Castlevania RPG/Characters

Character Sheet for Castlevania RPG.

Xavier Darkmoon
Arguably the "hero" of CVRPG. A vampire whose soul was restored by a gypsy, he used to work for Dracula, but now spends time "heroing", "questing", and trolling for barmaids.

Tropes associated with Darkmoon:
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Ignoring the whole "Soul, no-soul" thing, all vampires have demon-like creatures that replace their souls when embraced. Needless to say, Darkmoon no longer has his.
 * Jerkass: Definitely toward the beginning, but seems to have changed a bit recently.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Barmaids
 * I Hate You, Vampire Dad: While he initially went against Dracula because of the reward money, he left when it became personal.
 * It's Personal: After Dracula steals all of the barmaids from Jova Veros  Jova  Ondol that town he's always at.
 * No Sense of Direction
 * Magic Knight: When he does fight, he mixes offensive magic with sword techniques.
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Katrina. Used to be unresolved, but they have recently started dating.
 * Handsome Lech
 * Designated Hero: Not so much "Anti-Hero" as "Consummate Opportunist"; he's more apt to take a bribe than sell out his team.
 * Playing with Fire
 * Blow You Away
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Cursed with Awesome: He's a vampire, so he's superhuman, has access to magic, and Nigh Invulnerable. However, he also got his soul back, which means he is no longer affected by direct sunlight, can cross running water, and stand on holy or sacred ground without bursting into flames (it still tingles, though).

Katrina D'Sorciere
A wild-type mage trapped in the form of a catgirl due to a curse. Both book- and street-smart, she often serves as the team's voice of reason.

Tropes associated with Katrina: "Melinda: Whoever trained you in magic must be so disappointed. Losing in a sorcery duel. I wonder what sort of advice he'd have for you know...
 * Punny Name/Meaningful Name: Both still apply
 * Tsundere: Type A towards Darkmoon. Not that she's necessarily "dere" otherwise...
 * Combat Pragmatist: Beats Melinda in a "magic duel" by repeatedly hitting her in the face with her staff. To wit:

Katrina: ... [Walks forward and hits Melinda] He'd probably tell me to cheat."


 * Wild Magic
 * Honor Before Reason: Is convinced that she has to amass enough good karma for her curse to be removed, despite having expected her to have it removed by a clergyman. She even forces him to reapply after he simply removes it during her tirade, feeling "cheated".
 * Catgirl: Duh.
 * Unskilled but Strong: Compared to Alec, Katrina has exponentially more magical power and reserves, but has issues controlling it. As reference, her Turn Undead spell targeted everything when she first used it in the comic, which wound up sending Darkmoon to Hell.
 * Please Put Some Clothes On: Shift said that when accidentally destroies her clothes when he put the curse back on her on this page., which results in a Hand or Object Underwear

Alec Prelude
A somewhat-disenchanted Holy Warrior that made friends with Darkmoon shortly after getting kicked out of "graduating" from the Holy Warrior Academy. Initially naive and idealist, his time among Darkmoon's company has given him a...safer view on life. Is currently in a relationship with Princess.

Tropes associated with Alec:
 * Bishonen / Dude Looks Like a Lady: Often mistaken for female by those who don't know him, until he tells them his gender. Backfires when it makes Dracula come out of the closet.
 * Turns into the greatest thing ever when it allows him to bed Princess.
 * Knight in Shining Armor: Ignoring the naivety, his personality at the outset was this.
 * Recently received some shiny new (green) armor, so he applies in appearance as well.
 * Heroes Prefer Swords
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Healing Hands
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: Still showing signs of it.
 * Naive Newcomer: During Year One, at least.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: He's androgynous to the point where Even The Lesbians Want Him (and he develop a steady relationship with one), and turns a Nigh Invulnerable thousand-year-old vampire into a homosexual!
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Jerky
 * Weak but Skilled: Compared to Katrina, Alec has greater control over his magic, but a lot less power.

