Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Walter C. Dornez)

**Assassin** (アサシン, *Asashin*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"I stand as myself. I stand here under orders from no one. I stand here as Walter C. Dornez. In light of my bloodthirst, I believe I shall sever all of you this Dawn."* - Walter C. Dornez

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Walter C. Dornez**, a 69 year old retired member of the Hellsing Organisation, and was a spy working for Millennium.

Though he served as Integra Hellsing's butler, he had still proved to live up to his nickname "The Death God (死神, Shinigami)" with deadly razor sharp wires. He had a close friendship with both Integra and Alucard. He was a former active duty member of the Hellsing Organisation and was employed as the family's retainer, until he betrayed them.

### Appearance

Walter was a tall man, standing at approximately 6'3", thin man who typically wore black dress pants, a white dress shirt with a purple tie, and a purple vest. He also wore gloves of various colors (usually black, brown, or white), and tended to kept his hair long in a tightly bound ponytail.

His eyes were red, and he wears a monocle that rests on his nose bridge.

After his transformation, he donned an all-black version of his usual attire with chains around the waist and pockets and black fingerless gloves. His eyes became violet, and his pupils changed in shape from round to thin.

### Personality

In his youth, he appeared to be belligerent, short-tempered, foul-mouthed, arrogant, and almost sadistic in his love of battle, as seen when insulting and mocking The Major and gleefully slicing up the Millennium soldiers. He would loudly brag and regularly insult his opponents. He was greatly annoyed by The Major's lack of fear of him after seeing him easily kill several soldiers.

As an elderly man, Walter serves primarily as Integra's butler and also makes special weapons for use by vampires, Alucard and Seras Victoria. In his old age, he has become the perfect model of an English butler; polite, diligent, brooding, dutiful, and intelligent with a dry, ironic sense of humor and a merciless disposition toward the enemies of his master. He appears to have mellowed out a great deal externally, cutting apart his enemies with a cold precision rather than with the glee of his younger self, and delivering only ironic and dignified insults instead of simply swearing up a storm.

During his earlier years working under Arthur, it seems as though he formed an alliance with Millennium, despite saying in The Dawn that he would never join with them.

He appears to take great pride in being human, to the point of saying in response to Alucard's depreciation of old age that "If we cannot have our prosperity with pride, we should reject such prosperity.", but this too would be revealed to be just a part of his act. After the doctor rejuvenates him, he even states how beautiful his new body was; at the same time, he steps on the remains of Alexander Anderson, saying that people become trash once they are dead, and that trash should not be mourned for, showing that he views humanity and mortality to be weak, and all his sentiment to the contrary were likely part of his ploy to remain above suspicion.

Despite his secret disgust for human beings, he does have a large amount of care and affection for Integra and Seras, as he views them as the only thing close to a real family he has. This has been shown on many occasions, such as when Seras thanks him for everything he's done for her, and for being the only one to show hospitality to her when she first came to the manor - and this actually made him break his true character for a brief moment to show that he truly appreciates her gratitude. When Alucard mockingly reminded him that, because of his betrayal, he had lost Integra and Seras forever; and that now their love and company belong solely to Alucard alone forever, this causes Walter to become incredibly furious. On his death bed, he smiles and thinks of Integra, and how they've come so far together, and though despite that his plan failed, he still dies happy because of her.

Despite his ruthless betrayal of Integra and the rest of Hellsing to Millenium, Walter did have a degree of disgust for the experiments of the Doctor. His revulsion at the experiments on Mina Harker's corpse, referring to them as unspeakable, shows a degree of respect for the remains of the dead and an utter contempt for the very scientist who gave him the strength to defeat Alucard.

### Relationships

#### **Alucard**

Alucard and Walter were the only real friends each other have, to the point where Alucard had called them "blood brothers" due to their companionship and the incomprehensible amount of people they've killed together over the decades. However, when Walter betrayed Hellsing, Alucard began to see him as a mere plaything, even going so far as to call Walter's younger vampiric body ugly and state that his elderly human body was "a thousand times more beautiful".

## Abilities

Despite being a human, Walter possessed exceptional combat prowess, on par with or exceeding many supernatural beings. During Millennium's initial assault on the Hellsing manor, he dispatched a large force of ghouls with almost inoculate ease and confidently engaged an artificial vampire.

