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1. Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 09:39:18 JST Christi Junior

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   Now, Carrie Fernandez is obviously NOT a man, but can she still “do it”, in the sense of delivering a profoundly Based and countercultural storyline? Turns out, yes she can – though Carrie’s story is far less heavy on religious themes than Reinhardt’s. Indeed, supplementary materials (not referenced in the game itself beyond bringing up how Carrie is an orphan whose stepmother sacrificed herself for her) apparently describe Carrie as having at one point outright turned her back on God, due to all the horrible things that happen to her as a child – though by the time Castlevania 64 takes place, she seems to have made her peace with God, seeing how she’s now fighting alongside holy warriors and working for the church to take down Dracula.
   
   The reason Carrie’s story is both compelling and profoundly Based is Carrie’s relationship with a recurring enemy that she will have to slay before getting a crack at the Count. While the demon Death was Reinhardt’s nemesis, Carrie’s story sees her taking on the wicked witch Actrise. While Carrie and Actrise are both formidable magic users, Actrise turns out to be not so much an evil counterpart to Carrie as she is to the mother who sacrificed her own life to save Carrie’s! Motherhood and maternal self-sacrifice prove to be the dominant theme of Carrie’s whole storyline, which is profoundly countercultural in an age where women killing their own babies is celebrated as the most important of rights.
   
   That last dig wasn’t even gratuitous – during Carrie’s decisive showdown with Actrise, the diabolical witch reveals how she was able to become Dracula’s right-hand woman: by sacrificing the life of 100 children, one of them Actrise’s own child – just a little girl, like Carrie herself had been when the woman who raised her made gave up her own life so that Carrie could survive. The striking contrast between these two diametrically opposed visions of motherhood causes Carrie to proclaim that Actrise is a pathetic failure:
   
   Actrise: “You surprise me. To be able to defeat the Fernandez warrior. It is still not too late. Give your soul and power to Dracula! It is a simple matter…sacrifice the lives of 100 children. I slew my own child to attain this prize of eternal life!”
   
   Carrie: “…she was really only my stepmother. But my mother gave her life to save mine. She truly loved me. She showed me happiness. Your child received no love from her mother…that’s, that’s pathetic…”
   
   Actrise: “Oh dear, you make me so sad…looking at me just as my child did…how pitiful! I love no one in this world other than myself! I will gouge out your heart as a gift to my lord!”
   
   Carrie then proceeds to utterly roflstomp Actrise, sending her off to hell with the words that she NEVER stood a chance against this GigaChad Loli, and that Dracula himself knew this well. All Actrise sacrificed to gain her powers, only to be humiliated by a 12 year old girl, alive today because of a mother’s selfless sacrifice. I shouldn’t really need to go further in-depth as to all the reasons why the Carrie VS Actrise storyline is remarkable and fucking BASED, but just to reiterate: An extremely ambitious career woman kills her own child in order to achieve her own selfish goals, only to have her entire existence exposed as a sick joke by a girl whose great deeds are only possible because of a woman who was willing to give up her own life so that her own child could survive.