Sir Arthur Hellsing

Arthur Hellsing is the father of Integra.

Arthur eventually had a daughter he named "Integral". This marked a turning point in Arthur's life as he finally settled down to raise his daughter and teach her everything she would need to know about the undead. Arthur's lessons were invaluable to the girl, and would serve her well always. After some time, Arthur fell gravely ill, and it became apparent he would not live. On his deathbed, he asked his brother Richard to guide her and help her run the organization, as he was handing it down to her. Among his final words to her were a set of instructions. He told his dear little girl that if she should ever find herself in a right mess, with all hope seemingly lost, to go to the mansion's underground dungeon. Therein would lie her protection. He passed away shortly after.

=RICHARD HELLSING=

Richard was born into the Hellsing family shortly after his elder brother Arthur. While pretty much nothing is known about Richard's position in the organization or his whereabouts or activities before Arthur's passing, it can be assumed that Richard held a high rank in Hellsing, as he believed he was among the next in line to inherit the headship. Being the elder brother, Arthur was given reins of the Hellsing organization when the time came to hand it down, leaving Richard quite upset. Despite his desire to have the family headship for himself however, Richard never attempted to murder or assassinate his brother, he simply waited biding his time. After 20 years of waiting, it seemed Richard would finally gain leadership when his brother fell ill.

When he finally did pass, he enraged his brother Richard by announcing Integra as heir to the family name instead of he. Insulted at this turn of events, Richard finally sought to take actions into his own hands and murder his niece, choosing to forge some excuse for her demise later. Taking a rare opportunity during Walter's unexplained absence, Richard tracked Integra down into the dungeon of the mansion. cornering her in a deserted room with nothing but a corpse. He coldly fired upon his niece, fully prepared to kill her when a stray bullet from his gun hit Integra in the arm. It was only a flesh wound, but the damage caused a splatter of blood to hit the corpse, and awaken it...

Revived, and hungry the corpse began to feed upon Richard's men, drinking their blood and revealing itself to be a true vampire! Curiously as well, the vampire then proceeded to bow before the young girl, proclaiming himself to be her Servant, and giving his name as "Alucard". Richard couldn't believe what was happening, and angrily proclaimed himself to be head of the organization and fired straight at Integra's head, but the revived corpse caught the bullet with his forearm, telling Richard his blood "reeked" and that he was unfit to be the master of this house. With the Vampire backing her, Integra finished off her uncle and took her place as Hellsing's head.

=STATISTICS=

Director of the Hellsing Organization, daughter of Arthur Hellsing, and thus a direct descendent of the legendary Abraham Van Helsing. Integra appears as the series’ prime heroine whose role is to protect England and it’s people from the unsuspecting horrors of the vampiric and occult threats that her forefathers have fought against centuries past. Under her direct command, the Hellsing family’s greatest biological weapon is the Vampire Alucard whom answers to her and her alone. Integra appears as a strong and firm commander, sending Alucard and Seras into battle regularly to battle the forces for which she is to fight. Integra is not presented as a perfect character however, and has regularly been tested to her limits, sometimes showing uncertainty in herself and her actions, like during the incident in Rio. Integra is among the only characters who is present and active during most all major incidents in the story, from her indirect involvement near the beginning, to her fully hands-on actions from later on.

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="HELLSING" OR "VAN HELSING"?=

One odd thing about the Hellsing family is their name. Originally, their name is presented to be simply "Hellsing", however over the course of the manga it is revealed that Abraham Van Helsing is a descendant to the organization. This raises some odd questions as to why the name is spelled that way when Hirano intended the family line to work that way. The most obvious reason for the change is simply a mistake in the transliteration from English to Japanese and then back to English. "Heru" is usually the Japanese transliteration of the English word "Hell" with two Ls. Seeing Van Helsing's name written as "Herushingu", someone involved in the process, may it be Hirano or an editor, made the mistake and they simply ran with it. It could also have been a way to keep from breaking copyright. Someone might have owned "Van Helsing" or "Helsing" and the change was just to make it different enough to use as a title.

As for a proper in-universe explanation, the simplest explanation is to simply look at the characters' religions. The original Van Helsing was a devout Catholic, while the Hellsing organization are the "Royal Protestant Knights". The easiest answer is that, at some point in the organization's history (Most likely in the generation between Van Helsing and Arthur) the family converted to protestant and the name was Anglicanized. Which resulted in them dropping the "Van" and slightly modifying the spelling of "Helsing". =TRIVIA & OTHER INFORMATION=


 * Abraham's history is taken from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. As said earlier, that novel has been declared canon to the Hellsing world by Hellsing's author Kouta Hirano in an interview with Anime Insider. However, also as stated before, the novel was not the only source used for Hellsing. During volume 7 of the manga, it mentions Dracula having come to England on the ship the "Demeter", is looking for a "Woman he personally desired", meaning Mina Harker. In the novel, Dracula did not come to England for Mina, he came simply to drink of the blood-rich shores of England. he only ever attacked Mina in retribution once the band of humans was hunting him. The storyline in which Dracula went for Mina out of personal desire was only used in the movie adaptation of the novel by Francis Ford Coppola. Therefore it's reasonable to believe that in-part at least, Hirano also based the story on the movie to some extent as well.
 * Most of Arthur's back story is taken from the Hellsing prequel manga "The Dawn". However, the Hellsing OVA series added some information to Arthur's history. In Hellsing OVA V, the closing theme is a montage of events of Arthur, Penwood and Islands' past as flashbacks to present-day Islands as he visits Arthur's grave. Depicted are the friends' relationship, spending time together, arguing over what to do about Warsaw, Penwood signing the authorization, and Arthur speaking to Walter to deploy him while Islands and Penwood watch. Most of which are depicted in images above.