Esther

A theme of Castlevania: NocturneA loose adaptation of Rondo of Blood, this sequel anime series follows on from Netflix's hit anime adaptation of the game series. could be: the children have to recover from the guilt of losing their parents. Each of our main heroes loses a parent during the scope of the series and, in fact, in each case it’s their mother. Their provider and protector, the one they knew was always there watching over them. The loss of their mothers becomes a major moment in each of their lives, changing them, shifting the trajectory of their lives and making them into the heroes they will become.

Esther was AnnetteThe sister (well, "sister") of Maria Renard. Her exact familial connection to other characters is confused by bad translations across the Western games. She was then reinvented completely for the Netflix series.’s mother. Although we don’t know if she was born a slave, we do know she had lived like one long enough to have a child, Annette, while living as a slave under the ownership of the vampire VaublancA evil master vampire and follower of the coming vampire Messiah. Vaublanc spent years controlling the slave population of the Carribean before having his power overthrown. He hopes to regain his true power under the leadership of the Messiah.. She knew the old ways of her people, grew up with the magic of voodoo in her life, and prayed to the gods of her culture. She has a spark of the magic in her which she passed on to her daughter, imbuing her with magic from Orunmila, the spirit of divination, wisdom, and intelligence). She might have lived to see her daughter grow up into a powerful magical warrior were it not for the vampire lord.

There was an incident where Annette, playing in a field, ran out in front of one of Vaublanc’s men as he was riding down the path. Esther had to save her daughter and beg forgiveness, hoping to spare Annette the pain of the whip, or worse. Sadly, worse did come in the form of Vaublanc, who came to visit Esther and Annette that evening. Upon hearing her sing her child a lullaby, a forbidden act as Vaublanc did not allow his slaves to sing, dance, or make the magical marks of their religion, he trashed their hut, revealing that Esther had left marks and wards all over their hunt for protection. For that act he killed her, snapping her neck in front of Annette.

But that act, her death, lit the spark of magic within Annette, and over the next ten years it grew until it became so powerful she could use it to escape. Esther’s death was Annette’s spark, and while the child would have loved to grow up with her mother the death turned her into the woman she would become.