Princess Isabella
A somewhat ditzy princess who was being "held captive" by a dragon. Rescuing her from said dragon was the "heroes'" first quest in CVRPG. She later joins the party as their resident thief/martial artist/requisite royalty. Is of the Theif class and has the skills (Such as lock picking) to go with it, despite fighting more like a monk.

Tropes associated with "Princess":
 * Lipstick Lesbian: Claims to be such, and makes no attempts to hide it. Her first response to being rescued is to kiss her rescuer--which happened to be Katrina
 * Everything's Better with Princesses
 * Bare-Fisted Monk: How she fights
 * Shotoclone: Her "self-defense" moves she uses while in Princess Mode include what are obviously the Hadoken and Shoryuken.
 * Princesses Prefer Pink
 * Also lampshaded before she learns how to switch costumes on the fly from Zelda/Sheik
 * Dumb Blonde: Inverted; she has her ditzy moments, especially at the beginning, but she is one of the more intelligent and rational members of the team.
 * Magical Girl: Apparently a perk of being a princess is being able to transform by jumping into the air and spinning around.
 * Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Whenever she transforms.
 * Unstoppable Rage: When

Angel
An archangel sent by God Mike to aid the "heroes" in their quest. Unfortunately, he's barely any better than them, so that doesn't really help his cause.

Tropes associated with Angel:
 * The Unpronounceable: His real name was apparently the result of Damaris pressing her cat's rear on the keyboard and going with what came out.
 * Walk the Earth: His punishment for.
 * Interspecies Romance: If one considers angels and humans different species.
 * The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson
 * Medium Awareness: Directly responsible for the events of the 800, 1000, and 1200 bonus comics.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Winged Humanoid
 * Straight Arrow: Not so much personality-wise, but he often fights with a bow that can turn into a sword.
 * Horny Angel
 * Fourth Wall Aware
 * Distracted by the Sexy: Even more so than Darkmoon.
 * Accidental Innuendo: In his first (well, second) appearance, he realizes he's forgotten "[his] mighty sword", and voices said realization aloud. Cue comment from Darkmoon.
 * After that, it becomes a Double Entendre; in one instance, he comments that he'll remember to keep "it" (his "mighty sword") in his robes next time.

Golem
A golem built by a clan of dwarves to function as a sentry, guard their mined goods, and clean up after them. However, the dwarves soon massacred themselves in a bloody orgy of drunken violence, and Golem was left to his own for a year, after which he meets Darkmoon and company. Convinced by Darkmoon to go out and live for himself, Golem finds himself unable to enjoy the finer things in life (consisting of booze, women, and not getting rocks and bricks thrown at him); after giving himself a new, more humanoid form, Golem returns to officially join the main party.

Tropes associated with Golem:
 * Mighty Glacier: He's the medieval fantasy equivalent of an assault robot, so he qualifies.
 * Morph Weapon: His "magic" allows him to temporarily alter the composition of his body's shell to another material (such as iron or steel), and can further this by assimilating weapons and altering his body parts to function like that weapon.
 * Blade Below the Shoulder: After assimilating a sword.
 * The Straight Man: Even more so than Shaft or Katrina; the problem is, no one listens to him.

Bunny, Darkie, and Pig
Darkmoon, Katrina, and Alec's respective familiars/animal companions. Bunny is a Killer Rabbit, Darkie is a bird forever stuck as a bat due to a polymorph spell-gone-wrong, and Pig is-well, a pig. A pig that can swim, carry a grown man in full combat gear without complaining, and bite the ankles of ghouls.

They are often the most effectual characters in the comic.

Tropes associated with Bunny, Darkie, and Pig:
 * Team Pet
 * Badass Adorable
 * Non-Human Sidekick
 * Killer Rabbit: Bunny
 * Baleful Polymorph: Darkie
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Other than the aformentioned stuff, Bunny is a demolitions expert. Who then teaches Princess to be a demolitions expert. I know.

