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CURRENT CHARACTERS: England (Arthur Kirkland), Tsuzuki
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Seras Victoria
CANON: Hellsing
CANON POINT:
CHARACTER AGE: 20 (Headcanon, not stated in text.)
HISTORY: Seras is the daughter of a police officer who gets gunned down after getting in too deep. Trying to hide young Seras in a closet, her mother is also killed, prompting her to try and attack the two men in a frenzy, getting one in the eye with a fork. They shoot her and throw her back against the wall in response and while Seras lays wounded she sees one of them (the forked one) rape her mother's corpse. After that, we know that she was put in an orphanage and had quite a bit of trouble there, getting into violent fights with the other children including one time when she thrashed a boy with a rock for grabbing a toy from her. When she got older, she joined the police force like her father, seeing it as the only path possible for her.
Her introduction to Hellsing comes when her squad is sent into the situation in Cheddar, England. A vampire posing as a vicar sets himself up and starts attacking the local villagers until a witness manages to testify to the police. The first ones who go in are all slaughtered. Seras' squad mostly faces the same fate, with her the only exception as she faces the ghouls alone, trying to escape and running for her life. She ducks into the church and the vampire catches her, saying he plans to rape her before draining her to make sure that she becomes a ghoul (vampires can only change virgins of the opposite sex, all others become mindless zombies under their control).
Alucard shows up to take out the vicar vampire, who shoots him up, but Alucard just gets back up and puts himself back together because he's baddass like that. Laughs at the vicar, who grabs Seras again as the only survivor to use her as a hostage. Alucard asks her if she's a virgin. When she says yes, he promptly shoots the vicar THROUGH her, leaving a big gaping hole in her chest, and takes out the vicar. Tells Seras she doesn't have long to live, and asks what she's going to do now? It's later hinted that she willingly let him change her in order to live. When he brings her back to base camp wrapped in a blanket, he says there were no survivors and when asked about her says that she's dead, making it no secret that she's a vampire now. Bit of a rough introduction to Integra. (There's a lot of yelling.)
Drafted into Hellsing now that she's a vampire, Alucard sets to training her to use her vampiric abilities to fight, beginning with being able to use her 'third eye' to shoot and hit at incredible distances. He shows her by hitting a target dead on at 500km away.
Her first mission is about a month after her changing, in which a vampire couple are slaughtering families in an attempt to make themselves more powerful. Seras is set on the roof to catch any escapes while Alucard goes right for the kill inside. He gets the male vampire, but the woman makes a break for it. Alucard orders Seras to shoot despite the quickly growing distance and darkness. She sinks into her new abilities and manages the shot, getting the woman right in the heart at least 600 meters away. It freaks her out, making her feel like she's becoming less human.
It's noticed that there have been a higher than usual number of vampire attacks in the UK, and that they've all been low class, new vampires. Like someone's making them on an assembly line. And thus there's another attack in N. Ireland that Seras and Alucard are sent into. After playing for a bit, Alucard sets Seras on the ghouls, commenting that she's better than he thought she'd be, but has to be for him to have made her a blood relative. Seras has to remind herself that the ghouls are no longer human in order to be able to fight them. She falls into a blood frenzy (much to his approval) and his about to drink a ghoul's blood when she gets stabbed through the throat from behind. Enter Father Anderson, who stabs her through with a bunch more knives. Alucard jumps in and shoots Anderson, going to pull the blessed knives out of Seras when Anderson gets up again and gives Alucard the same pincushion treatment before swiping off his head.
Seras takes advantage of the distraction to run for it, pulling the knives out herself by force of will, determined to report back to Integra about what happened. Anderson gives chase, throwing Alucard's head at her. She takes it and runs faster until it heats up and kind of melts into blood writing, giving her orders to drink his (Alucard's) blood and become a true vampire and member of the clan. Thankfully Integra arrives and orders Anderson to stand down because he's in treaty violation. He kills her guards and brags about killing her vampire. She laughs at him for thinking that taking Alucard's head off would actually kill him. Pretty much healed by this point, Seras jumps in to defend Integra from Anderson.
Alucard reforms his body and returns, much to Seras' relief, and Anderson leaves in a blast of holy warding papers. After a moment, events catch up to Seras and the stress makes her sick. Disappointed that she didn't drink his blood, Alucard refuses to use Seras' name, calling her Police Girl instead.
Because Seras refuses to drink blood, her bed is replaced by a coffin so her powers won't diminish, much to her horror, and she's ordered to sleep in it by both Integra and Alucard. Her protest against blood drinking is that she feels like "something will have ended" forever if she does. Of course, Alucard really doesn't think much of this and kind of sighs at her for it. In his own way. She's given her first specialty weapon by Walter, the Harkonnen 30mm cannon, which she's expected to carry.
