here have another thousand word word vomit 'cause i have lots of feelings. Disclaimer: I’m talking competency at Adulting, not emotional maturity because Sypha wins that one hands down.
fun facts: the timeline starts in 1455, cuts to Lise’s burning in 1475, and then skips one more year to bring us to 1476. That’s 21 years total, minus ten months for pregnancy. Alucard is, at the oldest, 20 years old. That’s assuming Lise got straight into bed with Dracula and got knocked up like within the first two months. At the youngest, I would guess fifteen (as he told Sypha he grew up very quickly), but since I’m shipping him with characters who are adults, his minimum age is eighteen for my comfort.
I also think that eighteen-nineteen also makes sense time wise. Gives Lise and Dracula, a year and a bit to get to know each other and fall in luvvvv, get married, and start trying? for kids.
(I have no idea if Alucard was planned or not. I don’t think it really matters in this case.)
And don’t get me wrong there are 18 year olds who are Actual Adults but one who came from privilege, had two living doting parents, and grew up in a castle probably isn’t one of them. As a noble in this era he wouldn’t even come of age until 21 and that’s assuming vampires follow human standards, which y’know probably not. So to Dracula, he’s probably still a tiny baby infant who must be protected at all costs.
Additionally he’s noble. I’m certain that he grew up with servants, because you can’t run a castle that size without them. He grew up in his mother’s and father’s lab and he probably know more chemistry than the rest of the world but that doesn’t mean he knows how to cook. Or do laundry. Or housework. Sypha and Trevor probably had to teach him how to do the dishes.
We can guess those things from his background. Let’s examine the evidence in show- he, idealistically, attempts to persuade his father to back down from the whole genocide thing and is hit by his father for the first time in his life. In response, he goes and… takes a nap. (Which is the most teenagery thing to do ever.)
He then starts a fight with the people who wake him, melodramatically monologues to himself, and then tests the people he’s asked to help him constantly. He gets sharp when questioned, and attacks others when he feels uncomfortable. (Sypha and Alucard in the library.)
In summary: Alucard is a sulky, overeducated 18-19 year old, with a big fat crush he doesn’t know how to deal with, and underdeveloped adulting skills.
Sypha, I think, I would put between the two of them in age, so I’m going to spilt the difference and say 21. Sypha grew up a nomad. She’s probably fantastic in a marketplace, is an incredible haggler, an excellent cook, she likely speaks and reads more languages than Trevor’s ever heard of. But her entire life she’s been surrounded by a community, always had people who cared. She’s never had to take care of just herself. That does not make a good decision making set of skills.
This is Sypha, Miss I’m going to run off with no backup and get psychically eaten by a stone cyclops. So she’s got functional life skills, amazing emotional intelligence, and makes terrible life decisions.
Trevor is canonically 23 in the first game he appears in. I like that, so I’m keeping it. He’s been on his own since he was thirteen, maybe twelve. That’s a decade where he’s kept himself alive and relatively healthy. He has all of his fingers and toes, all of his teeth, and only one visible scar. Considering how he’s introduced- getting beat up in a bar while drunk that’s a fucking fantastic track record.
The Belmont’s would have been working nobility, too close to their servants to not know how to take care of themselves alone. Plus bringing untrained servants on a hunting expedition for vampires is probably a good way to get all of you killed. With that and likely lifespan of a Belmont, hint: it’s not long, I suspect Trevor was learning hunting and fighting from about five on. He would have done his laundry with the staff, learned camp cooking at the minimum and how to keep himself alive. That’s eight years to build a foundation.
I think 12-13 year old Trevor shifted through the ashes of his childhood home, took a sword and a whip and signed up with the first outfit that would take him. I think he spent 7-9 years of those missing ten and fought in every conflict he could find and few more on the side and made himself good at it. I think he got promoted, has experience, because you don’t go from dead drunk in a bar to barking orders in the space of a day and a half.
I think eventually he made himself a bit of money and a name and hoped he could come home and turn that into something. I think he got turned down flat, by the church, by the people he wanted to protect and then he asked himself whats the fucking point, and when he could come up with a good answer he tried finding one at the bottom of a beer. I think Trevor cares and that he's good at it.
He just need a reason to show it.
Incidentally in the College AU of this show, Trevor is a fifth year senior who drinks too much and aggressively Does. Not. Care. Sypha is sophomore studying linguistics, the fearless daughter of diplomats. And Alucard is a freshman, from like stupidly wealthy parents. There’s a rumor he’s a prince back home and no one can prove it, but no one can disprove it either. Together, they fight crime. Or the forces of darkness. Whatever.
