Alucard! Yay!

Good stuff.

Hmm…

Fire, ice and everything nice.

Yay!

Good stuff.

Hmmm…

Discworld’s Death is Christopher Lee.

Impalement takes a few hours. It’s not a quick or violent death. Just a really painful one. And since she was really pissed off, there was an additional wasted opportunity here:

One of Vlad III’s favorite torture methods was to blunt the stake. You’d think that would be less painful but the reality is that instead of forcing its way into your brain after a few hours of your weight on it, it takes three whole days. And after your vividly gruesome defilement of Vicky’s parents, where was the description of the stake sliding up his anus, and tearing through his intestines? any refuse in the stake’s path sometimes gets caught on it, and is forced back into the stomach, or through the liver or lungs if the victim squirms too much. Get really unlucky and the stake activates the gag reflex and the victim spends their last hour vomiting actual shit, stomach acid, bile, and blood from the stomach and lungs.

The things ya learn when reading gothic horror vampire fiction.

And Taylor would know ALL of that, and could have given Jack the full pre-show info packet. Huuuuuge missed opportunity here.

The Siberian doesn’t speak because as a projection, ‘her’ voice would be his own. He uses the Siberian to dissociate from the reality that he accidentally turned his daughter into a cannibalistic Case 53 with no human characteristics and then killed her. Whenever he projects the Siberian, his identity feels distant, but that would change if he spoke.

He’s avoided speaking as much as possible to avoid having to stop dissociating. Having the Siberian speak is both unnecessary, and critically out of character.

On the plus side of things, Bonesaw’s operation on the Dallons was among the most disturbing images I’ve encountered of her in fanon.

Regrettably, there are no good solutions to the situation you found yourself in.

I understand why you chose the LoS 2 moveset: Going by OG Castlevania standards, Dracula's flare for the dramatic took place largely through the presence of his castle, and Gabriel, for all his writers' bullshit, has some pretty dramatic abilities, and since Taylor is Dracul, that gives her access to all sorts of truly savage methods of tearing people apart in ways that are clearly difficult for her to control.

But part of Alucard's whole mystique was in that he wasn't a Belmont or a Belnadez. He was the friend/ally from outside the family. Combining the characters of Trevor and Alucard was a truly idiotic decision by the writers. One of many. Right up there with a very Christian knightly order led by an actual pagan god, and everyone in Gabriel's life conspiring and successfully hiding the fact that Gabriel's wife had a full-term pregnancy and had a child from him, with no explanation for why except iT's HiS dEsTiNy! OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!

SirWill, you did your best with the terrible, terrible tools you were given, and considering that your story is actually really good in spite of Lords of Shadow plot points that should by all rights drag it down, speaks to an impressive ability as a writer. This is probably the best thing I've seen involving Lords of Shadow in any way.

My god, I truly hate Lords of Shadow, but you're doing a really good job here. It helps that the Parahumans setting is exceptionally good. And Lords of Shadow 2 had some interesting concepts if you ignore how poorly its story was constructed.

Patrick Stewart really carried Zobeck's character. Can you even imagine if anyone else had voiced him? He'd have just come across as a smug jackass. You made the right choice primarily using classic Death as the basis for the character in your story.

I'm really enjoying this.

How convenient, your brother's name is also trevor.

no way they struggle to lift a bus...

even gg should be able to do it herself

You can fly at supersonic speed yet glass shards hurt you? I'm confused.