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duhragonball · 3 years

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Hellsing Liveblog Ch. 82-86

LIKE A BLOODY STORM

Atsuku LIKE A BLOODY STONE

So it’s come to this. This is the “Black Onyx” arc and “Sorcerian Part 1″, where we finally get the payoff to the Major’s 55-year plot against Alucard. Walter betrayed Integra, the Hellsing Organization, and the whole United Kingdom just so Millennium would give him a chance to beat Alucard, and he’s failing. Alucard doesn’t see any point in dragging this out, so he’s sucking up all the fresh blood in London to power up and bring and end to this. Also, if you’re just joining us, Alucard looks like a 14-year-old girl. Just roll with it.

But the Major was counting on Alucard doing this, and apparently his plan to “poison the tyrant’s wine” involves his last henchman, Warrant Officer Schrodinger, cutting off his own head and adding his werewolf blood to Alucard’s meal. Why would this matter at all?

Walter seems to understand, because he begs the Major to stop this, as if the Major could.

Desperate, he bisects Alucard with his wires, but it’s already too late for that. Part of the secret behind Alucard’s invincibility is that he gains a 1-up for each person’s blood he consumes. That’s what Anderson and Walter were banking on when they attacked Alucard before. At the time, he had separated himself from the souls he had consumed, which meant that killing him once -- however tough that might be-- would finish him off. But now it’s too late for that. You kill him now and he’ll just come back and dare you to keep going. And he’s taken the blood of like three million people at least.

So the Major observes that Walter’s window of opportunity has closed. According to him, there’s only been two chances to beat Alucard in a fight since Abraham van Helsing captured him in 1898. I assume he’s referring to Anderson and Walter’s respective efforts.

No, Walter was never the final stroke in the Major’s plan, just part of the endgame. All of Millennium’s resources were sacrificed to get to this moment. Enrico Maxwell’s 9th Crusade? The Major was counting on them getting involved, which is probably why he leaked and shared so much of his plans with the Vatican, even though his target was always London. He wanted the Vatican to send all their best warriors to compound the horror, all so Alucard would use his full power to destroy them.

And then, once Alucard’s full power was deployed, the Major knew Anderson would step in and use everything at his disposal to kill Alucard. This battle destroyed all of Alucard’s familiars, setting him up for Walter to take a turn. And maybe Alucard could beat Walter without taking in more blood, but that;s never been Alucard’s style. He sees himself as a loaded weapon at the disposal of Integra Hellsing. He’s not going to drag things out for no reason, and Integra ordered him to destroy Walter, not humor him.

And maybe Walter was aware of all this, but he still believed he could buck the odds and kill Alucard before the Major’s winning move. Walter’s a rook who fancied himself a king. I guess that’s always been his problem. This was never Walter’s story, and I guess he couldn’t handle that truth. If he couldn’t be the hero, then he was content with being the villain, but in the end he was never more than a plot device, supporting whichever side he was on at the time.

And finally, it happens, whatever ‘it’ is. Alucard somehow hears the Major saying that he’s lost. Is the Major saying it? I don’t think anyone else would be. Whoever it is, he starts flashing back to all the other times he’s heard that.

Then he seems to realize something’s gone terribly wrong, and he pauses to notice the rising sun, which has been a common theme with all of his past defeats. Then all these eyes appear on his body and begin winking out, one by one.

Okay, so what the hell happened here? Well, get comfortable, because this is going to take some time to unpack.

The key to all of this is Warrant Officer Schrodinger, a werewolf with the power to be “everywhere and nowhere”. This sounds like he’s just a teleporter, like Nightcrawler from the X-Men, or.... Majik from the X-Men. Well, it’s more complicated than that.

Let me explain the “Schrödinger's cat” thought experiment, because that’s one of those things that’s widespread enough in pop culture that it’s easy to take for granted. I think people understand it has to do with an imaginary cat being alive or dead, but that’s about all.

The really short version of quantum mechanics is that subatomic particles don’t behave the same way as big objects like apples or planets or people. It’s convenient to think of atoms as tiny little solar systems, with electrons orbiting the atomic nucleus. But the reality is that electrons don’t revolve around elliptical orbits like the Earth around the Sun. What happens instead is the electron zips around the nucleus all over the place, from all angles and directions. What’s more, the electron can be at any particular spot at any moment. So it’s less useful to think of an electron having an orbit around a nucleus. What you have instead is this region where the electron is most likely to be at any particular moment. And you can do the math and figure out what the shape of this region is. You can’t locate the electron’s exact position at any particular moment, but you can consider the region where it’s most likely to be in an atom, which will resemble a sphere or a vaguely dumbbell kind of shape.

This is what the Schrödinger Equation is for. Erwin Schrödinger didn’t just talk about cats all day. He postulated his equation in 1925 to work out the movements of electrons in atoms. It was groundbreaking work, and he won a Nobel Prize for it in 1933, and don’t feel bad if you have trouble wrapping your head around all of this. I’m a professional chemist and a lot of this is over my head.

