#hellsing worldbuilding

Rosanna Seward is the youngest and only daughter of Dr. John Seward and the only Seward to pursue the family's external trade: vampire hunting and weapon crafting.

Determined, stubborn, and sociable. Known for her temper, quick tongue, and inability to sit still. Talented pianist and wild child.

Rosanna was a sister figure to Arthur and Richard, growing up close together with the other progeny of the Crew of Light generation. She and Arthur were very close and got along really well - always up to no good and eager to take up their parents mantels.

She is the first Seward to perfect the Monofilament Wires, technology developed by her father and the Hellsing Organization. She also developed the early sketches for many of Hellsing's other technologies such as different blessed bullets, armaments, and defense mechanisms.

In 1927, Rosanna was sent to Amsterdam to study with the Harker Foundation. Under the tutelage of the Harkers and their son Quincey, she became an effective vampire hunter and anti-vampire strategist.

While there, she meets Christaan Dornez.

Christiaan Dornez is the triple-life chauffeur of the Harker Foundation. Chauffeur by day, vampire hunter by night, and eavesdropper and espionage expert all the while, Christaan is a high value worker.

Gentlemanly, a man of few words, and arresting presence. A hunger for justice, righteousness, and peace at any costs - the end justifies the means.

Christaan is Dutch and from Maastricht, Netherlands. His family is very well and alive, his father is a former priest and his mother is a school teacher. He has seven brothers. From youth, he has always been a spearhead for justice and venegance, making him a dangerous character to tick off despite his cool demeanor.

Using his chauffeur front, Christaan does a great deal of espionage and spy work for the Harker Foundation on both vampiric and mortal threats.

He primarily uses sniper fire and/or handheld blades to do his vampire hunting.

He is missing two fingers: the pinky on his left hand and the ring finger on his right.

Rosanna & Christaan

Together, they made quite the effective duo of agents for the Harker Foundation. They handle a lot of the field research collection and eradication stakeouts, curtailing the vampiric threat in northern Europe.

Rosanna decides to stay in the Netherlands with Christaan and the two get married in 1929. Their son, Walter, is born in 1930. Rosanna retires back to a strategist while Christaan continues to work with the Foundation's field agents.

They raised their son in Amsterdam and with a relatively normal childhood, embracing a very traditional family structure backdropped by Monofilament Wire exposure, family history, stories of the world beyond the veil, and visits to his grandparents and their friends.

By May 1940, the invasion of the Third Reich was in full force. Christaan and Rosanna had joined the Dutch Resistance, working in resistance measures close to the Raad van Verzet (RVV) and the Harker Foundation had stayed behind to defend their country. The Foundation and Dornez family fled to Rotterdam as the situation worsened.

May 1940, the bombing of Rotterdam eventually pushed them out. The Harker Foundation splits, sending its weakest, wounded, women, and children out of the country to England in the final push. Rosanna takes 10 year-old Walter with her, leaving Christaan behind, and arrives at Hellsing's doorstep a refugee.

However, unable to fight her sense of justice or the abandonment of her husband and team, Rosanna leaves Walter a ward of Hellsing and returns to the Netherlands, smuggled back in through Foundation and Hellsing avenues.

The Millennium Project

Contact with agents Rosanna and Christaan had become weak and intermittent while Walter trained at the Hellsing Estate as both a hall boy/footman and vampire hunter prodigy.

Arthur made it a personal mission of Hellsing to retrieve the Foundation's agents.

The remainder of the Harker Foundation eventually push into Central Europe and in the process, get the first inklings of the Millennium Project and the undead workings occurring under the Third Reich and the Special Order 666. This would be the Dornez' final mission.

The two, alongside many others, manage to steal important documents exposing the procedures, locations, and means of the Millennium Project, causing a fervent manhunt chasing them back to the Netherland border. The Harker Foundation was able to relay the information back out to Hellsing but all remaining members were arrested, imprisoned, and promptly executed by the Werwolves and Millennium's operatives.

The documents and information delivered to Hellsing became the crux of their Warsaw Operations and continental Europe missions to undermine Millennium.

Their bodies were never recovered and the Harker Foundation would not return properly to the Netherlands until 1947.

Some thoughts specifically on Anderson and Christine

I mainly want the story to focus around the impact Anderson and Christine have on each other, even if it is a more subtle adjustment to their characters within the story. Christine shows Anderson unabashed care and strong-willed compassion that encourages him to do what is right, avoid cowardliness, and aspire to protect these people. Anderson gives Christine a fresh start, someone who doesn't see her as just the small, incapable, scorned novice, stirring her to be forward, thrive more in her life, and stand by him even when things get dicey.

Christine does inevitably become more of an agent for Anderson's development and positive character arc, but she is still a distinct person with a backstory, issues, hopes, and dreams. Being a nun was never her first choice, but she delights in the Lord, so why not trust the process?

