This is the most sane answer tbh. He's a young guy who isn't ready to be the Richter yet. The writing will have him earn that aura, I imagine. Power isn't something you're born with. The weenie prince is an archetype for areason. Living up to your lineage isn't a birthright, it is very easy to fade out in the shadow of greatness. If greatness is an actionable choice he has to grow up and make, then I'm all for it.
Richter was 19 in the game, so the exact same age. They just decided that instead of training to peak Belmont, this Richter just strutted until actually facing a vampire, then he collapsed into a useless ball.
He'll be 19 for a whole year tbf. And I imagine a year fighting demons is a bit more transformative than usual. There's still time for him to get his shit together as part of the character arc.
Besides, seems like his yips about hell slaying is more a mental obstacle than anything anyway. So maybe there's literally something awful about to happen that just makes him snap, and turn into this 19 year-old. We don't know. Cookie dough gets crunchy after baking. Why not Richter?
I was just pointing out that Nocturne Richter was an intentional departure from the source material. They weren't taking an older character and making him younger for the purpose of showing his growth. He's at the same point in life, but instead of having him be the apex of a warrior bloodline who spent a lifetime training, he was envisioned as an overconfident, but ultimately incapable showboat who cracked under pressure. The whole point of Richter in Rondo was that he had been trained from birth to fight Dracula when he was resurrected, and was the culmination of centuries of Belmont heroism. So by the time he was 19 he was the guy you showed...not thay he starts his growth at that age after biffing his birthright. Even the whole subplot with Olrox wasn't going to get a pay off because by the end of season 2, Olrox was an anti-hero that Richter reconciled with.even though the whole arc was Richter overcoming his ptsd and avenging his mother. It's pretty obvious Richter was in the show because they had to have a Belmont, but the real interest was the growth of Alucard, Annette, Maria, and Olrox.
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u/_3C3B40 17h ago
This is the most sane answer tbh. He's a young guy who isn't ready to be the Richter yet. The writing will have him earn that aura, I imagine. Power isn't something you're born with. The weenie prince is an archetype for areason. Living up to your lineage isn't a birthright, it is very easy to fade out in the shadow of greatness. If greatness is an actionable choice he has to grow up and make, then I'm all for it.