Abraham Van Helsing (Hellsing)

Abraham Van Hellsing is the overarching protagonist of the manga and anime series Hellsing. He isone of the people who had captured Alucard. He is an ancestor of Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing and the first master of Alucard.
He is a Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "M.D., D.Ph., D.Litt., etc., etc." The character is best known as a vampire hunter, and the arch-enemy of Count Dracula. However, after finally defeating Dracula, Van Hellsing decided to spare his life and take him in secret to a lab. There, Van Hellsing managed to save his former foe and control his powers. This made Alucard admire Van Hellsing as the human who was able to defeat and save him, causing Alucard to swear eternal loyalty to the Hellsing Family. 
==Biography==
Van Hellsing is a Dutch doctor who took an interest in many fields. He was also a master vampire hunter whose greatest accomplishment was defeating Count Dracula. After he captured and tamed Dracula, he or his descendants founded the Hellsing Organization as a means of fighting the vampire threat.
== Story ==
Abraham Van Helsing is the patriarch of the Hellsingbloodline, their beginning; he was the one to whom the motley crew of Jack Seward, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris went to in their quest to heal Mina Murray of the insidious taint of the Nosferatu Dracula (Jonathan Harker was mysteriously absent). This Dutch physician helped them defeat the vampire, following the plot of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, sans Harker, up to the end; instead of outright killing the undead beast, Abraham instead chose to bind the demon to his will and that of his descendants. Whether he knew that this assured Mina would never heal from her vampirism is debatable. However, he went forth and forced the vampire to undergo varied modifications which he oversaw while he lived, modifications that would eventually lead to Dracula being fully bound to the line and becoming their faithful servant against the monsters he once belonged to. In addition to this, Abraham presumably oversaw the inhuman increase in power the vampire received upon his forced servitude, including the massive upgrades in regeneration and shadow control he displayed in his future fights against Millennium.
Abraham Van Helsing, whose descendants would change surname to Hellsing and form the Hellsing Organization, was also presumably the first of the family to be awarded a seat at the Convention of Twelve. Nevertheless, his carelessness, or hubris, cost his family dearly; while Alucard was in effect bound to the bloodline, his survival also allowed Mina Harker to continue struggling through undeath as for as long as the master vampire roamed the night, she would know no eternal rest. Thence, a Nazi lunatic who ended up working for the secret Order 666 Projekt managed to dig up Mina's dessicated corpse, and use her undead systems to create the insane monster SHI, and the genesis of the Millennium Group, who would eventually end up brutally destroying London with their Army of a Thousand Vampires.
Alucard apparently had a deep, grudging respect for Abraham; he would eventually end up partly patterning his own appearance after Abraham's, reflecting how highly he thought of the doctor who had manged to best him in combat and drive a stake through his heart. He also compared the Vatican's greatest Paladin, Alexander Anderson, to him, favorably, believing earnestly Anderson's humanity and his own history with Abraham proved a human with a will powerful enough was capable of destroying monsters such as himself. Abraham was also the ancestor of future Hellsing Organization directors Arthur Hellsing and Integra Hellsing, and of failed Hellsing candidate, Richard Hellsing.
==Appearance==
In the flashback of Volume 4 of the manga (OVA II in the OVA), Van Helsing is portrayed as a middle-aged man with a rectangular face and a stubble beard. He had blue eyes with fair skin. He was also physically strong, to the point where punching the now-weakened Dracula made him bleed. He had a short, brown hair slicked to the back, while two fringes sticks up resembling horns. He's strongly built, though of a medium height with broad shoulders.
==Personality==
As a man with a wide range of variety of titles in his name, Van Helsing is simply nothing but a genius. He's an expert at his field, first one to be noticing the existence of vampires as everyone around him calls Helsing crazy for believing a myth. He's competent and calm, he's experienced and cool, yet during the speeches he made; he comes across as "bumbling." Incredibly open minded, he becomes a perfect nemesis that contrast to the strong and powerful, yet egotistical Count. A philosopher and metaphysician, Van Helsing's mission simply is to defeat the Count; so he departs as soon as he arrives. 
== Trivia ==
* Since Dracula didn't die, Mina Harker wasn't freed of her curse, however, it seems likely that Van Helsing found some sort of cure, since she stayed human and died of old age - proven by the fact of her skeleton still existing, as vanquished natural vampires disintegrate into ash. Yet evidently the infection still lingered, since the Doctor was able to reverse engineer Millennium's artificial vampires using remnants of Dracula's essence in Mina's remains.
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