While they're occupied underground and Integra meets with the Council of Twelve upstairs, Hellsing HQ gets some unwanted visitors in the form of Jan and Luke Valentine, two brothers under the orders of Millennium (more about them later) who bring a ghoul army with them. They lay siege to the manor, decimating the defenses and slaughtering everyone they come across. Seras and Walter go through the ventilation to reach the council chamber to defend them against the ghouls while Alucard goes on the offensive. They see just how much damage Harkonnen can do to a crowd, taking out large numbers of ghouls with each shot fired.
Catching him by surprise, Seras grabs Jan in a police grapple hold and it's let slip that they weren't expecting there to be another vampire there, just Alucard, so Jan brags his brother is taking out. He gets free and brings up a new wave of ghouls, created from the fallen Hellsing forces, going for the council door, to be met with gunfire from within. Fighting the new ghouls, Seras slips into a frenzy until Integra, unable to take the sight of her destroying her own men, grabs hold of her to snap her out of it. They don't get much out of Jan before he catches on fire and burns to a crisp, uttering the name Millennium. It's later connected to the Nazi party, in particular a group that Alucard and Walter destroyed fifty years before.
Integra is charged with putting the last ghouls out of their misery, as their deaths are laid on her head for failing to prepare for such an attack. A funeral is held to honor them, the deaths totaling 86 out of the 96 human members of the staff, Integra and Walter included. The only other eight survivors did so out of the luck of not being there that day. In other words, total decimation of their forces. Since moving that number of soldiers from the British military would be too noticeable, Walter hires a group of professional mercenaries called the Wild Geese, led by Captain Pip Bernedotte.
When the Geese are brought in and introduced to the fact that they'll be hunting vampires and monsters, Seras is used as proof and is rather predictably laughed at. To prove her case, she challenges Pip but is only allowed to flick him with her fingers. She does so, and the force throws him across the room, nose presumably broken. Alucard shows up in his own sweet time, coming through the wall and declaring that while Seras is on the bottom of the ladder vampire-wise, she is obviously one. Him, they're afraid of.
Some time after, Iscariot, the Catholic order that Anderson answers to, request a meeting at a museum (public place). Insults are traded and Alucard looms, so Father Maxwell calls for Anderson, which proves to be a mistake as they almost get into a fight despite orders otherwise until Seras comes in with a load of Asian tourists, making them both freeze. It works and they calm down enough to leave. Integra and Maxwell proceed with their meeting.
Seras is set to training the Geese to fight vampires and monsters and to say it simply things don't go smoothly. There's a lot of yelling as they insist that only a freak could shoot at those distances with small arms. She shows them how to do it, but hits as many of the wooden hostages as she does the enemy. Of course Pip also starts up with some rather perverted cadences, making her yell sexual harassment.
In order to get her across the ocean to Brazil, Seras gets nailed into her coffin since she's still too weak to go across running water on her own, much to her very vocal protests for most of the crossing until she falls asleep. She has a weird dream about the spirit of her gun that tells her that sorry, her life is going to continue sucking from this point on. Alucard wakes her up to show her that their hotel is completely surrounded by an army. They've been set up and blamed for a massacre in the hotel in the media, Alucard under his assumed name and Seras as an unknown female. When the soldiers come up, Alucard has Seras hide in a closet while he makes a bloody mess of them. Of course, when she comes out she sees all the bodies and protests that they were human. Alucard scolds her because human or monster, they'd come to destroy them and that makes them the enemy. Has her pulling long range back-up as he fights Dandy, a Nazi would-be monster. To get away in the end, the Geese hijack a news helicopter and get them away from the hotel to a small town a ways away.
They're in the process of deciding to steal a plane to get out of there when Anderson shows up (scaring the heck out of Seras) and gives them the location of a hidden airfield where a plane is waiting for them. They have a common enemy this time.
When they return, Integra, Iscariot, and the Queen are having a meeting about what to do with this new Nazi threat when they receive an unexpected visitor by Schrodinger, a Nazi werewolf who can be in any place at any time. He doesn't attack, acting only as a messenger for the Major, the leader of this whole mess, who kills the old officers who'd been piggybacking on his work for years on camera. He declares his intent for war and bloodshed to them joyfully. Furious, Integra has Alucard shoot the messenger, and then Seras the computer screen that Schrodinger brought for the call.
With the information they're given, Hellsing prepares for war. Integra gets Alucard a one-man fighter that he uses to meet the ship that Millennium has taken over, ramming his plane into it and killing the vampire Rip van Wrinkle. He drinks her blood and gleams all he can of their plans from her mind, reporting back to Integra.
