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It had been years since the battle of Incognito caused chaos in England, the Incident almost completely forgotten in the minds of the people and even in the Hellsing agency.
Almost.
The Hellsing Agency had been restored to its former glory as The Queen herself had been put under threat only a year or so before. A FREAK that had managed to weasel its way inside the Royal palace almost succeeded in assassinating Her Majesty, causing a panic and the look for help in such matters to be sought once more. Though aside from the Vatican's Iscariot Organization, there was no Institution that was trained under such things.... Except for Hellsing.
So here he sat, alone within the dark confines of his bedchambers once more as after a few nights of hunting the Vampires and FREAKS ceased their barrage of Ghouls and returned to hiding. However, it was not easy to force such a large number back into hiding, considering they had run a muck for nearly four years, believing themselves to rule England.
That was until he made his reappearance.
Chuckling to himself, Alucard's tall gauntly form removed itself from the dark cherry wood chair that he was often found in, sipping his glass of blood wine... A-. Phasing through the walls of the Manor, he appeared in the kitchen behind the old steward Walter. Before letting himself be known, Alucard began to reflect... Age was taking its toll on The Angel of Death before him, his body no longer as strong as it had once been. It pained him to think that in due time his old friend would be gone from this earth, leaving him to care for Seras and Integra alone, he knew deep within his black little heart that none would ever be able to replace Walter in respect and friendship, not to mention battle. Crimson gaze softening at these thoughts, Alucard did something he hadn't done in a long time, he sat down his glass of blood wine and stepped closer to Walter, large gloved hand falling to rest on his shoulder softly.
Walter simply smiled, knowing Alucard was there all that time, though unsure as to why he hadn't said or done anything. It took him by surprise when Alucard's hand rested on his shoulder, a gesture they hadn't done since they both were in much younger years. Walter slowly reached his hand up to rest it upon Alucard's, head turning to look at him over his shoulder through his monocle. "This old dog won't be put down anytime soon." Alucard grinned, his eyes flaring their proud crimson once more as he nodded, moving his hand away, how odd it was that they knew each other so well telepathy wasn't even needed anymore...They just "sensed" each other.
Alucard moved to look out the nearby window as Walter returned to preparing dinner for Integra, head tilting upwards to look upon the full moon that was displayed so beautifully in the nights sky above.
-Such a Fine Night..-
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History (According to Wikipedia.com)
According to Hellsing canon, Alucard was born in the winter of 1431 as Vlad III Dracula, the son of Vlad II Dracul. He became known as Vlad Ţepeş ("Vlad the Impaler"), and as Kazıklı Voyvoda ("the Impaling Prince") by the Turks. He lived and reigned intermittently as the Voivode of Wallachia until his death in 1476, at the age of 45. The circumstances of his death and vampiric transformation are shown in chapter 70, but how he became a vampire is unknown. The Ottoman Empire captured him as a child and he was sodomized by an unknown ruler. When he became the voivode of Wallachia, he launched a war on the Turks which devastated both sides. Eventually, his troops were defeated, his people killed (many by his own hands), and his homeland set ablaze. Vlad himself was to be executed. Before he was beheaded, he drank of the blood from the battlefield and became a true vampire. Accepting the powers of darkness, the cross he had always carried with him shattered.
Centuries later, in 1893, the events of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula unfold. Abraham Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and Jack Seward (Jonathan Harker is not mentioned) defeated Vlad (then known as Count Dracula). In a flashback dream sequence, Abraham remarks that Mina was freed from the Count's grasp, just as she was in the novel. It is at this point where Alucard's backstory begins to deviate from Bram Stoker's novel. The Count was staked in the heart, but not destroyed. It is unknown if he was forced into servitude or if he was willing. Either way, the Count became a servant for Abraham and his descendants.