The point of the “Schrödinger's cat” concept was to help visualize how confusing quantum mechanics really is. There are principles to subatomic particles that we know to be true, but they make no sense in our macroscale world. For example, a particle might have a probability of being in multiple locations at a given moment. It can only be in one place at a time, but until you actually perform the measurement to find out, it may as well be in all of those locations. This is something called “superposition”, and I guess we could say that this idea is the basis for our wolfboy’s powers.

So Schrödinger (the scientist, not the furry) suggested a thought experiment where a macroscale event could depend upon a subatomic condition. Like there’s some subatomic thing that could happen or not happen, and depending on the outcome, it would cause a poison to be dispensed that would kill a cat in a box. If the particle goes one way, the cat dies, but if it goes the other way, the cat survives. But both probabilities are equal, and supposedly both outcomes are true for the particle until you make the observation. Therefore, you can’t know whether the cat lived or died until you open the box to look! Indeed, according to quantum mechanics, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead until you open the box to see for yourself.

How does that make any sense? Well it doesn’t, and that’s the point Erwin Schrödinger was driving at. In our large scale, things like gravity and being one place at a time are things we take for granted. But on the quantum level, subatomic particles are governed by rules that seem completely paradoxical to us. And yet, we’re not talking about some alternate reality here. Those subatomic particles make up the atoms that make up us. Cats, boxes, bottles of poison, they’re all just a huge pile of subatomic particles, each following these seemingly nonsensical rules. They’re just organized in such a way that they give rise to bigger rules that make more sense to us. Things like classical mechanics, chemical reactions, cats liking to be inside boxes, and so on. As Erwin Schrödinger put it:

“It is typical of these cases that an indeterminacy originally restricted to the atomic domain becomes transformed into macroscopic indeterminacy, which can then be resolved by direct observation. That prevents us from so naïvely accepting as valid a "blurred model" for representing reality. In itself, it would not embody anything unclear or contradictory. There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks.”

In other words, we see the world as discrete outcomes. We read the black letters on the page, and not the indeterminate spaces in between, or the hazy, unfinished thoughts of the writer. That doesn’t mean the words on the page aren’t legitimate, or that the passing thoughts of the writer don’t exist. We have to accept the seeming contradiction of it.

So what does this have to do with Alucard? Well, Schrödinger (the furry, not the scientist) has the ability to be like one of these subatomic particles. Our were-boy probably can’t be literally everywhere, but he has this probability region of places where he can be, and it seems to cover at least half the world. He’s appeared in Brazil, London, Zorin Blitz’s psychic visions, and so on. He’s been shot twice in this story, but he just reappears like nothing happened to him at all. It’s not like he teleported away in the nick of time, either. We’ve seen his head burst open like a ripe melon. Like Schrödinger’s cat in the thought experiment, he can be alive or dead at any given moment, so killing him doesn’t actually matter. Warrant Officer Schrödinger can do all of this and he’s conscious of this ability. So as long as he’s aware of himself, he can observe himself and direct himself to be in any location he so chooses.

I would think getting shot in the face would interfere with this ability to control his power, but that’s probably where his werewolf nature comes in. Like the Captain, he can grow back from a nasty headwound, so that gives him time to picture himself someplace else, and in better health. Now that I think about it, that must have been a silver knife he used to cut his own head off.

So when Alucard drank all that blood, he drank Schrödinger’s too, and just like when he drank Rip van Winkle’s blood and got the power to fire that magic musket, Alucard absorbed Schrödinger’s ability to be “everywhere and nowhere”. Except that power only works when Schrödinger himself is conscious of it. And he’s not conscious of it anymore because he’s part of Alucard now. Alucard might figure out how to control this power, but until he does, he can’t choose a location and be in that one place. Instead, he’s “everywhere and nowhere” all the time. So he’s experiencing all of his past moments simultaneously, with no control over his current position.

That sounds bad, right? Well it gets worse. He drank all those other dead people’s blood too, so on top of his own perception, he has the perceptions of all 3 million plus of the souls he’s consumed. So that just further complicates matters. The bottom line is that Schrödinger’s ability is fundamentally incompatible with Alucard’s existence as a composite being made up of multiple absorbed lives.

And since Alucard can’t just cough up Schrödinger’s blood, it’s too late now. He’s got Schrödinger’s ability and he’s stuck with it, but he can’t control it, which means he just winks out of existence. As the Major puts it, he’s now neither live nor dead nor undead. He’s become like a series of imaginary numbers. You’ll need to look that one up on your own time, folks, I spent enough time talking about quantum mechanics.