She is also incredibly observant. Christine clocks Anderson immediately as someone with ulterior motives and a secret. Rather than shaming him for it and pressing it out of him (for now), she shows him the compassion and tenderness he needs in that moment.

The Church of the Apostle of the Ardennes' true operation as an Iscariot safe house is not lost on Christine. Though she knows about Iscariot's surface level existence, she tries to stay out its way.

Hellsing shipping culture please don't kill me for this one -- Anderson's love life ends with Christine. Not only does he take on the oath of a priest, but the events at the Church leave him in a very "I have felt true love before and I will never feel it again" mentality. It is not a bad thing to him, rather a fleeting dream that he ought to wake up from.

Christine haunts the rest of Anderson's narrative, for better or for worse. She stirs up his love for caring for children and inspires the opening of Ferdinant Luke's in Italy. But she also haunts his perception on doing the right thing, no matter the cost, because he didn't take on the full cost before and it wounded him and others greatly.

I haven't written much of their interactions yet, it is all still rotting away in my head. But they're naturally friends, longingly something else. Maybe in another life, they would have had more.

Have some conceptual art I did for them ♡

MAIN CHARACTERS

I am going to work LEFT TO RIGHT. There are more than this but I am sticking to what is drawn for now.

Eoin Rem Flanders - a member of the Herrings, a Scottish gang affiliated with the mafia and arms trade to continental Europe. He is Anderson's leader and partner in crime who eventually leads the assault on the Church after Anderson flees an assassination with Flanders' gun, drugs, and a special artifact belonging to their boss - Bismarck Hering. He is violent, impatient, manipulative, and callously unbothered most of the time.

Alexander Anderson - a poor Scotsman who becomes a mafia assassin in hopes of buying he and his sister out of poverty. He earns a name for himself alongside his partner in crime, Flanders, as the Sons of Hering. After witnessing a violent supernatural event and making a kill too personal for him, Anderson betrays Flanders and the Herring, stealing a gun, drugs, and an artifact once belonging to the Vatican -- the Holy Lance. He hides in the town of Dreich, Scotland, as a priest in the Church of the Apostle of the Ardennes where the inhabitants give him a glimpse at redemption.

Christine - a novice nun at the Church of the Apostle of the Ardennes. She tends to the local orphanage and takes special interest in Anderson upon his arrival to the Church, showing him the orphanage in hopes of giving him purpose. Christine came to the monastery to escape social pressure following an assault. She is tender but strong willed. She forms a deep connection with Anderson, willing to throw away her life as a nun to run with him.

Sister Lavinia Abercrombie - an Iscariot agent paired with Father Graham to track down and protect the Holy Lance. She is armed with a crossbow that shoots arrows with blessed tips. She has a commanding, maternal presence and comes from the Champagne region of France.

Father Carlisle Graham - an Iscariot agent sent alongside Sister Abercrombie to safeguard the securing of the Holy Lance. He is equipped with two twin Colt M1900s strapped under his cassock shirt. He is British and has a strong sense of justice but also a predisposition for revenge.

Siro Quarenghi di Messina - the lead Paladin of the Iscariot Armed Priest Vanguard. He is known as the Gentle Sword of God and is Anderson's predecessor as Paladin. His rapier is made of blessed steel and he possesses similar abilities to Anderson later on. Siro's reputation precedes him wherever he goes and after reclaiming the Lance, he offers Anderson a choice to become his pupil as ultimate redemption and atonement for his life of violence.

PLOT

The biggest change I have implemented is the overbearing presence of Iscariot, all revolving around the stolen artifact of the Armi Christ - the Holy Lance. From the same arsenal as the Nail of Helena, the Lance is immensely powerful and is used by the Herrings to cull its immortal practice.

Bismarck Hering, the leader of the Herrings, is a vampire and he offers immortality to his best workers, killers, and money makers. When this Lance is stolen from him by a young teenager named Callum Nash on behalf of the Vatican, Hering sends Flanders and Anderson after him, triggering a chain of events.

Anderson's time at the Church of the Apostle of the Ardennes is over the course of three or so weeks. Also! The church is named that way after St. Hubert, the patron saint of HUNTERS as the church serves as an operative base and safe house for traveling Iscariot agents.

The other biggest change is just. Getting rid of all of the ns/fw content. It is gone <3 lol! While things DO GO SOUTH at the Church once Flanders arrives, it's nothing like the original source material. Anderson and Christine have a sweet, tender relationship characterized by Anderson's guilt over his life choices and the closer and closer threat he is bringing to these people.

I don't wanna type much more else cause I eventually want to publish my fic to the internet... we'll see.

ANYWAYS PLEASE INTERACT WITH THIS I PROMISE I AM NORMAL I JSUT LOVE EXPANDING CANON AND THIS HAS BECOME MY FIXATION TO COPE WITH THE IMPENDING DREAD OF GRAD SCHOOL LOLOLOLOL