The next account of Alucard's life is during World War II, in 1944. Integra's father, Sir Arthur Hellsing, gave him the name Alucard. He, along with a 14-year-old Walter C. Dornez, were sent to Warsaw, Poland, to stop Millennium's vampire production program. The results of this mission are yet unknown, as it is recorded in the ongoing prequel to Hellsing, Hellsing: The Dawn. In 1969, Arthur imprisoned Alucard in a dungeon in the Hellsing manor, as Arthur came to believe that Alucard was "too powerful a drug to be used as more than the occasional medicine". Shortly after Arthur's death in 1989, Alucard was awakened and resuscitated by Integra's blood when she came to his cell seeking refuge. After 20 years of imprisonment, Alucard saved Integra (then only 12 years old) from her traitorous uncle, Richard, and became her servant.
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Vital Stuff (Once again credit to Wikipedia)
Powers and abilities:
Alucard demonstrates a range of supernatural attacks, including:
* Immortality: like other vampires, Alucard is immortal in that he does not age. It is also nigh-impossible to injure him in any way that actually compromises his health.
* Regeneration: Alucard's ability to regenerate is greater than any other vampire's in Hellsing, and may be due to the Hellsing family's experimentation. He has regenerated from a pool of blood and from being shredded by gunfire.
* Superhuman senses.
* Incredible accuracy: Alucard can hit targets at great range using handguns while looking the other way.
* Superhuman strength: Extent is unknown, but Alucard can physically rip humans apart with ease.
* Superhuman speed: He can move faster than can be seen.
* Intangibility: The ability to pass through solid objects.
* The ability to defy gravity to an uncertain limit. He leaps impossible distances and can travel up vertical surfaces.
* Manipulation of shadows into physical form.
* Shapeshifting: Alucard can transform himself or parts of himself into bats, insects, snakes, hellhounds, other human forms including a little girl, and an amorphous mass of darkness. He has four known human forms each with different characteristics. He seems to be able to harden his body to such a degree that he can shred Alhambra's cards with ease (these cards could cut through cannon shells with impunity).
* The ability to control the weather to an unknown limit, as demonstrated when he covered all of Dover in fog while aboard the H.M.S Eagle.
* Teleportation
* Telekinesis: In the TV series, Alucard lifted a FREAK chip and loaded the Jackal and pulled its slide mentally. In the manga, Alucard psychokinetically shut and locked a door to prevent the escape of a police officer.
* Telepathy: In the anime, Alucard can speak telepathically to anyone he chooses, but in the manga, his telepathy appears to be limited to his fledgling.
* Mind reading: In the television series, Alucard can read the mind of anyone he chooses.
* Mind control or hypnosis (fans sometimes call it the "sex beam" after a remark from Pip).
* Summoning familiars, the souls of those whose blood he has sucked either sprout from his body or swarm about him as an army numbering in the thousands. These familiars can include animals such as horses and the weapons and abilities that the familiars possessed in life. This ability can only be used when his last seal is released. This storing of souls may be the primary reason for Alucard's apparent immortality. According to the last chapter, Alucard possessed 3,424,867 souls after the Millennium attack, and has since killed them off.
* The ability to absorb a person's soul through their blood and consequently gain their knowledge and memories. He can also absorb blood through his clothes and skin.
* Hibernation: Alucard survives long periods of time without consuming blood. After absorbing Schrödinger, he eats nothing for 30 years but appears perfectly fine upon his return, albeit hungry.
* Apparent immunity or great resistance to the weaknesses most vampires possess. He is not compromised by sunlight or silver. It appears that the only weapons capable of harming him to any real extent are the most holy of Christian artifacts, such as Father Anderson after augmenting his abilities with Helena's Nail.
* The ability to sense supernatural activity (In The Dawn Alucard knew the Captain was a werewolf the moment he saw him).
* Centuries of combat experience. While he usually relies on crushing his opponents with sheer power, he does at times use strategy. When he fought Alhambra, Alucard used shadow duplicates to distract him, allowing Alucard to close the distance between them and deliver the deathblow.
Weapons:
While Alucard is a lethal combatant unarmed, due to his supernatural abilities and strength, he usually relies on his two signature weapons, a pair of oversized and overpowered handguns named the .454 Casull and the Jackal.
