About the Character: Soma Cruz is the reincarnation of the evil vampire king Dracula. While there are many people who were born in 1999 (when Dracula was ‘killed for good’) who inherited his powers, Soma Cruz is implied to have his soul as well as the Power of Dominance.
Before he became ‘the dark heir’, he was just a high school student born on August 21 2017 (during the Solar eclipse), due to his Spanish surname, it’s likely he’s part Spanish, and has actually lived in Japan for most of his life, but there is little that the same supplied that suggest his life was far from ordinary before the start of Aria of Sorrow. Far as he’s been aware, he was no one special, but that changed when he visited the shrine his friend Mina lives at to watch the Solar Eclipse of 2035 with her, only to pass out once he pass the gates and woke up inside Dracula’s true castle, sealed inside the eclipse, and discover his powers – and eventually the source of them. While he was there, he fought a would be contender for Dracula’s power, being forced to kill the man in self-defense, and nearly succumbing to the dark influence of the castle, forcing to climb his way to the source of the castle’s malevolent power and destroy it before he loses himself complete, the act not only freeing him from its grip, but also returned everyone trapped inside the castle to earth. After this, until the cult ‘With Light’ attacked him, his Power of Dominance went dormant. At the canon point he’s taken from, the year is 2036, a year after his powers first awoken and despite helping to seal away Dracula’s castle in an eclipse, things aren’t over for him as a cult sought kill him and appoint one of their own as the new Lord of Darkness. He starts the second game by disobeying orders to stay home to stop the cult on his own.
Soma Cruz is for the most part a gentle young man who zealously protects his friends, and cares deeply for people. Far as the game states, he has few friends, but he is dead loyal to those he has and they know he got their back no matter how dangerous the situation is. This caring nature can lead him to extreme recklessness – he will tend to refuse help because he doesn’t want to be a burden, and he tends to leap before he look, landing into much more trouble than if he had actually trust his friends. The young man also has a chivalrous streak, becoming enraged if any girl gets hurt in front of him, no matter how well he knows the person, for example becoming enraged at Graham for attacking Yoko and feeling guilt for not getting to her in time even though it was impossible for him to stop it.
With those he’s close to, he can be a complete dork, quick to laugh, and just as quick to be embarrassed by teasing. Even when he’s humiliated, he doesn’t snap back, suggesting he has a calm temperament and doesn’t take himself too seriously. In Dawn of Sorrow, he demonstrates a slight sarcastic streak, aimed primarily at the resident goofball (and merchant) Hammer, so he can tease just as well as Yoko or Mina, but generally chooses not to. Soma also shows moments that reveal he has a good sense of empathy, able to accurately guess the reason that Julius ditched Yoko at the castle gates and convey in a way that she could understand (she still didn’t like it, but now knew why).
Soma is rather on the naïve side, generally trusting people immediately if they don’t act openly hostile or suspicious. When they betray his trust, he becomes upset, not just at the person, but at himself for being fooled by them – and does not forgive them easily. However, despite how many times he may get his trust displaced, he’s still quick to assume the best of people, being a generally optimistic young man.
While he takes the responsibilities of his powers and heritage seriously, he also considers it kind of cool, having no desire to abuse it, but he can make jokes about it - with the 100% souls ending of Aria having he ask Mina if being Dracula makes him 'cooler' to her.
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About the Character: Soma Cruz is the reincarnation of the evil vampire king Dracula. While there are many people who were born in 1999 (when Dracula was ‘killed for good’) who inherited his powers, Soma Cruz is implied to have his soul as well as the Power of Dominance.
Before he became ‘the dark heir’, he was just a high school student born on August 21 2017 (during the Solar eclipse), due to his Spanish surname, it’s likely he’s part Spanish, and has actually lived in Japan for most of his life, but there is little that the same supplied that suggest his life was far from ordinary before the start of Aria of Sorrow. Far as he’s been aware, he was no one special, but that changed when he visited the shrine his friend Mina lives at to watch the Solar Eclipse of 2035 with her, only to pass out once he pass the gates and woke up inside Dracula’s true castle, sealed inside the eclipse, and discover his powers – and eventually the source of them. While he was there, he fought a would be contender for Dracula’s power, being forced to kill the man in self-defense, and nearly succumbing to the dark influence of the castle, forcing to climb his way to the source of the castle’s malevolent power and destroy it before he loses himself complete, the act not only freeing him from its grip, but also returned everyone trapped inside the castle to earth. After this, until the cult ‘With Light’ attacked him, his Power of Dominance went dormant.
At the canon point he’s taken from, the year is 2036, a year after his powers first awoken and despite helping to seal away Dracula’s castle in an eclipse, things aren’t over for him as a cult sought kill him and appoint one of their own as the new Lord of Darkness. He starts the second game by disobeying orders to stay home to stop the cult on his own.
Soma Cruz is for the most part a gentle young man who zealously protects his friends, and cares deeply for people. Far as the game states, he has few friends, but he is dead loyal to those he has and they know he got their back no matter how dangerous the situation is. This caring nature can lead him to extreme recklessness – he will tend to refuse help because he doesn’t want to be a burden, and he tends to leap before he look, landing into much more trouble than if he had actually trust his friends. The young man also has a chivalrous streak, becoming enraged if any girl gets hurt in front of him, no matter how well he knows the person, for example becoming enraged at Graham for attacking Yoko and feeling guilt for not getting to her in time even though it was impossible for him to stop it.
With those he’s close to, he can be a complete dork, quick to laugh, and just as quick to be embarrassed by teasing. Even when he’s humiliated, he doesn’t snap back, suggesting he has a calm temperament and doesn’t take himself too seriously. In Dawn of Sorrow, he demonstrates a slight sarcastic streak, aimed primarily at the resident goofball (and merchant) Hammer, so he can tease just as well as Yoko or Mina, but generally chooses not to. Soma also shows moments that reveal he has a good sense of empathy, able to accurately guess the reason that Julius ditched Yoko at the castle gates and convey in a way that she could understand (she still didn’t like it, but now knew why).
Soma is rather on the naïve side, generally trusting people immediately if they don’t act openly hostile or suspicious. When they betray his trust, he becomes upset, not just at the person, but at himself for being fooled by them – and does not forgive them easily. However, despite how many times he may get his trust displaced, he’s still quick to assume the best of people, being a generally optimistic young man.
While he takes the responsibilities of his powers and heritage seriously, he also considers it kind of cool, having no desire to abuse it, but he can make jokes about it - with the 100% souls ending of Aria having he ask Mina if being Dracula makes him 'cooler' to her.