And you have to hand it to Kouta Hirano, this is a really clever way to bring down an overpowered seinen manga protagonist. This whole time, all of these lower villains acted like they could just beat down Alucard if they applied enough brute force, but that was never going to get the job done. For the purposes of this story, Alucard has been, almost by definition, unbeatable. So the Major’s solution was to give him a new power, one that he would be unable to control. It wouldn’t kill him, but killing Alucard seems like a fool’s errand anyway. Instead, it just... makes Alucard go away, which is probably as close to destroying him as anyone could ever hope for. He might still be alive in some semantic sense, but he can’t carry out his duties to Hellsing and the Crown, so the Major seems to have at least brought down what Alucard is expected to be.

And there’s no way to stop it, because it’s already happened. Integra commands him to stay, but it’s useless. I like the way he signs off in the dub of the OVA, where he apologizes to Integra and says this is one order he cannot obey. It’s just out of his hands.

Then he vanishes, and all that’s left of Alucard is a bloody mark on the street, shaped like the Hellsing insignia on his gloves.

Wait, so does this affect Seras too, since she was Alucard’s servant vampire? Remember, way back in Chapter 1, Integra said that killing the head vampire would automatically kill any ghouls or vampires he creates. So maybe Seras is gone too?

Hell naw. Seras joins Integra in the Major’s command center, and she looks like she’s ready for some revenge. Does she know what’s just happened? I mean, she was furious at the Major to begin with, but she sensed Alucard’s return a while back when he floated up the Thames River. Surely she sensed her own vampire dad winking out of existence.

Meanwhile, Walter had a front-row seat for Alucard’s disappearance. At first he laughs with triumph. I guess he must be giddy with relief, since he wanted to kill Alucard, and for a minute there it looked like Alucard had him dead to rights. Imagine a guy’s about to murder you and then he just ceases to exist. But it doesn’t take long for Walter to realize how hollow this all is. He wanted to kill Alucard himself, and he bet everything just to get that one opportunity, and now he’s failed and he’ll never get another chance. His body is giving out and he’s betrayed everyone who ever cared about him and he’s got nothing to show for it.

Then Heinkel starts shooting at him with a sniper rifle. Yeah, she never left the battlefield after Walter killed Yumiko. The Captain stopped her from interfering before, but the Captain’s dead now and I guess she figures she’s got nothing to lose by trying again. And I suppose the sniper act proves she’s learned from Yumiko’s fatal mistake. Attacking Walter up close is dangerous.

At first, Walter seems to invite this. He even invites Heinkel to shoot him a few more times, as it’s a fitting punishment for a traitor. If you’ve only seen the TFS Abridged version of Hellsing, they actually use this as Walter’s death scene, but in the original version Walter takes a few bullets and then leaves. He says Heinkel can shoot him, but she doesn’t get to kill him. I don’t think she even heard him say that, but whatever.

Instead, he uses his wires to board the Major’s airship one last time.

So remember how the Major was protected from Integra by a reinforced glass barrier? Yeah, well Seras finds an 88mm cannon and shoots through it. It also shoots through the hull of his ship and rings a large bell on the outskirts of town. Right before she shoots, Integra orders Seras to “Search and Destroy” just like she always told Alucard. It’s kind of sad, but Seras has automatically succeeded her master as Integra’s weapon. I mean, it’s a triumph for Seras, but it comes at a heavy price for her. She’s probably too enraged by what’s happened to appreciate this moment on all these other levels, but there’ll be time for that.

So there’s no way the Major could survive a cannon like that at pointblank range, right? Wrong, the dude’s a fucking cyborg, and I guess Seras’ aim was a little off. I suppose the downside to using big-ass guns is that you have trouble aiming at small targets. Wait, no, what happened to all that “third eye” stuff from before? What’s wrong with you, Victoria?

Oh wait, she missed because she’s sad. Aw... :`(

So we knew the Major had to be something to have survived this long without aging, but we had already learned he wasn’t a vampire. He insists that he is still human, however, no different from a man with a pacemaker or an artificial limb. His mind remains his own, even if it should be a brain in a life support system or backed up on a computer. I’m not sure if either of these describes the status of the Major’s brain, but to his point, it doesn’t really matter. He describes himself as Alucard’s polar opposite. While Al is this beautiful monster who masquerades as a human, the Major is a human who resembles the grotesque form of a monster. I’m not body-shaming the dude, I’m just reporting what he’s saying. He’s taken a few fat jokes in stride, and I guess he’s got the same attitude about his cyborg body too. He doesn’t seem to care if others find this unpleasant, because it’s better than being a vampire with a diluted self.

Arguably, this whole campaign to destroy Alucard was the Major’s effort to prove his claim on being human. Alucard often said that only a human could defeat a monster like him, and the Major beat him, so doesn’t that prove he’s a human in the end?

So Integra whips out her other gun, the one she didn’t use to shoot at the Major’s glass case, and they start shooting each other at pointblank range. The Major’s a terrible shot, though, and yet somehow he manages to take out one of Integra’s eyes before she puts a bullet in his forehead. I still don’t understand how you can shoot someone in the eye and not kill them. Did the bullet just angle away from her brain or is the Major’s gun just really weak on stopping power?

