If memory serves correct in the anime you also see Alucard interacting with a solider with chestnut hair called Chris Pickman
Honestly that interaction tears me up, cause the guy ends up dying slowly and painfully, so he asks Al to basically put him out of his misery without turning him into a vampire.
So Al does so, but you get a glimpse of seeing that he also laid him down, put his gun over his chest, crossed his arms over it, and that he had placed his hat over his face to hide the probably giant bullet hole. Like he not only put him in a respectful position, he put his own hat over his face. Not that Alucard isn’t a sweetheart in general, but the old ass anime Hellsing Alucard is such a sweetheart it hurts me…
Oddly, I am proud of it but also hate it. There is so much wrong with this one that I don’t even want to fully finish it. I have zero idea what I want as a background, or what colour the background should be, so thats why I’m going to give y’all the three different versions of it.
I’m really pleased with the shading, even if it did go a little off kilter on the coat tails…probably should have added more black bats but Inkscape was threatening to have a heart attack.
and yes, there is a passive aggressive watermark on it now…. I see you VK.com
Something that always irritated me about The Major from Hellsing Ultimate was his own belief and crowing that he kept his humanity. Do I think he had any humanity left? Or ever at all?
No.
See, while he may have had the strength of will to remain a man of his own keeping, did not succumb to the seduction of vampirism and chose to remain human and not be a monster…. he was a monster, a perfect example of it.
Alucard was called a monster constantly throughout the series. Even called himself a monster. But really, he was more a distorted human feeling, abused and tortured distorting his morals and lead to him taking very heinous actions. More like he became a monster because he was told he was one so often. So it made it easy to give into becoming a vampire.
But the major. Even before he clapped eyes on Alucard or Walter he loved war, pain, destruction and suffering. Witnessing it, causing it. A person with humanity would. The very best qualities that display humanity in people is kindness, compassion, charity.
If the major ever had any humanity over the years and with each violent action is began to slip away piece by piece. Till there was nothing left. Being human doesn’t guarantee you’ll possess or keep it.
A perfect opposite is Seras. A vampire, someone that made that choice to become a monster yet she still has humanity in spades. Kind, caring, a protector of the innocent.
Anyway thats my thoughts….it’s been a while since I last had a proper watch through of Hellsing Ultimate so I could be off base here.
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