𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝓞𝓯 𝓢𝓽𝔂𝓻𝓲𝓪

For other uses, see Carmilla (disambiguation). I wasn't going to be dictated to by mad old men anymore. And then I come here, to meet with the leader of our nation, and what do I find? A mad, cruel old man. Never again, Godbrand. Never again. Carmilla in "Shadow Battles" Carmilla (カーミラ, Kāmira?) is the second main antagonist of the Castlevania animated series.[2] She is the vampiress Queen of Styria, as well as the leader of the Council of Sisters. She is a scheming and manipulative noblewoman, and former ally and general of Lord Dracula, who sought to usurp control over the vampires from him and raise them as the world's new dominant species. She was voiced by Jaime Murray in the English version of the show. History Background Carmilla was a former general of Dracula's army. She was the last vampire general to arrive at Dracula's Castle, although this being due to having had her own hidden agenda. It was soon revealed that she was not pleased with Dracula's plans of mankind's extinction, mainly because this would leave the entire vampire population without a stable sustenance of blood. She was turned into a vampire centuries ago by an unknown Vampire Lord, whom she later killed, claiming that he was "old and cruel" to those around him.

General in Dracula's army Carmilla arrives late to Dracula's war council, announcing that the demon forces were defeated in the city of Gresit, and openly defies Dracula by asking why he didn't turn his wife Lisa into a vampire, which would have kept her away from the fanatical Church officials who burned her at the stake, thoroughly unable to fathom that he could genuinely love her instead of using her as a sex slave. This greatly angered Dracula and shocked the other vampire generals; however, such a reaction was exactly what she wanted. Dracula orders her to meet with him at the fireplace. Calmly, Dracula notes her rather dramatic entrance and questions her. First and foremost, he wanted to know why Godbrand communicated with her, to which she believed stemmed from a desire to have sex with her. To which he asked if she intended to, and she said it would only be possible if all of the other vampire males dropped dead, plus half of the females and some animals. While Dracula became mildly amused by this, he then questioned what advantages his anger bought her. Carmilla said that none of it was meant to cause offense and simply something obvious she bravely asked. The vampire nobles keep infighting, furious that Dracula trusted two human Forgemasters, Hector and Isaac, more than them, and worried that his goal of total genocide of the human race would leave them unable to feed and doomed to extinction in turn. Upon learning that Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades and Dracula's son, Alucard, had teamed up to destroy Dracula, Carmilla freaks out, knowing how powerful they are and insists on taking them out immediately, but the others do not listen. She becomes increasingly frustrated with the babbling Godbrand, who only thinks she wants to talk to him about sleeping together. Eventually, she knocks him down and states that Dracula is turning into a sad, old man like her previous master.

Betraying Dracula Dracula orders Carmilla to work with Hector and Isaac, and she takes advantage of it to talk the indecisive Hector into attacking the Belmont Estate and to attack the city of Braila –which was not yet on Dracula's list– with the monsters he forged, planting doubt in his mind about Dracula's sanity. As the vampires are slaughtering everyone in Braila, Carmilla makes her move. She raises the fanatical Bishop as an undead to make him bless the water of the Danube River and uses her army of vampires to ambush Dracula's forces and make them fall into the now holy water, destroying them. Right after this, she drags Hector with her and launches her troops to attack Dracula's Castle. Right as Dracula is about to destroy Carmilla and her forces by himself, Sypha casts a spell to teleport the castle, displacing the blessed water which ends up destroying all of Carmilla's armies, with herself and Hector only barely escaping. Finally, after Dracula is destroyed by the heroes, Hector has had enough of Carmilla and tries to get away, calling her twisted, but she viciously beats him to a pulp and sadistically punches him 22 times taking great pleasure in the act. Her guards chains him, declaring that he is now her slave and forcing him to forge an army of demons to restore her forces.[3]

Return to Styria and the Council of Sisters It takes 30 days of marching with her decimated forces to reach Styria, by which time had made them vulnerable to both uncontrolled human and vampire aggression. Their horses were taken and Carmilla arrived at her castle and Council of Sisters angry, dirty and tired. After verbally detailing her difficult road back home, her friends Striga, Morana and Lenore welcomed their agitated ruling member with open arms, much to Carmilla's happiness. She spent the first day back at the castle soaked in a bath and calming down. Although it did not take long before Carmilla's ambitions began to intrigue an idea. She had her cartographer draw up a map of Europe, which she soon presented to her sisters. The destruction caused by Dracula had reduced the power structures in all of Eastern Europe, from their region to Braila. Before this, the four had tried to rule Styria under the radar and knew that the western countries were too powerful to contend with. Now, with humans scattered and in complete disarray and vampire kingdoms fractured in the East, Carmilla sought to enclose the 800-mile territory and trap all the humans there. That would significantly increase their borders and provide sustainable livestock that would feed them for centuries. The others understandably pointed out the flaws of enacting such a vast plan, especially now that their heavily reduced forces. Though as always, the sisters would try together to make it work. Striga would oversee the military, Morana would organize the effort, Carmilla would keep planning and scheming, while Lenore was left with convincing their beaten prisoner to create a night creature army.

