Castlevania's Femdom World

Season three only but afterwards you'll be wondering if rule 34 is now a thing of the past.

Castlevania is not a DIY show about the OWK fixing up their new castle but a Netflix animated series about vampires 'n' stuff. It's not very good either. Still I watched. What can I say? Covid-19 anyone?

Artist impression of Lenore and Hector. Awesome image! (Credits: PurpleDNGNoodle on Twitter)

A couple of weeks back Netflix dropped season four, which means it's time for me to start watching season three (2020). Spoilers from here on.

For vampires to live happily ever after all you needs is humans. Lots of us. Mainly to suck the blood out of. Please don't judge, we all do what we have to do. It's take-out night. Spare ribs or burgers?

So we have this gory love triangel between vampires, humans, night creatures and other semi-living slime. And of course they're all at war with each other. At times Castlevania is hard to follow because it has [at least] three concurrent plots. One of them features Trevor Belmont, vampire hunter, last of his kind - what else - and his side-kick Sypha Belnades, a lady with magical powers. The fun thing about season three is that it's not her but him who's the real side show, despite him having a magic whip. Together they travel to fight evil. Of course they fall in love, which means they also have sex. Probably great sex, otherwise they would've split up long ago. [He's kind of annoying, even for a cartoon character.] 

Artist impression of Sypha Belnades by Monori Rogue

It's always a bad idea to tell the woman you love/just had sex with that the beer in front of you is better than sex [with her]. The truth is very much overrated. And that's before you take into account her magical powers, like being able to freeze anything on the spot. Bye bye brewski. In all fairness, he kinda deserved that. Without so many words, the show's creators manage to bring the magic of a dominant woman and her slave to life. Must be a coincidence. Or at least that's what I told myself being a hardened femdom afficionado at the beginning of season three.

Next the focus moves to the East. Somewhere between here and Russia is a castle. It's the fortress four vampire ladies call home. On top of their minds is securing a food supply for the next couple of centuries. In order to do so, they've captured a forge master, a human who can bring people back from hell and put them into dead bodies. That one way to create an army. The only problem is that the newly undead only obey their master. 

You'll be her slave soon.

The default option is torture and then some, advocated by one of the sisters who seems rather fond of the stuff because it amuses her. Not that it gets you long-time, reliable results. What if, in the heat of the battle, their Forge Master turns against his vampire lady-bosses? Time to hatch a better plan. And so the quartet dispatches Lenore, their red-head baby-sister, skilled in diplomacy and trickery, to the bowls of the castle.

First time she enters the dugeon, he's lying naked on the floor. The moment he spots an opportunity to escape, he attacks her. Bad idea, exactly what Lenore expects and she beats the living hell out of him. 'Please don't try that again.' Cute 'n' kind. 

In the end, love rules us all. Some more than others.

Basically what happens over the next couple of episodes is classic Stockholm syndrome where Hector starts to believe his captor lady is actually his friend. Because vampires only come out at night, Lenore takes him on a walk during a beautiful moonlit one. All very romantic and stuff except for the collar around his neck and the chain attached to it. Which she - obviously - only yanks with great hesitation, lovelingly and in his best interest.

Lenore and Hector enjoying him being collared, I mean the darkness.

In a season full of bizarre erotic encounters, the one with vampire-human intercourse is nothing special. Except for Lenore repeatedly asking Hector if he will be loyal to her. Yes won't do, she wants to hear him say it. 'Yes I will be loyal to you', he says. Big mistake, because that very moment she collars him by slipping a magic ring around his finger. From now on he is her slave. To disobey is to suffer beyond imagination and he knows.

That's how consensual non-consensual can get. Or was it consensual non-consensual?

Somehow newly-minted vampire mistress has taken a liking to him and introduces the boy - first outsider ever - to the holy chamber where the four vampire queens make their plans for world dominated. Lenore's sisters are shocked when she tells them she's planning on treating Mr. Forge Master kindly. And train him sex-wise. Their first encounter showed he has a lot of potential. Lenore's partners in crime grumble, just like her new toy. As she takes Hector outside, Lenore tells him to shut up.

'I just made you my pet and you're loving it.'

End of season three. Season four opens with Mr. Collared Forge Master blackmailing another guy who also lives at the compound. 'If you don't help me, I'm gonna tell our vampire mistress what you did with her shoes last night.'

Clearly I'm not alone in wondering about the whole BDSM thing in season three of Castlevania. Just look it up on Reddit. 

Artist impression of Lenore and Hector. Full image. (Credits: PurpleDNGNoodle on Twitter)