Anyway, Integra’s shot kills the Major, but not right away, so I guess it’s not just his original brain in there. He’s just thrilled to have finally hit something after a lifetime of terrible marksmanship. It’s a fitting reflection of his win over Alucard, because he and the rest of Millennium were warriors who had never won a war before. In the end, I’m not sure the Major would have been disappointed if his plan had failed. He’d never won before, so I don’t think another defeat would have bothered him much. As it is, he dies contentedly, satisfied with his “good war”. What a shithead.

So yeah, we’ve got three more chapters to go and then we’re done. See you next time.

#2021hellsingliveblog #hellsing #alucard #seras victoria #sir integra hellsing #walter c dornez #the major #heinkel wolfe #warrant officer schrodinger #erwin schrödinger #uh... yeah #that's everybody #starting to run a little low on characters now

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millennium-headquarters · 5 years

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Vacation headcanons

The Major

• first of all needs a lot of convincing to take a vacation.

• like, why should he when he could plan the next war?

• but once you get him to partake, ohh be prepared my child

• will spoil you rotten. Of course, you would get to choose the location. You want a beach in Hawaii? Booked. Want to relax in a hottub? He will rent the whole spa. Boy doesn’t know where to stop

• 10/10 vacation partner. Will enjoy himself almost everywhere as long as good food is provided and you are there with him

• could end up a bit awkward tho the captain might come with him to keep a close eye on him so uhhhh jesus christ Hans stop staring

• his vacation of choice: A nice remote beach with a fancy hotel where the both of you can spend a wonderful week or so

Doc

• what is a vacation and why should he participate

• convincing him to take time off is dare I say almost impossible

• he could work in his lab, why should he sit and burn alive at a beach when he could work in his lab?

• the most you will get out of him is reading some books together or cook, because he will complain the whole time if you drag him somewhere

• movie night is also appreciated. He might be a bit fidgety at first but it will eventually stop when it gets interesting

• his vacation of choice: as mentioned above, not too into it. Prefers to spend time in the base and do something with you (like cooking or experimenting on subjects while he explains to you what he is doing) oh Doc no ew please don’t do that I’m sure this person would like to keep their stomach intact NO WAIT

The Captain

• enjoys some time away from work because almost everybody is constantly annoying him

• not a whole lot of action, no crowded beaches or something like that, no no no he will turn on his heels and go back

• loves going for long walks. Hiking might be a good idea if it is a remote path

• if you visit a cold place, he will either wordlessly hand over his coat to keep you warm or turn into his wolf form and let you cuddle up

• conclusion: big mute husband is great for vacation and also very warm in case you need a heater

• his vacation of choice: A hiking trip in the bavarian forest. Big woods, not too many people, hiking paths and you to keep him company, everything he could want out of a vacation

Schrödinger

• lord help me with this child

• he has so much energy. Expect a lot of amusement parks and watch him jump around like a damn rubber ball

• he is so happy you choose to spend time with him tho, so he randomly tackles you into the ground to rub his face all over yours

• has a difficult relationship with water. Shallow water alright, he will walk around in it. But actually go for a swim? Nope. His tail and ears puff up. Don’t try him, he might scratch you

• knocks out like a light once you get home, but will end up clinging to you like a baby koala if you decide to lay next to him

• his vacation of choice: an amusement park with lots of roller coasters, trampolines and other stuff to keep up with his energy. Also, watch him shove so much candy down his throat that he gets an upset stomach

Zorin

• yeah sure she is up for it, but like most others doesn’t want a lot of stress and shit

• is completely fine with just laying on the beach and watch you search seashells or stuff

• she is so pretty in a swimsuit why is she so pretty someone call 911

• likes to visit some museums if you want to tag along

• will completely destroy everybody who challenges her in any kind of way to, vacation be damned. A match of beachvollyball? Poor teenage boys oh god Zorin stop please one of them is already bleeding and the others aren’t even moving anymore

• someone talks shit in a museum? Watch her destroy them with facts.

• Some creepy old dude catcalls you? Pray. Pray for his soul and his body because she wont go easy on him, like hell is she going to watch someone destroy your good mood

• Protective wife. Can and will rip peoples eyeballs out if they stare at you for too long while you wear short summer clothing

• her vacation of choice: a small beach and/ or a museum, she is content as long as you are aswell and wont force you to listen to history facts if you would rather run around a beach

#hellsing #hellsing doctor #hellsing major #hellsing warrant officer schrödinger #hellsing the captain #zorin blitz #millennium headcanons #hellsing x reader

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carnstein · 3 years

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Major, you're such a meanie. You bring a whole army with you - but really, they're nothing but kindling for your own personal bonfire.

Warrant Officer Schrödinger

#schrödinger #quote #hellsing

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fragenherrdoktor · 4 years

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WE HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT JAN.

