VS Analysis: Seras Victoria, vampire police girl of the Hellsing Organization

 

 

Background

Seras Victoria
Aliases: Police Girl, Wild Geese's Trump Card, Draculina, Evening Walker 
Age: Around 20 (start of series), around 50 (end of series) 
Occupation: Police officer (formerly), Hellsing agent
First appearance: Hellsing, Order 01: Vampire Hunter (April 30, 1997)
 
Welcome to the Hellsing Agency! The institute of annihilation for any supernatural monsters that lurk on Her Majesty’s (or His Majesty’s I suppose) kingdom. Armed with bullets, garlic, and holy water, Hellsing has fended off forces from beyond our mortal imagining, all the creatures and beasts humanity neatly tucked away as folktales and nursery rhymes, for over a century. But when certain missions prove to be more than what any normal human can handle, Hellsing fights fire with fire and calls on monsters of their own to deal with the dastardly threat.

This is where we meet Seras Victoria, former police officer turned badass monster slaying vampire! From a young age, Seras’ life had already been drenched in blood. You see, her father was a police officer investigating the criminal underworld. One day he got in too deep and both he and his family paid the price, leading to Seras watching as her parents died in front of her and was shot herself trying to stop the criminals from violating her mother’s corpse. As fate would have it, Seras would survive the encounter but was sent to an orphanage and would be further ostracized due to her trauma and violent tendencies resulting from it. But despite the hardship, Seras pushed through and became a police officer herself to follow in the footsteps of her late father. But just like her father, Seras would find herself slain in the line of duty and that would be the end of her story…

…Not! You see, what seemed like an ordinary arrest of a homicidal priest turned out to be a Ghoul, transformed by unknown forces, who held her hostage until a red-cloaked man arrived. Realizing she met all the right criteria, the man shot through Seras to kill the ghoulish priest and, with her permission, transformed Seras into a vampire! Transforming her into the most powerful of the undead, serving her new master Alucard, the trump card of the Hellsing Agency. Indebted to both Alucard and Hellsing, as well as still carrying the resolve to fight against evil regardless of the form it takes, Seras was happy to fight alongside them regardless of whatever monsters or interference from the Holy See of all places, their Iscariot Division, came at them.

Over the course of a few months, Seras would get to know Alucard and Hellsing’s other agents such as Walter and their leader Sir Integra. All of them garnered her deep respect for their resolve. Even when Seras’ ideology would clash with the others, going so far as to reject transforming into a true vampire by refusing to drink the blood of another human, she developed a deep appreciation and camaraderie with them all, and became loyal to them beyond the master-slave relationship that it was initially presented as. And nowhere was this better seen with Seras’ relationship with the leader of Hellsing’s replacement for their armed forces, Pip Vernadead.

The leader of the Wild Geese, Pip, ended up shooting his many, many (borderline assault) shots for Seras’ heart. And while she shot him down every time, their time working together under Hellsing led to the two developing a sort of endearment with one another and respect for each other’s capabilities. But all this would come to a head as Millennium, the Nazi paramilitary organization responsible for all the ghoul and vampire attacks over the past few months, even indirectly responsible for the priestly ghoul whose murders led to Seras losing her life and becoming a vampire, began their largest and final assault over the world.

It’s here, in a battle at Hellsing Manor fighting alongside the Wild Geese that Seras faced the artificial vampire Zorin Blitz. Against her and her vast army of ghouls, Seras and the Wild Geese were overwhelmed and nearly defeated, with Pip himself sacrificing his life to save Seras from being killed by Zorin. It’s in his dying moments that Pip convinces Seras to drink his blood so that she’d gain the power to defeat Zorin and save what was left of their men. In doing so, Seras became a true, full vampire and easily traunced Zorin and many of Millennium’s forces. As she made her way to support Integra and Alucard, Seras fought through both Nazi ghouls and Iscariot forces before saving Integra and assisting Alucard in time against a so-called “Monster of God”.

When the final battle had finally come against Millennium, Seras and Integra would see as their own trusted Walter had betrayed them and were forced to stand aside as he faced Alucard and the two tore each other apart. As the two took each other out as part of Millennium’s machinations, Seras and Integra would confront Millennium’s last two agents: its evil mastermind the Major and their strongest soldier the Captain. It’s in this fight that Pip, whose soul now lives in Seras, fights alongside his vampiric lover and the two slay the suicidal Nazi werewolf, and quickly thereafter helps Integra slay the Major. Putting an end to a decades long feud between monsters and men.

