"the catholic church has a secret demon/vampire hunting branch" is pretty common in anime (see: blue exorcist, a certain magical index), but hellsing is the only show I've seen to take the logical next step of also having a branch of anglican secret vampire hunters
and they and the catholics hate each other and get into fights over who gets to kill vampires in northern ireland
Thinkin about how Seras Victoria gets shot through the same place in her chest when she was a child trying to save her parents from their murderers, and then again when Alucard shoots her through the heart to save her from the same crime of sexual assault that her dying mother was subjected to. The same wound, repeated. And it hits even harder when you remember Alucard is a survivor of SA too.
Alucard (canonically agender) and Anderson (thematically/implied nonbinary)
(I explain beneath cut)
Alucard:
I need say nothing more. The agender vampire. That I keep using the term "genderfluid" for. The title "genderfluid, genetically enhanced, glockula" provides me too much amusement to stop.
Meanwhile Anderson...
Has the most closeted nonbinary coming out speech I have ever heard.
I'm not on hormones, but if I ever change my mind I will be saying "If with a pierce of this I can become that, then so be it." *inject* "Amen."
It reminds me of the feelings that come with being nonbinary and admiring/wanting to be agender or genderfluid - believing that if any prononoun can be accepted then things would be easier, and that the feeling of wrongness that comes from merely being percieved will vanish.
Sure-sure, it's about humanity, but those themes already go hand in hand when Alucard's "lack" of humanity is tied to being free from gender restrains.
It's not a hard leap to make.
Anderson also has this intersex daughter who is somehow one of the least traumatized characters in the anime (pre-Event that is...) despite being, y'know, Catholic. Was still put into Iscariot (the organization for the Catholic rejects), but is a respected member of this group, dresses as a priest, takes the title of sister, had top surger(/hj), and NONE of this is ever questioned by anyone.
Which I bring up purely because closeted, nonbinary, Father Anderson being supportive and providing a safe space while remaining in the closet makes my heart cry:
+shout out to Anderson telling Alucard to keep being shameless.
It's not uncommon for amab people to maintain a masculine image, especially if there are people who depend on them or struggle be heard without their aid. And Anderson being the owner of a Catholic orphanage for kids abandoned by their faith, really has far too much responsibility to consider coming out.
Thus, save it for the death speech confession to the agender vampire.
Okay, I've got too many works in progress... Do I finish the older ones that are closer to done, but out of date with my current writing style (potentially requiring servere rewrites), or do I focus on the newer ones that will take longer, but are easier to write?
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