Alucard quotes from Castlevania

Alucard

Is this how the castle felt to you before my mother first arrived at your door?

Dracula

One year. It will take me one year to summon an army from the guts of Hell itself!

Alucard

No.

Dracula

What do you mean, no? That woman was the only reason on earth for me to tolerate human life!

Alucard

Then find the one who did the deed. If you loose an army of the night on Wallachia, you cannot undo it, and many thousands of people just as innocent as her will suffer and die.

Dracula

THERE ARE NO INNOCENTS! Not anymore! Any one of them could have stood up and said, "No, we won't behave like animals anymore."

Alucard

I won't let you do it. I grieve with you, but I won't let you commit genocide.

Do you have a God to put a last prayer to, Belmont?

Trevor Belmont

Yeah. "Dear God, please don't let the vampire's guts ruin my good tunic."

What...?

I can still rip your throat out.

Trevor Belmont

You can. But it won't stop me staking you.

But you will still die.

Trevor Belmont

But I don't care. Killing you was the point. Living through it was just a luxury.

Sypha Belnades

I will incinerate you before your fangs touch that man's throat.

I thought I was your legendary savior.

Sypha Belnades

So did I. But he saved my life.

Alucard

You're a Speaker magician.

Sypha Belnades

Yes, and his goal is mine: to stand up for the people.

...Good. Very good. A vampire hunter and a magician. You'll do. [He lets go of Trevor; his wound heals as he stands up] I am Adrian Tepes. Known to the Wallachians as Alucard... son of Vlad Dracula Tepes. I've been asleep here in my private keep under Gresit for a year, to heal the wounds dealt by my father when I attempted to stop him unleashing his demon armies.

Sypha Belnades

You are the Sleeping Soldier!

I'm aware of the stories. I'm also aware that the Speakers consider the story to be information from the future. Do you know the whole story?

Sypha Belnades

[reddening] Yes.

The Sleeping Soldier will be met by a Hunter, and a Scholar.

Trevor Belmont

No one told me that.

Sypha Belnades

Why do you think my grandfather tried everything to make you stay?!

Trevor Belmont

I hate Speakers. [stands up, as Alucard dresses himself]

Sypha Belnades

So, what happens now?

I need a Hunter, and a Scholar. [his enchanted sword flies into the sheath on his belt] I need help to save Wallachia, perhaps the world, and defeat my father.

Trevor Belmont

Why?

...Because it is what my mother would have wanted. And we are all, in the end, slaves to our family's wishes.

Trevor Belmont

You'll help us kill Dracula, and save Wallachia?

My father has to die. We three... we can destroy him.

Sypha

I'm still not completely clear on why you don't catch fire in the daylight.

Alucard

I am half-human. My mother's name was Lisa, and she was mortal.

Sypha

I would very much like to hear the story of how that happened.

Alucard

[chuckles] She actually showed up, at his front door. She found the castle, and banged on the front door with the pommel of her knife.

Sypha

She sounds interesting.

Alucard

Oh, she was remarkable. She beat on the door until my father let her in, and then demanded he teach her how to be a doctor-

Trevor Belmont

[sits up] Wait, Dracula taught a human woman how to be a doctor? [chuckles scornfully] What was first, bloodletting?

Alucard

God, you still think you're funny. My father-

Trevor Belmont

Dracula-

Alucard

-Is a man of science. A philosopher, a scholar. And knows things our society has forgotten three times over. Do you still not understand the enormity of what we're doing? He's gone mad. And from that, there is no recovering him.

Trevor Belmont

[sarcastically] Shame.

Alucard

It's a tragedy. He's a repository of centuries of learning. He could've changed the world; I think he might've, if Mother hadn't died. She'd sent him out into the world. That's why he wasn't there, when the Bishops took her.

Sypha

She sent him away?

Alucard

She sent him to... travel. To learn the true state of the world, the true nature of humans and how they live.

Sypha

She was... turning him.

Alucard

Imagine if he could've aimed all that knowledge at improving lives... If the religious inquisition hadn't proved true, all of his worst instincts about humans.

Trevor Belmont

And now he's going to use her death, as an excuse to destroy the world.

Alucard

Oh, the world will still be here, Belmont. Trees will still grow, birds will still sing, animals will still hump away in the undergrowth. But you won't be here. And you won't be here. None of you. The sun will still set, but you will not see it rise. There will only be Dracula, and his War Council, and the hordes of the night. [pause] He writes in great books, you know. He hews the covers himself from oak, and wraps them in the preserved skin of the people who he hated most. And he writes plans; I've seen them. Ideas for darkening clouds, and making them as permanent in the air as the frost of the North. Great strange flying machines, that pull shrouds across the sky to block out the sun. Imagine it. A world without humans, under endless invented night. And Dracula in his castle... his revenge so horribly complete, that there is nothing left to do but look out over a world without art or memory or laughter, and know that he did his work well. That he did it all for love.

Sypha

What was your Leon Belmont doing in Wallachia?

Alucard

[darkly] Hunting Dracula.

Trevor

...Here it all is, then. The last of us [notices a chest under a broken shelf] Bloody hell. Is that what I think it is?

Sypha

Careful, Trevor. You almost sounded excited about something.