With the mother airship flying over London to unleash a hell on earth, the smaller Millennium airships head towards HQ and gets shot down by Seras on the roof, wielding the Harkonnen II, an obscenely large piece of artillery that she's holding up. As the ship's coming down, Pip tells Seras to run but she faces it and destroys it instead, but Zorin and her men still manage to escape before it crashes. They take out the front lines, murdering and eating those they face until Seras kills them, furious at the deaths of their men.
She gets caught in Zorin's illusions, along with the Geese, seeing the vampire as a massive giant who slices the building down the middle with her scythe. But some instinct tells her that what she's seeing with her human eyes isn't real, and she snaps out of it, shooting Zorin and interrupting the illusion enough to free the Geese from it. Already though, the enemy is there and on them. Pip sends her forward to the front, Geese going on the defense, Seras equal parts terrified and pissed off at the attacking vampires.
The remaining Geese are about to be wiped out when Seras gets back to them just in time. Zorin drags her into an illusion again, this time forcing her to remember her time at the orphanage and the murder of her parents. She wakes as the other vampire cuts her arm off, using her scythe to then slice across Seras' eyes. She's about to take Seras' head when Pip stops her and grabs Seras, carrying her while he runs. He gets shot up by the enemy and Seras tells him to forget about her and escape, which he refuses to do. Zorin stabs him in the back with her scythe, delivering a fatal blow.
As he's dying, he finally manages to steal a kiss from her (not his first try) and tells her to drink his blood so they can take them together. Seras sobs over him once he's dead, and Zorin mocks her for it, calling him an insect and prepares to kill Seras too.
Turns out that was a bad idea. Seras snarls that she 'won't have it,' having Pip called an insect. She drinks Pip's blood, gorging herself and reforming her eyes and using blood and shadows in place of her missing arm. Seras says that she and Pip are going to attack together until they (Millennium) are beaten, and attacks. She destroys the other vampires, a monster in action that terrifies them and even Zorin, so different than she was before. Then she turns on Zorin, grabbing hold of her and swearing that she won't drink even a drop of her blood.
Zorin tries to get into her mind again, but is blocked by Pip's spirit until she's knocked out of his memories as Seras shoves her head into the wall, grinding it along until all that's left of her head is the area of skin around her ear where Seras was holding her.
The change freaks the remaining Geese out, but they aren't afraid of Seras, sending her off with a salute and the sense that their Captain is still there with her. She uses the shadow 'arm' as a wing to fly off into the dawn towards London, landing to protect Integra from the Iscariot agents who are about to capture her. Integra notes that she's finally become a full vampire and puts together the report of Pip's death to assume that she's drunken his blood. Anderson makes the observation that she's made herself something dreadful, and she says she has and now dreads nothing. She's no longer afraid of him.
They both realize immediately when Alucard has returned, the dead ship he crashed into floating up the river just like he did when he first came to London. Seras is given the order to kill all who oppose them. Coming onto shore, Alucard sends out rivers of blood he's drunk over the centuries, forming the souls of those he's eaten, including his own armies. He reforms himself back into Vlad Dracula to lead the army, coming to bow before Integra. Seras nervously welcomes him, unable to resist commenting on the mustache he's gotten from his original form. He gives her a fond pat on the head and finally calls her her name in approval.
Anderson attacks and he and Anderson turn to fighting each other, Seras standing as silent an dark witness. With Alucard's armies attacking as well, Anderson pulls out his trump card, a holy nail that he drives into himself, turning himself into a monster, much to Alucard's pleas for him not to that to himself. When it's too late, Alucard says that Anderson won't be able do defeat him now because only a human can defeat a monster.
The thorns that Anderson's half formed from now catch Alucard, drawing him into the memories of his beginning, when he was betrayed and brought to execution at dawn, with the sun rising like it was now. He almost lets himself die before he hears Seras calling out to him, finally jumping in to try and save him but getting caught herself, perhaps not as badly. He tells her to quiet down and frees himself, delivering a killing blow to Anderson. As he's dying (this seems to be a pattern in Hellsing), he tells Alucard not to cry for him. Alucard says goodbye to his beloved rival.
At the end of this oddly touching scene, Walter shows himself up, having turned traitor a long, long time ago. Fifty years ago in fact. Even though it clearly hurts her, Integra has to repeat the order to destroy all those who oppose them, no matter who it is. Even Walter.
Alucard tells Seras to go with Integra when the mother air ship lands. Turning to go, Seras thanks Walter for everything up until then and tells him to take care, getting the same back despite their position on opposite sides of this. Going up into the ship, they're welcomed by Schrodinger, who gets his head shot off... again, this time by Integra. They go further into the ship and Seras shields Integra from gunfire while taking out the vampires waiting for them inside, noticing that they're all dying with smiles on their faces. They wanted death, but only in a worthy fight so they couldn't kill themselves.
