Walter C. Dornez

"I stand as myself. I stand here under orders from no one. I stand here as Walter C. Dornez. In light of my bloodthirst, I believe I shall sever all of you this Dawn."

- Walter C. Dornez.

Walter C. Dornez (ウォルター・C（クム）・ドルネーズ,) was a 69 year old retired member of the Hellsing Organisation, and was a spy working for Millennium.

Though he served as Integra Hellsing's butler, he had still proved to live up to his nickname "The Death God (死神,)" with deadly razor sharp wires. He had a close friendship with both Integra and Alucard. He was a former active duty member of the Hellsing Organisation and was employed as the family's retainer, until he betrayed them.

The voice actors for Walter from the anime returned to reprise their roles as Walter once again. Daisuke Namikawa and Liam O' Brien voiced Walter's young adult form, while Romi Park and Jessica D. Stone voiced Walter when he was young.

Appearance
Walter was a tall man, standing at approximately 6'3", thin man who typically wore black dress pants, a white dress shirt with a purple tie, and a purple vest. He also wore gloves of various colors (usually black, brown, or white), and tended to kept his hair long in a tightly bound ponytail.

His eyes were red, and he wears a monocle that rests on his nose bridge.

After his transformation, he donned an all-black version of his usual attire with chains around the waist and pockets and black fingerless gloves. His eyes became violet, and his pupils changed in shape from round to thin.

Personality
In his youth, he appeared to be belligerent, short-tempered, foul-mouthed, arrogant, and almost sadistic in his love of battle, as seen when insulting and mocking The Major and gleefully slicing up the Millennium soldiers. He would loudly brag and regularly insult his opponents. He was greatly annoyed by The Major's lack of fear of him after seeing him easily kill several soldiers.

As an elderly man, Walter serves primarily as Integra's butler and also makes special weapons for use by vampires, Alucard and Seras Victoria. In his old age, he has become the perfect model of an English butler; polite, diligent, brooding, dutiful, and intelligent with a dry, ironic sense of humor and a merciless disposition toward the enemies of his master. He appears to have mellowed out a great deal externally, cutting apart his enemies with a cold precision rather than with the glee of his younger self, and delivering only ironic and dignified insults instead of simply swearing up a storm.

During his earlier years working under Arthur, it seems as though he formed an alliance with Millennium, despite saying in The Dawn that he would never join with them.

He appears to take great pride in being human, to the point of saying in response to Alucard's depreciation of old age that "If we cannot have our prosperity with pride, we should reject such prosperity.", but this too would be revealed to be just a part of his act. After the doctor rejuvenates him, he even states how beautiful his new body was; at the same time, he steps on the remains of Alexander Anderson, saying that people become trash once they are dead, and that trash should not be mourned for, showing that he views humanity and mortality to be weak, and all his sentiment to the contrary were likely part of his ploy to remain above suspicion.

Despite his secret disgust for human beings, he does have a large amount of care and affection for Integra and Seras, as he views them as the only thing close to a real family he has. This has been shown on many occasions, such as when Seras thanks him for everything he's done for her, and for being the only one to show hospitality to her when she first came to the manor - and this actually made him break his true character for a brief moment to show that he truly appreciates her gratitude. When Alucard mockingly reminded him that, because of his betrayal, he had lost Integra and Seras forever; and that now their love and company belong solely to Alucard alone forever, this causes Walter to become incredibly furious. On his death bed, he smiles and thinks of Integra, and how they've come so far together, and though despite that his plan failed, he still dies happy because of her.

Despite his ruthless betrayal of Integra and the rest of Hellsing to Millenium, Walter did have a degree of disgust for the experiments of the Doctor. His revulsion at the experiments on Mina Harker's corpse, referring to them as unspeakable, shows a degree of respect for the remains of the dead and an utter contempt for the very scientist who gave him the strength to defeat Alucard.

Before the Events of HELLSING
At the age of 14, Walter has lived with the family for perhaps his entire life. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford (where Arthur and Sir Hugh Irons were educated) after World War II and studied philosophy and politics.

