//LONG-ass headcanon sesh for D, Alucard (Hellsing) and Adrian (CVâs Alucard) all kinda rolled into one.
So, since I donât have radiantDecay anymore, Iâve sort of pulled back from the verse where Adrian BECOMES D. There was a lot of movement and timeline adjustment that had to happen for that one, and while it is in some way still possible, Iâm not terribly interested in upkeeping a unique interpretation for a character thatâs never really going to come into play. If youâre writing with D, itâs thousands of years after he was Adrian. If youâre writing with Adrian, itâs pre-1999 pretty much.
So, I have some documents someplace that I had written regarding Dâs origins. The novels heavily imply that heâs somehow enhancedâyâknow the movies hint at him just being super powerful Mary Sue turbo ultra dhampir simply because he is the son of âOur Sacred Ancestorâ whomst we all pretty much know is Dracula himself right? Certain novels even hint that Mina Harker is his mother, if they donât just outright state it. It might be the clunky translation (they really should have been more carefully transliterated because WOW some of those sentences just⌠donât), but thus far itâs not been made CRYSTAL PERFECT CLEAR. However, Iâm more than willing to run with that idea.
Dracula is, by the time Mina et. Al. come up against him, quite old, nigh ancient. I think that the Dracula of the Bram Stoker novel is or, rather, was the historical Vlad III Dracula Tepes (the impaler), born in the 1420s, âdiedâ in the 1470s, iirc. Supposedly, the sultan at the time⌠Mehmed Fatih, kept his head in a box for a while before pinning him up on the walls of Constantinople, which the Turks controlled at the time. Ugly period in history for Eastern Europe⌠With Wallachia and Transylvania, in particular, two kingdoms in Romania, times were triple trouble. They were sandwiched between the Ottoman Empire to the east, then west was Eastern Orthodox Christendomâfurther west was Roman Catholicism and if you think THOSE guys didnât fight, ding dong ur wrong!
BUT this period of violence produced one of the most well-known and controversial heroes (sometimes called a war criminal) of all time. Also he had a great âstache. Now when I write Hellsingâs Alucard, I roll with this same lore, so D and that Alucard could absolutely exist in the same âverse. Itâs kind of a âdarkest timelineâ deal, a world in which the Belmont clan never existed. Before that even, Lisa never made Draculaâs acquaintance so the guyâs motivations are a little different. In addition, he is NOT Mathias Cronqvist, a tactician during the first crusades in 1090 AD. In that case, he would have revamped (PUN) his whole personality and integrated himself into one of the other great houses of Wallachia/Transylvania and re-emerged four hundred years later as Vlad the Impaler. That could work fineânot like he hasnât got timeâand that would have been around the time he met, and lost, Lisa. Now whether THAT part of history looks the same is dubious, since Vladâs exploits during the period of his reign/deposition/reign/deposition/beheading are pretty decently documented. In this case, Iâm going to say the Belmontsâ existence is in a timeline where those conflicts also may have played out differently. As these are all fictional worlds, I guess thisâs up to ME atm. Nice.
So this is part âhow I write Dâ and part âhow Iâd be inclined to write Alucard (Hellsing) in interactions that take place BEFORE the mangaâlike WAY beforeâ. Since Adrian would have been a major contributing factor to the Belmontsâ strength from Trevor onward (so in the games idk if folks know this, but Adrian is Trevorâs father, with Sonia Belmont being his mom), that would also have contributed, at least in part, to the ability of the Belmonts to stomp Dracula and his minions.
With D, there is no need to include Mathias and his ebony/crimson stone conundrum, which does tend to throw a small monkey wrench in the olâ gears (but not big enough I canât adapt, trust me). The difference, aside from lack of Belmonts, is the origin of vampires. Clearly, theyâre a magical construct or a spell-woven form of sentient life in Castlevania. In Vampire Hunter D, itâs heavily implied (once again, not outright stated) that the Nobility, some of them anyway, are simply a mutation of humanity (Dark Gene vs Light Gene, Linaâs whole deal, among other passages here and there), who also happen to be allergic to garlic, crucifixes, running water, and basic-ass Bram Stoker weaknesses. Theyâve even got labs full oâ Nobles tryinâa conquer the sun issue.
So to know D, we gotta know his dad first. At the beginning, Vlad III is born to (big surprise) Vlad II. He and his brother are sent to Edirne as part of the Ottoman Empireâs âtributeâ of however many young  boys from noble houses, to be trained in the ways of Islam and Turkish mannerisms, etc. This is more for pacification of that region of Europe, which is still Eastern Orthodox, than it is for real âpeaceâ. Itâs âpeace because you guys are a good buffer zone between us and the rest of Eastern Orthodox-domâ, anyway. Every _voivode_ of Wallachia has to swear allegiance to either the Ottoman Empire or to the Eastern Orthodox church. While most of that area is EO, itâs in their best interest to swear to the Ottoman Empire. Theyâre bigger and closer. Vladâs dad has done some underhanded shit, but heâs also a member of the Order of the Dragon and has propelled it to new heights within the EO and thatâs where Vlad gets his name: Dracula, which is Son of the Dragon. So Vlad IIâs immediate family are known as the Draculesti, which is fucking coolâitâs like âchildren of the dragonâ and thatâs not even his like, NAME nameâitâs a frickinâ nickname, or sobriquet, as is Tepes.
