Integra Hellsing

Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing is one of the main protagonists of the manga series Hellsing and the anime and OVA series based off it. She is Alucard's master and the head of the Hellsing Organization. She is a descendant of Abraham Van Hellsing and is the last of her family. 
Still as a child, Integra inherited her position as Bureau Director of the Hellsing Organization after the death of her father, Arthur Hellsing. Her uncle tried to kill her to become his brother's successor, but she was saved by Hellsing's vampire, Alucard, and she succeeded in killing Richard Hellsing. Years later, as a 22-year-old British noblewoman, a member of the Protestant Knights and the leader of Hellsing, she protects England and her Queen against the forces of the supernatural.
She is voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara in the Japanese version of the anime and Victoria Harwood (adult) and Laura Bailey (child) in the English version.
==Personality==
Integra has a very collected attitude, rarely allowing her emotions to get in the way of business. However, she is sometimes prone to bouts of anger. As the Hellsing family is "on a mission from God," she values her duties to protect the United Kingdom, its Queen, and the Anglican Church above everything else. 
For her, failure is not tolerated, especially her own. She runs the Hellsing Organization with charisma and patriotism, and she is one of the few people who can stand up to the force of Alucard's personality and command his respect. She has a domineering leadership style, but can alter it to suit a servant, such as blunt indifference to collar the violent Alucard, stern yet tender for the innocent recruit Seras, and amiable with the avuncular Walter. When she was an older woman, she would be a harsh yet effective mentor to prospective allies and recruits; she would also exaggerate the scale of heroics of people who did die heroically, but not as much as she regaled it, as to encourage stronger dedication from the students.
She was mature beyond her years, as despite only being 22, she commanded respect and had wisdom that matched and surpassed those more than twice her age. As a child, she became precocious as result of inheriting the Hellsing Organisation from her father, then needing to kill her jealous uncle in self-defense. Her strong will not only ensured obedience from her servants and subordinates, but she could also bend rivals into agreeing to her standards and terms. While both Hellsing and Iscariot were enemies of Millennium, Integra was able to coax surviving Iscariot members, including Alexander Anderson, into heeding her whims - it was also aided by the situation of the War of London, but she managed to make them follow her terms, instead of their orders.
While stoic, she was in reality deeply emotional, as she felt intense guilt, grief, and sorrow when her men are killed; however, she has the strength of will to maintain composure if an imminent threat would still be near, thereby she would have the fortitude to face such a challenge, despite her sadness. One of her greatest despairs was learning that Walter C. Dornez, who was her butler but practically father figure, had been a traitor during her entire life, thus she struggled with the thought of years of pleasant interactions as likely lies, as well as the turncoat's consequences. Even so, she could compartmentalise her misery to remain focused on the mission, even being able to vocalise that Walter meant nothing now, and gave Alucard permission to slaughter him like any other enemy. If given a moment of reprieve, such as when alone at a funeral or when the enemy had been defeated, she would break down in tears as to release the pent up grief; after Iscariot and Millennium are beaten, Integra does cry for the apparent loss of Alucard, and even Walter, displaying she still held a sentimentality, despite his betrayal.
Integra's emotional and mental discipline faced its most notable challenge upon facing the Major, who had been the architect of suffering throughout her life. Rather than anger, she remained in control, refusing to answer to his provocations; befitting her bravery, she gradually walked closer to him, even as he fired at her. She even allowed him another shot that blasted out her left eye, but she shot him once through the forehead, finally ending the madman. Despite the pain of her shot eye, and the accomplishment of the mission, Integra had the resolve to simply dismiss the Major's delusions of grandeur, and considering the cruelty he unleashed as nothing more than "an exchange of bullets."
While she never held a vanity about her appearance, she did ensure to dress in formal attire, reflecting her station, organisation, and country. In terms of physical appearance, while she grew her hair long, she was indifferent about appearing more masculine through wearing typically male-oriented clothing; however, after she past 50, she did display a small concern about her wrinkles, although this was mostly due to appearing old often being conflated with feebleness. When Alucard returned to the mortal plane, she does rue that she had become an old woman since his absence, however, she allowed herself to be reassured by the Count's continued affirmation of loyalty and assertion that she was as beautiful as ever.
==Biography==
Born into the prestigious and mysterious Hellsing family, Integra has been sheltered and educated all her life to take the place of her father, Sir Arthur Hellsing, as Bureau Director of the Hellsing Organization. Integra's mother does not appear in her flashbacks, suggesting either that Integra never met the woman or that she died when Integra was very young. When she was 13 years old, Integra's father passed away and entrusted her with their family's mission to lead the Royal Protestant Knights and protect England, and asked his brother, Richard, to aid her.