The werewolf Hans points out the way to the headquarters where the Major is waiting. They split up, Integra going to meet him while Seras fights Hans. Integra gives Seras the order that she's not to let herself die under any circumstances.
Facing Hans, Seras forms a new arm from the shadows to hold two weapons, fighting him with everything she has, but he's no slouch, taking on full beast form at one stage. He's strong enough that Seras nearly gives up before Pip's spirit snaps her out of it, telling her to get up and not give up. Many of the crates around them get broken open in the fight, spilling out things like coins and gold teeth, taken during the war, reminding them of just how much of a monster these people are. Hans even throws a silver tooth at Seras, giving her a weapon to kill him with. He wants to die. In the fight, Pip partially emerges from Seras' wounds and sends the tooth right back at Hans, taking him out. He dies with a childlike smile, like he'd had a 'splendid dream.'
Catching up to Integra, Seras is ordered to shoot the Major, bringing out the big guns when she runs into the trouble of the bullet proof glass he's behind. She busts through it, the Major injured in the process, letting them see that his body is a machine despite his declaration to be human and himself. Integra shoots him and puts an end to him. After sensing as Walter dies, Integra tells Seras to fly them out of there, and she does.
PERSONALITY:
Among all the seriousness and death that is the plot of Hellsing, Seras often is the character providing the comic relief, much to her despair. She has a bit of a silly sense of humor, calling Integra an iron woman at one point (like Margrette Thatcher) and pointing out Alucard's gaining of a mustache later on, and gets easily flustered and awkward when the situation isn't life or death.
Despite being a vampire, Seras clings stubbornly to her remaining humanity for most of the series, reluctant to drink blood, take human life, or embrace the new abilities she discovers after being changed. She tries to avoid drinking blood for as long as she can, Integra having to order her to do it, dangling a bloodied finger right in front of her. The earlier times that she goes into, for lack of a better word, bloodlust, she feels shaken after coming out of it and realizing what happened, thinking that she's becoming less and less human.
But the further the series goes, the more she adjusts to the changes, finally embracing it fully when she has the lives of Integra and the men in her hands. She's absolutely loyal to those she's sworn herself to, even though it cost her much. And one thing that she seeks from the beginning is the approval of her master Alucard, getting very flustered when he criticizes her and taking great pride when he finally shows his pride in her by using her name when they rejoin in the battle for London.
And of course, despite her sweetness and frankly adorable nature, one aspect about Seras that cannot be ignored is her temper. From the violent acting out in her childhood to the way she quite literally smears Zorin across a wall for killing Pip and calling him an insect, when she snaps she snaps. It's sent her into bloodlust a few times through the series from seeing her fellow Hellsing members killed and hurt, and into much less dangerous yelling fits with Pip early on in their interactions.
ABILITIES: Seras is a vampire. In the series, she's been shown to have obscene levels of physical strength and speed, fast recovery from things that would kill humans, can create new limbs to replace those lost, she and shoot long distances accurately, and fly. Some telepathy has also shown up, though that may be only with Alucard, and at the end of the series she's proven able to cover an entire manor in her shadows to protect it and those inside. She can break free from illusions, communicate with those she's eaten, and change her form (end of series, would need to work on this coming from her cannon point). As a cop, she also knows a number of grapple holds and strategies.
SINS & VIRTUES: Wrath, humility, kindness.
SAMPLES
Sample One
Seras may have been a vampire, with red eyes, an arm made of swirling shadows, fangs, and all, but even she wasn't used to seeing bats flying all over the place. The draculina stared as they fluttered about, one particularly friendly one taking perch hanging from the wall lamp just a foot from her and peering at her from over (under?) its folded wings. If she didn't know better, she'd have thought her master was having a go at her.
"I suppose they're sort of cute," Seras said to no one in particular, reaching up with her remaining hand to scratch its fuzzy head with the tip of a finger. It leaned into it, making the vampire smile.
Rest of thread.
Sample Two
She could really start hating uniforms. Really, she could. It'd taken Seras long enough to get used to the short skirt of her Hellsing uniform, but at least that had been snug and couldn't flip up. The ruffly mess she'd been brought to wear while helping with the dusting? Didn't have that advantage at all. And being up on a ladder to get the tops of the bookcases in the library just made things worse.
But the maids she was working with had decided that because she wouldn't get hurt if she fell off of said ladder, that it would be her area to work while they took care of the lower shelves and furniture.
It wouldn't have been so bad if the library hadn't been open. Her face burned beat red as one particular young man walked past her ladder, looking up towards the top shelves. For the third time. Enough was enough! "Would you stop staring already?! Your book isn't up here!"
