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== Sonia Belmont was a narcissist. ==

Ok, not a WMG so much as my attempt to re-canonize Legends by explaining away all the discrepancies as being due to semantics and an [[Unreliable Narrator]]. The actual timeline of the Belmont/Dracula feud goes as such:

* In the eleventh century, the events of Lament of Innocence occur. Leon Belmont and Mathias Cronqvist are ~~[[BF Fs]]~~, but then Mathias's wifey croaks and he gets depressed. Leon goes to save HIS wifey from the vampire Walter Bernhard, creating the Vampire Killer whip in the process. After icing Walter, however, Mathias reveals his [[Xanatos Gambit]] . After the death of his wife, he cursed God and became a vampire, then manipulated Leon to get the Ebony Stone, making him an even more powerful vampire. Mathias and Leon messily part ways, Mathias disappearing over the horizon and Leon vowing that he and his descendants will hunt vampires forever.

* In the eleventh century, the events of Lament of Innocence occur. Leon Belmont and Mathias Cronqvist are BFFs, but then Mathias's wifey croaks and he gets depressed. Leon goes to save HIS wifey from the vampire Walter Bernhard, creating the Vampire Killer whip in the process. After icing Walter, however, Mathias reveals his [[Xanatos Gambit]] . After the death of his wife, he cursed God and became a vampire, then manipulated Leon to get the Ebony Stone, making him an even more powerful vampire. Mathias and Leon messily part ways, Mathias disappearing over the horizon and Leon vowing that he and his descendants will hunt vampires forever.

* Lisa Fahrenheight, Alucard's mum and Mathias's second wife, is convicted of witchery and burnt. Having lost another SO, Mathias takes things up a notch, declaring war on humanity and thus becoming the true Dracula, Lord of Darkness.

* Sonia Belmont's grandpappy dies whilst fighting Dracula's minions, and the young Miss Belmont takes up her inherited Vampire Killer whip and goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the Lord of Darkness. She succeeds, technically becoming the first Belmont to fight and defeat Dracula, and later develops several of the vampire hunting tactics that will be passed down the subsequent generations (read: the subweapons).

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* ''Portrait of Ruin'' is hard because the protagonist isn't a Belmont nor does he have any special powers, but isn't as hard as ''Circle of the Moon'' because he at least has the real Vampire Killer.

* ''Order of Ecclesia''. Shanoa has to resort to using a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] to defeat Dracula, but who could blame her? This is easily the hardest Castlevania game since ''Circle of the Moon'', after all.

** Except that Julius is <s>[[Touhou|the strongest]]</s> the strongest Belmont yet (even in his age), armed with the Vampire Killer, and teamed up with Alucard ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Yoko]]) in the [[Do S]] one and his mode are far far harder than ~~[[Po R]]~~ (mostly due to the lack of healing outside of checkpoints...).

** Except that Julius is <s>[[Touhou|the strongest]]</s> the strongest Belmont yet (even in his age), armed with the Vampire Killer, and teamed up with Alucard ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Yoko]]) in the [[Do S]] one and his mode are far far harder than PoR (mostly due to the lack of healing outside of checkpoints...).

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It might be a stretch to include this in canon, but if the Bram Stoker novel can fit... and they more or less made it clear that "Grandpa" was supposed to be THE Dracula...

Anyway... shortly after his defeat in ~~[[Po R]]~~, someone attempted to bring back Dracula, but it was simply too early. The result was a partial resurrection of a kindly old man with only a small degree of powers and limited vampirism. While we know Dracula had one son, it's quite possible he'd sired other children over the years, especially a daughter who may have been raised outside of Dracula's evil, but knew her lineage. With a damaged memory, Dracula sought out Lilian, who had married Herman Munster(himself being Dr. Frankenstein's monster). With practically no memories and no need to drink blood, with only limited ability to change form and no aversion to sunlight, he was seen mostly as harmless, and Death and the others left him alone while they worked on the means to complete the process. Meanwhile, he took up the first name "Sam" and took up odd science as a hobby.

Anyway... shortly after his defeat in PoR, someone attempted to bring back Dracula, but it was simply too early. The result was a partial resurrection of a kindly old man with only a small degree of powers and limited vampirism. While we know Dracula had one son, it's quite possible he'd sired other children over the years, especially a daughter who may have been raised outside of Dracula's evil, but knew her lineage. With a damaged memory, Dracula sought out Lilian, who had married Herman Munster(himself being Dr. Frankenstein's monster). With practically no memories and no need to drink blood, with only limited ability to change form and no aversion to sunlight, he was seen mostly as harmless, and Death and the others left him alone while they worked on the means to complete the process. Meanwhile, he took up the first name "Sam" and took up odd science as a hobby.

Until Alucard located him. Maybe he wanted to protect his now sane father, or maybe he wanted to destroy Dracula while he was weak. Either way, Death knew this would be bad... and sent the entire Munster family forward in time by roughly 20 years(the time warp that led to the 1980s series ''Munsters Today''). Alucard lost track of Dracula and Death had 20 years free to work on the process without having to worry about Dracula being killed or turned forever from evil. Eventually, Death succeeded in finding a means to restore Dracula's powers, memories and evil nature, which led to the events of 1999.