The Dawn records Walter and Alucard (in female form) storming Millennium's base during World War II in Warsaw, Poland, and putting an end to their first attempt at creating an army of artificial vampires.

The Events of HELLSING
In 1999, Walter serves primarily as Integra's butler and also makes special weapons for use by Hellsing's vampires, Alucard and Seras Victoria. However, he is still one of the organization's most capable operatives, wielding high-velocity monomolecular wires with incredible skill and precision. Walter's efficiency and power were so great that he earned the nickname the "Angel of Death", and even at the age of 69, Walter can still rip his way through hordes of the undead with ease. In the manga, he also helps Integra make numerous difficult choices that Alucard occasionally poses, such as whether or not to kill innocent humans to achieve mission objectives.

During the Valentine brothers' assault on the Hellsing Manor, Walter and Seras confronts Jan Valentine and his ghoul army. Walter then, pretended to fight The Captain; shortly before willingly go to the Deus Ex Machina. The Doctor then performed an unknown series of experiments on Walter to enhance his strength and abilities, which also reversed Walter's age by about thirty or so years, the new rejuvenated Walter serving as Millennium's new, secret weapon. After Alucard dispatches Anderson, Walter confronts his former comrades. Leaping from one of Alucard's stakes and slicing apart two skyscrapers, he lands on what was left of Alexander Anderson's head and crushes it underfoot, saying that people become trash once they are dead and as such should not be mourned for. When questioned by a distraught Seras on what has happened to him, he explains that he has turned against Hellsing of his own free will for his own purposes. When Integra demands an explanation for Walter's betrayal, he does not provide one, and simply demands that she no longer address him as Walter. In the midst of this conversation, Yumie, enraged by Walter's desecration of Father Anderson's remains, attacks him. However, Walter slices her apart without even moving.

As the British military finally begins to get a handle on Millennium's attacks on their bases, Sir Hugh Irons, the acting leader of the Convention of Twelve, concludes that Walter had been betraying his superiors for quite some time, even before the second coming of Millennium and possibly even since World War II. He mentions that he foresaw Richard's attempted coup of the Organisation and also Richard's assassination attempt on Integra. In light of his suspicions about Richard, he specifically warned Walter to keep a close eye on both him and Integra. Yet despite his warning, Walter was nowhere to be found on the day of the coup. Therefore it is suggested that Alucard's awakening was also orchestrated by Walter; his convenient absence left Integra with no other choice but to release Alucard, whom Arthur (Integra's father) had purposefully sealed away, thinking him to be too dangerous to use as a weapon. Other bits of evidence suggesting that Walter is a traitor may include the Valentine brothers' mysterious knowledge of the location and layout of the mansion, and the omission of the fight scene between Walter and his apparent rival, the Captain. Alucard then states his belief that Walter's new body is nowhere near as beautiful as his old one, addressing him as Shinigami. He then asks him if this transformation of his was undergone with the desire to become "a Shinigami (angel of death) in body, mind, and soul", and Walter confirms this. Integra then reluctantly but resolutely orders Alucard to kill him. Integra and Seras then leave to go after the Major, but Seras hesitates for a moment and addresses Walter. She sadly thanks Walter for everything he has done for her and tells him to take care. Though initially taken aback by Seras's unexpected goodwill, Walter dons a small smile and tells her to take care as well. As Integra and Seras leave, Alucard teases Walter about being the only servant to his mistress Integra and having a servant of his own Seras, and that the love of neither can be Walter's again.

