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 Simon Belmont
Simon is the most famous of the Belmont family members, and he's earned well this reputation by appearing in more titles than any other of the series' hero characters. In terms of his descent, Simon is most likely to be the grandson or great-grandson of Soleiyu Belmont, and, skill-wise, he can be described as marginally more powerful than Trevor Simon hunted Dracula the first time around for the sake of Transylvania, for Dracula was back with a vengeance and above all intent on instigating a rematch with a Belmont after Christopher had spoiled his first great plan. During the battle, Simon was unwittingly inflicted with a curse via his wounds that would slowly reveal itself over a seven-year period; upon learning of the true nature of the infliction thanks to the divine intervention of a beautiful vision, Simon's only option was to cure the life-threatening ailment by returning to action to search for and locate the five hidden body parts of Dracula; the result is that that he would then have to restore to human form the Dark Lord and within the ruins of the ancient Castlevania battle the specter and destroy it, finally ending the phase of a current cycle; it was only through this method would his wounds heal. Simon overcame all of the odds, foiling another of Dracula's seemingly foolproof plans. The only question that remained: Would future Belmonts take the proper precautions and learn well this lesson?
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Through the incantations and ceremonies held by the evil souls who wished to bring upon the end of the world, Dracula had once again been resurrected, and it was only a matter of time before his army of the undead began to terrorize Transylvania as such a curse required. As the theme goes, Simon Belmont, the great-grandson of Soleiyu, donned his battle gear and took command of the Vampire Killer and mystic sub-weapons in preparation for another war against Dracula and his dark forces. Simon fought his way through the monster-inhabited yet beckoning countryside and arrived at the Count's daunting castle. Once inside the house of horrors, Simon negotiated his way through six torturous castle sections before arriving at the dreaded heights of the estate, the castle keep where many a battle had been fought. Dracula, who had been defeated by Belmont warriors time and time again, was waiting intensely for this moment, for he would finally get to extract revenge on the family after a one hundred-year wait. Though the throne room appeared to be empty, Dracula would soon emerge from his coffin and launch an assault in the only way he had ever known.
The powerful Dracula fought with all of his might and inflicted upon Simon a number of debilitating injuries. But in the end, as had his ancestors, Simon Belmont stood victorious over the fleeting Dark Lord, for whom this was just another setback. The pained Belmont warrior picked himself up and escaped from the castle and to a nearby mountain cliff, where he watched on as the ghostly manor crumbled to the ground. Though he thought his trials were over, Simon would soon learn that they were only just beginning.
After defeating Count Dracula at the heights of Castlevania and destroying his haunted abode, Simon Belmont continued fueling the family's legend by earning even the respect of kings. Through his heroic efforts, he had indeed proven himself to be the culmination of a noble bloodline. That fame, however, came with a price: Over the following seven years, Simon slowly started to grow more and more ill--he began to feel pain all over his body because the wounds inflicted upon him during his battle with Dracula would not heal, and the anguish therein began to gnaw at even his soul; in time, he would surely succumb to the pain. More troubling to him was the fact that Dracula's dark forces continued to roam free even though their master had been defeated; as a result of their continued rampage, the Transylvanians were forced to hide in their homes at nighttime as swarms of zombies marched through the streets and monsters of all kind threatened to breach the largely defenseless residential areas. None of the village habitants could understand why evil remained steadfast in its destructive storm despite the defeat of its leader, and the resulting fear and paranoia slowly started affecting them, too, as normal citizens began taking on a deviant nature, be it a cynical attitude or the playing of mean-spirited pranks.
With no answers apparent to him, Simon fell into depression. One night, a beautiful maiden appeared to him in a dream and revealed that his "pain" was none other than the effect of Dracula's curse! She explained to him that in order to lift the troubling curse, he'd have to scour the countryside to collect the five body parts of Dracula--his rib bone, his heart, his eyeball, his nail and his ring--and burn them away in the heart of his tattered castle. She said in closing, "If you have the courage to risk your life, then you will find the strength to win again." As most beautiful visions do, she disappeared as though never having been. Simon quickly absorbed the meaning of her words; come morning, he grabbed a hold of the Vampire Killer and set out to complete a new quest.
Though, Dracula was more clever than anyone had suspected, as the maiden foretold: He knew very well his propensity to infect a Belmont hero with a curse and the means necessary to void it, so he before his defeat seven years prior ordered that his strongest guardians keep him safe until his next re-rising by dividing up his remains and hiding them in five local mansions. The mansions chosen were Berkeley, Rover, Laruba, Bodley and Brahm's, which his followers were ready to guard, protecting the remains at all cost. Despite their earnest efforts, Simon dredged through monster-filled towns, graveyards and marsh pits; he gathered, traded for, and mastered in the use of new magical items and weapons; and he infiltrated the mansions, solved their respective mysteries and puzzles, and collected the five body parts of Dracula.
As he traveled into the town of Fetra, which lay not far from Castlevania, he noticed that the town habitants were anything but welcoming. Instead, they were decidedly prepared to blame him for all of the trouble, as if the presence of the Belmont's justice-presiding power was necessitating all of the incurring evil. All of the accolades in the world couldn't didn't prevent a certain level of opposition, a problem his family had dealt with in the past and would ultimately have to deal with again and again. In this case, the elders knew that Dracula's forces were living on as a residual effect of the curse inflicted upon Simon, and they wanted no part of him. Regardless of their advice and their belittling words, he entered into the ruins of Castlevania and proceeded to its basement, where he burned the remains of the Count in a fiery blaze. Having taken the proper measures, Simon watched on as Dracula, zombified, somehow arose from his slumber to mount a lightning-quick assault. The cagey Count, in what was surely a weakened state, was no match for the power of Simon's flame-enhanced whip. The curse was finally gone--Simon would live on to continue his family's bloodline, and the monsters would be unceremoniously banished from this world. With this experience documented, the Belmonts would in the future be ready for any similar curse-inducing antics.
 EU SUNT DRACULA · Fri Dec 31, 2010 @ 06:21am · 0 Comments |
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