Appearance Carmilla bears the appearance of an elegant and majestic pale woman with crimson red lips, icy blue eyes, and long straight white hair. Although her face is mostly round, she has a notoriously pointy chin, which could likely be a reference to her mask initially seen in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. She is also seen wearing a black and crimson red ombre dress, sporting golden shoulder plates and matching heels. While in Styria, Carmilla always dons several long, elegant blood-red dresses with golden accessories and heels. Her nightgown had an open cleavage with a single button below the chest and golden, rounded shoulder pads. (she have a slim body with small breasts but wide hips and beautiful legs)

Personality Lenore: She's the spark. We see the present. She draws down the future. We're the body, and she's the dream. Hector: She's the nightmare. Lenore and Hector describing Carmilla in "Investigators" Carmilla is portrayed as a femme fatale, both seductive and manipulative. She is also selfish and will do anything to accomplish her goals. She proved very politically skilled as she was able to twist the affairs of Dracula's council on itself to even questioning him while maintaining the appearance that she was loyal. While cunning and cautious, Carmilla tends to be arrogant and overconfident. Despite Dracula's great personal power and his army of demons, she believed she could overthrow him by simply killing his vampire generals and attacking him directly. Given the extent of Dracula's power revealed later on in his confrontation with Sypha, Trevor, and Alucard, this was highly unlikely to succeed. Nonetheless, Carmilla is both persistent and opportunistic, and even though her attempted usurpation against Dracula failed and most of her forces were destroyed, she did not admit defeat, only viewing it as a setback. With Dracula dead at the hands of Alucard, Trevor Belmont, and Sypha Belnades, Carmilla aimed to fill the power vacuum in the wake of Dracula's death and that of his council, even taking a former General in Dracula's army as her personal pet and slave.

Carmilla possesses a twisted and dark sense of humor with a penchant for violence, as is custom in Vampire culture. This is revealed when she confesses to Godbrand that she killed the vampire that turned her. According to Carmilla, after her old master went mad, he became 'old and cruel'. She then later went on to capture and enslave Hector, her 'pet', taking delight in beating and verbally berating the Forgemaster, and sadistically enjoying dominating him because he was a stupid man child. Carmilla is a natural leader, charismatic and visionary. She is acknowledged as first among the four queens of Styria because she sees a future for the kingdom and provides purpose. The execution of her vision falls to her sisters or those she manipulates. She rarely engages in any dirty work herself. Being more into scheming, conniving, and underhanded tactics than leading from the front. Carmilla has a pathological need to control and dominate her environment. She justifies her leadership by likening everyone else as "children, animals, and dying old men" unworthy of agency.

Among her motivations for seeking power and control is her desire to be rid of the command of madmen, or in essence, anyone like her old master, who promised her the world before he grew old, insane, and unkind. Thus, it was one of the reasons why she turned against Dracula, another "old mad man" in her viewpoint. She has an insane hatred toward men and their cruel suppression of female vampires and women in general. Ironically enough, she showcased the same character dynamic, such as in her abusive relationship with Hector. Showing just how mean-spirited and deranged she really is. Moreover, her being viciously temperamental when not getting her way, someone doing or acting in a way she doesn't like, yet portrays those same personal faults like her maniacally childish way of forcing Hector under her heel in the dead of night, surrounded by what's left of her army. Carmilla has long abandoned any empathy for humans, if she had any, to begin with. Perhaps more so than any other vampire, Carmilla sees humans as being beneath her. She couldn't begin to understand how Dracula could love a human or respect Lisa's humanity enough to not turn her into a vampire. When she is being honest, Carmilla treats the intelligent and valuable Hector like an insect. If her plans came to fruition, humanity would be divided into cattle and corpses.

In contrast to Carmilla's other arrogant traits, she appears to be wary of the Belmont Family, as she loudly apprised the other vampire generals that the Belmonts hunted vampires like them for many centuries and even just one remaining Belmont would be a problem. Carmilla's concern was correct, as Trevor soundly butchered vampire soldiers from her army, as well as the vampire generals, and helped Alucard and Sypha slay Dracula himself. Carmilla's fear of the Belmonts contrasts with Dracula's initial mocking indifference to Trevor. Later, a more kindhearted/tender side of Carmilla's personality is shown during her interaction with her "sisters", as seen where she would warmly interact with them in a joking, lighthearted, familial manner, in stark contrast to her usual cold, condescending attitude she usually portrays to all others; having been shown to be genuinely loyal, loving and caring toward all three of them and truly seeing them as her sisters in everything but birth; placing a great deal of trust in them in comparison to her usual manipulative disposition during her time in Dracula's court.

This positive relationship with her sisters is fully evidenced when Carmilla listens to each of their inputs regarding her plans of conquest in their entirety, without her usual disposition of scorn and short temper, and patiently listens to them as they point out its flaws without snapping at them, showing how much she values their council and advice. It was later revealed that Carmilla trusts them enough to willingly allow them to know several personal issues regarding her, such as both Morana and Striga being aware of her recurring nightmares and her traumatic memories of the time she lived under her former vampire master, who subsequently became abusive and possibly attracted toward her in his old age, leaving her with deep psychological scars. All of these psychological traumas and fears from her previous life as a slave were unleashed in her final fight against Isaac. Eventually, Carmilla went completely insane and reduced to her base, primal instincts, revealing the true monster that lies beneath her otherwise calm and brilliant demeanor.