Talk:Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

so i have a theory. it occurs to me that, taking SotN into consideration and Rondo's re-release, you can kind of hypothesize about why dracula kidnapped those particular four ladies. annette's obvious, she's richter's main squeeze and he says as much in Dracula X Chronicles with the hey-shaft-you-know-what-would-be-lulzy speech. but what about maria, annette and iris? the obvious answer is for snackies, but it seems a bit strange, that idea, with regard to shaft's awakening maria's latent mad skills.

my theory is that they represent three aspects of lisa. (maybe they didn't always, but you could ret-con - IGA has done it before and he will do it again! bear with me, guys, i promise i have a point.) iris represents lisa's skills as a healer, tera represents her faith, and maria her innocence and trust in humankind. why kidnap women representing these aspects? well, they brought alchemy into LoI, and with that comes the idea of equivalent exchange. souls are pretty potent things; sara's soul is why the VK works as well as it does. (still not getting why, given that it's her, it eats lifeforce like an otaku eats cheez-its, but that's neither here nor there...) so perhaps dracula was attempting to call back lisa's soul from beyond?

he probably wasn't canonically, and i probably only sound clever to myself because of the sudafed, but it's kind of eerie that the three women kind of align to aspects of lisa that way. i know you can say that easily about any two characters if you try hard enough etc. etc. and so forth, but tera, iris and maria as lisa's three most known positive characteristics - that is pretty anvilicious. which is why i'm amused that it took me, like, years to figure it out. i r gene yus. -castlevaniaburd