And she'd thought the Geese were bad!
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Seras Victoria
CANON: Hellsing
CANON POINT:
CHARACTER AGE: 20 (Headcanon, not stated in text.)
HISTORY: Seras is the daughter of a police officer who gets gunned down after getting in too deep. Trying to hide young Seras in a closet, her mother is also killed, prompting her to try and attack the two men in a frenzy, getting one in the eye with a fork. They shoot her and throw her back against the wall in response and while Seras lays wounded she sees one of them (the forked one) rape her mother's corpse. After that, we know that she was put in an orphanage and had quite a bit of trouble there, getting into violent fights with the other children including one time when she thrashed a boy with a rock for grabbing a toy from her. When she got older, she joined the police force like her father, seeing it as the only path possible for her.
Her introduction to Hellsing comes when her squad is sent into the situation in Cheddar, England. A vampire posing as a vicar sets himself up and starts attacking the local villagers until a witness manages to testify to the police. The first ones who go in are all slaughtered. Seras' squad mostly faces the same fate, with her the only exception as she faces the ghouls alone, trying to escape and running for her life. She ducks into the church and the vampire catches her, saying he plans to rape her before draining her to make sure that she becomes a ghoul (vampires can only change virgins of the opposite sex, all others become mindless zombies under their control).
Alucard shows up to take out the vicar vampire, who shoots him up, but Alucard just gets back up and puts himself back together because he's baddass like that. Laughs at the vicar, who grabs Seras again as the only survivor to use her as a hostage. Alucard asks her if she's a virgin. When she says yes, he promptly shoots the vicar THROUGH her, leaving a big gaping hole in her chest, and takes out the vicar. Tells Seras she doesn't have long to live, and asks what she's going to do now? It's later hinted that she willingly let him change her in order to live. When he brings her back to base camp wrapped in a blanket, he says there were no survivors and when asked about her says that she's dead, making it no secret that she's a vampire now. Bit of a rough introduction to Integra. (There's a lot of yelling.)
Drafted into Hellsing now that she's a vampire, Alucard sets to training her to use her vampiric abilities to fight, beginning with being able to use her 'third eye' to shoot and hit at incredible distances. He shows her by hitting a target dead on at 500km away.
Her first mission is about a month after her changing, in which a vampire couple are slaughtering families in an attempt to make themselves more powerful. Seras is set on the roof to catch any escapes while Alucard goes right for the kill inside. He gets the male vampire, but the woman makes a break for it. Alucard orders Seras to shoot despite the quickly growing distance and darkness. She sinks into her new abilities and manages the shot, getting the woman right in the heart at least 600 meters away. It freaks her out, making her feel like she's becoming less human.
It's noticed that there have been a higher than usual number of vampire attacks in the UK, and that they've all been low class, new vampires. Like someone's making them on an assembly line. And thus there's another attack in N. Ireland that Seras and Alucard are sent into. After playing for a bit, Alucard sets Seras on the ghouls, commenting that she's better than he thought she'd be, but has to be for him to have made her a blood relative. Seras has to remind herself that the ghouls are no longer human in order to be able to fight them. She falls into a blood frenzy (much to his approval) and his about to drink a ghoul's blood when she gets stabbed through the throat from behind. Enter Father Anderson, who stabs her through with a bunch more knives. Alucard jumps in and shoots Anderson, going to pull the blessed knives out of Seras when Anderson gets up again and gives Alucard the same pincushion treatment before swiping off his head.
Seras takes advantage of the distraction to run for it, pulling the knives out herself by force of will, determined to report back to Integra about what happened. Anderson gives chase, throwing Alucard's head at her. She takes it and runs faster until it heats up and kind of melts into blood writing, giving her orders to drink his (Alucard's) blood and become a true vampire and member of the clan. Thankfully Integra arrives and orders Anderson to stand down because he's in treaty violation. He kills her guards and brags about killing her vampire. She laughs at him for thinking that taking Alucard's head off would actually kill him. Pretty much healed by this point, Seras jumps in to defend Integra from Anderson.
Alucard reforms his body and returns, much to Seras' relief, and Anderson leaves in a blast of holy warding papers. After a moment, events catch up to Seras and the stress makes her sick. Disappointed that she didn't drink his blood, Alucard refuses to use Seras' name, calling her Police Girl instead.
Because Seras refuses to drink blood, her bed is replaced by a coffin so her powers won't diminish, much to her horror, and she's ordered to sleep in it by both Integra and Alucard. Her protest against blood drinking is that she feels like "something will have ended" forever if she does. Of course, Alucard really doesn't think much of this and kind of sighs at her for it. In his own way. She's given her first specialty weapon by Walter, the Harkonnen 30mm cannon, which she's expected to carry.
