Greetings, fellow Hellsing folks of Tumblr! โ This is a rebooted space for my Hellsing fixations; specifically the 2001 Gonzo adaptation. If youโre here for classic Seras in her blue uniform, soft-girly vampire aesthetics, or chaotic ship talk, youโre in the right place. Expect sporadic posting & lots of love for anime!Seras & ships that are probably terrible ideas ( in the most delightful way ) NO MINORS PLEASE!
While I have some appreciation for aspects of Ultimate & manga!Seras, sheโs not really my preference. Yes, I have consumed all three series respectively ( four, if you wish to count the Abridged version! ) & I prefer the 2001 animeโs portrayal where feels quieter, more melancholic & a bit more emotionally resonant ( I reiterate: for me, ) I understand thereโs strong disagreement on this, but thatโs simply where I stand. My apologies if thatโs disappointing; no harm is meant!
All this said, a quick note: I know my past attitude in the fandom space wasnโt always the most productive; for that, I genuinely apologize. This blog is open to everyone, regardless of ship preferences or interpretation; I may not vibe with every take, but I believe in curating your own experience, not policing others. All I ask is for the same in return! This is a sideblog, so I canโt follow back, but you're more than welcome to send in asks โ I love talking about Hellsing. This space is a casual, self-indulgent & laid-back archive of my vampire girl fixations โค
I believe I have an explanation on Seras's hair and why it is so odd, as well as a little headcanon(?) on what her hair's texture is.
So, I believe we all agreed on how it is a mullet, because it is short in the front and long in the back. If we are going by that logic, then that will make it easier to calculate why her hair is doing the whole spike look in the back. Now, I have realized that her hair in Gonzo and the OVA are different; Gonzo's spikes are thick, OVA's spikes are relatively thinner. This may be occurring ((why the hell am I making this into a formal ass analysis lol)) because her overall hair appears thick, while in the OVA, it reacts and looks like it is thin.
Why is this important? Because, now we are going to examine why her hair acts like some other worldly entity. The only explanation I have for why it is a spikey mess is that she uses gel. That is it, that is all I have from other than the pony tail theory. The reasoning for why I believe it is gel is how her hair behaves ((this is where the different hair textures come in)). In Gonzo, the spikes are rather thick, not as thin nor not as many as OVA Seras has. Usually, thick hair with gel will clump together ((depends on how much you use tho)) which will explain why it is rather bulky. OVA Seras has rather thin spikes. Thinner hair when gelled becomes stringy and straw-like ((again depends on how much you use tho)). This would explain why it has thin strands over gonzo's thick strands.
So, Seras' hair reacts the way it does because she gels it ((probably)). But at the end of the day, it is an anime and logic is not supposed to be present, and I basically wasted 15 minutes of my life writing a pointless analysis on some yellow bitches hair.
credit to gonzoseras for finding unused stills from gonzo
but uh... I just really want to bring attention to the fact that alucard looks like an absolute SCENE KID in these. he has โwelcome to my twisted mindโ scrawled over his coffin, and unironically thinks my chemical romance is the highest form of poetry
Can any Walter fans help me with this one? ๐ I always have this memory of reading at one point that Walter wears a monocle because his eye and head were injuried during one fight when he is older. It would make sense because if you look at that eye, itโs almost lazy and droopy but it could also be just the art style! This appears to be so both in the manga and ova. Even on a cover from a manga when the monocle is off, that eye is completely shut. Does someone else ever heard or read about this? If not at least let me know if these are just my delusions so I donโt spread misinformation!
Hello!! I think I'm ten years late to this! Haha. But this was never touched on in canon material!
There's very little discussion about Walter, and all we know is that he got the monocle sometime after the events of Dawn, likely past his 20s, if the fact that he seems to no longer have any issues with his eyes after the age regression (in the Alucard fight) is any indication.
It's a very common, fandom-wide consensus headcanon, though! And one I DEFINITELY subscribe to, given the subtext! Make of it what you will! Personally, I doubt Hirano put much thought into it beyond 'how do we make this man looks as British Aristocracy as humanly possible' but that's the best part with Hellsing! It's all up to interpretation!
FAVORITE THING ABOUT THEM: I like that heโs aware of the tragedy woven into his existence; the conflict between man & monster. This is most evident during his confrontation with Anderson, where he breaks down in tears, unable to stomach the sight of another man throwing away his humanity. We are exposed to the long-buried fragments of Alucardโs self, surfacing through the cracks. This tension, between what he was & what heโs become, is a recurring theme throughout the series [ regardless if we're talking about the anime, manga or OVA ], & admittedly, it's one of the aspects about him that makes me cry. He's still human underneath, after all...
LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT THEM: Iโm going to cheat a little & admit: I donโt have particularly strong feelings about Alucard himself; I like him well enough, but heโs more of a narrative presence than a personal fixation for me. Neither here nor there. That said, my biggest gripe is less with the character & more with how fandom tends to sanitize him. Thereโs a recurring pattern of downplaying his monstrosity, sometimes even reframing him as a fatherly figure [ which I suspect is to justify certain ship dynamics, ] Alucard is not a good person & thatโs part of what makes him compelling: heโs a force of war & death wearing a manโs shape. Admittedly, I could be way off the mark; the last time I peeked in the fandom was ages ago, & I know folk are very passionate about him being a 'father' to Seras [ or Integra ]; I just don't see it that way, personally!