Link
The world-renowned hero hailing from the land of Hyrule, Link initially shows up as a cameo character alongside Lucca, Samus, and Nathan, with whom he formed a "party" with for a short while. On his way to defeat Dracula, he gets caught up in fighting Moldorm (a.k.a. "Giant Swirly Boss") after the worm repeatedly knocks him off the stage into the floor below, and Link eventually expires. Shows up later in Hell after Darkmoon is inadvertently turned by Katrina, and soon gets pulled back to his now-skeletal body when Katrina brings back Darkmoon. Link defeated Sindra and earned his freedom, but Hell can't seem to get enough of him, and Link is often pulled back into the fiery abyss to play part in some scheme by Damaris. Hell has seemed to calm down somewhat as of recently, so Link has passed the role of Hero of Time to Bucky, and now owns an armor in Jova Veros whatever.

Tropes associated with Link:
 * Master Swordsman (Pun intended)
 * Quick Draw: Pulls a variant of this with a bow.
 * You Fail Biology Forever: His ability to use his bow while in skeletal form is explained as "nocking the string between [his] joints" and "having really good bone density" (in place of having muscles and tendons).
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: It's Link; of course he'd have a lot of stuff. Lampshaded when Alec finds his Bag of Holding post-Moldorm.
 * Running Gag: Not knowing Link's name, Satan (as well as all of Hell save Sindra) refers to him by the color of his clothes--first green, then blue. Problem is, right when the devil sends his enforcers to find Link, he's changed to a different color of clothes--from green to blue, then blue to red. As such, they never figure him out unless someone else uses his name.

Bucky
A skeletal, undead chicken that Link meets while in Nivelheim, who becomes his close companion and business partner. Bucky aids Link in collecting the Hell's Arms, and later aids Darkmoon in altering the fate of Alt-Alec to prevent the Wham! Episode's events from actually occurring. Bucky receives the Master Sword and Link's Hylian Shield when the latter acquires the Hell Sword and Shield (actually, Link had to convince Bucky to trade him for it, as Bucky wanted the Hell Sword for himself), and takes up Link's mantle as the Hero of Time.

Bucky's (supposed) Hylian accent, near-imperviability to all forms of damage, and his ability to summon his comrades to constantly swoop at his enemy from all sides suggests that he is the undead form of a Cucco, however the hell that works.

Tropes associated with Bucky:
 * Intelligible Unintelligible: Bucky's "speech" is rendered as clucks and buckaw's, but Link, The Kid, and Death can understand and converse with him no problem. Darkmoon can understand him as well, but had some initial trouble with Bucky's accent.
 * Invincible Minor Minion: A rare heroic example
 * Grievous Harm with a Body: Played with: The Dual Attack "Poultry Flare" consists of Darkmoon (or whoever) setting Bucky on fire and hurling him at the target.
 * Killer Rabbit: On par with Bunny
 * Crazy Awesome: To date, Bucky is the only character in the comic to force Death to admit defeat.
 * Extreme Omnivore: Doesn't go after the living out of respect for the other characters' values, but anything that's severed or postmortem is fair game.

Dracula
What would Castlevania be without Dracula? Curse of Darkness, that's what. As before always, Dracula is an extremely powerful vampire who ushers in darkness, feasts on the blood of virgins, and gets his ass kicked and revives along with his castle once every hundred or so years from 1100-something to 1999. However, this Dracula is notably more enterprising, fashion-conscious, and than in other depictions, and isn't above taking a fall to get some time off from the Belmonts. Dracula turned Darkmoon personally, and as such treats him like a second son (because the first one was too goody-goody).

Dracula was defeated by Bunny, Darkie, and Pig, and briefly resurrected as a cat until.

Tropes associated with Dracula:
 * Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Averted; when Alec explicitly informs Dracula that he is, in fact, male, Dracula realizes that he is still attracted to him even with this revelation, and decides he is gay.

Death

 * Anthropomorphic Personification

Frankie & Mummy
A homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
 * Those Two Bad Guys
 * Deadpan Snarker

Sindra

 * Fallen Angel
 * You Kill It, You Bought It: How she becomes . In an amusing twist, her predisesor wasn't the original either.

Nathan and Samus

 * Heroic Mime: Averted and lampshaded by Samus. After an unfunny comment from her, she remarks this is why she normally doesn't talk.