Post by Dawn on Dec 20, 2009 3:46:10 GMT -5
First Name: Alucard
Alias or Nick-name: Count Dracula, Vlad Ţepeş, Kazıklı Bey, J.H. Brenner, No Life King
Age: 567
Height/Weight: 6'3" 185 lbs
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black
Persuasion: Evil in the service of good
Powers/Weapons: Alucard is quite possibly the most powerful vampire in existence. Not only does he possess all typical vampire skills (an at levels unheard of in typical nosferatu), but he is apparently immune to typical vampire weaknesses.
In addition, Alucard is held in place by ‘release states’ which control his usage of as yet not totally defined powers. He can only access these through the permission of Sir Hellsing. The lowest level of these allows him to transform into amorphous hellhound. His ‘release state 0’(the highest yet seen in the manga) gives him access to a virtual army of undead, comprised of the victims of his past murders and conquests, while simultaneously transforming him into his former human form of Vlad Tepes, wielding a bastard sword, and equipped with knight’s armor.
Alucard is a true immortal, in that he appears quite impossible to kill. He has been shot, stabbed, burned, exploded, decapitated, and bludgeoned. None of this has done more that phase the no life king. Indeed it has even been speculated that he cannot die.
As befits his superhuman abilities, Alucard's weapon of choice is also suitably unique. dubbed the Hellsing ARMS .454 Casull Auto, it is a massive hangun too unweildy for typical humans, but perfectly adapted to Alucard's own undead strength. Customized for use against the undead this weapon carries 15 rounds of steel bullets bearing a core made from the melted silver Christian cross of a Lancunian cathedral. They are devastating against the undead, and Alucard's uncanny aim allows him to hit targets up to 1 km away with no difficulty whatsoever.
History:Alucard was born in the winter of 1431 as Vlad III Dracula, the son of Vlad II Dracul. He later became known as Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler), and as Kazıklı Bey (the Impaling Prince) by the Turks. He lived and reigned intermittently as the voivod of Wallachia until his "death" in 1476, at the age of 45. Alucard recalls "that day" from 523 years ago in chapter 71 Castlevania (2). The circumstances of Vlad's "death" and transformation are shown in chapter 70 Castlevania, but exactly how he became a vampire is unknown. During this flashback, it is revealed that he was captured by the Ottoman Empire after losing his war. His troops were defeated, his people were killed, and his homeland was set ablaze. Vlad himself was to be executed. Before he was beheaded, he drank of the blood from the battlefield. Whether or not he was actually decapitated is not shown, but the executioner's axe is seen to have shattered the cross that Vlad always carried on his person.
Centuries later, in 1893, the events of Bram Stoker's novel unfold. Abraham Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and Jack Seward (Jonathan Harker, another character in the novel, is not mentioned) were able to defeat Vlad (then known as Count Dracula) and kill all of his servants. In the flashback dream sequence of volume 4 (episode 2 of the OVA series), Abraham remarks that Mina had been 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 substantially from Bram Stoker's book. The Count was staked in the heart, but he was not destroyed. It remains uncertain if he was forced into servitude or if he was willing, but from that point on, the Count became a servant for Abraham and his descendants, serving each successive generation.
The next known account of Alucard's life is during World War II, in 1944. Count Dracula now went by a new name given to him by Integra's father, Sir Arthur Hellsing, which was Alucard. Alucard, along with a 14-year -old Walter C. Dornez, was sent to Warsaw, Poland, to stop Millennium's vampire production program. The results of this mission are largely unknown at this point, as it is recorded in the ongoing prequel to Hellsing, Hellsing: The Dawn . Decades later, in 1969, Alucard was imprisoned in a dungeon in Hellsing manor by Arthur. According to Sir Hugh Islands in chapter 75 Heart of Iron, 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 rescue and her shoulder was clipped by a bullet. After just 20 years of imprisonment, Alucard saved Integra (then only 13 years old) from her traitorous uncle, Richard, and became her servant.
(taken from Wikipedia)
He has since worked with the Hellsing organization, protecting protestant England from the threat of vampires. Alucard has also taken on a servant in the form of Seras Victoria, whom he rarely dignifies with more than a call of 'Cop' or 'Police Girl.' His battles against the undead have placed him in conflict both with Iscarot (a Catholic group that serves much the same purpose as Hellsing), and the now reborn Millenium organization, which seeks to create a never ending war between humanity and vampires, and against which the Hellsing Organization is the last, best hope.
Comic character is from: Hellsing (japanese Manga)
Notes: The majority of this data is taken from either Wikipedia (biographical information) or Absolute Anime (technical data on Alucard's vital statistics) the remainder has been cobbled together from repeated perusal of the manga series.
