hello, I’d like to introduce you to a project I’ve been working on in collaboration with my dear @severniyalen23 - Hellsing Swap AU. we really fell in love with this universe, it felt like a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stagnant hellsing fandom.
we'd be delighted to hear feedback from the community. we're not trying to box anyone in, we're simply sharing our interpretation of how we see SWAP AU. you're free to do whatever you want, come up with your own alternatives, or build on ours. if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them!
Hellsing HC: Walter's Parents & the Millennium Project
Walter Dornez is the only child and only son of Rosanna and Christaan Dornez, two renowned agents of Hellsing's sister organization, The Harker Foundation.
Rosanna Seward is the youngest and only daughter of Dr. John Seward and the only Seward to pursue the family's external trade: vampire hunting and weapon crafting.
Determined, stubborn, and sociable. Known for her temper, quick tongue, and inability to sit still. Talented pianist and wild child.
Rosanna was a sister figure to Arthur and Richard, growing up close together with the other progeny of the Crew of Light generation. She and Arthur were very close and got along really well - always up to no good and eager to take up their parents mantels.
She is the first Seward to perfect the Monofilament Wires, technology developed by her father and the Hellsing Organization. She also developed the early sketches for many of Hellsing's other technologies such as different blessed bullets, armaments, and defense mechanisms.
In 1927, Rosanna was sent to Amsterdam to study with the Harker Foundation. Under the tutelage of the Harkers and their son Quincey, she became an effective vampire hunter and anti-vampire strategist.
While there, she meets Christaan Dornez.
Christiaan Dornez is the triple-life chauffeur of the Harker Foundation. Chauffeur by day, vampire hunter by night, and eavesdropper and espionage expert all the while, Christaan is a high value worker.
Gentlemanly, a man of few words, and arresting presence. A hunger for justice, righteousness, and peace at any costs - the end justifies the means.
Christaan is Dutch and from Maastricht, Netherlands. His family is very well and alive, his father is a former priest and his mother is a school teacher. He has seven brothers. From youth, he has always been a spearhead for justice and venegance, making him a dangerous character to tick off despite his cool demeanor.
Using his chauffeur front, Christaan does a great deal of espionage and spy work for the Harker Foundation on both vampiric and mortal threats.
He primarily uses sniper fire and/or handheld blades to do his vampire hunting.
He is missing two fingers: the pinky on his left hand and the ring finger on his right.
Rosanna & Christaan
Together, they made quite the effective duo of agents for the Harker Foundation. They handle a lot of the field research collection and eradication stakeouts, curtailing the vampiric threat in northern Europe.
Rosanna decides to stay in the Netherlands with Christaan and the two get married in 1929. Their son, Walter, is born in 1930. Rosanna retires back to a strategist while Christaan continues to work with the Foundation's field agents.
They raised their son in Amsterdam and with a relatively normal childhood, embracing a very traditional family structure backdropped by Monofilament Wire exposure, family history, stories of the world beyond the veil, and visits to his grandparents and their friends.
By May 1940, the invasion of the Third Reich was in full force. Christaan and Rosanna had joined the Dutch Resistance, working in resistance measures close to the Raad van Verzet (RVV) and the Harker Foundation had stayed behind to defend their country. The Foundation and Dornez family fled to Rotterdam as the situation worsened.
May 1940, the bombing of Rotterdam eventually pushed them out. The Harker Foundation splits, sending its weakest, wounded, women, and children out of the country to England in the final push. Rosanna takes 10 year-old Walter with her, leaving Christaan behind, and arrives at Hellsing's doorstep a refugee.
However, unable to fight her sense of justice or the abandonment of her husband and team, Rosanna leaves Walter a ward of Hellsing and returns to the Netherlands, smuggled back in through Foundation and Hellsing avenues.
The Millennium Project
Contact with agents Rosanna and Christaan had become weak and intermittent while Walter trained at the Hellsing Estate as both a hall boy/footman and vampire hunter prodigy.
Arthur made it a personal mission of Hellsing to retrieve the Foundation's agents.
The remainder of the Harker Foundation eventually push into Central Europe and in the process, get the first inklings of the Millennium Project and the undead workings occurring under the Third Reich and the Special Order 666. This would be the Dornez' final mission.
The two, alongside many others, manage to steal important documents exposing the procedures, locations, and means of the Millennium Project, causing a fervent manhunt chasing them back to the Netherland border. The Harker Foundation was able to relay the information back out to Hellsing but all remaining members were arrested, imprisoned, and promptly executed by the Werwolves and Millennium's operatives.
The documents and information delivered to Hellsing became the crux of their Warsaw Operations and continental Europe missions to undermine Millennium.
Their bodies were never recovered and the Harker Foundation would not return properly to the Netherlands until 1947.
I headcanon that the Major is a total adrenaline junkie and loves rollercoasters while Dok is very adverse to death-defying experiences despite his scientific work...