More accurately Sypha and Alucard fight crime, Trevor tries to keep them from dying while insisting he Does. Not. Care.
somebody please stop me
Disclaimer: I’m talking competency at Adulting, not emotional maturity because Sypha wins that one hands down.
fun facts: the timeline starts in 1455, cuts to Lise’s burning in 1475, and then skips one more year to bring us to 1476. That’s 21 years total, minus ten months for pregnancy. Alucard is, at the oldest, 20 years old. That’s assuming Lise got straight into bed with Dracula and got knocked up like within the first two months. At the youngest, I would guess fifteen (as he told Sypha he grew up very quickly), but since I’m shipping him with characters who are adults, his minimum age is eighteen for my comfort.
I also think that eighteen-nineteen also makes sense time wise. Gives Lise and Dracula, a year and a bit to get to know each other and fall in luvvvv, get married, and start trying? for kids.
(I have no idea if Alucard was planned or not. I don’t think it really matters in this case.)
And don’t get me wrong there are 18 year olds who are Actual Adults but one who came from privilege, had two living doting parents, and grew up in a castle probably isn’t one of them. As a noble in this era he wouldn’t even come of age until 21 and that’s assuming vampires follow human standards, which y’know probably not. So to Dracula, he’s probably still a tiny baby infant who must be protected at all costs.
Additionally he’s noble. I’m certain that he grew up with servants, because you can’t run a castle that size without them. He grew up in his mother’s and father’s lab and he probably know more chemistry than the rest of the world but that doesn’t mean he knows how to cook. Or do laundry. Or housework. Sypha and Trevor probably had to teach him how to do the dishes.
We can guess those things from his background. Let’s examine the evidence in show- he, idealistically, attempts to persuade his father to back down from the whole genocide thing and is hit by his father for the first time in his life. In response, he goes and… takes a nap. (Which is the most teenagery thing to do ever.)
He then starts a fight with the people who wake him, melodramatically monologues to himself, and then tests the people he’s asked to help him constantly. He gets sharp when questioned, and attacks others when he feels uncomfortable. (Sypha and Alucard in the library.)
In summary: Alucard is a sulky, overeducated 18-19 year old, with a big fat crush he doesn’t know how to deal with, and underdeveloped adulting skills.
Sypha, I think, I would put between the two of them in age, so I’m going to spilt the difference and say 21. Sypha grew up a nomad. She’s probably fantastic in a marketplace, is an incredible haggler, an excellent cook, she likely speaks and reads more languages than Trevor’s ever heard of. But her entire life she’s been surrounded by a community, always had people who cared. She’s never had to take care of just herself. That does not make a good decision making set of skills.
This is Sypha, Miss I’m going to run off with no backup and get psychically eaten by a stone cyclops. So she’s got functional life skills, amazing emotional intelligence, and makes terrible life decisions.
Trevor is canonically 23 in the first game he appears in. I like that, so I’m keeping it. He’s been on his own since he was thirteen, maybe twelve. That’s a decade where he’s kept himself alive and relatively healthy. He has all of his fingers and toes, all of his teeth, and only one visible scar. Considering how he’s introduced- getting beat up in a bar while drunk that’s a fucking fantastic track record.
The Belmont’s would have been working nobility, too close to their servants to not know how to take care of themselves alone. Plus bringing untrained servants on a hunting expedition for vampires is probably a good way to get all of you killed. With that and likely lifespan of a Belmont, hint: it’s not long, I suspect Trevor was learning hunting and fighting from about five on. He would have done his laundry with the staff, learned camp cooking at the minimum and how to keep himself alive. That’s eight years to build a foundation.
I think 12-13 year old Trevor shifted through the ashes of his childhood home, took a sword and a whip and signed up with the first outfit that would take him. I think he spent 7-9 years of those missing ten and fought in every conflict he could find and few more on the side and made himself good at it. I think he got promoted, has experience, because you don’t go from dead drunk in a bar to barking orders in the space of a day and a half.
I think eventually he made himself a bit of money and a name and hoped he could come home and turn that into something. I think he got turned down flat, by the church, by the people he wanted to protect and then he asked himself whats the fucking point, and when he could come up with a good answer he tried finding one at the bottom of a beer. I think Trevor cares and that he's good at it.
He just need a reason to show it.
Incidentally in the College AU of this show, Trevor is a fifth year senior who drinks too much and aggressively Does. Not. Care. Sypha is sophomore studying linguistics, the fearless daughter of diplomats. And Alucard is a freshman, from like stupidly wealthy parents. There’s a rumor he’s a prince back home and no one can prove it, but no one can disprove it either. Together, they fight crime. Or the forces of darkness. Whatever.
More accurately Sypha and Alucard fight crime, Trevor tries to keep them from dying while insisting he Does. Not. Care.