, now the prey instead of the predator.
** [[spoiler:Downplayed for Jack Slash, the leader of the group.]] By mutual consent of both Heaven and Hell, who consider his evil to be so petty and pointless that even they want nothing to do with him, his soul is completely [[CessationOfExistence erased from existence]], not even considered worthy of a custom punishment, which is in turn a massive blow to his ego for the last 30 seconds of conscious thought he has left.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Scion]] heals [[spoiler: Kevin Norton]] of his cancer when he notices the poor state of his health, and chooses to [[spoiler: MercyKill him in an instant, before he realizes what's happening, so he won't be caught up in the upcoming rampage.]]
** Scion seems to think pretty positively of Kevin Norton in general. He genuinely appreciates Kevin's attempts to help him through his depression and find answers, it's just that their definition of 'answers' [[BlueAndOrangeMorality are completely different.]]
* PhysicalReligion: [[spoiler: After Ragnarok, many people turn to worship the PhysicalGods that fought alongside the Capes against Scion and helped the world recover in the aftermath.]] [[spoiler: They are still figuring out the religious rites and build temples.]]
* PhlebotinumOverdose: [[spoiler: Scion has so much energy that getting stabbed with the [[LifeDrain Void Sword]] actually physically hurts Taylor, and might have resulted in this if he hadn’t punched her away. She gets around this by [[HijackingCthulhu borrowing his mate's body]]]].
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Piggot gains this power when she assumes the Mantle of Fire]].
* PossessionBurnout: Taylor's blood possession will inevitably cause this in the subject. [[spoiler: Bonesaw's self-augmentation allows her to last a few hours, but most of the time the victim will die in a few minutes.]]
* PowersDoTheFighting: How Bakuda is finally beaten: [[spoiler: by forcing her to expend her ammunition on Alucard's wolf AstralProjection, she's left with almost no options when they go after her for real.]]
** [[spoiler: Danny Hebert has no fighting ability whatsoever, but is able to create sentient water constructs gifted with [[MakingASplash hydrokinesis]].]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: When Piggot becomes the new goddess of Fire, she has trouble controlling her new PlayingWithFire powers. When Taylor gets her to calm down, she manages to control things briefly, but then her hair catches on fire]].
** [[spoiler: Janus apparently had a similar problem when he first ascended]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: Alucard gives one to [[spoiler: Hatchet Face as he tries to nullify his powers, [[NoSell which are completely useless against magic-users]]]], right before he overpowers him and feeds him to [[spoiler: Vampire Meridia]].
--> '''Alucard:''' I feel nothing. ''(Conjures a handful of hellfire and burns his opponent)''
* PrisonersWork: Out of necessity: [[spoiler: the final battle of Ragnarok drastically altered the climate and claimed many lives, so humanity can't afford a non-productive population if they want to survive. Emma is just one of the prisoners put to work in the fields growing the necessary food.]]
* PsychoactivePowers: [[spoiler: Danny's water constructs Neptune and Salacia are unconsciously modelled after significant people in his life: the former is based on his grandfather, the latter on his late wife Annette.]]
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* RasputinianDeath: Crawler suffers one as expected with his healing ability, first being [[spoiler: reduced to a fragment of bone by Dragon's plasma and then launched into the outer Solar System, where his body crashes into the surface of ''Jupiter''. His shard keeps him alive for about a century before feedback from the extreme conditions leads to the shard cutting the connection and finally letting him die]].
* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Sophia post getting sent back to prehistoria finds out quickly the real truth of Predators and Prey; that more often than not the Predators ''lose'' when a Duck-billed dino she's hunting escapes her because she alerted it and gets its family involved. This is true of even the top ones. [[SmallNameBigEgo So there's little hope for a jumped-up wannabe like her]].]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Taylor gives out a fair few of these.
*** She tears [[spoiler: Jack Slash]] apart in the middle of his HannibalLecture, actually managing to [[VillainousBreakdown drive him into (for him, anyway) a frothing rage,]] [[spoiler: giving her the opening she needs to kill him.]]
---->'''Taylor:''' It's easy to break things, [[spoiler: Jack.]] It's easy to kill people. It's harder to lead them, and harder still to inspire them. What have you got that's worth my time, [[spoiler: Jack]]? You're an irritant. An annoying stone in the bottom of my boot. All you've done is run around like a complete idiot, enjoying a few giggles while the adults try to get something done. [...] What's the matter? Not having any fun now? Thought you'd get to have a good laugh, play a little bloody joke on me, giggling behind my back as you pointed me in amusing directions like a dog on a leash? Perhaps hoping I'd do a few tricks, grinning as you got the Dragon on your side? [...] This reeks of desperation, little man. A last shot at trying to make an impression on the people who actually ''matter.''\\
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When I'm done here today, I'm going to go home, make myself a nice drink, and forget all about you. This isn't even a game to me, [[spoiler: Jack.]] You're a pest. You're a cockroach, and this time you can't scurry away into the darkness before the boot comes down. The only thing anyone's going to say about you after today is, "good riddance," and move on. Your obituary's going to say, "Here died [[spoiler: Jack Slash]], a complete waste of oxygen. He died as he lived, accomplishing ''jack shit.''" A shame your dad didn't just save us all the trouble and ''cut your throat when you were born.''