Trevor

It couldn't be, could it?

Trevor

Beautiful.

Sypha

What on Earth is that ugly thing?

Trevor

I don't believe they hid it. It's the Morning Star!

Sypha

[going through one of the Belmonts' books] It's all here. You're right, this is quite amazing! [Notices Alucard is still staring at the vampire skulls] Isn't it? It's amazing.

Alucard

[sarcastically] Charming.

Sypha

You're not even a little bit impressed?

Alucard

It's like a museum dedicated to the extermination of my people, so no. Not thrilled.

Sypha

I did it!

Alucard

Where did you land the castle, Sypha?

Sypha

(proudly) Right on top of us!

Sypha

...Oh, yes. I landed it on the surface, right above this underground space that's probably only held up by wood and dirt. Let's go!

Isaac

Your son is here.

Dracula

Alucard has entered the castle?

Isaac

And a woman who stinks of magic. And a hunter. To your study. [they reach Dracula's study] Behind me, Dracula. They will not reach you while I live!

Dracula

[astonished] You would give your mortal life to preserve my immortal one?

Isaac

To save your genius, your knowledge, and your will? Without question. I am just a Forgemaster. Yours is the wisdom of ages.

Dracula

... You are the greatest of your people, Isaac. [behind them, Dracula's magic mirror begins to assemble] You have a soul, I think. Perhaps that is more valuable to the world to come than a dusty collection of books and apparatus. Or perhaps you simply deserve a better fate than to die instead of me.

Isaac

I choose my death, as I chose my life.

Dracula

[puts a hand on Isaac's shoulder] Then, I regret only that I have taken a choice for you.

Isaac

No! Dracula! No!

Alucard

Father.

Dracula

Son.

Alucard

Your war is over.

Dracula

[smirks] Because you say so?

Alucard

It ends... in the name of my mother.

Dracula

[sharply] It ENDURES in the name of your mother.

Alucard

I told you before I won't let you do it. I grieve with you, but I won't let you commit genocide.

Dracula

You couldn't stop me before.

Alucard

I was alone before.

Dracula

(laughs contemptuously) You mean to stake me?

Alucard

You want me to.

Dracula

What?

Alucard

You didn't kill me before. You won't kill me now. You want this to end as much as I do.

Dracula

DO I?!

Alucard

You died when my mother died, you know you did. This entire catastrophe has been nothing but history's longest suicide note!

Dracula

... It's your room. [his eyes clear] My boy. I'm- I... I'm killing my boy. Lisa... I'm killing our boy. We painted this room, we... made these toys. It's our boy, Lisa. Your greatest gift to me, and I'm killing him... I must already be dead.

Dracula

Son...

Alucard

Father...

Alucard

[After protecting Danesti from a band of Night Creatures] You sent me a letter?

...Yes. Welcome to Danesti.

Alucard

I presume it's seen better days.

Quieter ones. I'm Greta, the village headwoman.

Alucard

Call me Alucard. No "The".

[Looks beyond him] Did Maurius...?

Alucard

Was that your rider? I'm afraid not. He was attacked en route and bled out from his wounds; his horse carried him the rest of the way with your message in his hand.

[looks down] Oh.

Alucard

I'm sorry.

Well, he's not the only one we've lost. But he was the last of his family, which is why he risked the journey. Still, I'd hoped... That's what hoping gets you, I suppose. I have a lot more people to save, Alucard. [to the villagers] Get some rest, everybody. While you can. [they disperse]

Alucard

How long have you been under attack?

Four days. First it was just one of those bastards. More every night. We barely made it through last night. We're lucky only a third of us are dead. Will you help us?

Alucard

[summons and sheathes his magical sword] I'm sure I can do something for you.

I'm not interested, in magic tricks and one fight. These people are under my care. Will you stay and defend them for as long as it takes?

Alucard

I said-

You have to understand: I don't know you. You've been twenty-odd miles away for months. You creep around the forest, you've got bodies on stakes outside your weird castle. You're obviously half-vampire, and you stink of wine, and you appear to me to be at least half-crazy... but you were the only possible advantage I could think of. I don't need to be impressed by low-key swagger. I need you to commit, to saving these people. Because my life isn't worth living if I can't save theirs.

Alucard

...All done?

Did it work?

Alucard

Yes.

[smirks] Then I'm all done. Thank you. And that was one Hell of an entrance.

[emerging from a latrine and approaches, chuckling] Yes, indeed so. You really are a very impressive young man. Sickening violence isn't especially in my skill set, you understand, but I can recognize a fellow expert, no matter what the field.

Oh, God. This one.

You would be Adrian Tepes, yes?

Alucard

...Yes.

Do allow me to present myself: I am the Count Saint-Germain. [bows] Scholar in-residence to many of the great courts of Europe.

Alucard

[frowns] Why are you cowering in a latrine-hut, in Wallachia?

Oh. Is this a latrine? [chuckles nervously] I just- I just thought someone had gotten- very- scared. I'm traveling, sir. Interesting times in Wallachia; I felt that a man of letters should bear witness.

Alucard

[coldly] And are you enjoying your tourism so far?

Um, it has been- um... [sighs] enlightening.