As a former Master Vampire Hunter, Walter is extremely well-versed in the supernatural and can tear his way through the undead with ease despite his aging body. He is privy to all of Hellsing's secrets and is a skilled actor and liar, orchestrating the attack on the Hellsing household and masking his betrayal until the moment he blatantly admitted it to his master and Alucard himself. In addition, he is also a skilled gunsmith, crafting custom firearms that became the preferred weapons of both Alucard and Seras Victoria, each fine-tuned to match their wielder's attributes perfectly. After being rejuvenated, he showed even more proficiency with his wires, forming shields durable enough to stop Alucard's bullets, dragging Luke Valentine and the Hound of the Baskervilles around like a marionette, and slowing his descent by digging his wires into the surrounding infrastructure. With these techniques he gave Alucard a great deal of trouble despite his body's rapidly deteriorating condition.

While his own stamina is above average, both of Walter's forms have some limitation on his combat readiness (his human form was aging and weakened, while his vampiric form was unstable and constantly deteriorating), Walter is rather overconfident when he has the upper hand. When as a vampire, he should be vulnerable to sunlight, silver and blessed weapons.

It is said that he is faster than Jan Valentine, casually dodged a hail of gunfire from dozens of assault rifles at once and remarked about how slow they were. While he admits that he's noticeably winded after dealing with Jan Valentine, he's still more than capable of keeping up with Seras Victoria and is far more agile and energetic than any normal elderly He even fought with Alucard for hours, but the unstable nature of his transformation limits his combat activity.

Walter wields Micro-Filament Razor Wires, razor sharp wires that move faster than Walter himself does, effortlessly slicing through multiple layers of steel and concrete with the slightest effort on his part. With the razor wires Walter has sliced through dozens of ghouls with a flick and can tear through vampires with relative ease, who can take bullets and long falls without any damage.

### Skills

#### Personal Skills

* Wired Shield (B Rank): Walter can weave the wires as he likes, creating mesh screens out of the wires to block bullets from Alucard, and each screen appeared to contain hundreds of individual woven threads.

* Puppeteering (E Rank): Walter can use his own wires to impale his targets and control them as if they where a marionette.

* Mind's Eye (Fake) (B Rank): Walter's speed, senses and reflexes surpasses any human. He was able to dodge a barrage of bullets from multiple assault rifles at close range and in the tight quarters of a manor hallway. He was also able to easily outmatch the reflexes of an entire squad of vampirized soldiers, as he cut an entire group of them apart during a betrayal by one of Penwood's subordinates at the beginning of the Zeppelin incident.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Monofilament Wires; "Razor Thin Wires of the Death God"**

Walter's are ultra-sharp and super-thin, so much so that they can hardly be seen by the naked eye. Even vampires like Jan Valentine failed to see them, despite his senses being enhanced, until it was too late, allowing Walter to painfully yank the ring off of his lip. They are embedded into his gloves and are what he uses as his primary weapon. According to the HELLSING official guide book, Walter's wires are made of a special steel.

#### **A Butler's Life; "Post-Experimentation of an Artifical Reaper"**

A representation of the numerous ages Walter had lived throughout his time. A Noble Phantasm that with an experimentation could alter his appearance, and restore him to his prime self, with the effect of becoming an Artificial Vampire.

When turned into a vampire by Millennium, his body was restored to its physical prime, and he gained vast augmentations to all of his physical capabilities. His wires grew much longer and Walter used them to easily slice down two buildings. His reflexes far exceeded Alucard's and he could lift him high in the air with his wires and smash him into buildings, breaking concrete and steel with just one hand. It should also be noted that Walter managed all this despite the fact that his body was deteriorating throughout his entire fight with Alucard. Walter was able to take a punch from Alucard, albeit it forced him to regenerate which caused him to regress into his teenage years. His body also appears to have had an unusual amount of resistance, even though his body was in a state of advanced deterioration during the time these abilities were demonstrated. He was seen standing in direct sunlight as the dawn rose on Millennium's night of carnage and was also seen taking several bullets from an Iscariot sniper rifle, including one to the head.

## Trivia

* The name of one of Walter's Noble Phantasms, A Butler's Life, is a reference of a fanart of Walter with all three versions of himself in the series. The fanart was made by Duthcjs.

## References

https://hellsing.fandom.com/wiki/Walter\_C.\_Dornez

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Walter\_C.\_Dornez

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Walter\_C.\_Dornez

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Walter\_C.\_Dornez