[He definitely understands that. It's going to be pretty obvious as this tale is told that Jonathan is quoting pieces of it from someone else's telling...]
So he grew up, and a wide gap grew between the son and the father. They came to blows over it - junior believed that humans had a hard enough lot in life and didn't deserve to be punished for it, and his father thought they should be wiped out, because they had taken one of the few bright things in his dark life away from him.
Another one of those bright things walked away, and threw away the name his parents had given him in favor of flipping his father's name backwards to show his disdain for him. When my... really ridiculous number of greats grandfather Trevor met him, he went by Alucard. He couldn't stand to see what his father intended to do to the whole world unleashed on - well, it's Romania now, it was Wallachia back then. They fought side-by-side, along with a witch and a young nobleman who insisted he was either a pirate or an acrobat or both, and that was the first time the Belmont family sealed Dracula away.
Alucard sealed himself away, then, though all three of his companions begged him to stay. The weight of what he'd done was just too much to bear... so he missed the next few times his father popped back out of the coffin. He woke up in 1797, because something had gone very wrong with that generation's Belmont scion, and he'd promised Trevor he'd wake up if his family needed him to.
[And just when it sounds like he was really getting started, Jonathan stops abruptly.]
The next part's sad, but not death-sad, it's people-getting-possessed-so-it-looks-like-they-went-crazy sad. Should I go around that, too?
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[He definitely understands that. It's going to be pretty obvious as this tale is told that Jonathan is quoting pieces of it from someone else's telling...]
So he grew up, and a wide gap grew between the son and the father. They came to blows over it - junior believed that humans had a hard enough lot in life and didn't deserve to be punished for it, and his father thought they should be wiped out, because they had taken one of the few bright things in his dark life away from him.
Another one of those bright things walked away, and threw away the name his parents had given him in favor of flipping his father's name backwards to show his disdain for him. When my... really ridiculous number of greats grandfather Trevor met him, he went by Alucard. He couldn't stand to see what his father intended to do to the whole world unleashed on - well, it's Romania now, it was Wallachia back then. They fought side-by-side, along with a witch and a young nobleman who insisted he was either a pirate or an acrobat or both, and that was the first time the Belmont family sealed Dracula away.
Alucard sealed himself away, then, though all three of his companions begged him to stay. The weight of what he'd done was just too much to bear... so he missed the next few times his father popped back out of the coffin. He woke up in 1797, because something had gone very wrong with that generation's Belmont scion, and he'd promised Trevor he'd wake up if his family needed him to.
[And just when it sounds like he was really getting started, Jonathan stops abruptly.]
The next part's sad, but not death-sad, it's people-getting-possessed-so-it-looks-like-they-went-crazy sad. Should I go around that, too?