Got two asks about The Valentine Bros, figured why not do them together. Although they show up in all three Hellsing versions, we honestly don't know much about them at all (like everyone else, lol). So again, this is mostly speculation.

In all renditions, Jan refers to the Konami code. This makes me believe that Jan (and Luke) has done his fair share of killing before being turned and views their new powers as a hack or the ultimate cheat code. That and Jan's probably spent some time crushing old school game titles on the SNES.

I don't think they are related, but brothers in arms.

Their nationality is never revealed, but considering they never use British slang like some members of Hellsing Org or have German accents like the other Millennium members (minus Alhambra), we can assume they aren't English or German. I've always imagined they are American and get an intense Miami, Florida vibe from them. Luke feels like he has the whole Miami Vice look going on. Jan reminds me of early rappers like Crew 2 Live, but then he also has some Gopnik flavor with the tracksuit (and there’s a big Russian community in Florida), so idk, maybe that's just me seeing what I want to see.

I feel like they got their start dealing guns and drugs, mostly coke because that was super big in the 1980s. They met in Florida (Miami/the Keys) and bonded (Luke as the suave frontman and Jan as the insane backup) eventually moved south of the border into Central America and beyond when things got too hot in the States. The brothers probably ran with some cartels before being found by Alhambra. Live fast die young is written all over them (and is true even after they're turned lol).

I feel like the brothers were some of the last of the bootleg vampires made, probably sometime in the late 80s. I imagine Alhambra was their first point of contact and introduced them to Millennium, and they brought the bros on as souped-up guns for hire. ie. We give you immortality and a squad of ghouls if you go in and try to destroy The Hellsing Organization, deal?

Luke has a higher rank; he's a warrant officer like Schrodinger. I feel like Luke was granted a more elevated status because he's a suave yes man and a "class A vampire" (which sounds more like a meat joke given how he becomes dog food), and titles seem to mean more to him, given his speech to Alucard. Jan appears to care faaaar less about rules, titles, and just wants an opportunity to cause bloodshed. I also feel Luke's rank is a nasty joke by the Major? Warrant officers are capable troops, but in Millennium, they seem to function mostly as messengers, given how Schrödinger is used. The brother's goal is to destroy Hellsing in their initial attack, but they end up being Millennium's first messengers in a sense when they fail and start to clue Hellsing Org in on the masterminds who orchestrated the attack.

Jan asks if the ghouls can be trusted before their attack. This makes me think that the brothers don't know the full extent of their powers or Millennium's abilities that well (more recently made) and that Jan doesn't trust their handlers completely. Luke has no such concerns; he's 100% after the glory of facing and killing Alu.

Both the brothers seem briefed on what Alucard is and about Hellsing Org, given how Luke insults Alu enough to get him to yell "Silence" by calling him Hellsing's pet. Jan also comes to grips with the fact that their attack ends up being a suicide mission/testing Hellsing’s defenses pretty quickly, and is one of the most together villains when dying. He just casually flips them the bird while bursting into flame. I don't think Major expected them to succeed (if they did, great; if not, time to move on to the next plan). That and the fact that the brothers were so pumped up (like Luke thought he was on pair with Alucard when he is sooooo not) is another example of Major keeping all his troops on a need-to-know basis.

#Hellsing #Hellsing Ultiimate #Hellsing manga #jan valentine #Luke Valentine #analysis #Headcanon #asks #formaberserkir #thank you for being patient #millennium

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valentines-wh0re · 2 years

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Rip Van Winkle Headcanons.

Rip has ADHD. She DEFINITELY has it. This is coming from someone with ADHD. Her obsession with Der Freischütz, The imattentive behavior she showed in The Dawn’s manga, her jumpy/hyper personality says it all. And her suddle moodswings. That too. Yes, ADHD can come with Moodswings.

With that being said, i think she has PTSD, definitely. I think because of the thing with Major’s Fear Mongering (Talking about how Der Freischütz ends and what not and comparing it to how she may end.) Also her involvement in the war probably made her into a more sturdy person. I feel like she has a hard time sleeping at night, and usually has to take Meletonin or sleeping pills before bed to help her.

Rip’s bangs if unslicked, cover her face. Zorin does this to taunt her or tease her and she and Zorin argue afterwards.

A bit of self projection, but i like to think Rip Van Winkle is chubby. I see her a bit more on the pudgy/chubby side. Her body type is the plus sized Pear shape or hourglass shape. She is not fat-fat(Like me lmfao), but she is chubby.

Freckles on her chest, belly and back, along with around her butt and arms and legs.

Rip is a demisexual panromantic. Enough said.

#hellsing #hellsing ultimate #hellsing fandom #rip van winkle #hellsing headcanon #hellsing millennium #the major #luke valentine #jan valentine #zorin blitz #the doctor hellsing #hellsing the dawn #tubalcain alhambra #headcanons #captain hans #warrant officer schrödinger

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grxnsekxtse · 6 years

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A very descriptive and detailed profile of your muse. Repost with the information of your muse, including headcanons, etc. If you fail to achieve some of the facts, add some others of your own!