* Hellsing ARMS .454 Casull Auto - The size of this semi-automatic pistol is debated as either 29cm or 39cm in length. The Casull's size makes it too heavy and unwieldy for a human to use, yet a perfect match for Alucard's strength. It fires custom-made explosive .454 Casull rounds, with the steel bullets bearing a core made from the melted silver Christian cross from Lancaster Cathedral. One estimate places the number of rounds in the magazine to be around fifteen, based on counting the number of rounds fired before reloading was required. For that to be the case, the magazine would have to be double-stack. Such would pose issues stemming from the physical features of the .454 Casull round such as the incredibly large dimensions of the grip and reliably feeding rimmed ammunition from a box magazine which is an issue even with single-stack magazines. In addition, neither the weapon nor its grip is depicted as being particularly wide when compared to the barrel. Thus, the weapon most likely has a single-stack magazine meaning a capacity of 7 rounds as seen in other .45-caliber handguns with single-stack magazines such as the M1911 and SIG P220. There is no official magazine capacity. Although Alucard has reloaded it several times throughout both the manga and anime, Hirano has joked that "They're all cosmoguns that can hold a million rounds". This is evidenced in the first OVA, where Alucard takes out a large group of ghouls without reloading. One plausible explanation is that as the Casull is clearly custom-made, it would not be unreasonable to assume that it has an enlarged capacity. It can also be argued that he reloads it "off-screen" or too quickly to be seen.
* Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto Anti-Freak Combat Pistol 'Jackal' - With a length of 39 cm (Almost 1' 4"), weight of 16 kg (35.2 lbs), and made of black gunmetal, it is not a weapon a human could even hope to wield, but as Walter noted, "It was never meant for a man." It fires special 13 mm armor-piercing, explosive, Mercury-core baptized bullets, with casings of Macedonian silver, powered by "Marvell's Chemical Cartridge N.N.A.9." It has six rounds per magazine. It was designed almost exclusively as a weapon against Iscariot's Alexander Anderson, who shrugged off the Casull rounds with ease. The words 'Jesus Christ is in Heaven now' are engraved upon it, similar to a statement on Anderson's gloves. The weapon does have a pistol slide; there appears to be none since the entire upper assembly is the slide, and moves only a minimal distance (relative to the gun's length). The Jackal's ejector port is at the left-hand position (ejecting towards the left), suggesting it is meant to be used in conjunction with the Casull.
Release states:
Alucard's powers are controlled by the heir to the Hellsing family (currently Integra Hellsing). This is apparently enforced by a "control art restriction system." There are six known levels of restriction and six corresponding states, with lower numbers representing greater levels of power. Under certain circumstances, Alucard can release some of his greater powers himself; a component of his restriction system called the "Cromwell Approval" seems to influence this ("Cromwell" probably relating to Oliver Cromwell, an English military and political leader). He can lower his higher-numbered seals at will, to an extent. He sometimes states which level he is releasing immediately prior to combat ("Releasing control art restriction to level two"). This may be a requirement of the release mechanism or a ploy to unnerve his opponents, but it has never been confirmed. In the manga, Integra requests that Alucard's restriction system be released to Level Zero, allowing him full access to his most devastating powers. In the series' final episode, Integra gives him permission to release to level one, where he dons a red straitjacket-like garb. In the manga he wears a black leather jumper instead.
"Releasing Control Art Restriction Systems three...two...one, approval of Situation A recognized. Commencing the Cromwell invocation. Ability restrictions lifted for limited use until the enemy has been rendered silent."
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OOC and Notices:
Please bare in mind that a lot of these abilities and power levels will be restrained, not used and/or modified so as to make Alucard a more reasonable character to play. The above information is for Canon purposes and for those who don't know who Alucard is.
Alucard will likely be played a bit more Out of character then he would normally be seen in the Manga and Anime not only in technicalities but in personality as well so that other characters can be approached.
I
Loathe Powerplayers and Godmoders, so please keep in mind that despite Alucard being a seemingly Godmoding character, he will not be played as such.
The below scales are set for Alucard as a Predator, if you would like something feel free to ask and I'll likely oblige so long as its within reason. Sorry Ladies and Gents, but Alucard is Pred only and will -never- be prey.
