#implying that 7 year gap may have been him just avoiding fixing the curse because of the trauma of what happened there

[chibishortdeath]

I cannot explain how often I think about this part of the Simon’s Quest story. Ough I wanna try to explain every tiny line of this in detail, but I can’t think of words rn aaa, so I’m gonna dump random disjointed thoughts in the tags for now.

I’m putting the links to the English translations of the first two games’ Japanese manuals because their stories are so much cooler than what the western releases got. The second I get everything I can or have thought about this guy together I’m doing in depth story and character analysis for some silly whip man NES games tho—

#castlevania #castlevania games #text post #simon belmont #oahsjfkwuwhflshdjdka #I can’t words rn #and I’m so frustrated about it #like I had multiple points I was gonna make but I just can’t put them down at all for no reason #I should rant about how they mention decay in this one tho— #decay is not fun and would be very horrifying to experience while alive fun fact! #Simon is not doing so great— #the American manual describes is as more of a soul effecting curse but like #slowly rotting alive is so much more horrifying #i imagine that was probably not mentioned in the American release for the same reason why they censored blood in some games tho lol #also the ominous last line in this screenshot #that’s given a little bit more sad implications when the mysterious woman tells him something about courage afterwards #the ‘please remember bitter memories in Transylvania’ at the end of the whole thing #implying that 7 year gap may have been him just avoiding fixing the curse because of the trauma of what happened there #that also implying he was initially gonna give up and die without actually doing anything about this #it’s so interesting that the few insights into Simon as a character that we get are like #he highly doubts that he’ll be as good as his ancestors #and then he gets cursed and his first response is to give up and slowly let it kill him #like WOW those are some important character details for sure #it’s so hard to talk about him without immediately being like ‘oh no poor guy’ #theory posting #kinda not like whole theory but a small piece of speculation material lol