[FIC] history's longest suicide note 2/?

[opensummer]

Title: history's longest suicide note
Chapter Link: Chapter Two
Fandom: Castlevania (Netflix 2017)
Pairings: Adrien Tepes | Alucard/Sypha Belnades/Trevor Belmont
Summary: It takes them a year to realize they're fucked.
Notes: So this is in response to episode 8, which never happened, Alucard, Sypha, and Trevor are in love and also the apocalypse is happening.

Comments

[bluewinged_songbird]

Eh, Trevor's emotionally inept, we been knew. It's people writing him to be less competent than he is that's killing me. Dude's kept himself alive for so long. He turned a frightened crowd into a pretty decent makeshift demon killing squad. Leader of men should be tacked onto his CV!

People also have a tendency to write Alucard as more sophisticated than he is, which I get. But, honestly?

[opensummer]

Exactly! fine, he has the emotional range of a teaspoon whatever! but you can't pretend that he's not the battlefield leader of their group and the one who makes the plans. Also I FIRMLY believe that he would have been trained pretty much from birth to lead others to war against horrors that they had a hard time imagining. Leader of Men is right below The Belmont as far as i'm concerned.

I mean fair, especially if you're coming from the games where he's like this ancient force for good. But that's not this canon. In his canon he's like 20 max and he never expected his dad to turn on him.

[bluewinged_songbird]

Alucard is a baby! Who let these children out!! Jkjk, it's tragic and realistic. Circumstance can force people to mature though not THAT mature.

I feel like Trevor has the ROMANTIC sense of a brick. He's not that bad on the emotion front. Or maybe the entire proposal speech made me biased! He also did ping onto Sypha's intentions pretty quickly so...?

I...I feel a rewatch coming up, oh no!

[opensummer]

Tiny!babs who must be protected at all costs!

So i think he's a bit dumb at emotions, in that he's pretty good at picking them up but not good at knowing how to deal with them. So he can figure out what people are feeling but doesn't really know how to respond to them?

He did but also I found episode 8 very ooc from the rest of the show? Like almost 19 years later ooc. So i'm kinda ignoring it, not just because it spilt up the ot3.

[bluewinged_songbird]

It was so good, until it just... wasn't. Why did they drop the ball on us this way?!

Ok, point. That does read closer to his characterization. God, he's always such a f***ing mood because I relate way too hard to that.

[opensummer]

Cause netflix hates joy and non-heteronormative relationships

HARD SAME.

NETFLIX CONTINUES TO BE COWARDS

[bluewinged_songbird]

It's like the wrote themselves heavily into gay and polyamory and then had to pull the brakes, but by then it was too late.

I need a gif of Trevor's "God shits in my dinner once again" and Sypha's "See, God hates me" because they're such moods. I had a hard time going through quixotic's Trevor icons because there were so many I wanted as reaction icons. I just don't have that kind of icon space.

Re: NETFLIX CONTINUES TO BE COWARDS

[opensummer]

By then it was too OOC and the entire fandom was like nope, not real, does not exist.

So i haven't been able to find a good god shits in my dinner once again, but i gotchu for the see, god hates me.

NETFLIX ARE COWARDS UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE

[bluewinged_songbird]

Netflix should have just stuck with the polyamory and seen it through. Man, now they have to write themselves out of a hole. Was that extra trouble totally necessary, huh, Netflix?? Was it worth it??????

It does warm my heart though, that fandom has decided to practice Death of the Author and just, write your own ending. Adding all the nuance and the little historical titbits that couldn't fit into so few episodes. History's Longest Suicide Note is a good egg. Trying to save us all.

NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[opensummer]

I sincerely hope it was not because then maybe they won't fuck up next season.

We all collectively noped the fuck out and agreed that episode 8 doesn't exist and that fills my icy heart with joy and love.

Re: NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[bluewinged_songbird]

Oh worm! It's such an unnecessarily tacked on epilogue. Ending at ep 7 is just way more narratively satisfying.

Re: NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[opensummer]

they greet the sunrise and are together, alive, and relatively well! I nearly didn't watch episode 8 after that because it's the actual perfect ending

Re: NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[bluewinged_songbird]

Which is all we needed honestly. They could have cut right there and gone on to season 3. It would have been a solid arc like that. Why raise more questions??

Re: NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[opensummer]

I think they got a little stuck in their own heads and were like we need a really obvious sequel hook to get greenlit for season 3. Cause episode 8 feels like a really extended and also bad marvel post-credits scene

Re: NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[bluewinged_songbird]

Or they planned to end at episode 7 but needed to establish a hook for an unplanned for season 3. Either way, it felt pretty tacked on.

Re: NETFLIX REMAIN COWARDS

[opensummer]

that too