*** Then she gives Emma hers when she is finally caught and put in juvie. Especially when she confirms that if Taylor hadn't come back from the dead, she would've gladly put the incident behind her and never looked back.
*** And one last one for Sophia [[spoiler: after she is handed to Taylor by Cauldron]], after a SecretTestOfCharacter makes it very clear there's no redemption for someone as [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] and [[NeverMyFault regretless]] as her.
** Director Piggot gives one to [[spoiler: Nilbog, when, as the new Lady of Fire, she [[TheDogBitesBack returns to reduce his kingdom to cinders]].]] After all, [[spoiler: a self-proclaimed god-king who created and ruled over monsters cannot begin to compare to the other god-queen she knows, a girl who got terrifying powers, became a literal bloodsucker, and ''still'' managed to save the world]].
* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler: Death tries to convince Scion to turn away from his destructive goals, but the Entity rejects him]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Taylor's eyes are normally brown but when she begins channeling her power in any amount, the iris turns red. When she is really pissed off, her entire eye turns red.
* {{Reincarnation}}:
** [[spoiler: Narwhal is apparently the reincarnation of someone from the Castlevania-verse. Specifically Sonia, Alucard's wife]].
** [[spoiler: Dracul is eventually reincarnated as Soma Cruz.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: Alucard ]]
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Invoked obliquely when Amy ''loses'' hers [[spoiler: upon becoming a vampire]]. She can still sense and change a person's biology, however she no longer possesses the instinctual understanding of that biology that had made her so effective before (unless it's her own biology).
* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[spoiler:Unless the bearer took the power and did not prove worthy of it, the power was stolen by their slayer, or the god decides against it, the Castlevania-verse gods will eventually resurrect upon death, though it can take anywhere up to a century for that to happen]].
** Demons can do so as well under some circumstances, but they tend to lose a good chunk of memory and it's far from pleasant.
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: Dracul hated the Phoenix so much that even when the world was dying around him, he would rather kill the coward that try to work for a solution with him]].
* TheSacredDarkness: This is Taylor's role as the Lady of Darkness: while darkness can embody negative emotions, the darkness also embodies things like passion, creativity, change and the night.
* ScaledUp: Taylor's ultimate ability is to turn into a 30-foot-tall dragon. [[spoiler:Guess what form she's in when she kills the Simurgh?]]
** [[spoiler: As the new Lady of Light, Dragon can now turn into her namesake.]].
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler: In the wake of Scion's death, Kaiser pragmatically abandons the Empire with Menja and Fenja, skipping to Hawaii]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** When confronting a repentant Madison, Taylor tells her she was considering prosecution before she met her, but is willing to let her make amends with her new powers by joining the Wards instead of jail. In reality, she was leaning towards the Wards in the first place, but she wanted to see what Madison would choose between making amends or accepting responsibility.
** A more overt test: Taylor [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedAmnesia clears a few months of Sophia's memory]], then uses her succubi to put her into an illusion where Shadow Stalker has every chance to accept help, think ahead, care for others or feel remorse when she makes a tragic mistake. But when Shadow Stalker feels no guilt towards herself even after she watches a mugging victim who doesn't fight back die only to realise it was her mother after the fact, Taylor concludes that there's no redemption for her.]]
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: Death tells Scion that he will fail in his attempt to prevent humanity from becoming a threat to the Entities by eliminating them first and that his actions will only ensure that they do become a threat to his kind]].
* SelfRestraint: [[spoiler: Alexandria could probably escape from even the Birdcage if she really tried... so she isn't going to try. She'll accept whatever punishment for her Cauldron crimes is dished out]].
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: David responds to Zion's line that broke him in canon by [[TalkToTheFist blasting him in the face]].]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Zion:''' ''You needed worthy opponents.'']]
--> [[spoiler: '''David:''' [[InsultBackfire And I have him.]]]]
* SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope: Discussed between Directors Costa-Brown and Tagg. Tagg, who is advocating the necessary DirtyBusiness to keep the world in order, is saying that [[FaceHeelTurn heroes become villains]] simply by [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope crossing a line]] and using their powers for themselves, and as long as they never cross that line, their actions are for the better. Costa-Brown however, moved by the [[spoiler: defeat of the Simurgh and Slaughterhouse 9]] and echoing the words of her late friend Hero, now has a different view.