In the world of Vampire Hunter D, vampirism appears to be a genetic phenomenonâironically, a mutation. No Noble is going to admit that, OBVIOUSLY. And while itâs true, they were probably born that way, theyâre still a mutant human derivative. Rather than mutating due to radiation or whatevermstthefuck like the actual mutants in VHD, theyâre just born that way. So what Iâm rolling with is Vlad III was born with that particular mutation and, kind of like my OC Toby, who is also a genetic vampire, it takes a violent or unnatural death to trigger the actual symptoms, else youâre just a normal-ass person. In fact, in this interpretation, Iâm going to say that maybe quite a few people are BORN with that mutation, but if they live to a ripe old age and die, it never triggers. Most likely, the body is too enfeebled to handle it, maybe it dies after menopause/andropause? Either way, the body has broken down too much and thereâs no material to work with.
That might also go a long way to explain the animosity many old vampires have toward humanity. Sometimes itâs straight up contempt, of course, but every single time, it seems to be a removal. Carmilla is a good example. Most of the time, her backstory involves a vicious assault that might very well have killed her. Imagine dying that way and waking back up to find that you had to KEEP living in the world that did this to you, that death is FAR far off. I can understand being VERY PERTURBED, to put it mildly. By the same token, what about war? How many folks die in war? Thousands? Millions? Of all those, how many have the mutation? Probably quite a few. Some folks might not figure out whatâs going on and stay where they are, buried for decades, before just wasting away without sustenanceâVampires DO require blood, after all, to keep doinâ their thing. Plenty more are probably just torched in the sun. Since they were KIA, it might be rough finding their bodies in the first placeâŚ
So Vlad is beheadedânow this part intersects VERY well with Hellsingâs Alucard in my portrayalâand Mehmed Fatih keeps his head close at hand for a bit, probably talking to it. What happens when it starts talking back? We know Dracula has some SERIOUSLY kickass abilities and putting himself back together would definitely be one of âem, in my humble opinion. Mehmed dies not long after he achieves âvictoryâ over Vlad the Impaler and no one knows where Vladâs remains are. Maybe they up and walked the fuck away, hm? Maybe it was HE who ensured Mehmedâs destruction. How poetic would THAT be? Spoiler alert ||very||.
Now imagine going through everything he didâthe guy had a tumultuous life. He might be one of the few, lucky ones who figure out that sunlight is a no-go, hide himself away, eventually go back to haunt his castle in the mountains between Transylvania and Wallachia. Now fast forward to the 1800s, MODERN TIMES (heehee okay) and one very ambitious realtor who wants to sell a creepy old abbey to some weird foreigner. Seems legit. Anyway by now we can see that Draculaâs gotten kinda nutty? He has three scary âwivesâ but he doesnât seem to care much for âem. Theyâre obviously vampires, too, though I cannot recall if theyâre turned by him or if theyâre LIKE himâanyone whoâs read it recently, do feel free to refresh me.
Heâs kinda senile and while heâs crafty, heâs outsmarted by a dandy, an ancient-ass doctor, a dude who cannot stop fainting, a man named Quincey (my husbando), and Jack Sewardânuff said. He has some kind of congress with Mina, though ofc itâs the Victorian age so the only penetration is that of his liâl toofers on her poor neck. Nom. I donât think Dracula banged Mina Harker. I think that, in THIS world, a dhampir is a nigh-impossibility, because at this point (and their cool-ass vampire science mightâve changed this), vampires are The Undead⢠and therefore cannot CREATE LIFE. Not even if they have a raging turboner (thatâs a turbo boner, for those of u not in the know). So he bit Mina, but before he did that, Mina married Jonathanâlike as soon as he got home. They were married and living together and doing the frickle frackle, presumably, before Drac shows up in London to mess up their day.
In this case and for the sake of sanity, to create a dhampir, the vampire must chew on a pregnant lady. The curse lifts from her when the master is killed, but his blood has already entered and changed the child; the process is much longer and more involved for an adult human, who has an immune system and much more ground to cover. If the smol bean was in embryo stage or even fetal, it had no defense and momâs body provided it with everything, Draculaâs blood, included. The final set of letters in Dracula mentiones a young boy, Jonathan and Minaâs son, Quincey, named after their fallen friend. So little Quincey is a dhampir!
Now, a bitten vampire cannot, in this universe, turn anyone else. They can feed and create thralls, but they canât make VAMPIRES. In Hellsing lore, if a vamp bites you and youâre a virgin, you become oneâif not, you become a ghoul/zambolio thingamajigger. Integra narrates this for us pretty early on. But itâs not Alucardâs venom doing this. Itâs the vicar of Cheddar Village, who is a manufactured vampire. Heâs not a true vampire, not like Alucard. Now, Alucard DOES ask Seras if sheâs a virgin âfore he kills and bites her, which makes sense⌠IF HE LOVED MINA.
Hear me out. So, he saw this strong-ass bitch and thought âgoddamn Iâm sick of my whiny, vicious wives UGH I need me a woman like thatâ. So heâs gunna turn her. It probably takes longer since he hasnât been powered up by Hellsing and their dark science-magic shit, or whatever it was⌠OR as he chomps on âer, he realizes âwell fuck me sheâs preggo, so even if she changes, I canât have herâ. Pregnant blood has GOTTA taste different, all those hormones and shit, even early on. I think he did have some weird admiration-affection for her. His arrogance and greed, however, has taken him over, so perhaps he decides to change her slow, to make the fellas suffer. Theyâve fucked with him so heâs gunna fuck with them, but I think it pains him a little to do so, because lbr Minaâs the woman of his dreams.
So when Quincey is born, heâs perfect, healthy, rosy-cheeked, and by god only Mina knows somethingâs amiss. Damned if sheâs going to say shit to Jonathan, whoâs liable to faint, the absolute fucking walnut. They live fairly well, having taken over the real-estate business from their wonderful, generous, dead benefactor.Â
Much like Carmillaâs weirdo ghost, however, Draculaâs spirit absolutely lives on.
TL; DR D was born Quincey Harker.Â