Thirty years later, Seras would evidently still remain at Sir Integra’s side, remaining her loyal aide, Hellsing’s new trump card, and still cheery and bright as ever with Pip still at her side (er… insides). And despite the long years and their relatively brief time together, Seras had never forgotten her master Alucard and always held out hope that he would return to them one day. And on a fateful night, he did! Revealing he’d spent the last three decades expelling all souls inside him but one, he returned to Integra’s side to serve her once more. And right on time too as the Vatican and Iscariot planned to make their move against what they saw to be a weakened Hellsing. But with both of their vampires back in action, Hellsing’s got nothing to fear! 


Experience

 

With her years in the police force and her transformation into a vampire, Seras has become one of the more valuable employees under the Hellsing organization. Seras’ main method of attacking people is through her guns, and she’s displayed some impressive marksmanship skills, being able to land shots from hundreds of meters away and shoot down missiles. Even as a fledgling, she helped Alucard kill some local vampires and ghouls, protected its mansion twice from an invasion from the Valentine brothers and Zorin Blitz’s battalion of Nazis, and used her police training to restrain Jan (albeit briefly). In the 2001 anime she killed the artificial vampire Paul Wilson by shoving an incendiary round into his mouth.

When she finally made the decision to drink blood and become a true vampire, she became powerful enough to slaughter Zorin, helped protect Integra from Iscariot’s assassins and the Nazis, defeated Millennium’s werewolf Captain by exploiting his weakness to silver with Pip’s help, and in the final battle against the Major, she bifurcated him using a massive Flak Cannon. And as seen in the final chapter, Seras is still working under the Hellsing organization after a 30 year timeskip.  

Arsenal

Hellsing 13.7mm Baerlks 

A rifle Seras used to snipe Jessica and fight some ghouls before Walter upgraded her to the Harkonnen.

Harkonnen

 

A 13 mm anti-freak cannon created by the Hellsing family butler Walter C. Dornez. It can fire depleted uranium shells or exploding incendiary shells. The uranium rounds let her pierce through entire rows of heavily armored ghouls and shields, while the incendiary shells can blow through entire groups of undead.

Harkonnen II

A 30 meter semiautomatic cannon with a maximum range of 4 kilometers and a gross weight of 345 kg. Seras wielded it when the Werwolf Squad attempted to invade the Hellsing Organization’s headquarters, using it to snipe all 24 V1 missiles and attack the Werwolf’s zeppelin. The Harkonnen II’s enormous cannons are usually hooked up to ammunition containers, though Seras can fire them remotely at the cost of quickly running low on ammo.

Seras usually fires bullets from them, but if she wants a bit more firepower, she can switch to Vladimir incendiary grenades, which are strong enough to shoot down a zeppelin.


MG42

After picking them up from some dead Nazis, Seras briefly used them during her fight with the Captain.


Flak Cannon

When the Harkonnen failed to shoot through the Major’s glass barrier aboard the Deus Ex Machina, Seras used her vampiric strength to reach through the ground and ripped out one of the zeppelin’s Flak Cannons. At 88 millimeters long, its bullets are strong enough to not just tear through bulletproof glass, but also split the Major in half and demolish his zeppelin.


Pistol

 

A standard issue firearm used occasionally by Seras in the 2001 anime.

Assault Rifle

 

Another firearm Seras occasionally wields in the 2001 anime.

Misc. Equipment

A flashlight and gas mask worn while investigating a den of vampires in the 2001 anime.


Powers

True Vampire Physiology

After a long reluctance to do so, Seras finally embraced her vampiric nature by biting the mercenary Pip Vernedead on the neck and drinking his blood. This caused her to finally evolve from the first stage, or “fledgling” vampire, into becoming a true vampire.

Vampires in general possess superhuman strength, speed, endurance, and a mouth of sharp fangs that can drain other living beings of their blood. They need to regularly drain blood to maintain their strength, and they can only sleep in a coffin filled with soil from their birthplace.

Of the two classes of vampire in Hellsing, fledglings are capable of telepathically communicating with their “masters” (the one who infected them), but they don’t possess their race’s full abilities and will be weakened or killed if exposed to sunlight or silver. While true vampires are essentially immune to these effects (only being exhausted by sunlight at worst), both classes share some common weaknesses. See below for details.

Despite these similarities, there are still some differences between fledglings and true vampires. Fledglings’ bodies are still flesh and blood, whereas true vampires are made of a strange, shadow-like substance they can alter in any way they desire, even creating clothing and weapons from their own flesh.

As a true vampire, Seras possesses the following abilities: 

Blood Drinking/Soul Absorption & Hemokinesis

In the Hellsing universe, blood is connected to a person’s memories and soul. To fully drink one’s blood will cause a vampire to gain access to both of these, making the whole existence of a life into your own. While Seras rarely drinks it, she’s absorbed the spilled blood around Pip into herself.