--> '''Costa-Brown:''' Heroes don’t become villains over one choice. It’s a process. A million little things changing you just a bit every day, until eventually you find yourself willing to do what used to be unthinkable because you’re only a little bit different from what you were yesterday. Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Allowing justice to die in the name of law and order. ''Nobody'' gets up in the morning and says ‘I’m going to do the most evil thing I possibly can today’ with the possible exceptions of the unlamented and unmourned Slaughterhouse Nine.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Jack Slash, as per usual. Even witnessing what Taylor is capable of, even with ''Dracul himself'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech laying out the bitter, brutal truth to him]], Jack refuses to see any scenario outside of him breaking Taylor into one of his followers. [[DeaderThanDead He is soon disabused of this notion.]]]]
* SoleSurvivor: Cherish is the last living member of the Slaughterhouse Nine, and she's imprisoned in solitary confinement (technically Crawler's alive too, but he's a fragment of bone on its way to Jupiter, where his shard will eventually experience too much feedback due to extreme conditions and cut the connection, killing him).
* StartMyOwn: An omake has Armsmaster give Taylor a CAT scan. He finds "Screw you guys. I'm doing my own empowering event. With pool halls. And succubi." in Romainian carved into the remnants of her Corona Pollentia.
* StupidSexyFlanders: The succubi are prone to causing this.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: The Simurgh purposefully allows the Vancouver capes to strike her core and finish her]].
* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: Scion]], DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife, finds one to [[LastStand stake his life on]]: [[spoiler: with magic slowly permeating the universe, empowering it and its inhabitants bit by bit, he decides to HoldTheLine and eradicate all the magic and magic users from the world before it threatens the other Entities and their Purpose]].
* SuperEmpowering:
** [[spoiler:After being freed, Chronos, Lorkhan and Scylla all give power to someone]].
*** [[spoiler: Chronos frees all of Grey Boy's victims, and those that choose to join him in fighting for Earth's survival are given [[TimeMaster time manipulation]] powers.]]
*** [[spoiler: Lorkhan finds Moord Nag and gives her a boost (and apparently takes her as a lover).]]
*** [[spoiler: Scylla gives the essence/powers of [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow Malphas the Crow Witch]] to a woman who's circumstances vaguely mirrored Malphas's origins (losing a lover and falling off a cliff without dying). As the woman (Alexis) was being chased by [[AssholeVictim criminals]] at the time, this was appreciated.]]
** [[spoiler:After Behemoth is killed, the captured Ifrit's mantle of flame is passed to Director Piggot.]]
* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:Even slowed to the point that he experiences time at one ''thirtieth'' the normal rate, Leviathan is still ''extremely'' fast, to the point that he seems even faster than he ''normally'' is, and needs to be slowed down even more for it to be noticeable. Behemoth isn't very slow either when he starts getting seriously wounded]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler: Taylor can't help but feel some pity and guilt for attacking Scion with Eden's body. Subverted when he casually destroys a escape ship with half a million people inside and expects Eden to be happy over it]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: See the above mentioned entry for Dracul's AndIMustScream situation? [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu He killed Abaddon and Eden]] after being put in that state.]]
* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler: Taylor starts terraforming the moon after bringing Castlevania there]].
* ThisIsntHeaven: [[spoiler:Mannequin's afterlife seems to be a perfectly pleasant reconstruction of his home before the Simurgh attacked... and then his father shows up to reveal [[IronicHell he can't leave, and his family is forever not present]].]]
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** [[spoiler: The two Slaughterhouse Nine members who ''didn't'' have free choice in their actions end up with pretty good deals. Riley (who was brainwashed by Jack) is reunited with her mother in heaven; her sentence is merely that she has to "live" with the memories of what Bonesaw did. Mimi's powers forced her into sociopathy, which produced Burnscar as a separate soul that actually ''wanted'' to do horrible things. Mimi is sent on to reincarnate, to atone for what few sins are actually hers, while Burnscar is summarily [[CessationOfExistence wiped from existence]].]]
** [[spoiler: Even Shatterbird's and Mannequin's punishment will end one day, at which point they'll be free to leave.]]
** [[spoiler: Even all the destruction he caused, Dracul giving his powers to Taylor to allow another world to survive and him finding a fragment of the man he was through his years of torture is enough to earn him reincarnation.]]
* TimeMaster: Chronos, God of Time. Also [[spoiler: his champions, ex-Gray Boy victims that he freed and empowered with his powers, including the first one, Sarah Kissinger]].
* TogetherInDeath:
** [[spoiler:Riley is reunited with her mother after her death destroys the Bonesaw personality.]]
** [[spoiler: Defied ''with extreme prejudice'' for Mannequin and Manton/Siberian; the former is sealed away in the memory of his home before the Simurgh attacked, [[IronicHell without his family and knowing his father is disappointed in him]], while Manton is given a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by his daughter and told [[YouAreNotMyFather she hates him utterly and never wants to see him again]], and ends up being constantly killed by a memory of her turning into the Siberian.]]
** [[spoiler: Even Zion and Eden are reunited in the afterlife, right before they enter the Sea of Souls to be reincarnated.]]
* TopGod: The gods of Darkness and Light are the most powerful of the Castlevania-verse gods, thus tying for the position.