Alias or Nick-name: Count Dracula, Vlad Ţepeş, Kazıklı Bey, J.H. Brenner, No Life King
Age: 567
Height/Weight: 6'3" 185 lbs
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black
Persuasion: Evil in the service of good
Powers/Weapons: Alucard is quite possibly the most powerful vampire in existence. Not only does he possess all typical vampire skills (an at levels unheard of in typical nosferatu), but he is apparently immune to typical vampire weaknesses.
In addition, Alucard is held in place by ‘release states’ which control his usage of as yet not totally defined powers. He can only access these through the permission of Sir Hellsing. The lowest level of these allows him to transform into amorphous hellhound. His ‘release state 0’(the highest yet seen in the manga) gives him access to a virtual army of undead, comprised of the victims of his past murders and conquests, while simultaneously transforming him into his former human form of Vlad Tepes, wielding a bastard sword, and equipped with knight’s armor.
Alucard is a true immortal, in that he appears quite impossible to kill. He has been shot, stabbed, burned, exploded, decapitated, and bludgeoned. None of this has done more that phase the no life king. Indeed it has even been speculated that he cannot die.
As befits his superhuman abilities, Alucard's weapon of choice is also suitably unique. dubbed the Hellsing ARMS .454 Casull Auto, it is a massive hangun too unweildy for typical humans, but perfectly adapted to Alucard's own undead strength. Customized for use against the undead this weapon carries 15 rounds of steel bullets bearing a core made from the melted silver Christian cross of a Lancunian cathedral. They are devastating against the undead, and Alucard's uncanny aim allows him to hit targets up to 1 km away with no difficulty whatsoever.
History:Alucard was born in the winter of 1431 as Vlad III Dracula, the son of Vlad II Dracul. He later became known as Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler), and as Kazıklı Bey (the Impaling Prince) by the Turks. He lived and reigned intermittently as the voivod of Wallachia until his "death" in 1476, at the age of 45. Alucard recalls "that day" from 523 years ago in chapter 71 Castlevania (2). The circumstances of Vlad's "death" and transformation are shown in chapter 70 Castlevania, but exactly how he became a vampire is unknown. During this flashback, it is revealed that he was captured by the Ottoman Empire after losing his war. His troops were defeated, his people were killed, and his homeland was set ablaze. Vlad himself was to be executed. Before he was beheaded, he drank of the blood from the battlefield. Whether or not he was actually decapitated is not shown, but the executioner's axe is seen to have shattered the cross that Vlad always carried on his person.
Centuries later, in 1893, the events of Bram Stoker's novel unfold. Abraham Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and Jack Seward (Jonathan Harker, another character in the novel, is not mentioned) were able to defeat Vlad (then known as Count Dracula) and kill all of his servants. In the flashback dream sequence of volume 4 (episode 2 of the OVA series), Abraham remarks that Mina had been 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 substantially from Bram Stoker's book. The Count was staked in the heart, but he was not destroyed. It remains uncertain if he was forced into servitude or if he was willing, but from that point on, the Count became a servant for Abraham and his descendants, serving each successive generation.
The next known account of Alucard's life is during World War II, in 1944. Count Dracula now went by a new name given to him by Integra's father, Sir Arthur Hellsing, which was Alucard. Alucard, along with a 14-year -old Walter C. Dornez, was sent to Warsaw, Poland, to stop Millennium's vampire production program. The results of this mission are largely unknown at this point, as it is recorded in the ongoing prequel to Hellsing, Hellsing: The Dawn . Decades later, in 1969, Alucard was imprisoned in a dungeon in Hellsing manor by Arthur. According to Sir Hugh Islands in chapter 75 Heart of Iron, 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 rescue and her shoulder was clipped by a bullet. After just 20 years of imprisonment, Alucard saved Integra (then only 13 years old) from her traitorous uncle, Richard, and became her servant.
(taken from Wikipedia)
He has since worked with the Hellsing organization, protecting protestant England from the threat of vampires. Alucard has also taken on a servant in the form of Seras Victoria, whom he rarely dignifies with more than a call of 'Cop' or 'Police Girl.' His battles against the undead have placed him in conflict both with Iscarot (a Catholic group that serves much the same purpose as Hellsing), and the now reborn Millenium organization, which seeks to create a never ending war between humanity and vampires, and against which the Hellsing Organization is the last, best hope.
Comic character is from: Hellsing (japanese Manga)
Notes: The majority of this data is taken from either Wikipedia (biographical information) or Absolute Anime (technical data on Alucard's vital statistics) the remainder has been cobbled together from repeated perusal of the manga series.