NAME: Finnian “Finni” Schrödinger.

AGE: [REDACTED]

SPECIES: Human Paradox.

GENDER: Male, though he has no strong attachment to said title.

ORIENTATION: [REDACTED]

INTERESTS: Knives, cats, mathematics, and war.

PROFESSION: Warrant Officer, Oberscharführer, and Messenger of Millennium.

BODY TYPE: Petite and very underweight. Schrödinger was malnourished during his youth, and was unable to grow into a healthy boy before his being sealed with immortality.

EYES: Blue Pink.

HAIR: Platinum blond and quite unruly.

SKIN: Pale white.

HEIGHT: 4′8″ | 142 cm

WEIGHT: 95 lbs | 43 kg

COMPANIONS: Avondale Napyeer, The Major, Hans Günsche, Tubalcain Alhambra, Zorin Blitz, Rip van Winkle, Jan and Luke Valentine, and a large number of ghouls and artificial nazi vampires alike.

ANTAGONISTS: Her Majesty’s religious organization, Hellsing, as well as the Vatican (especially Section XIII).

PET PEEVES: Interruptions and mollycoddling.

COLOR: Magenta and tan.

SMELL: Dust, fur, and sugar.

FRUIT: Apples!

DRINK: Cream Soda.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES?: yes [] || no [x] || occasionally []

FAVORITES: N/A

SMOKES?: yes [] || no [x] || occasionally []

DRINKS?: yes [] || no [x] || occasionally []

DRUGS?: yes [] || no [x] || occasionally []

DRIVERS LICENSE?: yes [] || no [x] || verse-dependent []

#check meowt [ about schrödinger ]#[ about ]

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herushingu · 6 years

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(Since phone wont post gifs for some reason, E V E R, going to reblog this with said gifs--and it better work!!)

#hellsing #millennium #mad major #warrant officer schrödinger #doktor #captain #hula #gif #fanart #||#midipostz #fnrt #clrz #lulzy #milmnz #gifz

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duhragonball · 3 years

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Hellsing Liveblog, Chapters 20-24

By garn, it’s been a while. This ‘ere’s the “Age of Empire” arc, followed by two one-offs, “Call to Power” and “Ultima Online”.

Last time, Hellsing sent Alucard, Seras, and Pip Bernadotte to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to find out more about Millennium. But Millennium was expecting them, and sent Tubalcain Alahambra to attack Alucard almost as soon as he arrived.

Recall that the only reason Hellsing knew to check Brazil was because of a tip offered up by their Catholic counterpart, Vatican Section XIII, the Iscariot Organization. Iscariot knew about Millennium because they had discovered that the Vatican had helped them move men and materials out of Nazi Germany and into South America. Which brings us to this chapter, which is a flashback showing how Iscariot found out in the first place.

The date on this chapter really helps me understand all of this, because when I watched this scene in the anime, I thought it was taking place in the present. But no, this is set back in July, barely a week after Seras became a vampire. Note that Bishop Maxwell already knows a great deal about this by this point. He’s not talking to this guy to learn more, he’s confronting him about the crimes he’s already discovered.

This rando bishop he’s talking to was one of the guys who helped Millennium during World War II. He claims to have been deceived, but Maxwell knows the truth: that he and the others helped Millennium because they knew they were secretly researching vampires, and wanted in on some sweet, sweet vampirism.

This is a recurring theme in Hellsing, where Millennium gets a lot of help from various patsies by promising to make them immortal. Dandyman got all those SWAT team guys to help him by promising immortality to their superiors, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Dandyman himself was just a rube that joined Millennium thinking it was a path to greater power, when in fact they only sought to use him as a test of Alucard’s abilities. And so it was with the treasonous bishops in the 1940s. They helped Millennium move to South America, but their research in Europe was destroyed by Hellsing during the war. And the above page shows us our first look at young Walter, before he retired to the life of a butler.

And now we see Heinkel Wolfe, the star of “Cross Fire”, Kouta Hirano’s three-issue manga about gun-toting assassin nuns. “Cross Fire” was featured as backups in the first three collected volumes of Hellsing, which works out nicely, so we can recognize Heinkel as she debuts in this story. She executes this bishop for his unspeakable crimes against the church.

And really, it is a pretty horrific thing that this guy did. I mean, I thought about it the other day, how this guy’s pretty high up there in the ranks of the Catholic church. He doesn’t just go to Mass on Sundays, he’s devoted his whole life to the faith, and then he just turns his back on it as soon as there’s a hint of a chance that he could become an immortal vampire. And then it falls through, so he spends the next several decades just sort of hoping no one will find out what he did. It’s a pretty dark thing, though it’s easy to overlook in a whole series of dark moments.

