#hellsing prototype manga

[loadinghellsing]

I GOT POSSESSED! Anyways, have some prototype Anderson art 😭

Additional headcanon (+Yumie/Yumiko) art beneath cut

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headcanon that Yumie is actually Kris's daughter (and maybe Anderson's. He don't know/knowing wouldn't change anything).

Listen to techno prince with the daughter :D

[mirthfulmoonshine]

I actually just fell SO MUCH in love with your take on Angel Dust because that's EXACTLY what would make this piece better! I'm a sucker for heartwarming relationships! I'm really looking forward to any content on them, be it sketches, thoughts, or anything else! Of course, I'm just saying this and not implying anything, just thank you so much for creating what you've created so far, and thank you for planning on doing more!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am so glad to hear it. :) These two and getting to explore a more mundane, hopeful story for them has been really fun and lowkey cathartic. Although it ends in tragedy (can't change too much.), I want Anderson and Christine's relationship to be two broken people at different stages of healing.

I have also made them both musically inclined. Instruments, singing, folk dancing - all that jazz. It just felt right. ♡

Some thoughts specifically on Anderson and Christine

I mainly want the story to focus around the impact Anderson and Christine have on each other, even if it is a more subtle adjustment to their characters within the story. Christine shows Anderson unabashed care and strong-willed compassion that encourages him to do what is right, avoid cowardliness, and aspire to protect these people. Anderson gives Christine a fresh start, someone who doesn't see her as just the small, incapable, scorned novice, stirring her to be forward, thrive more in her life, and stand by him even when things get dicey.

Christine does inevitably become more of an agent for Anderson's development and positive character arc, but she is still a distinct person with a backstory, issues, hopes, and dreams. Being a nun was never her first choice, but she delights in the Lord, so why not trust the process?

She is also incredibly observant. Christine clocks Anderson immediately as someone with ulterior motives and a secret. Rather than shaming him for it and pressing it out of him (for now), she shows him the compassion and tenderness he needs in that moment.

The Church of the Apostle of the Ardennes' true operation as an Iscariot safe house is not lost on Christine. Though she knows about Iscariot's surface level existence, she tries to stay out its way.

Hellsing shipping culture please don't kill me for this one -- Anderson's love life ends with Christine. Not only does he take on the oath of a priest, but the events at the Church leave him in a very "I have felt true love before and I will never feel it again" mentality. It is not a bad thing to him, rather a fleeting dream that he ought to wake up from.

Christine haunts the rest of Anderson's narrative, for better or for worse. She stirs up his love for caring for children and inspires the opening of Ferdinant Luke's in Italy. But she also haunts his perception on doing the right thing, no matter the cost, because he didn't take on the full cost before and it wounded him and others greatly.

I haven't written much of their interactions yet, it is all still rotting away in my head. But they're naturally friends, longingly something else. Maybe in another life, they would have had more.

Have some conceptual art I did for them ♡

[mirthfulmoonshine]

WHAT DOES BISMARCK HERING LOOK LIKE? Please tell me! Or show... 👁️👁️♥️✨

I can SHOW you! Kinda.

My rewrite’s Bismarck Hering is Montana Max just with a new name/more masculine design. (And I preferred that name out of the four provided upper echelon guys from the original source material.)

I describe him briefly in one chapter, but I intentionally want to leave his appearance a little up to the reader. Some things are set, written below. And he’s physically in his late 40s to early 50s. He also doesn’t appear much — serving more as a background plot-mover and instigator than an active antagonist like Flanders is.

My Angel Dust rewrite ENDS with the assault on the church/aftermath of all of that so there is no extended plot line that we see in the original source - mainly because I didn’t really care for where the plot went AND Anderson’s story arch about morality and redemption can be handled in a more subtle, ambiguously open way given this is a GLIMPSE into his life.

Anyways —

Bismarck Hering is a highly affectionate in a creepy mock-paternal way. Clasping in hand shakes for too long, wrapping an arm around one’s shoulders, patting one’s arm or face to punctuate a point, leaning in so that his breath cools the person’s neck or cheek. Proximity and intimidation are key for him. He knows he is domineering because so little is known about him and he keeps his closer circle tight knit and very protected. When he does put himself on display, it is often preceded or succeeded by immense, Bacchanalian level violence and debauchery.

He treats Flanders and Anderson like his sons, albeit from a distance — hence their industry alias “Sons of Hering.” He gives them special accommodations, higher pay, more dangerous jobs, and eventually an invitation into his vampiric lifestyle. He is a collector, an extravagant host, and an ardent sadist. His vampirism is often on the back burner, his personality and desires having not changed much since crossing the pale into undeath.

He also has a mistress in my story! She is his American, nouveau riche decorative piece. She doesn’t have a major role other than adding to Hering’s luxurious, indulgent way of living.

I hope this answered your ask adequately!!!! I’m so pumped to have someone be invested 😭🩵