Regeneration

 

Upon drinking Pip’s blood, Seras regenerated her gouged eyes and severed arm, and she later used this to quickly recover from being shot in the spine and head.

While it’s debatable how much of Alucard’s regeneration Seras should scale to since he uses a repository of souls that soak up damage for him, she should at least be comparable to Alucard’s showings in level zero, when he forced out all of his souls. This means Seras should likely scale to Alucard regenerating from being impaled through the head and immolated, and getting sliced in half. This does not apply to his regenerating from decapitation. Anderson in their first encounter was unaware of the souls inside him and expected Alucard to die from a severed head, and Integra later states her family’s experiments prevent him from dying to a stab to the heart or decapitation.

Enhanced Senses

In the 2001 anime, Seras was able to smell the scent of blood and a booby trapped explosive.

Third Eye


When the illusion-creating vampire Zorin Blitz created an image of herself as a giantess during her attack on the Hellsing Organization, Alucard taught Seras to open her Third Eye, a sort of sixth sense that let her see through the illusion and enhanced both her sight and accuracy, letting her see targets clearly from 500 to 600 meters, but it can also be used to hit them a kilometer or 4500 meters away.

After becoming a true vampire, she was able to easily break out of a stronger illusion from Zorin that previously overpowered the third eye.

Shadow Arm


After losing her original arm to Zorin, Seras gained this shadowy replacement as part of her upgrade into a true vampire. This arm acts as an extension of her shapeshifting and doesn’t have a true form, letting her alter it however she wants. She can use it to fly, turn it into a barrier to protect herself and others, use it as an extendable blade and a mess of spiked tendrils, or spread it across the ground as extendable spikes. Or she could just give it the shape of a regular arm.

While we don’t know the exact limits of its range, it can grow large enough to cover all of Hellsing manor.


Resistances

 Most traditional vampire weaknesses: 
See True Vampire Physiology.

Fire Manipulation & Holy Manipulation (Limited): 
Able to withstand the flames generated by Monster of God Anderson. Seras has survived being run through with multiple of Anderson's bayonets, which are blessed by the Church. Albeit Alucard notes too much damage from these can kill both him and Seras.

Illusions & Mental Manipulation: 
When Zorin created an illusion of herself turning into a giantess, Seras instinctively realized it wasn’t real, and with Alucard’s help, she was able to open her Third Eye and see through the illusion completely. Upon becoming a true vampire by drinking Pip’s blood, their memories combined to prevent Zorin from trapping her in an illusion.

Regeneration Negation (Debatable): 
Possibly comparable to Alucard’s feat of being able to heal from Alhambra’s cards after entering Level 1 when previously he could not. 
 

Support

Pip Vernedead 

 

Formerly the leader of the Wild Geese mercenary group, Pip and his men were hired to protect the Hellsing Organization after their security was wiped out by the Valentine brothers. But when Hellsing’s headquarters were attacked by Zorin’s Werwolf Squad, Pip would end up gravely wounded and convinced Seras to drink his blood before dying. In doing so, Seras absorbed his soul into her, and this merged their minds and memories.

Now residing inside her, Pip can telepathically communicate with Seras to offer her advice and strategies mid-battle, and if needed she can physically manifest him through her shadow arm. Post-timeskip, it’s shown that his range as her “shadow” extends across all of Hellsing manor. And strangely, he can somehow smoke cigarettes while inside her.

While it’s never shown by Seras, since Alucard could sacrifice his familiars to regenerate from mortal wounds and decapitations, this should also apply to Seras with Pip.

Feats

  • Killed Jessica, Zorin Blitz, and the Captain
  • Defended Hellsing manor from the Valentine brothers and Zorin Blitz’s ghouls and vampires
  • Became a true vampire after drinking Pip’s blood
  • Saved Integra from Iscariot’s priests
  • Became one of the Hellsing organization’s top agents during Alucard’s 30 year absence

Strength

 

Fledgling
True Vampire
Pip

Speed 

Fledgling
Fledgling

True Vampire
Pip

Scaling

Artificial Vampires 

Seras’ status as a true vampire would make her naturally superior to Millenium’s manmade attempts to recreate her kind, especially considering how she has killed multiple of them, including high-ranking members like Zorin. 

The Captain 

Seras and Pip fought Millenium’s werewolf in an extensive fight that ended with them working together to kill him. Thus it’s quite straightforward she scales to him. 