Alucard and Walter then charge at each other amidst a flurry of bats. Alucard reaches out to grab Walter's face, but Walter easily catches Alucard's arm before it can reach him and severs it with his wires. As Alucard begins to regenerate his arm, Walter snakes his wires around one of Alucard's legs, and then tosses him through a building, remarking that as per Alucard's own words, a truly immortal being does not exist, and that includes Alucard himself. Alucard then attempts to shoot Walter with the Casull (the Jackel in the OVAs), but Walter deflects the bullets with square, mesh-like barriers formed from his wires. Alucard then summons his hell hound, which Walter calls the hound of Baskerville, before he slices it in two. Finally, Alucard aims the Jackal at Walter, but it explodes and maims his remaining hand. Walter then mocks him about the destruction of the weapon, reminding him that he was the one who created the gun. Doc is shown holding his remote control, which has a button marked "JACKAL". This confirms that Walter's betrayal occurred before the beginning of the manga storyline since Walter gave the Jackal to Alucard in volume 2. In the midst of this, Luke Valentine somehow emerges from the remains of Alucard's hound. Walter, using his wires like puppet strings, gains control of both Alucard's dispatched dog and Luke Valentine and uses them to attack Alucard. As Alucard deals with this new problem, Walter begins to tremble, and it is revealed that his body is beginning to weaken. As the dog continues to attack, Walter coughs up a bit of blood and collapses to the ground. The scene then cuts to the major and Doc, who reveals that Walter's problems are the result of the fact that his vampirization surgery was rushed. Walter, desperate to finish his fight with Alucard, composes himself as Alcuard finally dispatches Luke and the dog. Walter then summons up the last vestiges of his strength and uses his wires to sever Alucard's arms and legs, cutting his torso in half, and suspending the upper half helplessly in the air. Walter is left shaking and panting from the exertion of slicing Alucard apart in his deteriorating condition, which appears to have caused him to regress in age from his early thirties to his early twenties. He collapses to the ground after his hair tie and monocle fall off, but remains determined to finish off his opponent.

Muttering about how Alucard will not die until his heart is destroyed, Walter breaks a piece of rebar piping off of a concrete slab and staggers over to Alucard. Plunging it into the heart of the suspended torso, Walter quickly discovers that what he had thought was Alucard's body was actually the disguised remains of Luke Valentine. As he backs away in shock, Alucard appears behind Walter, commenting on how, though he had thought he was out of tricks, Luke had proven useful for something after all. Alucard then punches Walter, who collapses a short distance away. Walter's rushed surgery, combined with the damage from Alucard's punch, causes his flawed regenerative abilities to regress his age even further until he appears as a fourteen-year-old child. Alucard, seeing Walter's regression, appears in the form of the same young girl that he used in 1944 for the sake of irony. Alucard goes on to present what he believes is the reason for Walter's betrayal; his fear of becoming old and useless. To prove his abilities to himself, Walter desired to destroy Alucard and allowed this obsession to consume him. Alucard then begins absorbing the blood of all of London's deceased civilians and combatants, mocking Walter all the while. Off in the distance, Schrödinger commits suicide and falls into the river of blood traveling to Alucard. Walter, determined to at least see the fight through to the end, begs the Major for more time to defeat Alucard before the Major enacts his final plan. However, the Major states that it's too late for even him to stop his plan as Walter launches one final attack on Alucard, slicing him in half from head to groin. However Alucard, with the blood of the millions of dead in London replacing the souls that Anderson had destroyed, simply flows back together. The Major then explains to Walter that, despite his skill, his window of opportunity to kill Alucard had come and gone. With the millions of souls he has absorbed from London, Alucard has regained his ability to regenerate virtually without end, and Walter can no longer harm him in any meaningful way. The Major goes on to say that because Walter gambled everything he had on this one attempt to kill Alucard, his failure to do so has drained his existence of both value and meaning. Walter seems to take this to heart, as he stops his attack on Alucard. Alucard then grabs Walter's shirt collar and mocks both him and Anderson for their respective failures as Walter simply stands there with a blank expression. However, shortly thereafter, Alucard unwittingly absorbs Schrödinger's essence, and is phased out of reality.

After witnessing Alucard's defeat and disappearance, Walter is left alone on the battlefield, with his transformation eating away at his body. As he stands there, he grabs Alucard's necktie as a gust of wind carries it by, and laughs in artificial triumph over Alucard's defeat. As he laughs, he coughs up a bit more blood and despairingly realizes that killing Alucard was not worth everything that he had sacrificed. Shortly after, he's sniped through the abdomen by Heinkel Wolfe from the rubble a few hundred feet away in retaliation for the death of Yumie. Walter does not seem to care, however, and tells Heinkel to keep shooting him. She gladly obliges and shoots him multiple times, including a hit through his left eye and out the back of his head. She quickly runs out of ammunition for her rifle and charges at Walter head-on with a pistol. At this point, Walter seems to have a change of heart, as he tells her that he can shoot him, but she will not be the one to kill him. After casually depriving her of an arm and a leg, Walter walks a short distance, bleeding profusely, and sends two strands of his wires into the grounded Millennium zeppelin, stating that he must reach "him". Walter is later seen in Doc's lab sitting on the floor with his left eye regenerated. Doc, who has come to his lab in order to gather his research materials and escape, is revealed to have been the person that Walter was so desperate to reach. Walter tells Doc he doesn't know when to give up and that he, and everything he's created, is good for nothing; he includes himself in that statement.