FAVORITE LINE: "Don't do it, human. Don't become a monster a monster like me..."
BROTP: Alucard & Incognito; these are two entities are true vampires, & their origins are completely different. Alucard [ as we know ] tangled in European myth & old-world bloodshed, dragging the weight of Western sanctimony; all that holy-justified violence & inherited damnation. Incognito, on the other hand, is drawn from a more ambiguous, foreign background; shamanic, โotherworldly,โ likely tied to African or Middle Eastern mysticism [ I believe was the implication ] & his connection to undeath feels far more arcane than cursed. Their head-butting felt more like a confrontation between two ideologies of monstrosity, rather than your standard good versus evil. Both are monsters serving human masters; both loathe their constraints, with the main difference being that Alucard remembers what it meant to be human, while Incognito outright rejects it entirely. That said, I donโt ship them romantically but I just forever love the idea of them recognizing each other. I wish we had it properly done. Perhaps in another universe, these two would even be working together, who knows!
HONORABLE MENTION: Alucard / Walter!
OTP: Alucard / Anderson! The shared obsession, the blasphemy, the way they mirror each otherโs ruin; itโs passionate hate built on mutual annihilation. Spiritual warfare where love & hate bleed into each other. I donโt even think theyโd call it love, but thatโs exactly what makes it interesting. Admittedly, I find the idea of them being platonic [ perhaps with Anderson taking on more of a priestly, Father-like role, offering guidance in the way one might to a wayward soul, or even acting out of denial over any deeper feelingsโฆ ] far more fascinating; I love the concept of them feeding off each otherโs mutual hatred. It doesnโt need to be romantic to be compelling, but either way! The dynamic is rich & charged; these two get giddy over the concept of fighting each other, itโs hilarious!
NOTP: These particular questions are genuinely difficult for me because Iโm pretty open when it comes to ships, even ones I donโt initially vibe with. Given the right artwork, fic, or emotional lens, I can usually be persuaded. That said, if I have to name a NOTP for the sake of the meme... I suppose Iโd go with Alucard / The Major [ at least in a romantic context, ] Iโve seen this pair pop up on occasion & admittedly, I just donโt see it! Major is many things, calculated, obsessive, theatrically cruel, but Iโd say thereโs no emotional tether there, no need for intimacy. Their dynamic thrives on ideological extremity, not closeness or romance. Even in a twisted way, thereโs nothing to grip onto romantically, I donโt reckon; itโs just two monsters circling entirely different fires. I can appreciate the thematic mirroring, & the clashing of ideologies but as a ship? I donโt see it!
RANDOM HEADCANON: Unlike the suave, seductive Dracula we often see in modern media, Alucard doesnโt flaunt his looks, not even a little. He doesnโt rely on them, doesnโt weaponize them & frankly doesnโt care about whether or not he's aesthetically pleasing to others. Whatever beauty or allure he might have is incidental, not intentional,
UNPOPULAR OPINION: Alucard & the Major are more alike than not; more than what Iโve seen fandom care to admit. Strip away aesthetics & allegiances; theyโre both immortal beings obsessed with war, dehumanized by their own choices, & utterly consumed by their philosophies. One is a monster forged by blood & myth; the other is a man who willingly made himself a monster for the thrill of endless conflict. Alucard himself even admits this: We ruin the countries we govern and the people in our care. We slaughter our enemies & sacrifice all our allies; we'll keep killing until there is nothing left but to destroy ourselves. It will never be enough. We are incorrigible warmongers, aren't we, Major? โ Most simply dismiss the Major as a passionate Nazi & automatically assume that, because Alucard fights for the โgood guys,โ heโs fundamentally different. But Alucard isnโt driven by morality or justice; heโs a weapon, bound to a leash, carrying out orders soaked in centuries of violence. His allegiance is circumstantial, not righteous,
SONG I ASSOCIATE WITH THEM: I know my music taste might be basic & even cringe to some, but honestly? I have to go with 'Monster' by Skillet; the struggle between man & beast, the loss of control, the self-loathing buried under power. You get the idea,
FAVORITE PICTURE OF THEM: Yes, I know this is technically the frame fandom tends to hate; but I adore it. Itโs so thematically satisfying: the visual confirmation that he is the undead Vlad Tepes. It leans fully into the horror of what he is: a mythologized warlord resurrected as a monster. Alsoโฆ Iโm sorry, but Vlad wasnโt exactly a heartthrob, so seeing Alucard [ who is presumably meant to be handsome in that eerie, grotesque, vampire way ] be visually confirmed as that man is kind of hilarious to me, especially considering Dracula is often portrayed as seductive or alluring. Heโs not a dreamy immortal; heโs a blood-drenched war criminal in a red coat. The uncanny smile, the shadow, the raw madness in his eyes... itโs grotesque & horrifically human, & thatโs why it works,
