Talk:Alucard

Question
Hello, I have a question.

Is Alucard's immortality related to the number of souls he has absorbed? If so, how many souls has he absorbed? I heard the Major esitmated the number to be 200 million, but I'd need citations. Thanks.

~Evensong

Yes, it is. The Major did say that. I don't remember the exact point in which the Major said the souls Alucard had absorbed was related to his immortality, but Alucard confirmed it at the very end, in the VERY last chapter (Ch. 95) where he comes back to Integra. He says the number. Now if only I could find the site that I found it on...

P.S. It's considered polite to sign your name at the end of your posts. Right now, we have no idea who you are. Thanks!

BlazingStar 22:50, February 28, 2010 (UTC)

My sincere apologies for my indiscretion. Furthermore, thanks a lot for your response. I couldn't thank you enough. :)

~Evensong

Where are the sources?!
In this article, there's all this stuff about his background that I've never even seen hinted in the manga- either one (normal Hellsing or Dawn''). ''For example, where does it say he was Count Dracula or what his real name was? I understand that all his servants were killed, and that he was executed, but how do we know that "he waged an all-out war on the Turks that devastated both sides"? I'm way too lazy to put all of these "citation needed" tags on. There are way too many of them needed. Can somebody please tell me where to find all this information- and, if possible, put citations on them?!

BlazingStar 00:04, March 1, 2010 (UTC)

All the information on Alucards past can be found in Volume 8: Order 11 Castle Vania. :) - TheColorEarth

Thanks, I found that chapter! Somehow I had forgotten about all of that stuff it said about his background. Still, a lot of things in the article seem to be speculation. Isn't there a rule against that somewhere?

BlazingStar 00:26, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

His Guns (New Article)
I'm really, really trying to avoid making big changes without making sure it's alright to do it. Like chopping out a huge section of the article.

I was thinking of giving Alucard's guns, the Jackal and the Hellsing ARMS Casull Auto, their own pages, since they're seen so much in the story. Is this okay?

BlazingStar 00:26, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Believe me I have absolutely no problem with new pages being created. As for chopping off a large section of the article, what part were you planning to erase? I think that the page is a bit too long, but I wouldn't delete anything just because the same information is on another page. I probably will get around to deleting allot of the useless and repetitive knowledge, so if you see something that looks like its already stated, is pure speculation, or really isn't important, by all means please delete it. Thanks for asking by the way, allot of people wouldn't do that.

P.S. A page for the "jackal" weapon is already created; here's the link: Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto Anti-Freak Combat Pistol 'Jackal'. Long title huh. :)

-TheColorEarth

Yeah; I wasn't thinking of deleting a lot of stuff just yet, just the guns so that they get their own pages. Thanks, I saw the article. LOL It is long; I thought I'd shorten it a bit for convenience. BlazingStar 04:11, March 26, 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion
Any chance a few words about the "The Bird of Hermes Is My Name, Eating My Wings To Make Me Tame" line could be covered ?

The way I figured it since Hermes is both the god of commerce and is in the business of delivering the souls of the dead to the underworld, Alucard might have something to do with him.

The Ripley scroll is mostly an alchemy study so it's probably only about how mercury should be added in small amounts so to not make the product unstable (un-tame).

But for Alucard it may hold some reasoning to why he allows himself to take so much damage, because it "tames" him.

-btw, Hermes has no bird associated with him, but his shoes are winged and such were given to heroes on quests. I think his ability to travel to the underworld is also tied with his talaria, but I'm not sure were I read that, sorry :(

At least the quote should be attributed to the Ripley Scroll, with a nice alchemy reference.

~r.j.k

It's possible that Kouta had just heard the poem and thought that it would be a nice additon to hellsing. It isn't unlike him to take inspirations from other things and use them in his work. For example, Seras's signiture weapon Harkannen is named after a character from Frank Herbert's novel Dune. The character from the novel has no relation to vampires or the undead but is still used in the manga. I did however look up the poem on google and found a nice interpretation by Joni DaNerd on yahoo answers. Here's a link if you're interested.

TheColorEarth 23:16, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

It's not exactly a famous poem, hell, it's not even an occult item but more of an academic essay material... regardless, I'm just saying that it's worth a footnote :D

I feel the same about the Cromwell invocation, I'm not suggestion laying down a theory involving the reforms in the English church that were going through at the time (***), but I will want to see a footnote linking to some Cromwell bio.

btw, I always thought the Harkonnen had more to do with House Harkonnen, seeing as they favour heavy infantry and land vehicles as opposed to the air\naval forces of the House Atreides, but seeing how both Vladimir Harkonnen and Vlad Tepes share their name, I can how the other connotation might work :P

- p.s: besides dealing with royal houses and such, hellsing has some common points themes dune: 1. alucard wants to be defeated by a worthy opponent just like the worm. 2. trade: blood and spice to be specific 3. millennium are trying to use their technology to win against alucard, only to fail like the Tleilaxu against the worm - not worth noting I suppose, but just thought I'll throw it out there ;)


 * my idea is that Alucard got himself involved with the English reign and church at the time since the English church was going protestant meaning no more excommunication for poor old Vlad :P

~r.j.k