He goes on to categorize all of Millennium's actions as part of the cheap comedy that the evening has become, mentioning that he had simply hoped to do something with his proverbial time on the stage that was worth applauding. He tries to stand, but his right arm dissolves as he uses it to push himself up. He mentions that it appears that Alucard was right about his new body, and says in a tired and mildly amused way that he appears to be coming to a horrible end. Doc then rants on about how his research will someday lead him to surpass even Alucard, but Walter simply tells him that, since he is about to die, none of what he has said will come to pass. Doc then tries to kill Walter with his remote, but Walter simply slices off the arm with the remote, and one of Doc's legs for a good measure. Doc falls, but in mid-fall, he tears off the curtain covering the SHI and it unveils the skeleton of Mina Harker. Walter then reasons that those remains have been the basis for all of Doc's work, explaining that because Alucard (Dracula), was not killed, Mina was not cured of Alucard's curse, and a part of Alucard existed inside her. Mina was exhumed by the Doc and researched until her remains were nothing but a ruin.

Walter then tells Doc that all he has ever done was to bootleg copies of Alucard's imitation (Mina), reinforcing his position that Doc and all of his work are but a cheap comedy. The flames of the burning zeppelin engulf Mina's corpse, and Walter then slices apart a steel support beam situated over Doc's head, which falls and fatally crushes his head and torso. Walter, now exhausted, collapses and lights a cigarette, he reflects good-spiritedly on how much he wanted to defeat Alucard, claiming that he had hoped to give him the humane death that he always sought. He closes his eyes and bids farewell to Integra as an image of his aged human body is depicted, smiling and relaxed. He drops his cigarette and is engulfed by the fires of the zeppelin. His passing is sensed by Integra and Seras, the former shouting out for him as he dies. He is momentarily grieved by both, and then they leave the zeppelin as it finally burns down to its framework. His monocle is shown as his shrine along with other characters' things. Thirty years later, Integra comments to Seras about how her aging reflection reminded her rather humorously of Walter, and neither of them appeared to hold any animosity towards him for his actions.

Arthur Hellsing
Arthur and Walter's relationship is unclear, although since Walter has no parents to speak of, it is possible that Arthur may have adopted him. He also has deep confidence in Walter's ability, proudly referring to the boy as "the strongest anti-monster human expert".

Alucard
Alucard and Walter were the only real friends each other have, to the point where Alucard had called them "blood brothers" due to their companionship and the incomprehensible amount of people they've killed together over the decades. However, when Walter betrayed Hellsing, Alucard began to see him as a mere plaything, even going so far as to call Walter's younger vampiric body ugly and state that his elderly human body was "a thousand times more beautiful".

The Doctor
Upon first meeting Walter in Hellsing: The Dawn, he was dubbed as an enemy by The Doctor. However, upon Walter becoming a double agent for Millennium, The Doctor was fine working with Walter in secret. This is shown when The Doctor implanted a bomb in the Jackal that Walter would later give to Alucard as well as The Doctor turning the former into an artificial vampire despite the rushed process. As the Deus Ex Machina was falling apart, The Doctor argued with a wounded Walter with the latter saying his works (the Doctor) were useless and his life was a farce. This infuriated The Doctor saying that Walter was, to him, nothing more than a weapon for his superiors and that The Doctor will surpass She. Before The Doctor could kill Walter with a remote, Walter dismembered him and after explaining Mina Harker's origins buried him under rubble, killing him instantly.

Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
Walter C. Dornez, is the Hellsing family's butler and a retired vampire hunter. He has always been a dear friend and trustworthy figure for her, acting as an advisor, protector, and occasionally emotional support. Having cared for her since she was a small child, Walter is protective of his employer but does not overstep his boundaries. In Volume 2, Walter is outraged when Islands not only commands Integra to kill the reanimated corpses of Integra's soldiers but insists that their current state was entirely Integra's fault. However, he regains his composure when Integra stops him from commenting further on the matter. He acts as her escort to the museum when she is to have a meeting with Enrico Maxwell and looks prepared to defend her when Anderson arrives.

While Alucard may have been Hellsing's crown glory, Walter could very well be considered her second-best soldier before Seras Victoria agrees to drink blood. It is Walter and Seras who defeat Jan Valentine and his ghouls during the attack on the Hellsing manor, and despite his old age, Walter is still a cunning and dangerous soldier. As such, Integra and Walter share an interesting dynamic (as seen in volume 5 and OVA 4) where they discuss various combat methods and other plans of action (it is Walter who briefs Alucard on his upcoming mission to Rio de Janeiro). Integra also relies on Walter to retrieve information, from files on Alexander Anderson to finding out the true meaning of Millennium from Jan Valentine's cryptic final message.

Integra clearly trusts Walter with her life, as he is often used as her bodyguard rather than Alucard or Seras.

When Integra and Penwood are ambushed in Vol. 5, Integra shows no sign of distress or fear and is quite confident that Walter can handle her attackers with ease. Walter escorts her from the premises before more vampires can attack. When he is confronted by The Captain, he advises Integra to leave him behind to fight. Integra reluctantly agrees, but orders Walter to "come back alive at any cost." When it is discovered that Walter has betrayed them, Integra is moved to tears that he is no longer her ally. After an inner struggle, she orders Alucard to kill him, because "our enemies must be annihilated, no matter who they are." Despite his betrayal, Integra is moved to sadness when Walter is killed in the final chapter. When she notices how much she has aged over the past thirty years, her older appearance reminds her of Walter.

Seras Victoria
Walter was highly respected by Seras and was also her mentor as an elder. Walter often cared for and encouraged Seras as the butler of the Hellsing family. Seras is very grateful for him and deeply pained when she was confronted by the reality of Walter joining Millennium simply to face Alucard in battle. Despite Walter becoming a traitor, Seras and Walter still genuinely care for each other and he was taken aback by her gratitude for him as the butler of Hellsing as they wished each other to take care in their final words of exchange despite officially being friends no longer.

Overview
Despite being a human, Walter possessed exceptional combat prowess, on par with or exceeding many supernatural beings. During Millennium's initial assault on the Hellsing manor, he dispatched a large force of ghouls with almost inoculate ease and confidently engaged an artificial vampire.

Abilities

 * Superhuman Strength: His strength was remarkable; as a fourteen-year-old boy, he was capable of briefly flooring the Captain with a headbutt to the face during their confrontation in Warsaw in 1944, a blow that was also strong enough to draw blood.
 * Superhuman Speed: His speed and agility were great enough as a human that, even at nearly seventy years of age, he was able to dodge a barrage of bullets from multiple assault rifles at close range and in the tight quarters of a manor hallway. He was also able to easily outmatch the reflexes of an entire squad of vampirized soldiers, as he cut an entire group of them apart during a betrayal by one of Penwood's subordinates at the beginning of the Zeppelin incident.
 * Superhuman Durability: He appears to be very physically durable in his youth, as can be seen when he engages The Captain in The Dawn. As a fourteen-year-old boy, he was able to withstand multiple brutal strikes from The Captain even though the Captain was under orders to kill him. He was also able to endure a short amount of time with the Captain attempting to strangle him with both hands before Alucard intervened. Additionally, he jumped out from an Allied bomber kilometers up in the air without a parachute and used his skill with his wires to keep him from falling to the ground.
 * Superhuman Accuracy: His accuracy and dexterity were also highly developed, as he could control his wires with pinpoint accuracy, and at one during the WWII assault on Millennium he casually kicked a butter knife off of a table and at the Major's head, which would have struck him blade-first and presumably fatally had the Captain not caught it.