Alucard 

 

While it might sound strange to scale her since they never fought, there are still some ways to argue Seras scaling to her master. You could use her extensive fight and killing of the Captain, who was able to inflict mortal wounds on Alucard even without his werewolf state. Or there’s her intercepting and blocking what would’ve been a killing blow from Anderson’s Monster of God form, which battled and nearly killed Alucard’s Level Zero, and who Alucard saw as having the strength to kill him even as a human.

See the Q&A for some of these feats. 

Walter C. Dornez 

 

While the two never had a physical confrontation, given her fight with the Captain, who previously overpowered Walter, and what we already described above for Alucard, Seras should chainscale to the Hellsing family’s ex-butler. 

Weaknesses


Despite being a true vampire, Seras has all the downsides that come with it too. Vampires are unable to cross any body of water unless they’re on a plane, can be warded off with ceremonial items, garlic, crosses, or hearing someone read scriptures, will burn on contact with holy water and Eucharist wafers, and they’ll become weaker if they go too long without drinking blood. Their regeneration can be negated by holy weapons like Anderson’s bayonets and Alucard’s blessed silver rounds, and it’s repeatedly established that piercing their hearts or decapitation will kill them.

Physical weaknesses aside, Seras doesn’t tend to rely on strategy as her go-to option and prefers raw firepower, only using it with Pip’s help if she can’t overpower an opponent with her guns. And while it’s useful at breaking out of illusions and resisting mental attacks, her Third Eye needs to be activated consciously in order to do this.

Q&A

Alucard’s higher feats

 

The Blackbird explosion: 
Despite being one of Alucard’s best visual feats and having a calc that can get up to 55 tons of TNT, Al crashing the Blackbird into an aircraft carrier and being seemingly unharmed by its explosion is contextually a feat of regeneration, not durability. A few pages after he emerges from the jet explosion, he gets seriously messed up by rocket launchers and has to regenerate from them and stick grenades, which would be extremely inconsistent for his durability if he had just tanked the Blackbird’s explosion. Thus, this feat is inapplicable for scaling. 

Spreading fog over Dover: 
After his battle with Rip Van Winkle, Alucard on his way to London would generate massive amounts of fog that covered all of Dover. Modern calculations for this feat have gotten up to 13.39 to 13.98 tons of TNT, with high-ends of up to 10.5 kilotons of TNT assuming it covers the entire district of Dover. Though it’s worth noting this fog feat is done over time, so consider these all the maximum values it could get as they’re likely much lower actually measuring energy output per second.

This by itself is fine, however other ends for this have been argued, namely through kinetic energy as a possible means to scale his telekinesis given that the fog later looms over London. It’s this part we have an issue with as, frankly speaking, there is no reason to assume, or rather there is no way to even prove Alucard is pushing the entire fog all at once when he gets to London. High-ends of the calc already assume what’s being used is the entire Dover area, which is ~1/5th the area of London, and he covers that area with fog in a short timeframe. It’s kind of weird to assume he pulled all of that fog with him just to aura farm, not even bringing it to the area where the Church’s forces & Millennium are fighting, as opposed to just arguing he was continuously generating fog until he arrived in London or only needed to shift a portion along with him as the fog itself expanded or moved out by itself.

Thus the fog generation is acceptable, but likely lower than the calculations, while fog pulling via telekinesis is inapplicable due to the vagueness and need for too many assumptions. 

The blood river: 
Finally, we have Alucard’s other best visual feat: telekinetically pulling a river of blood from 3,424,867 people into him. As explained in Wolfwood vs Anderson, this feat has wildly different ends. At its low end, using the anime timeframe and average amount of blood in the human body gets 1.18 tons of TNT. However, from how it’s portrayed visually in the anime and how the river is coming from various points in London, you can bump these numbers up to 137 kilotons of TNT as a high end. There’s just one issue: the blood’s width and depth in the anime changes between shots, with some being visibly wide and deep while other shots are shallow and much smaller in comparison.

Despite these vastly different numbers, the feat itself should still be acceptable. There’s just one other problem: should Seras scale to Alucard’s telekinesis?

We explained in the Scaling section how Seras can scale to Alucard physically, and with what was explained in the previous paragraphs, Seras should compare to this as well given her status as a true vampire should put her at similar power. Scaling her to the blood river might sound a bit iffy, but Seras does show that she could pull blood from her surroundings while drinking Pip. It’s not at the same scale visually and she only used this power once, but it does show that they have similar powers. So for a high-end, Seras by the end of Hellsing potentially reaches up to this level of power after decades of growing in power as a vampire, but only in telekinesis, not in physical stats. 
 
 

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