While they're occupied underground and Integra meets with the Council of Twelve upstairs, Hellsing HQ gets some unwanted visitors in the form of Jan and Luke Valentine, two brothers under the orders of Millennium (more about them later) who bring a ghoul army with them. They lay siege to the manor, decimating the defenses and slaughtering everyone they come across. Seras and Walter go through the ventilation to reach the council chamber to defend them against the ghouls while Alucard goes on the offensive. They see just how much damage Harkonnen can do to a crowd, taking out large numbers of ghouls with each shot fired.
Catching him by surprise, Seras grabs Jan in a police grapple hold and it's let slip that they weren't expecting there to be another vampire there, just Alucard, so Jan brags his brother is taking out. He gets free and brings up a new wave of ghouls, created from the fallen Hellsing forces, going for the council door, to be met with gunfire from within. Fighting the new ghouls, Seras slips into a frenzy until Integra, unable to take the sight of her destroying her own men, grabs hold of her to snap her out of it. They don't get much out of Jan before he catches on fire and burns to a crisp, uttering the name Millennium. It's later connected to the Nazi party, in particular a group that Alucard and Walter destroyed fifty years before.
Integra is charged with putting the last ghouls out of their misery, as their deaths are laid on her head for failing to prepare for such an attack. A funeral is held to honor them, the deaths totaling 86 out of the 96 human members of the staff, Integra and Walter included. The only other eight survivors did so out of the luck of not being there that day. In other words, total decimation of their forces. Since moving that number of soldiers from the British military would be too noticeable, Walter hires a group of professional mercenaries called the Wild Geese, led by Captain Pip Bernedotte.
When the Geese are brought in and introduced to the fact that they'll be hunting vampires and monsters, Seras is used as proof and is rather predictably laughed at. To prove her case, she challenges Pip but is only allowed to flick him with her fingers. She does so, and the force throws him across the room, nose presumably broken. Alucard shows up in his own sweet time, coming through the wall and declaring that while Seras is on the bottom of the ladder vampire-wise, she is obviously one. Him, they're afraid of.
Some time after, Iscariot, the Catholic order that Anderson answers to, request a meeting at a museum (public place). Insults are traded and Alucard looms, so Father Maxwell calls for Anderson, which proves to be a mistake as they almost get into a fight despite orders otherwise until Seras comes in with a load of Asian tourists, making them both freeze. It works and they calm down enough to leave. Integra and Maxwell proceed with their meeting.
Seras is set to training the Geese to fight vampires and monsters and to say it simply things don't go smoothly. There's a lot of yelling as they insist that only a freak could shoot at those distances with small arms. She shows them how to do it, but hits as many of the wooden hostages as she does the enemy. Of course Pip also starts up with some rather perverted cadences, making her yell sexual harassment.
In order to get her across the ocean to Brazil, Seras gets nailed into her coffin since she's still too weak to go across running water on her own, much to her very vocal protests for most of the crossing until she falls asleep. She has a weird dream about the spirit of her gun that tells her that sorry, her life is going to continue sucking from this point on. Alucard wakes her up to show her that their hotel is completely surrounded by an army. They've been set up and blamed for a massacre in the hotel in the media, Alucard under his assumed name and Seras as an unknown female. When the soldiers come up, Alucard has Seras hide in a closet while he makes a bloody mess of them. Of course, when she comes out she sees all the bodies and protests that they were human. Alucard scolds her because human or monster, they'd come to destroy them and that makes them the enemy. Has her pulling long range back-up as he fights Dandy, a Nazi would-be monster. To get away in the end, the Geese hijack a news helicopter and get them away from the hotel to a small town a ways away.
They're in the process of deciding to steal a plane to get out of there when Anderson shows up (scaring the heck out of Seras) and gives them the location of a hidden airfield where a plane is waiting for them. They have a common enemy this time.
When they return, Integra, Iscariot, and the Queen are having a meeting about what to do with this new Nazi threat when they receive an unexpected visitor by Schrodinger, a Nazi werewolf who can be in any place at any time. He doesn't attack, acting only as a messenger for the Major, the leader of this whole mess, who kills the old officers who'd been piggybacking on his work for years on camera. He declares his intent for war and bloodshed to them joyfully. Furious, Integra has Alucard shoot the messenger, and then Seras the computer screen that Schrodinger brought for the call.
With the information they're given, Hellsing prepares for war. Integra gets Alucard a one-man fighter that he uses to meet the ship that Millennium has taken over, ramming his plane into it and killing the vampire Rip van Wrinkle. He drinks her blood and gleams all he can of their plans from her mind, reporting back to Integra.