* TranquilFury: The Void Sword in general has this effect on Taylor's emotions, allowing her to channel and focus her anger into something constructive instead of just blindly lashing out.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: After Ragnarok/[[spoiler:Zion's attack on the world]] both Dragon and Scarlet Dragon are each given a whole host of titles.
** Dragon: [[AC: Goddess of Light, The Golden Dragon, The Lightbringer, The First Dragon, The Herokiller Killer, One of The Two Sisters, The Daystar, Leader of the Paladins, She Who Harnessed the Sun]]
** Scarlet Dragon: [[AC: Goddess of Darkness, The Scarlet Dragon, The Queen of The Night, Lady of the Dark Plane, The Hopekiller killer, One of The Two Sisters, The Impaler, The Bringer Of Shadows, The Strongest Invincible Vampire]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** [[spoiler: Castlevania manages to survive Scion's initial blast, which Scion thought would destroy it utterly]].
** [[spoiler: Taylor admits to herself that she greatly underestimated Zion's power as ''just'' a little bit stronger than an Endbringer]].
* UnstoppableRage: Bakuda's bombing spree really pisses off Taylor. By the time she's done, Oni Lee has been crippled (and later Birdcaged) and Bakuda has been given to the succubi with the only condition being she stays alive. [[spoiler: She regrets her decision on the latter point.]]
* ViralTransformation: A ''single drop'' of Taylor's blood is enough to kill just about anyone who imbibes it. But feeding them the proper amount will transform the "victim" into a vampire, should they accept it. [[spoiler:This happens to Amy accidentally when they experiment with Taylor's power.]]
* WalkingWasteland: [[spoiler: One of the powers of the Lord of Fall]].
* WeHaveReserves: The {{Golem}}s that Taylor sends into the battle against [[spoiler:the Simurgh]]. They are cheap, weaker than many of the capes, and are best used for taking hits directed at actual capes, but Taylor has over a thousand of them and they are easy to make.
* WeakButSkilled: Alucard, as per usual. He doesn't have nearly as many powers as Taylor, but he has centuries of experience that more than make up for it.
* WeakenedByTheLight: While Taylor is merely annoyed by sunlight, capes with light-based powers really hurt her. [[spoiler:Simply looking at Purity hurts Taylor's eyes, and touching her burns off most of her skin.]]
** Alucard has managed to build up a resistance to sunlight over the centuries, but it still bothers him more than it does Taylor.
* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler: A power of Taylor's, outclassing even Leviathan's rain calling]].
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Death tells [[spoiler: Scion]] that it won't be damned for its actions against humanity, because he knows that [[spoiler: neither he or Eden]] were ''able'' to empathise with the species. It can't be judged for not having something it's physically not able to have.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Kevin Norton chews out Scion for not helping with Leviathan]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Taylor finds this out about Sophia after a SecretTestOfCharacter, [[spoiler: that involves putting Sophia in an illusion where she chooses to let a weak victim die only to find out the victim was her mother]]. And she's not impressed with [[spoiler: a bloodthirsty thug who'd cause pain, suffering, and leave people to die with no forethought as soon as she's out of sight, and will not accept responsibility for her actions.]].
* WhipItGood:
** Taylor uses her blood control to make the shadow whip.
** After she triggers, Madison recreates the Vampire Killer that the Belmonts used to fight Dracul.
*** [[spoiler: Gabriel/Dracul made use of both types of whips during his (un)life.]]
** In a canonized backstory omake, Pan's predecessor had a whip of his own. It didn't help him.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Taylor has a phobia of closed spaces largely due to the locker and her coffin. She swears that she is going to punch any elevator-tinker simply on principle.
* WorfHadTheFlu: {{Invoked}}; [[spoiler:the Simurgh/Ariel deliberately fights with her [[MindControl song]] muted, doesn't use most of her tactics, and actively prevents her core from regenerating in order to allow the heroes to [[DeathSeeker end her torment]].]]
* YinYangBomb: [[spoiler:When fighting Behemoth at Yellowstone, Legend uses an amulet with Dragon's power and an amulet with Taylor's]].
* YinYangClash: Death describes the opposing powers of the Castlevania gods (especially Light and Darkness) as comparable to yin and yang, with no bearer embodying one without having some of the other as a core deep within them. They're ''meant'' to work together, though they have clashed in the past.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler: Kill a Castlevania-verse god, and it's possible to steal their power if you know how. [[KlingonPromotion The power of Darkness especially is apparently passed down this way a lot.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Pan and Agreus did this to the previous gods of Spring and Fall because, as their predecessors showed through their constant warfare, which left the brothers the [[LastOfHisKind last two satyrs alive]], taking the power doesn't mean you're worthy of it]].
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: A mild version, when [[spoiler: Dracul comments on Taylor's summary execution of Jack Slash, Vlad the Impaler-style.]]
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Death puts himself in Scion's way when the Entity attacks Castlevania, buying enough time for the castle to flee into the Shadow Plane.]]
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*** [[spoiler: Jack was a nihilist with no ambition but his own sadistic fun. After death, he suffers CessationOfExistence because [[BarredFromTheAfterlife he has no place to go.]]]]

