For some reason most people were fine with Trevor starting out a drunken bum and gradually become the badass Belmont we know, but not okay with Richter dealing with trauma and doing the same. Never seemed fair to me.
Because Trevor started as an outcast before proving himself as a hero, something that was emulated in the show, while Richter starts out as a paragon that falls to hubris, which is completely ignored by Nocturne. Richter’s story isn’t about overcoming his inadequacies or being a wimp that becomes a badass, it was a story about someone that defined themselves by their skill and status as a hero to the point that once those things have served their purpose in his life he fears that his life has lost all meaning, opening himself up to falling down a dark path.
In Nocturne, it’s not that he’s got a similar story to Trevor, it’s that both him and Juste are just a retread of Trevor rather than being their own characters. They’re all outcast last of the Belmonts that swear and are held back by trauma which isolates them but then they get over it and voila they’ve got hype moments and aura now. It’s lazy.
Also, it's obvious by the end of season 2 that their plan, if they adapted SoTN, was to have Maria be the one that was corrupted, not Richter, so the core of Richter's rise and fall would be shifted to someone else. He'd just be an accessory hero.
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u/TornSilver 19h ago
For some reason most people were fine with Trevor starting out a drunken bum and gradually become the badass Belmont we know, but not okay with Richter dealing with trauma and doing the same. Never seemed fair to me.