With the mother airship flying over London to unleash a hell on earth, the smaller Millennium airships head towards HQ and gets shot down by Seras on the roof, wielding the Harkonnen II, an obscenely large piece of artillery that she's holding up. As the ship's coming down, Pip tells Seras to run but she faces it and destroys it instead, but Zorin and her men still manage to escape before it crashes. They take out the front lines, murdering and eating those they face until Seras kills them, furious at the deaths of their men.
She gets caught in Zorin's illusions, along with the Geese, seeing the vampire as a massive giant who slices the building down the middle with her scythe. But some instinct tells her that what she's seeing with her human eyes isn't real, and she snaps out of it, shooting Zorin and interrupting the illusion enough to free the Geese from it. Already though, the enemy is there and on them. Pip sends her forward to the front, Geese going on the defense, Seras equal parts terrified and pissed off at the attacking vampires.
The remaining Geese are about to be wiped out when Seras gets back to them just in time. Zorin drags her into an illusion again, this time forcing her to remember her time at the orphanage and the murder of her parents. She wakes as the other vampire cuts her arm off, using her scythe to then slice across Seras' eyes. She's about to take Seras' head when Pip stops her and grabs Seras, carrying her while he runs. He gets shot up by the enemy and Seras tells him to forget about her and escape, which he refuses to do. Zorin stabs him in the back with her scythe, delivering a fatal blow.
As he's dying, he finally manages to steal a kiss from her (not his first try) and tells her to drink his blood so they can take them together. Seras sobs over him once he's dead, and Zorin mocks her for it, calling him an insect and prepares to kill Seras too.
Turns out that was a bad idea. Seras snarls that she 'won't have it,' having Pip called an insect. She drinks Pip's blood, gorging herself and reforming her eyes and using blood and shadows in place of her missing arm. Seras says that she and Pip are going to attack together until they (Millennium) are beaten, and attacks. She destroys the other vampires, a monster in action that terrifies them and even Zorin, so different than she was before. Then she turns on Zorin, grabbing hold of her and swearing that she won't drink even a drop of her blood.
Zorin tries to get into her mind again, but is blocked by Pip's spirit until she's knocked out of his memories as Seras shoves her head into the wall, grinding it along until all that's left of her head is the area of skin around her ear where Seras was holding her.
The change freaks the remaining Geese out, but they aren't afraid of Seras, sending her off with a salute and the sense that their Captain is still there with her. She uses the shadow 'arm' as a wing to fly off into the dawn towards London, landing to protect Integra from the Iscariot agents who are about to capture her. Integra notes that she's finally become a full vampire and puts together the report of Pip's death to assume that she's drunken his blood. Anderson makes the observation that she's made herself something dreadful, and she says she has and now dreads nothing. She's no longer afraid of him.
They both realize immediately when Alucard has returned, the dead ship he crashed into floating up the river just like he did when he first came to London. Seras is given the order to kill all who oppose them. Coming onto shore, Alucard sends out rivers of blood he's drunk over the centuries, forming the souls of those he's eaten, including his own armies. He reforms himself back into Vlad Dracula to lead the army, coming to bow before Integra. Seras nervously welcomes him, unable to resist commenting on the mustache he's gotten from his original form. He gives her a fond pat on the head and finally calls her her name in approval.
Anderson attacks and he and Anderson turn to fighting each other, Seras standing as silent an dark witness. With Alucard's armies attacking as well, Anderson pulls out his trump card, a holy nail that he drives into himself, turning himself into a monster, much to Alucard's pleas for him not to that to himself. When it's too late, Alucard says that Anderson won't be able do defeat him now because only a human can defeat a monster.
The thorns that Anderson's half formed from now catch Alucard, drawing him into the memories of his beginning, when he was betrayed and brought to execution at dawn, with the sun rising like it was now. He almost lets himself die before he hears Seras calling out to him, finally jumping in to try and save him but getting caught herself, perhaps not as badly. He tells her to quiet down and frees himself, delivering a killing blow to Anderson. As he's dying (this seems to be a pattern in Hellsing), he tells Alucard not to cry for him. Alucard says goodbye to his beloved rival.
At the end of this oddly touching scene, Walter shows himself up, having turned traitor a long, long time ago. Fifty years ago in fact. Even though it clearly hurts her, Integra has to repeat the order to destroy all those who oppose them, no matter who it is. Even Walter.
Alucard tells Seras to go with Integra when the mother air ship lands. Turning to go, Seras thanks Walter for everything up until then and tells him to take care, getting the same back despite their position on opposite sides of this. Going up into the ship, they're welcomed by Schrodinger, who gets his head shot off... again, this time by Integra. They go further into the ship and Seras shields Integra from gunfire while taking out the vampires waiting for them inside, noticing that they're all dying with smiles on their faces. They wanted death, but only in a worthy fight so they couldn't kill themselves.