* SuddenlySexuality: Due to having the very heterosexual ''male'' Dracul in her head, Taylor now technically qualifies as bisexual, much to her confusion.

** Alucard mentions he identified his wife reborn by the fact she already knew his birth name when they were introduced. [[spoiler: Meaning he immediately realizes how significant Narwhal calling him ''Adrian'' when he never told her is.]]

* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler: The Simurgh, being a DeathSeeker.]]

*** ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler: The two Slaughterhouse Nine members who ''didn't'' have free choice in their actions end up with pretty good deals. Riley (who was brainwashed by Jack) is reunited with her mother in heaven; her sentence is merely that she has to "live" with the memories of what Bonesaw did. Mimi's powers forced her into sociopathy, which produced Burnscar as a separate soul that actually ''wanted'' to do horrible things. Mimi is sent on to reincarnate, to atone for what few sins are actually hers, while Burnscar is summarily [[CessationOfExistence wiped from existence]].]]

* JerkAssHasAPoint: A paranoid asshole Saint might be, but [[spoiler: The Simurgh taking over all but one of the Dragon suits ''was'' a fairly good reason to activate Ascalon.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Near the end, Taylor hijacks Eden's corpse via her blood ability. While leaving the Cauldron facility, she flashes what she hopes comes across as a reassuring smile. Instead, Doctor Mother interprets it as a vicious smirk, leading her to think Eden has been merely recuperating while in Cauldron's custody and is ready to join Zion. The idea of two Entities at full power working together so terrifies her she immediately Triggers and is whisked away by her power to another Earth.]]

* OnlyThePureOfHeart: A variation, in that all the Belmont equipment Paladin (Madison) produces have this criteria for herself. If ever she strays from the path of ThePaladin, the path of courage, valor, and protecting the innocent, her tools will no longer work for her.

** [[spoiler:Downplayed for Jack Slash, the leader of the group.]] By mutual consent of both Heaven and Hell, who consider his evil to be so petty and pointless that even they want nothing to do with him, his soul is completely erased from existence, not even considered worthy of a custom punishment, which is in turn a massive blow to his ego for the last 30 seconds of conscious thought he has left.

** [[spoiler: Even all the destruction he caused, Dracul giving his powers to Taylor to allow another world to survive and him finding a fragment of the man he was through his years of torture is enough to earn him reincarnation.]]

* PhlebotinumOverdose: [[spoiler: Scion has so much energy that getting stabbed with the Void Sword actually physically hurts Taylor, and might have resulted in this if he hadn’t punched her away. She gets around this by borrowing his mate]].

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler: Kill a Castlevania-verse god, and it's possible to steal their power if you know how. The power of Darkness especially is apparently passed down this way a lot.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: An interesting case where the villain was trying to do the right thing to begin with, but unintentionally did something completely different. [[spoiler: During the Simurgh fight, Dragon's suits are hacked by the Endbringer and told to [[CrushKillDestroy crush, kill, and destroy]], which provokes Saint into activating the Ascalon kill-program. This does destroy the suits, but also causes Dragon's soul to linger at the afterlife long enough for the divine mantle of Light to notice her, and immediately bring her back as a [[DeusEstMachina goddess]].]]

Taylor Hebert from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' dies in the locker, and wakes up three months later,in her own grave. Powerful. With faint memories of a life not her own. And why does she dream of a castle in the mountains? A crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and a composite version of the various ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games.

[[Literature/{{Worm}} Taylor Hebert dies in the locker,]] and wakes up, three months later, in her own grave. Powerful. With faint memories of a life not her own. And why does she dream of a castle in the mountains? A crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and a composite version of the various ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games.

Notable for its well developed character interactions with Glory Girl and other characters, as well as the ability to keep the plot moving, without getting bogged down in details or never-ending subplots.

The author's comments on the story can be found [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/queen-of-blood-worm-castlevania.363842/page-242#post-20745027 here]], or by clicking this series of notes. [[note]] This whole thing came about after I finished slogging through Worm. And yes, it was a slog. Toward the end, I ended up doing a lot of skimming to get the bare-bones of what the heck was going on. Despite the general depressive atmosphere of Wildbow's world, though, I thoroughly enjoyed the setting. Of course, there's been quite a few alt-power fanfics out there, and quite a few crossovers, but from what I saw, there hadn't been too many that kicked it up another notch, actually bringing something of the crossover setting itself into it. Then out of a bit of fun, I remembered I had the [=LoS=] games on my computer. While [=LoS2=] ended weakly, I remembered the potential and the promise it had when it was teased at the end of the original game, and the trailers that actually announced the power of Dracula. The promise failed, but the images remained, and I grinned like a maniac at the idea of all that power in the hands of Taylor. Weaving a bit of mythology into the background (along with some very large changes to the Castlevania portions, to make everything fit) allowed me to expand on the roles and positions of everything, and I think it's definitely turned things out for the better.[[/note]] [[note]] And so I dusted (seriously, hadn't written a thing in years) off my fanfic-writing skills and started it up. From the beginning, I thought of what it would take for Dracul (yes, Dracul, for this is THE Dragon, not Son of the Dragon) to pass on his power to another. His fate as shown in the fic is a result of that. At first, this was a bit of a lark. It was fun. Now? There's a community around this fic and I'm pleased to have done everything to this point. Honestly, however, without the reviewers and feedback, this fic wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is. [[/note]] [[note]]Brightest Hope, Darkest Nightmare. Here comes the new Lady of Darkness, the Heir of Dracul. She is Earth Bet's brightest hope. Too bad she's the first true vampire of her world.[[/note]]

It is complete as of February 2018.

Now has a sequel in the form of ''Fanfic/BloodyStars''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Cover pic by SirWill]]

* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Jack Slash, as per usual. Even witnessing what Taylor is capable of, even with ''Dracul himself'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech laying out the bitter, brutal truth to him]], Jack refuses to see any scenario outside of him breaking Taylor into one of his followers. [[DeaderThanDead He is soon disabused of this notion.]]]]