Almost immediately after Arthur's death, Richard Hellsing, jealous of Integra for inheriting the family headship, attempted to hunt her down and kill her. Integra escaped her traitorous uncle and managed to reach a dungeon in the mansion's sublevels, where her father had said she would find her salvation. Hoping to find a knight in shining armor, she stumbled across an old, dried-out corpse, instead. Richard found her, cornered her, and shot her in her shoulder, spilling her blood across the floor of the room. The corpse, actually a vampire whom Arthur had imprisoned 20 years earlier, awoke and licked up Integra's blood. Rejuvenated, it proceeded to kill her persecutors, thus saving her. Richard, desperate, attempted to kill Integra one last time, but the vampire blocked his bullet. Picking up a gun, Integra shot and killed her uncle, becoming the last descendent of the Hellsing bloodline. The vampire, whose name was Alucard, became her loyal servant.
Not long after, Integra was knighted and introduced to Vice Admiral Sir Shelby Penwood, a former friend of her father. Upon seeing Integra for the first time, Sir Penwood said that she was far too young to fulfill her duty. He revised his opinion during the actual storyline, in which he admitted that it was an honor to have met and served with her in his farewell message, prior to his death. His sacrifice was just one of the many examples that helped solidify Integra's resolution about humanity's worth and continue her duty.
Integra as a child was more timid than she is now, yet a very willful girl, being brought up with a commanding presence that even Alucard respects. She was forced to grow up quickly after her treacherous uncle tried to kill her. When Alucard became her servant, she grew more confident and comfortable with her position as head of the Hellsing family and a Knight of the Round Table. Much like Seras Victoria, Integra experiences a coming of age, gaining experience and losing her remaining innocence as events unfold and the war begins, transforming into a leader with an iron resolution who does not flinch at the first signs of danger and who gains wisdom through dire losses and betrayals. The Major recognizes her change from a "beautiful Fräulein" (he goes so far as to apologize for calling her this) to the most dangerous enemy who stands in the way of his plans, calling her forth into his Zeppelin. During inside she and Seras slaughtered the remaning forces and then approached the Captain, Integra leaves Seras to go fight the Werewolf while she goes for the Major. Integra reaches the room where the Major is and she tries to break his glass dome but fails. 
She witnesses Alucard's disappearance and she raged against the Major and Seras, who after defeating the Captain uses her cannon to break the dome along with blowing half of the Major which reveals that he is a cyborg. Integra and the Major have a debate about the definitions of humanity, with the Major claiming to embody a true human spirit despite his cyborg nature, while Integra countered that his savagery and unnaturally enabled longevity made him inhuman; ultimately, both gunned at each other and Integra gets her eye shot but succeeds in killing The Major. She and Seras feel Walter passing away, the battle won, the two then fled from the giant Zeppelin, as it exploded. 
30 years later Integra is now a 52 year old woman, after having a fencing match against Penwood's grandson, the new Iscariot leader M'quive appears, with Heinkel Wolfe now a regenerator like the late Anderson; M'guive says that they are tired of waiting Integra asks them to leave and they accept. A junior Iscariot member suggests that they should attack as Hellsing have no defenses, but M'guive noted Seras's familiar Pip was hidden on every surface; the senior Iscariot members explain that they can continue to wait until they've regained full strength, then launch the next Crusade. 
Integra and the current Penwood talked about his grandfather the original Penwood and claims that he has slashed Nazis by the hundreds and then the current Penwood leaves. 
Seras and Integra were waiting for Alucard to come saying that it has been 30 years. When Integra went to bed Alucard finally appeared, approaching in a manner that suggested he was going to feed upon her, but Integra awakened and fired upon him. Alucard was amused by her still being as alert as ever, while she bemoaned about the length of his absence. Seras burst into the room in concern for the gunfire, and is startled yet happy to see Alucard again. Integra offered Alucard her blood in a similarly seductive method akin to how she gave Seras her blood.
==Family==
Integra's known family includes Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch metaphysican and philosopher and one of the main characters of Bram Stoker's Dracula, who was either her grandfather or her great-grandfather; upon vanquishing Dracula with his team, he kept the Count imprisoned within England, a nation into which he presumably emigrated. 