The werewolf Hans points out the way to the headquarters where the Major is waiting. They split up, Integra going to meet him while Seras fights Hans. Integra gives Seras the order that she's not to let herself die under any circumstances.
Facing Hans, Seras forms a new arm from the shadows to hold two weapons, fighting him with everything she has, but he's no slouch, taking on full beast form at one stage. He's strong enough that Seras nearly gives up before Pip's spirit snaps her out of it, telling her to get up and not give up. Many of the crates around them get broken open in the fight, spilling out things like coins and gold teeth, taken during the war, reminding them of just how much of a monster these people are. Hans even throws a silver tooth at Seras, giving her a weapon to kill him with. He wants to die. In the fight, Pip partially emerges from Seras' wounds and sends the tooth right back at Hans, taking him out. He dies with a childlike smile, like he'd had a 'splendid dream.'
Catching up to Integra, Seras is ordered to shoot the Major, bringing out the big guns when she runs into the trouble of the bullet proof glass he's behind. She busts through it, the Major injured in the process, letting them see that his body is a machine despite his declaration to be human and himself. Integra shoots him and puts an end to him. After sensing as Walter dies, Integra tells Seras to fly them out of there, and she does.
PERSONALITY:
Among all the seriousness and death that is the plot of Hellsing, Seras often is the character providing the comic relief, much to her despair. She has a bit of a silly sense of humor, calling Integra an iron woman at one point (like Margrette Thatcher) and pointing out Alucard's gaining of a mustache later on, and gets easily flustered and awkward when the situation isn't life or death.
Despite being a vampire, Seras clings stubbornly to her remaining humanity for most of the series, reluctant to drink blood, take human life, or embrace the new abilities she discovers after being changed. She tries to avoid drinking blood for as long as she can, Integra having to order her to do it, dangling a bloodied finger right in front of her. The earlier times that she goes into, for lack of a better word, bloodlust, she feels shaken after coming out of it and realizing what happened, thinking that she's becoming less and less human.
But the further the series goes, the more she adjusts to the changes, finally embracing it fully when she has the lives of Integra and the men in her hands. She's absolutely loyal to those she's sworn herself to, even though it cost her much. And one thing that she seeks from the beginning is the approval of her master Alucard, getting very flustered when he criticizes her and taking great pride when he finally shows his pride in her by using her name when they rejoin in the battle for London.
And of course, despite her sweetness and frankly adorable nature, one aspect about Seras that cannot be ignored is her temper. From the violent acting out in her childhood to the way she quite literally smears Zorin across a wall for killing Pip and calling him an insect, when she snaps she snaps. It's sent her into bloodlust a few times through the series from seeing her fellow Hellsing members killed and hurt, and into much less dangerous yelling fits with Pip early on in their interactions.
ABILITIES: Seras is a vampire. In the series, she's been shown to have obscene levels of physical strength and speed, fast recovery from things that would kill humans, can create new limbs to replace those lost, she and shoot long distances accurately, and fly. Some telepathy has also shown up, though that may be only with Alucard, and at the end of the series she's proven able to cover an entire manor in her shadows to protect it and those inside. She can break free from illusions, communicate with those she's eaten, and change her form (end of series, would need to work on this coming from her cannon point). As a cop, she also knows a number of grapple holds and strategies.
SINS & VIRTUES: Wrath, humility, kindness.
SAMPLES
Sample One
Seras may have been a vampire, with red eyes, an arm made of swirling shadows, fangs, and all, but even she wasn't used to seeing bats flying all over the place. The draculina stared as they fluttered about, one particularly friendly one taking perch hanging from the wall lamp just a foot from her and peering at her from over (under?) its folded wings. If she didn't know better, she'd have thought her master was having a go at her.
"I suppose they're sort of cute," Seras said to no one in particular, reaching up with her remaining hand to scratch its fuzzy head with the tip of a finger. It leaned into it, making the vampire smile.
Rest of thread.
Sample Two
She could really start hating uniforms. Really, she could. It'd taken Seras long enough to get used to the short skirt of her Hellsing uniform, but at least that had been snug and couldn't flip up. The ruffly mess she'd been brought to wear while helping with the dusting? Didn't have that advantage at all. And being up on a ladder to get the tops of the bookcases in the library just made things worse.
But the maids she was working with had decided that because she wouldn't get hurt if she fell off of said ladder, that it would be her area to work while they took care of the lower shelves and furniture.
It wouldn't have been so bad if the library hadn't been open. Her face burned beat red as one particular young man walked past her ladder, looking up towards the top shelves. For the third time. Enough was enough! "Would you stop staring already?! Your book isn't up here!"
And she'd thought the Geese were bad!
