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🍌 - What drew you into the fandom in the first place?

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🍌 - What drew you into the fandom in the first place?

See, I’ve been in this fandom for a quite a while & got into it for a collection of reasons; so there’s actually a lot of explanation behind it at this point — story time, yeah?

Let me take you back, all the way to when I was notably younger & even more stupid. I had already been through Hell in life by that point, and much of the situations hadn’t come to any real ‘close’ yet. It’s not too long after a messy, complicated, upsetting break up — though I struggle to call the situation a “relationship” looking back on it now. I’ve recently ‘ghosted’ my original Tumblr accounts, in the hopes of entirely restarting & avoiding some other personal bullshit that had went down. Life is weird.

So my eldest brother hits me up, asks if I wanna go to an anime convention with him & spend a couple weeks out of state, at his place, with himself and his girlfriend. Of course I agree; he’s a wonderful guy, he hasn’t been out of the Navy long at this point, and I’ve missed the Hell out of him. Besides, it’ll be my first con! My first time getting a chance to cosplay! That vacation as a whole, is still one of my favorite memories; it’s definitely one of the best ones from that time period in my life, to say the least. But the weekend of the convention, that’s where Hellsing comes into the story.

It’s Thursday night and we are all fucking exhausted, hanging out in the hotel room the night before the con starts. In classic con fashion, we are unprepared & my brother’s cosplay isn’t entirely finished. His wig will not cooperate to save our lives. It’s like 2am, we’re hyped up on a collection of con-crunch nerves, not-great hotel coffee, and energy drinks. It’s a wreck, but everyone’s having a blast. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t really be helping much, but like Hell was I going to sleep when there was so much going on. So my brother loads up YouTube on his phone, and tells me to watch this series.

It’s the first few episodes of Hellsing Abridged. From moment one, I was in love with it, and my sleep deprived ass couldn’t stop laughing. My brother’s laying on the floor off to my side, his girlfriend is still trying to figure out what to do about the wig situation, and I’m on the ground - cackling at this damned abridged series. And… for the first time in ages? Everything’s okay, everyone’s happy, and it feels like life might finally be looking up. It was a moment.

After that vacation, when I got back home, I did exactly what you’d expect. I immediately got settled to binge-watch Hellsing Ultimate. And let me tell you, I fell in love with the characters all over again. After that, I immediately watched the Gonzo anime too. I was getting everyone I knew, to watch these series with me; my father’s seen the entirety of them both, twice, because I asked him to.

Between how much I adored the series itself, how hopeful that moment in the hotel had left me, and how many ways that I ended up relating to some of the characters traumas… It wasn’t just an anime that I adored; it was coping, it was finding a silver lining in life, it was finding ‘imaginary friends’ for a traumatized teenager that hadn’t known I needed them.

When all was said and done, I added some Hellsing muses to my multifandom multimuse that I’d been writing on back then. I think my mains were Alucard, Seras, Schrodinger, and the Captain, at the time. From there, I made some damned good friends, and… Well, the rest was history, for a little while.

You would think that this would be where the story ended, but it really isn’t. While this tells the tale of me getting into Hellsing, having Hellsing muses, and being a part of the fandom, it wouldn’t be genuine to say that it’s the end of the story. After all, this was a long while ago, and it doesn’t tell you how I got from there, to here. And let me tell you? There’s a lot more that’s happened, there’s far more reasons for why Hellsing is so close to my heart now, and life was definitely not done going to Hell.

But I do believe that this has answered the actual question: what got me into the fandom originally, that is. It doesn’t explain how I got here now, by any means, but that wasn’t the question & this has already gotten pretty extensive.

If anyone wants the rest of the story? Let me know. I’d be more than happy to tell the rest of it, as I think it gives a lot of context to myself & how I operate in the fandom. But I don’t wanna spam the dash with a story nobody wants to hear, either.

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