Dmitrii Blinov

Dmitrii Blinov is one of the potential successors to Count Dracula, who serves as a major antagonist in the Castlevania game Dawn of Sorrow. He inherited Dracula's power of Mimicry and would stop at nothing to inherit Dracula's vacant throne, which he considers to be his alone.

Dracula was destroyed for good in 1999 and his Demon Castle was sealed into a solar eclipse, bringing what everyone hoped to be the end of the conflict between Good and Evil... Unfortunately, Dracula was reincarnated and three men born the exact same day of his destruction inherited some of his Dark Powers. Among them Graham Jones, Dario Bossi and Dmitrii himself, who gained the power of Mimicry. In 2035, Graham entered the Castlevania and attempted to take it over, only to get killed in battle by Soma Cruz, the true reincarnation of Dracula who rejected his Dark Legacy. However, even Soma's victory over Chaos, the true essence of Darkness, was not enough to destroy Evil. One year later, the Dark Priestess Celia Fortner invited Dmitrii, Dario and Soma into the Castlevania lookalike she had created, organizing a competition to see who would prevail and earn the title of the new King of the Night.

In the game, Dmitrii first appears as someone rash and bold, who follows Celia, but this is a cover. He is in fact cunning, ambitious and extremely conceited. He feels that only he is worthy of the throne of Dracula and is willing to destroy any opposition. He fights Soma with a dagger and instantly copy whatever attack Soma strikes him with. Dmitrii apparently dies and Soma absorbs his soul, due to his power of Dominance.

If the player triggers the bad ending during wich Soma becomes the King of Night, Dmitrii never reappears and is thought dead. If on the contrary Soma manages to see through Celia's deceit and resist corruption, it is revealed that Dmitrii intended to have his soul absorbed by Soma, so that he would copy his Powerf of Dominance from the inside. He then takes possession of a doppelganger to be reborn physically and departs with Celia withing the Abyss of the Castle. There, he kills Celia whom he no longer needs and absorbs the souls of as many demons as possible to gain all their powers. However, he did not master the Power of Dominance well enough to keep all these souls under his control. When Soma confronts him, the souls overwhelm and kill him, merging together into a gargantuarian abomination named Menace.

To defeat Menace, Soma must first strike his legs, more specifically the head incorporated in its knee, which appeas sporadically, while being trapped under the crouching bulk of the abomination. Soma must avoid blades and poison-breathing heads that protrude from Menace's body. Menace then stands upright and attacks Soma with stomps and punches. It also sends swarms of flying jaws to harrass Soma. Soma must finish off the head in its knee and also attack the head between its skeletal jaws, until the abomination is destroyed.

Menace reappears as a boss in the medley game Harmony of Despair.