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| “ | I see. Give him this message: You have become a cursed being and I will never forgive you. This whip and my kinsmen will destroy you someday. From this day on, the Belmont Clan will hunt the night. | „ |
| ~ Leon's message to his former friend, Mathias Cronvist, promising to hunt him down and the supernatural. |
| “ | Leon: Is this what the woman you loved would have wanted? The Mathias I know would not have loved such a woman. Mathias: Elisabetha was a kind, honorable woman. She was concerned only for me to the very end...That is why I hate Him! Am I wrong?! Did you not defeat Walter with hatred in your heart, too? |
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| ~ Leon explaining to Mathias that he was fulfilling Sara's promise and mentioning that he is nothing without her. |
| “ | Gandolfi: Leon...You're not...Baron Leon Belmont? Leon: Just Leon Belmont. I have given up my title. And you, old man? |
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| ~ Leon showing his benevolence to Gandolfi. |
Leon Belmont is the overarching protagonist of the Castlevania franchise, being the main protagonist of the 2003 action-adventure game Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. He is the ancestor of the Belmont clan, who started the legacy of vampire hunting within the family. In the game, Leon tries to find his lover, Sara Trantoul, from the vampire lord named Walter Bernhard, who is known for tormenting many heroes who came to rescue their love ones. Leon encounters an alchemist, Rinaldo Gandolfi, to assist him on his journey to defeat Walter.
Leon is voiced by Dave Wittenberg in the English dub of the game and Nobutoshi Canna in the Japanese dub.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
- Before becoming a vampire hunter, he was a noble knight willingly risking his life and fighting for peace and the safety of people alongside his old friend Mathias Cronqvist. Thanks to their bond and efforts, their company of knights stood out as the strongest among all others.
- When an army of creatures of the night invades Leon's domain, he tried asking the church for permission to attack them in order to protect his people, though they unfortunately declined due to their focus being only on fighting heathens and heretics.
- When his fiancée Sara Trantoul is taken to Walter's castle by the monsters, Leon deliberately gives up his noble title so he could rescue her. This shows that he does not care for his status as an aristocrat.
- When he meets Rinaldo Gandolfi, he was humble enough to tell Rinaldo to not refer to him as Lord or Baron as he views each other as equals and accepted his help in fighting Walter.
- Though Rinaldo initially did not tell him about the full nature of Walter's powers, Leon didn't hold any grudge against him.
- Although he persistently begged Rinaldo to tell him the story of his daughter despite Rinaldo being visibly uncomfortable by it since it was a personal and sensitive topic to him, this was only out of respectful desire to retribute him for his help by sympathizing and supporting him in his grief.
- As a further sign of respect, he allows Rinaldo to stop speaking about it once he started getting to the part where he had to kill his own daughter after she got turned into a vampire, which Leon recognized as the most sensitive part to him.
- He defeated the five guardians of Walter's castle to unlock the door to Walter's chambers and finally save Sara.
- When Walter personally provokes him using an unconscious Sara's body, he tried attacking him to protect her, though to no avail. He then rushes to catch Sara when Walter drops her.
- After finding out Walter turned Sara into a vampire, he was incredibly reluctant to partake the ritual which would empower his whip enough to defeat Walter due to it involving killing her with it, and only ultimately deciding to go through with it due to promising her to fulfill her last request of using her soul as means to save other people from suffering her same fate as an act of honor, painfully screaming her name in grief and kneeling upon her grave once the ritual was completed.
- Before the ritual, when Sara overheard she is doomed to become a vampire and tried to kill herself so she couldn't hurt anyone, Leon tried to calm her down hoping to find another way to defeat Walter and save her from her fate.
- Because of this ritual, this makes Leon one of the people responsible for the creation of the Vampire Killer, which was handed down to many of his descendants as the signature weapon of the Belmont Clan to fight Dracula and his creatures of the night.
- He kept his promise to Sara by defeating Walter Bernhard and ending his reign of terror, although it would inadvertently be continued by Mathias later on.
- While his desire to kill Walter was initially out of personal revenge due to him tainting Sara, this eventually turned into a more selfless desire to only protect everyone else from going through what Sara and Rinaldo did. And even though he admits his hatred for Walter when Mathias confronts him about it, Leon says that the only reason he actually killed Walter was to save everybody else from his reign of terror, especially as per Sara's last request, and that his hatred for Walter was not a factor in any of this.
- Besides, by killing Walter, Leon has avenged all the other victims that he had previously claimed throughout the years, especially Rinaldo's family.
- When Mathias revealed himself to be manipulating the situation to become a vampire, Leon felt betrayal and disgust that his friend would do something so treacherous to him.
- Though he understands Mathias's tragedy of losing his wife and blaming God for taking her, Leon rejected his proposal of joining him and tried to talk him out of his desire to walk down the path of darkness he was about to, showing Leon was still willing to forgive Mathias despite his manipulation and treachery.
- While Leon ultimately decided to not forgive Mathias anymore, it was perfectly justified since he had already offered Mathias forgiveness and redemption as well as tried to reason with him about why the path he was choosing wasn't worth following, yet Mathias still self-righteously decided that things had to be his own way and chose to remain a vampire while also claiming that Leon just "couldn't understand" right before flying away in bat form and willingly leaving Leon behind to be killed by Death.
- And with Mathias' choice to completely betray humanity and become the infamous genocidal and misanthropic Dracula for the rest of his life, Leon's decision to no longer forgive him was justified even further, considering the amount of death and devastation he began to spread since then.
- After defeating Death, Leon tells him to give Mathias a message that his whip and his descendants will hunt him down someday and the night itself.
- Started the Belmont Clan tradition of hunting down Mathias (now Dracula) and his creatures of the night, beginning a millennium-long legacy of descendants carrying out the duty of defending humanity against Dracula and his threats.
Trivia[]
- So far, Leon and Alucard are the only two characters from the Castlevania games to be Pure Good.
External Links[]
- Leon Belmont on the Heroes Wiki.
- Leon Belmont on the Castlevania Wiki.