Post-Experimentation
When turned into a vampire by Millennium, his body was restored to its physical prime, and he gained vast augmentations to all of his physical capabilities. His wires grew much longer and Walter used them to easily slice down two buildings. His reflexes far exceeded Alucard's and he could lift him high in the air with his wires and smash him into buildings, breaking concrete and steel with just one hand. It should also be noted that Walter managed all this despite the fact that his body was deteriorating throughout his entire fight with Alucard. Walter was able to take a punch from Alucard, albeit it forced him to regenerate which caused him to regress into his teenage years. His body also appears to have had an unusual amount of resistance, even though his body was in a state of advanced deterioration during the time these abilities were demonstrated. He was seen standing in direct sunlight as the dawn rose on Millennium's night of carnage and was also seen taking several bullets from an Iscariot sniper rifle, including one to the head.

Microfilament Wires
Walter's primary weapons are a set of very long razor wires, which he controls as if they were extensions of his own body. The wires are sharp enough to slice through steel and concrete with no trouble, he can use them to bind and restrain targets without damaging them. He can move objects without damaging them, being able to apply enough force to rip out one of Jan Valentine's mouth rings without damaging it, or to grab a packet of cigarettes. He is also able to hold several of the wires between his teeth without any damage to himself. The wires themselves can be used to attack from virtually any angle, and seem to hover around Walter himself in an omnidirectional manner during combat. He can cause drastic shifts in their positions with extremely small movements, and even manipulate them without any apparent movement at all. The wires move much more quickly than even Walter himself does, and are extremely hard to see. He is also able to release wires from his control, as after cutting off Alucard's legs, arms, and bottom half of his torso, the wires suspending him in midair were not attached to his gloves. He also showed the ability to have the wires encircle him as he walked around without any contact with them. The wires were shown to span at least the width of a typical skyscraper and reach at an angle from the ground to the middle of the Deus Ex Machina zeppelin. The limit to the number of wires Walter can summon is not known.
 * Mesh Shields: Walter can weave the wires as he likes, creating mesh screens out of the wires to block bullets from Alucard, and each screen appeared to contain hundreds of individual woven threads.
 * Manipulative Puppetry: Walter has used his wires to impale Luke Valentine and control him like a marionette.

Name
Walter's middle initial, C., is pronounced in full in the OVA series as "クム" (kumu). "クム" also accompanies the "C" as furigana in chapter 74, Relics. This is the Japanese translation of the Latin word cum, meaning "with". There is some dispute over the correct romanization of his surname, with the most common variants being Dorne, Dornez, Dornes, Dolnez, and Dollneaz. The back cover of the original Japanese version of Volume 4 in which Walter's name is written with an added "D" and "Z" as "Walter Cum Ddollneazz". The American release of manga Volume 2 by Dark Horse finally reveals the correct spelling of his name as "Dornez". In the ending credits of Ultimate X, his name is written as "Walter C. Dollneaz".

Trivia

 * Further hinting of his betrayal was revealed when Alhambra asked Alucard how much of that blessed ammunition he still has, which implies that he knew what The Jackal is.
 * While not shown in the OVAs, during his encounter with Jan in the manga, the latter quickly says "YOU?!" upon seeing Walter's wires, indicating that they have met before the mansion attack.
 * Walter's prototype is in Daidoujin Monogatari along with Heinkel Wolfe.
 * He is among the few major characters to appear in all three of the Anime, Manga, and OVA series. The others include Alucard, Integra, Seras, Luke Valentine, Jan Valentine, Alexander Anderson, and Enrico Maxwell.
 * His nickname in the English dub "The Angel of Death" may be a reference to the Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele, who was also known as the "Angel of Death". However, as this term is not exclusive to Josef, nor does Walter share many resemblances to Josef, this is unlikely.
 * He harmed both the Valentine Brothers in two different ways, first he cut off the younger brother's arm, and the older brother was stabbed with a pole in the heart by him.
 * Despite Alucard's telepathic abilities, his betrayal came as a surprise to the remaining Hellsing members.