* TheMagicComesBack: A variation; [[spoiler: Thanks to Eidolon/Apostle's handiwork, the Castlevania gods are being freed from their fate as future Endbringers. Since they can't return home, however, they decide to settle on Earth Bet.]] [[HilarityEnsues This results in... complications.]]

* WeHaveReserves: The {{Golem}}s that Taylor sends into the battle against [[spoiler:the Simurgh]]. They are cheap, weaker than many of the capes, and are best used for taking hits directed at actual capes, but Taylor has over a thousand of them and they are easy to make.

* PhlebotinumOverdose: [[spoiler: Scion has so much energy that getting stabbed with the Void Sword actually physically hurts Taylor, and might have resulted in this if he hadn’t punched her away. She gets around this by borrowing his mate]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: Alucard gives one to [[spoiler: Hatchet Face as he tries to nullify his powers, [[NoSell which are completely useless against magic-users]]]], right before he overpowers him and feeds him to [[spoiler: Vampire Meridia]].
--> '''Alucard:''' I feel nothing. ''(Conjures a handful of hellfire and burns his opponent)''
* PrisonersWork: Out of necessity: [[spoiler: the final battle of Ragnarok drastically altered the climate and claimed many lives, so humanity can't afford a non-productive population if they want to survive. Emma is just one of the prisoners put to work in the fields growing the necessary food.]]

* ImmuneToFate: [[spoiler: Precogs have trouble seeing Taylor after her ascension to godhood]].
** [[spoiler: It's also why Eidolon was invisible to precogs and the Path to Victory as well, due to his connection with the Endbringers, which were actually the captured Castlevania gods.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: The deaths of the Nine. Bonesaw is messily liquefied after three agonizing hours of AndIMustScream, the Siberian's projector is teleported to the Earth's core, Crawler is almost completely vaporized by Dragon, with what tiny little of him was left sent flying on a 4-year trajectory to Jupiter, and Mannequin is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and his organs [[KillItWithFire incinerated by holy fire]]. Hatchet Face is messily devoured by a newly vampirized Meridia, Shatterbird is ripped apart by Taylor, Burnscar is herded into an ambush, and Jack Slash receives a beatdown and a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Dracul, before finally being executed by Taylor, Vlad the Impaler-style. The SoleSurvivor, Cherish, is unceremoniously captured at the Endbringer shelter after having [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her powers redirected at herself]], and is now held under house arrest in an isolated location by Dragon.]]

* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream Trapped in a time loop, permanently exposed to the sun, unable to die and forced to watch his entire world be destroyed,]] Dracul's last F-you to Abaddon is to [[HijackingCthulhu trigger]] the entity's own [[ArmorPiercingAttack Sting]] shard and [[TakingYouWithMe destroy it from the inside out]]. Then, when he sees two more entities (Eden and Zion), he puts Eden's newly-acquired Path to Victory shard on a loop, distracting her from actually landing safely.]]
** [[spoiler:Hatchet Face, as horrible as he is, at the very least has his priorities straight even in death: when he's assaulted by a pack of wolves in his personal IronicHell, he stands his ground and goes down fighting.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Heartbreaker's defeat and capture is uneventful and humorous, courtesy of an army of Dragon suits, Dragon's increased processing power after [[spoiler: becoming a goddess, and Canary's secret release from the Birdcage.]]

* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Death puts himself in Scion's way when the Entity attacks Castlevania, buying enough time for the castle to flee into the Shadow Plane.]]

Now has a sequel in the form of Fanfic/BloodyStars.

The author's comments on the story can be found [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/queen-of-blood-worm-castlevania.363842/page-242#post-20745027 here]], or by clicking this series of notes. [[note]] This whole thing came about after I finished slogging through Worm. And yes, it was a slog. Toward the end I ended up doing a lot of skimming to get the bare-bones of what the heck was going on. Despite the general depressive atmosphere of Wildbow's world, though, I thoroughly enjoyed the setting. Of course, there's been quite a few alt-power fanfics out there, and quite a few crossovers, but from what I saw, there hadn't been too many that kicked it up another notch, actually bringing something of the crossover setting itself into it. Then out of a bit of fun, I remembered I had the [=LoS=] games on my computer. While [=LoS2=] ended weakly, I remembered the potential and the promise it had when it was teased at the end of the original game, and the trailers that actually announced the power of Dracula. The promise failed, but the images remained, and I grinned like a maniac at the idea of all that power in the hands of Taylor. Weaving a bit of mythology into the background (along with some very large changes to the Castlevania portions, to make everything fit) allowed me to expand on the roles and positions of everything, and I think it's definitely turned things out for the better.[[/note]] [[note]] And so I dusted (seriously, hadn't written a thing in years) off my fanfic-writing skills and started it up. From the beginning, I thought of what it would take for Dracul (yes, Dracul, for this is THE Dragon, not Son of the Dragon) to pass on his power to another. His fate as shown in the fic is a result of that. At first, this was a bit of a lark. It was fun. Now? There's a community around this fic and I'm pleased to have done everything to this point. Honestly, however, without the reviewers and feedback, this fic wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is. [[/note]] [[note]]Brightest Hope, Darkest Nightmare. Here comes the new Lady of Darkness, the Heir of Dracul. She is Earth Bet's brightest hope. Too bad she's the first true vampire of her world.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler:The Endbringers are other various gods from the Castlevania Earth that the Entities have [[FaceMonsterTurn captured, tortured, enslaved and mutated]]. The Simurgh, whose Scream manifests the agony she feels from being forced to kill like this, actually lets herself be killed to escape the pain.]]