Her father was Sir Arthur Hellsing, who died when she was 13 years old (12 years old in the manga), in 1989. Even though Integra had a far from normal childhood and did not go to school or a daycare, it was obvious that Arthur loved Integra very much, and wanted the best for her. It was from him that she inherited her current position as Bureau Director of the Hellsing Organization and her seat in the Convention of Twelve. 
Her uncle, Richard, sought to kill her and take the headship of the Hellsing family for himself. This was prevented by Alucard, when he blocked the bullet that was fired at Integra's face. Richard's exact motivations are unknown, though it is possible that he coveted the power and prestige of a seat in the Convention of Twelve. Another reason is hinted at in the OVA, in which her uncle continuously calls Integral "Fräulein". The use of a German word indicates a possible connection to Millennium, a group authorised by Adolf Hitler. Integra herself fired the bullet that killed Richard, making her the last known member of the Hellsing dynasty.
==Skills and Abilities==
Integra is a superb fencer with fast reflexes and speed; she has been able to block Alexander Anderson's attack (volume 1 of the manga) and behead a Nazi vampire after a car crash that shook her. In volume 9, she's even shown to be capable of cutting down a vampire soldier attacking her head on, despite the fact that the heavily armed and battle-hardened mercenaries of the Wild Geese couldn't stand a chance against such enemies.
Her aim with a pistol is deadly accurate, as well. The anime displays her skill in Order 02: Club M, where she is seen shooting through the same hole on a practice target with what looks to be a Walther PPK (she also uses a Beretta 93R at one point). Such a degree of control with any pistol from anything other than a fairly close range is incredibly impressive, if not impossible. Another piece of evidence to suggest this is her ability to shoot Jan Valentine six times with the same pistol, with the bullets forming a cross on his face (more impressive, considering he recoiled and was sent backwards from the force of each bullet), although this is demonstrated only in the original anime. She shows similar abilities in the manga during Volume 6. But perhaps the best example of her shooting skills is in volume 1 where she emptied a modified Sig-Sauer p226 into Alexander Andersons blessed bayonets, shattering them just as he was about to kill Seras Victoria.
Even at 52 years old, she retained peak physical prowess and fencing talent. Her marksmanship, however, was probably undermined by the loss of an eye she suffered in the final gun duel against the Major.
Very intelligent, Integra was able to determine the route Leif and Jessica would take and who their next targets would be by following their patterns, and she devised a strategy accordingly. She was also the first to guess what Jan's mysterious clue, "Millennium", was actually referring to. In spite of her talents, she is still fairly young and inexperienced as a leader, and thus unable to grasp or deal with the full extent of the Major's plans. However, she makes up for that in her stern and unbendable will, not backing down no matter the situation. This clearly shown where she was able to order members of Iscariot, the organization that wants the Hellsing Organization destroyed, to follow her orders and protect her on her way back to her mansion.
It is also speculated by fans that, just like her father and grandfather, Integra was educated in occultism and alchemy to be able to control Alucard's releases and to finish the process of building him into the "ultimate undead" (in the anime, this was made more obvious when Integra performed a ritual with Masonic imagery in Orders 11 and 12). In recent chapters of the manga, it seems that Integra can indeed use some form of magic to control Alucard's abilities, but whether it is due to her magical abilities or her position as Alucard's master remains to be seen.
==Trivia==
*Both Japanese and English voice actresses voiced Integra in TVA reprise their roles in the OVA series adaptation, Hellsing Ultimate.
*Her darker complexion yet lighter hair colour implied a mixed race ancestry, which would most likely include Indian due to her British nationality, as India was a British Colony between 1858 and 1947. Thus, making her Dutch, English, and Indian.
*She remains a lifelong virgin. 
**This may be a simple preference, though it could also be a precaution, since non-virgin victims of vampires turn into mindless ghouls.
**It could be out of consideration for her vampiric servants, as virginal blood is implied to taste better to vampires, as well as offer greater satiation of thirst and enhancement of power, than non-virgin blood.
**Despite her chastity, from the blood of her cut finger, she has separate moments of feeding that blood to Seras and Alucard in a manner that is sensual. In particular, she says "kiss it" to Seras, which is rather suggestive.
**By the narrative's end, she would most likely have past menopause, thus even if she sacrificed the benefits of her virginity, she couldn't produce an heir. That said, it is plausible that she had her eggs set aside for a surrogate to continue the Hellsing lineage, if not simply adopt or choose a successor at some point, whom may not carry the Hellsing bloodline, but would continue the name.
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