NOTE: I overcompensated the wrong direction on Despa's keywords, you can actually use beautifying prompts.
D3spaFlor3scu, 1girl, 35 year old female Romanian peasant woman, wavy black hair, brown eyes, mature face, XVI century is totally adequate to get accurate Despa, you can even afford to lay on "pretty" though if she's getting too modely-generic you might want to keep sly features or try some of the words at low weights, like [hard features:.5]. Using my keywords as written will probably gen you a cartoon hag! Unless that's what you're into! Hey, I'm a terrible gambler, what can I say!
NOTE: Couples and Andrei pics are possible, but as its a Despa heavy set, you'll want to neg things that bleed over like male wrinkles, black haired male, brown haired female, etc. I'll do an Andrei lora at some point so that'd help if you want to insist on him.
Despa Florescu, a saucy but ill favored looking widow, she has an evil face but she's EVER so nice! A minor OC side character in my forever delayed Castlevania fic Kiss of Stone and Ebon Gaze.
Also, feel free to download my data set. Civitai is really struggling today to analyze variants and face fixes, so check back if you don't see a full 20 pics.
Also, I'm starting a Castlevania lora collection, I'd like to do my version of Carmilla, maybe Elizabeth Bartley, a few OCs, and even a style lora if I can figure that out, but we'll start with Despa since she's low stakes (and besides, I want to gen her). If you have any suggestions for it (and don't suggest someone that has a usable lora out there already), throw them at me, ya never know!
I'll give you setup for her bio and why this character and lora and what I can tell you of prompts, but first a quick plug.
Its actually a Carmilla-centric Castlevania prequel, I go for a kind of gothic Nathaniel Hawthorne/John Fowles sort of thing, the first chapter anyway is out there, its plotted out for four but I've been delaying it for years because its so high effort:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27237202/chapters/66535780
I still have extremely high hopes for it, but of all my fics it needs alot of focus I have trouble drumming up. This ISN'T the whole story, or even the most interesting part, but just what you'd need to know about Despa:
Setting is 1680, town of Aljiba, Wallachia. Characters, Andrei Iordan, a serious and rational 19 year old ex grave keeper who'd been destitute and under a pall in the town ever since his adoptive father, the greedy priest, had disowned him and demanded repayment for raising him. Despa Florescu is a 35 year old widow ill favored for her husbands death through violent illness and brain fevor, and ekes out a meager living selling blankets, shawls and woven knick-knacks.
Andrei has recently become known about town for mysterious new found wealth. He uses it to trick the priest into accepting a lesser payment to forgive the debt, embarrassed the village toughs by (unknown to the rest) hiring Romani to beat them, and made allies of the money lender and polgarmeister. Now instead of cursing him it seems that everyone wants to be his friend. His wealth comes from his relationship with the mysterious masked countess Carmilla, who Andrei is deeply infatuated with. Previously a dark and seemingly unfriendly sort, his newfound luck, wealth, interest in the countess and attention to his appearance (in hope of impressing the countess) has lifted his mood and changed his demeanor to one of satisfaction that gets the women in town's attention. As he walks through streets, Despa calls to him from her doorstop. She compliments his appearance and clothes and Andrei responds politely but somewhat bashfully. They make small talk, Despa invites him in for "hot tea", and even Andrei who's completely inexperienced with women can tell from her tone and smile what she's implying.
So usually when I post an OC, they have a big part in the story. Despa doesn't show up till Chapter 3 and exists just to show up for maybe 4 or 5 paragraphs to illustrate that Andrei has options since he stopped doing the edgy cynic thing, and that he's still obsessed with Carmilla. But she really grew on me personality and design wise.
I've actually posted temu Despas here in the past just from prompts, she's just so evil and haggy looking but her motivations not any more scheming than notice the late bloomer who cleans up first. I think she's cute, and I ship her with Andrei as the sensible alternative, but hey, that's not the story! What do they call that, ascended extra? Mauve Shirt?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MauveShirt
Ok, well thanks for enduring till now. SO, here are the prompts I would use on civitai to get fairly close representations by themselves, with my loras I find less is more, what I mean is you an often let the lora do the heavy lifting and ease off on the prompts. Something like "Ayami Kojima" style might help too, you may be able to throw "Castlevania" in there but I find you're just as likely to make everybody a vampire (or you could neg that out!)
Despa Florescu: Keyword: D3spaFlor3scu
35 year old female Romanian peasant woman, long messy or wavy black hair, brown eyes, mature face, XVI century, ruffled sleeves dress, villager dress or rags
(Note, see my note up there at the very top, I was accounting for AI beautifying but you don't need to worry about that with this lora. The lora will likely do f the heavy lifting. Also, she cleans up super easy, so feel free to go the glowup route)
Andrei Iordan: Keyword: Andre11ordan
20 year old male Romanian man, slim average build, gloomy studious, pale with medium length dark brown hair in a middle part and brown eyes, XVI century, vest, breeches, jerkin, button up shirt, red cape
(Again, the lora will likely do the heavy lifting, the hardest part with Andrei is not making him look like he's in a boy band and capturing that kind of downbeat cynic thing he has going)
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