** More directly in the canon omake, [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/36950200/ Brothers]] which is obliquely referred to [[spoiler:when Pan and Agreus are introduced in the fic proper.]] Other omakes by the same author (specifically the Champion of Chronos trilogy and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/32258989 Corvus]]) were taken as material for actual chapters, though tweaked.

** [[spoiler:Amy spends a few days dead after accidentally drinking Taylor's blood.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Sophia wanted a world of predators and prey, where the strong preyed upon the weak. Taylor ends up dumping her on a dinosaur-inhabited Earth, where 'she' is seen as prey by mostly everything else]].

* BenevolentConspiracy: [[spoiler:Cauldron moves closer to this after Taylor arrives]].

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Bonesaw]] does a similar thing to [[spoiler:Brandish and Flashbang]] that she did to [[spoiler:Grue]] in canon and planned to add [[spoiler:Glory Girl]] as well.

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Manton's daughter, as under Disappointed In You. She's also rather annoyed that the projection he used to murder was not only based on her, it was also ''naked'']].

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Bonesaw]] has a backup brain in case someone tries to take control of her. Fortunately, Taylor proves the more powerful.
* CryForTheDevil: {{Invoked}}. [[spoiler:After the Simurgh essentially commits [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Cape]]]], Tattletale breaks down and cries when she realizes what happened via her powers. It reminds her too much of her brother's suicide.

** [[spoiler:Merida is trying to develop the ability as well, but it looks like it will take a while]].

* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:Doctor Mother, at the end, when she gains powers that throw her through dimensions when she gets stressed enough. She gets shunted across Earths uncontrollably, still desperately trying to warn everyone of Scion and Eden... unaware that the threat has been averted.]]

** Taylor hates having to use her blood form to make PeoplePuppets, even against an AssholeVictim like [[spoiler:Bonesaw]]. She also dislikes turning people into vampires.

* EmergencyTransformation: Taylor saves [[spoiler:Amy and Meridia]] from death by turning them.

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Bakuda's reduced to this after a stay in Castlevania characterized by continuous ColdBloodedTorture, physical mutilation, and memory erasure with zero chance of death.]]

** As later revealed during the S9 Arc, [[spoiler:Dracul's power actually scanned Jack Slash as a potential successor... and promptly turned around, looking for someone with desires and dreams a little less pathetic.]]

* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:The S9 being this is the focus of Dracul's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jack Slash. When it comes down to it, the Slaughterhouse 9 are actually somewhat pathetic in the long term, based primarily around Jack's [[GlorySeeker ego]] and desire to prove his own selfishness as a valid way of looking at the world. To an EvilOverlord, even on a purely selfish level, this is quite possibly the most pointless, self-defeating goal in the world – the planet may remember Jack and spit on his name, but when it comes down to it, he will remain a footnote, as nobody will ''care'' who such a small-minded monster was.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler:After Shadow Stalker fails her SecretTestOfCharacter, Taylor has her exiled to an alternate Earth where dinosaur-like creatures still exist and humans never evolved]].

* FightingFromTheInside: A villainous example when Taylor possesses [[spoiler:Bonesaw in order to save the Dallons]]. She couldn't do anything overt, but nearly undermined Taylor twice with subtler tweaks.

* FromASingleCell: [[spoiler:Dragon]] reduces [[spoiler:Crawler]] to a single piece of bone and, after checking, assumes he's dead. He eventually regenerates, not that it does him much good [[spoiler:in interplanetary space]].
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: [[spoiler:Sophia's Master/Stranger training allows her to spot one in her SecretTestOfCharacter and break out]].

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Having completed her plan to have Dragon ascend to be the new Lady of Light and free herself from the enslavement of the Entities, the Simurgh/Ariel dies with a smile on her face. Ariel got better.]]

** Eidolon gets a big one [[spoiler:when he learns that he is responsible for the Endbringers. He actually leaves for an alternate Earth and contemplates killing himself with his powers there before resolving to make up for his mistakes and free the Castlevania-verse gods as Apostle.]]

* ImmuneToFate: [[spoiler:Precogs have trouble seeing Taylor after her ascension to godhood]].

* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:Behemoth and Leviathan take ''extreme'' damage in their battles, the latter even losing his ''head'', but keep going]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Besides the canon Worm jerks, [[spoiler:Dracul particularly despises the former God of Light, Solin. When he's able to enter the Realm of Light, he finds the jackass is a plagiarist to boot, copying designs from Ariel's and Dracul's own temples rather than develop something new.]]

* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Hatchet Face thinks he's saving the world from "monsters" by killing every cape who walks his path. [[{{Hypocrite}} Keep in mind what supervillain team he's a part of]].]]

