Ron Does Stuff

Okay, we’re really getting into it now with this new season! Alucard’s back, Drolta’s back, who else is going to come back?

At the end of the last episode, Drolta was feeling her oats and Erzsebet was a happy murdering lesbian vampire. At the start of this episode, we get a look back at Drolta as a priestess of Sekhmet, in 1199 CE which according to my very uninformed Googling is an era after the birth of Christ. I may be misinformed though! We’re seeing Drolta’s origin story as a grave robber and a vampire disturbs the peace of Sekhmet’s temple and Drolta turns herself into a vampire after killing the vampire attacker.

Back in the present day, Alucard, Richter, and Annette meet Juste, who just dispatched multiple vampires and was pissing in the lake Richter was chest deep in. Kinky! Obviously, Juste is going to be joining the gang to recover Sekhmet’s mummy. They do need to find that mummy quickly because as it turns out, Erzsebet and Drolta are very much aware of what they’re planning.

As for Maria and Mizrak, I have no idea what they’re planning but they’re walking the streets of what is now a vampire-occupied town and of course the villagers are going to point them out as ~enemies~. But as it turns out, it’s internal conflict that the two of them should be worried about because as they get supplies from Maria’s home, Tera is there waiting for them and the conversation between her and Maria is tense because I think Tera wants Maria to kill her and I don’t know if Maria is ready to do that. Mizrak also gets confronted with his own hypocrisy, which I hope gets dealt with further down the line.

We also get a little development of the Annette/Richter romance which is cute, especially when they’re doing it while fighting vampires. It’s still cute when they’re bickering because Richter was being a little bit of an ass ending up with one of their vampire stalkers escaping to report things to Drolta and Erzsebet. All very cute!

Less cute is the quick work that Drolta does with the forces from Paris. I don’t remember exactly when this was set but I am guessing during the French Revolution when Napoleon still wasn’t emperor? Louis XVI’s? Most of my knowledge is from Oversimplified.

It’s a horrible scene, but what’s even more heartbreaking is the complete destruction of Mizrak’s faith. Olrox tells him that this new Drolta is the creation of the Abbot that he serves and it breaks Mizrak, who ends up sobbing.