About Carmilla

About

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.

Personality

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.

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.

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.

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.

Powers and Abilities

Immortality

As a vampire, Carmilla is immortal and cannot die of old age, keeping her youthful and supple body despite having lived for hundreds of years.

Superhuman strength

Carmilla possesses far more strength than normal humans and other vampires. In fact, she kicked Godbrand with enough speed and force to knock him down a staircase and then pin him to ground with her foot. She was capable of carrying Hector and beating him to a pulp with barely making any effort. Carmilla further showed her terrifying strength when she flipped a long table across a room with one hand, ripped a night creature's head with a flick and easily dismembered dozens of night creatures with her curved blade, even hewing their weapons. Carmilla was also capable of kicking back some of the mightiest night creatures, such as Abel, several meters and to cause a wave of blood to sweep Isaac's creatures away.

Superhuman speed

Carmilla can move at extraordinary speed in short bursts, not unlike Alucard, leaving red flashes of her movement that are hard to read with the human eye. This speed is so high that it is nearly indistinguishable from teleportation, and at its peak, it sparks electric flashes around her frame. Carmilla can use this ability to instantly move through an enemy while slicing them to shreds. Isaac, a highly lethal combatant in his own right, was unable to react to Carmilla's movements under his own reflexes, needing to rely on his night creatures to absorb her blows. Superhuman agility and endurance: Carmilla possesses great agility, capable of jumping dozens of meters and performing incredible and nimble acrobatics, even while wearing heels. She also possesses great endurance, resisting the onslaught of night creatures, killing dozens of them until the floor was flooded with blood before she started tiring. Even when she faced Isaac, she could still move at blinding speed and resist several grievous injuries while fighting.

Swordsmanship

Carmilla was shown to be a truly terrifying creature that possess great skill with her curved blade, similar to a shashka. In her final moments, the Queen of Styria cut through unending hoards of Isaac's night creature forces, covering the entire room floor in blood. This not only proved her incredible fighting prowess and savage nature, but also a resilient stamina.