* LightIsNotGood: Part of the reason Castlevania's native world went tits-up was that the god of Light, for several centuries, was Solin, a DirtyCoward so terrified of death he began a crusade against ''every other god'' purely to gain more followers [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly to power his existence with]], and his manipulations to that effect turned [[KnightInShiningArmor Gabriel Belmont]] into [[EvilOverlord Dracul]]. [[spoiler:{{Defied}} by his power (which is about order, reason, and knowledge) after his death, being stuck to such a selfish ass for so long caused it to become ''really picky'' about its next host, a standard that paid off when it found [[BigGood Dragon]].]]
* LiquidAssets: [[spoiler:Solin became the God of Light in the first place through a ritual that killed ''everyone'' above him in the hierarchy he lived in.]]

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Scion views his killing Kevin Norton painlessly before his rampage as this.]]
* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:What turned William Manton into the Siberian (killing Hero, a member of Cauldron, because they couldn't save his daughter Annie) – and why Annie's ghost kicks off his IronicHell by telling him she hates him, utterly.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: An interesting case where the villain was trying to do the right thing to begin with, but unintentionally did something completely different. [[spoiler:During the Simurgh fight, Dragon's suits are hacked by the Endbringer and told to [[CrushKillDestroy crush, kill, and destroy]], which provokes Saint into activating the Ascalon kill-program. This does destroy the suits, but also causes Dragon's soul to linger at the afterlife long enough for the divine mantle of Light to notice her, and immediately bring her back as a [[DeusEstMachina goddess]].]]

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:A boosted Narwhal takes off Leviathan's head. [[NoSell Doesn't do much besides make him mad]]]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Near the end, Taylor hijacks Eden's corpse via her blood ability. While leaving the Cauldron facility, she flashes what she hopes comes across as a reassuring smile. Instead, Doctor Mother interprets it as a vicious smirk, leading her to think Eden has been merely recuperating while in Cauldron's custody and is ready to join Zion. The idea of two Entities at full power working together so terrifies her she immediately Triggers and is whisked away by her power to another Earth.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Scion]] heals [[spoiler:Kevin Norton]] of his cancer when he notices the poor state of his health, and chooses to [[spoiler: MercyKill him in an instant, before he realizes what's happening, so he won't be caught up in the upcoming rampage.]]

* RasputinianDeath: Crawler suffers one as expected with his healing ability, first being [[spoiler:reduced to a fragment of bone by Dragon's plasma and then launched into the outer Solar System, where his body crashes into the surface of ''Jupiter''. His shard keeps him alive for about a century before feedback from the extreme conditions leads to the shard cutting the connection and finally letting him die]].

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Dracul hated the Phoenix so much that even when the world was dying around him, he would rather kill the coward that try to work for a solution with him]].

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:The Simurgh purposefully allows the Vancouver capes to strike her core and finish her]].

* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler:A power of Taylor's, outclassing even Leviathan's rain calling]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Death tells [[spoiler: Scion]] that is won't be damned for its actions against humanity, because he knows that [[spoiler: neither he or Eden]] were ''able'' to empathise with the species. It can't be judged for not having something it's physically not able to have.

* AllPowerfulBystander: [[spoiler:Scion just flies over the Leviathan battle and watches]].

** [[spoiler:Dracul himself is trapped in [[GroundhogDayLoop a personal hell]] in the middle of space, forced to watch his old world burn while being constantly exposed to the sun. Even Death can't reach him and kill him.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Actually played for sympathy in regards to Burnscar and Bonesaw, and why their deaths give them a second chance rather than the {{Ironic Hell}}s of the rest of the S9; Riley was completely {{Brainwashed}} and unable to make moral decisions, so she is judged only for [[ChildrenAreInnocent her actions as Riley]], while Mimi was under the control of a SuperpoweredEvilSide-she was a bit of a coward, but given how her powers literally were in control of her, the Burnscar personality is destroyed and Mimi is reincarnated for a second chance.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Danny Hebert complaining about pipe problems. [[spoiler: He's actually able to project water constructs and subconciously tried to rebuild his projection by using the running water within the pipes.]]

* NeverMyFault: Sophia refuses to accept that she'd ever done anything wrong, not after killing Taylor, not after flunking a SecretTestOfCharacter, not even in the epilogue where [[spoiler:she's shown what her "predators over all" ethos means to someone not at the top of the food chain - by being dumped on a planet full of dinosaurs with a finite amount of modern supplies that she quickly burns through just trying to survive.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Scion]] heals [[spoiler:Kevin Norton]] of his cancer when he notices the poor state of his health, and chooses to [[spoiler:MercyKill him in an instant, before he realizes what's happening, so he won't be caught up in the upcoming rampage.]]

* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:Even slowed to the point that he experiences time at one ''thirtieth'' the normal rate, Leviathan is still ''extremely'' fast, to the point that he seems even faster than he ''normally'' is, and needs to be slowed down even more for it to be noticable. Behemoth isn't very slow either when he starts getting seriously wounded]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Death tells [[spoiler: Scion]] that is won't be damned for it's actions against humanity, because he knows that [[spoiler: neither he or Eden]] were 'able' to empathise with the species. It can't be judged for not having something it's physically not able to have.