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"You're not Dracula," Elara said.

And the fang? It lay on the floor, inert. Without a single soul to anchor to, it had become just a piece of sharpened bone. Castlevania.Advanced.Collection-GamingBeasts.co...

"I can help you seal the fang," Soma said, his voice splitting into two tones, one childlike, one ancient. "But you have to give me your father's memory. The good ones. The ones where he reads to you by the fire." "You're not Dracula," Elara said

"No," the boy replied. "I'm Soma Cruz. Or I was. Before I tried to absorb the castle's power to end it forever. Now I'm the Thief of Sorrows . Every tear this place has ever wept, I carry." Without a single soul to anchor to, it

Nathan laughed, blood seeping from his gauntlets. "Good. Let me go. Just promise me—don't trust the harmonica."

Here's a Gothic horror-fantasy piece in that spirit: The Soul That Would Not Seal

She looked at her hands. They were translucent, filled with swirling constellations of souls. She was not a vampire hunter. She was not a Belmont. She was a collection —the combined memory of every failure, every desperate spell, every last stand against the dark.