Back in Brazil, the news media and authorities still can’t make any sense of the Alucard/Dandyman battle. Alucard and his pals escaped in a news chopper and Al must have hyp-mo-tized the pilot to cover their tracks.

Meanwhile, the mysterious guys who were watching the Dandyman from afar, well they head back to their secret lair. The Major is the guy in the glasses, and the Captain is the guy in the big coat. There’s also the Doctor, who sort of defies description, but we’ll deal with him later. It was the Major who ran the vampire research project back in the 1940s, and the Doctor who conducts all the research. The Doctor had been pretty confident about all the powers he gave to the Dandyman, and was dismayed to see Alucard defeat him but the Major doesn’t mind at all, because he’s got plenty more vampires to throw at this particular problem.

They board a blimp, the Graf Zeppelin III, bound for Jaburo, Brazil. I looked up the Graf Zeppelin to understand the reference, and it turns out the first two were aircraft carriers, not blimps. These were planned during the 1930′s as Nazi Germany began to re-arm for World War II, but by the time the war actually started, Hilter had lost interest in the project, and the German Navy focused instead on U-boats. Both Graf Zeppelins were left uncompleted, so maybe this blimp is named after them as a reference to abandoned Nazi projects that could be revived somehow. As for Jaburo, I looked that up and only found references to the Gundam franchise, so I’m pretty sure this is just a fictional town.

Meanwhile, Alucard and his team check into a motel, and he calls home to report that he successfully absorbed Dandyman’s memories when he killed him and drank his blood. He now knows everything Dandyman knew about Millennium. Integra orders him to return to London immediately, as the Queen of England herself wants to know what’s going on here. Al wants to know if Tegs enjoyed all the violence he caused in Rio, but she’s like “stfu.”

Up to now, Seras and Pip had been scouting around, trying to find some way to get out of the country, but there’s no planes and no ships available. They were, at least, able to bring back some McDonald’s. Wait... MacDooolnald’s. See? Giorno drives his vampire dad to MacDooolnald’s, but Seras goes out and gets it and brings it back for Alucard, because theirs is a much healthier relationship.

But Al wants to steal a plane. Pip and Seras don’t take this well, but now I finally see why Al is suggesting this. He was ordered to return home at once, so this seems like the only way.

Then Alexander Anderson shows up and starts punching the shit out of Al, because why not?

Everybody draws their badass weapons to escalate the fight, including Seras, who picks up her giant cannon, but Anderson just thinks it’s funny, and it snaps him out of his fightin’ mood long enough to explain why he’s here.

Seems the Vatican wants to get Alucard back to London as well, so they sent Anderson to tell them about a private plane they arranged just for this purpose.

Meanwhile, in Jaburo, the Major reports back to his “superiors”, but he refuses to explain what he was doing in Rio. The Major claims he’s under special orders from Hitler, and these orders supersede all other command structures. Basically, all these colonels and generals have little choice but to sit back and watch Millennium operate without them. The Major gives them only a thin veneer of respect, and barely at that.

Enter Zorin Bltz, a lieutenant in Millennium, who explains it neatly for the reader. The Major set up all this Millennium stuff after the war, only for these other officers to show up on their doorstep later, probably seeking refuge in the postwar world. They know there’s vampire stuff going on here, and they want to be vampires too, but the Major isn’t interested in that. I guess he figures if he turns them into vampires, they would try to pull rank on him.

But the old timers are also extremely curious about the Major’s goal. He’s used the research to create a thousand vampire soldiers, but what for? The Major explains that he’s out to “savor the joy of war.”

Let me pause here to talk about werewolves. Millennium also has at least two of those: the Captain, and Chief Warrant Officer Schrödinger. As he returned to Jaburo, the Major asked Schrödinger about “the other werewolves”, and he said they would be along shortly, but we never actually see those guys. Unless Zorin Blitz and Rip van Winkle are supposed to be werewolves, but I’m pretty sure they’re not.

On the plane ride back to England, Alucard has a dream, reliving his defeat at the hands of Abraham van Helsing a century earlier.

In London, everyone’s waiting for him to show up, including representatives from the Vatican. Heinkel wonders if maybe Anderson flubbed his mission to give Alucard the plane, but Maxwell explains that they had to send Anderson to Brazil, because he knows Anderson is loyal to a fault. If they sent just any old operative, there’d be too great a risk of that guy defecing to Millennium for a taste of that sweet vampire power.

Then Alucard finally shows and pays his respects to the Queen of England. Let’s face it, this is Elizabeth II, I don’t care how the art hides her in silhouette. This story depicts her as being such an old woman after all this time, but it’s 2021 and she’s still alive today. Alucard praises he beauty. I get the impression he finds human aging to be something precious in his eyes.

Alucard explains what we’ve already been over: That Millennium is the new name for the culmination of that Nazi vampire research project in the 1940s. Alucard and Walter put an end to the project in 1944, but the Major somehow escaped and kept going.

