reposing | voltronvania

After committing patricide, Alucard had reluctantly spent his years living with Trevor and Sypha; they were wonderful comrades, a friendship he had not counted on lasting -- but for years, it did. They bore children, and the Belmont line would continue for years to come. Though he felt immense guilt for helping kill his father, Alucard loved his friends and their wonderful children.

Which in turn, his immortal blood would curse him, forcing him to watch his friends age. The laugh lines suited them both, Trevor still dashing and smug despite his age and Sypha fiery and brilliant. His heart had sunk, staying with them, clutching their hands as their life would fade day to day.

“You fucking bastard,” Trevor had muttered, grinning tiredly. “Still as beautiful as the day you beat my ass in that dingy keep of yours.”

His heart broke as their time eventually came, feeling eerily alone as they passed away together in their sleep. Though Alucard was close to their children and grandchildren, it was not like the bond he had with them. His mother was gone, murdered by other humans. His father, killed by his own hands. Now the closest, only friends he had, taken by time itself, leaving him with so little.

Wallachia was left in peace, so it meant he had one last honorable act to perform so long as he lived. He knew the promise that his father had with his late friend and old memory, King Alfor. If nothing else, that was something he could do.

It took time to decipher old notes from his father's notes, but eventually Alucard found his way, standing before the towering blue lion. He'd never seen it before, only knowing its existence from his father's tales, or at least could not remember it from so early on in his life. Still, it was a marvelous sight indeed. Slowly, he knelt before the blue lion.

"I do not come as your paladin," Alucard told it softly. "I come to keep an old promise, an old bond. Allow me to remain with you until the day your paladin arrives to reunite you with the others. So long as I live, I will guard you."

The lion roared, welcoming him.

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That had been centuries ago.

Today? Well. Today, a group of teenagers and one very tired man fall through the collapsing ground out from under their feet, collapsing in front of the Blue Lion.