Then Schrödinger appears in the room, to the shock of everyone. He claims that he is “everywhere”, a talent which allows him to show up anywhere in spite of security. He claims to be an envoy from Millennium, and sets up a Zoom call with the Major.

Basically, the Major declares war on Hellsing and Great Britain, and on Alucard specifically, by name. He has no goal, which is basically another way of saying that he wants to fight war for its own sake. There’s no strategic objective to any of this. The Major finally has his army of vampire soldiers, and now he wants to take them out into the field and see what they can do.

Oh, also he has his “superior” officers brutally executed on the video feed, which seems kind of dumb, since neither Hellsing nor Iscariot knew about any of those guys. Ties things up nicely for the reader, I guess.

Alucard is overjoyed at the prospect of destroying the Major all over again, and Integra orders him to kill Schrödinger while Seras shoots the Major’s iPad. Then QE2 orders Integra and Alucard to destroy Millennium, like they hadn’t already been workin on that.

And yeah, there we are.

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millennium-headquarters · 5 years

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Like home

Schrödinger x Reader fluff

“You smell like home”

You raised your eyebrows in surprise.

“Like home?”

“Mhmm”

The vibration of his hum of agreement buzzed trough your body. Your hand met the soft surface of one of the catboys ears, gently stroking it. He nuzzled into the palm of your hand, seeking more contact. His eyes were closed, and his lashes fanned against the skin of his cheeks like feathers. He was obscenely beautiful.

“What does home smell like?”

His eyes opened, and the brilliant magenta was met by your own eyes. He looked so content while laying on top of you.

“Home smells like..” Suddenly, a wave of sadness washed over his face, eyes becoming distant and empty, reliving things he didn’t want to remember. A shiver ran trough his body, as you tightened your grip around him.

“It used to smell like smoke and ashes. Back in world war 2...”

“I smell like smoke and ashes?” you asked jokingly offended, knowing that this wasn’t what he meant. It was best to distract him from thoughts like these as soon as they occurred, otherwise it would most likely end up with him sulking for the next two days.

His brows furrowed and he shook his head quickly, his fluffy hair tickling your neck in the process.

“Nein nein, you smell like my new home.”

“So I smell like cleaning supplies and new furniture?” A small, childish laughter echoed in your ears as he shook his head again.

“You smell like Y/N” he finally said, settling his chin on your upper body. He smiled up at you as you reached for his head again, massaging his scalp with your fingers.

“And what does Y/N smell like?” Smiling back, you brushed trough his hair, marvelled at its softness.

“Like home!” You snorted and rolled your eyes at his grin.

“We aren’t making much process here Schrödinger”

He wiggled his eyebrows at you, still grinning.

“Maybe I need to tickle the answer out of you!”

“Nein!” Shrieking, he tried to push you off, but it was to late. You had effectively pinned him down and began to attack the sides of his ribcage, resulting in a fit of laughter. Squirming around under you, he tried to get out of your iron grip but without much effect.

All of the sudden his body disappeared and you flopped face-first down onto the mattress.

Raising your head to eye the boy who was now sitting on the sofa across the room, you huffed in expatriation.

“Get back here you little-” you pushed yourself up to move over to the sofa, but he had already teleported again with a squeak as soon as you moved.

Scanning the room to find his new hiding spot, you were met by the tip of an ear peeking out behind the curtain. You coughed loudly.

“Oh no, I sure wonder where he is now”

Tiptoeing to the hiding boy, you grinned as you saw the whole curtain move as he tried to contain his laughter.

You yanked the curtain open and grabbed his arm, pulling him into a tight hug.

“No more teleporting” His pupils were blown wide from excitement and he smiled back sheepishly.

“Entschuldigung”

“Don’t say you’re sorry if it’s not true. Now get back on the bed, I want to cuddle”

He quickly obliged and the both of you soon laid together on the bed once again, your eyes closed. Your arms held him tight against you as you basked in each others embrace.

Your nose nudged against the back of his neck, making him giggle. Teasingly, you blew a little bit of air against his skin. The corners of your lips curled into a smile as his ears twitched. Pressing a quick kiss against the nape of his neck and allowing your head to fall back onto the mattress, you raised your voice.

“You smell like chocolate.” A quick pause enabled you to feel him pressing his back into your frontside a little harder, his tail curling around your waist.

“And sweat.” You deadpanned, snorting as his body went rigid in response, showing his embarrassment. Recovering from the small shock he quickly whipped around, a blush forming high on his cheeks.

“Mean!” A childish pout settled on his face, making him even more adorable.

Chuckling, you pressed a affectionate peck on his nose. “But it’s true”

He rolled his eyes at you and settled his face against your collarbone, still silently pouting.

“….you smell like vanilla”

Puzzled, you tried to get a look on his face but he hid by pressing it on your chest.

“How does your new home smell like vanilla?”

He moved his head and blinked up at you yet adverted is eyes as he spoke the next sentence, blush intensifying of his features.

“You are my new home”

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