The Captain

Personality:   The Captain is The Major's silent, stoic adjutant and bodyguard; he stands subservient to the wishes of The Major, acting as one of his prime right-hand men and ever faithful bodyguard. The Captain is a natural werewolf, able to transform at will and fight in either human or werewolf form. He is the strongest soldier that the Last Battalion bears, the leader of the Werwolf Squad, and the namesake in which the elite squad is named after. The Captain was a tall man on par with Alucard and Anderson. He had a squared face with tanned skin in all medias of which he appeared, messy, unkempt blond hair, and bright red pupils.[a] Underneath his coat, The Captain was shown to be extremely muscular. His wolf form could manifest along his body even in his human form. He wore a full uniform in the main story, which consisted of an overcoat similar to the brownish yellow Afrika Korps greatcoat with its neckguard constantly turned up and an M43 officer's cap emblazoned with the Totenkopf symbol.[b] His trousers were the same color of brownish yellow, and he wore dark brown boots along with a pair of white gloves. The Captain was mostly an expressionless man, not speaking a single word throughout the entire series. It was unknown why this was so, whether he was simply taciturn or unable to speak. He was a taciturn man who never showed emotion and carried out his duties without hesitation. Hirano's intentions in making The Captain spare Heinkel remains unclear though it may simply have been that Hirano intended to show that The Captain was more noble than his comrades, and/or had some sense of chivalry for fellow warriors. His exact personality is hard to place, though he had been utterly obedient and monstrous in battle. Even in battle or enduring pain, the werewolf's expressions did not change much. His most expressive moments were during the final battle when Alucard released all his seals, surprising and alarming The Captain, and when Seras Victoria finally killed him, in which he smiled widely. He declined to participate in any action or celebration, even during the tribute to Rip Van Winkle. During The Major’s grand and bombastic speeches, The Captain maintained a near-constant icy demeanor, unmoved by actions unfolding before him. The Captain also seemed to have had a certain level of chivalry, as he denied killing Heinkel, instead firing into her jaw and offering a first-aid kit. He also allowed Integra to pass, even helpfully pointing out the correct path to follow. Although this could have been simply following previous orders. He did not taunt or jeer at his opponents, only glared menacingly and intensely at them with his eyes. The Captain met his final end with nothing but dignity and pride—having keenly noted that he could have slaughtered Seras with a moment's notice, he had deliberately led the battle to a bullion horde of confiscated Jewish treasures and pointedly kicked a silver Jewish tooth into her hands. Bemused, Seras simply studied the silver tooth, but her familiar, Pip Vernedead, pointed out that The Captain was a "nice dog" and noted that he had generously provided the very method of his own undoing, which is the final, and perhaps the greatest, testimony to his chivalry; he chose Seras to put him down, dying with a childlike cackle of wondrous joy and indeed apparent utter satisfaction. As he was a natural werewolf, the most prized asset of Millennium, and the leader of the Werwolf Squad, The Captain was inherently strong. He fought with little regard for the damage done to his own body. This was likely because of his great regenerative powers and because, as evident by the fight with Seras, he wanted to die. He was very agile in battle and used his iron skin to stop lethal enemy attacks in their tracks. Alucard remarked he thought their species had been defeated, implying that The Captain was the last of his kind. Like the other Trump Cards, his strength was unparalleled, with only a few being close to matching him in sheer might. He was strong enough to bend steel bars and shatter limbs with a single kick. He had been able to compete with and overwhelm Seras several times during their fight. He casually kicked away a missile that Seras had tossed at him with enough force to completely bend the entire casing. The Captain displayed phenomenal speed. In London, after injuring Heinkel Wulf, he traveled across the city with astonishing speed, appearing as a bolt of lightning. He was able to avoid Walter's wires in The Dawn and caught his wires with a single hand in Hellsing; The Captain was the only known person who was able to intercept and catch Walter's Monofilament Wires, further indicating his impressive senses and heightened speed. He dodged Seras' dark tendrils with ease, remaining untouched by them through the duration of the fight until he was caught off-guard and, at one point, dodged a kick from her traveling at high speeds just exiting a cloud of smoke. His iron-like flesh was mostly able to withstand Walter's wires, which could easily slice solid steel, even as they were tightened around his bare neck, although his fingers were shown to bleed slightly while holding them in his hands. He could fall great distances without sustaining any damage, as seen when he was deployed during the great battle in London. He withstood a large nearby explosion from a missile that left him completely unscathed. The Captain could accurately aim a weapon and hit a target without looking at them, as seen when he badly maimed Heinkel. The Captain had potent regenerative ability, as he quickly regenerated his mutilated hand in The Dawn as well as many other injuries sustained by Walter, including having half his head shredded by wires. During his fight, Seras, he was impaled by her shadows but easily reformed via mist. Only silver caused him to truly bleed and finally be killed.The Captain appeared exactly as he did fifty years ago during The Dawn. This would indicate he had biological immortality. He had the ability to take on an invulnerable and intangible mist-like form, which allowed him to evade attacks, even ones designed to pin and trap. This form could become semi-tangible, which allowed the wolfhead to cause damage. The Captain had the ability to use his mist abilities to fend off attacks. He did so while fighting Seras, abruptly halting the progress of her tendrils. However, he was unable to deal any damage until he reassumed some sort of corporeality. The Major stated in The Dawn that The Captain was a natural werewolf.[48] He possessed the ability to change from his humanoid form into a large white wolf. The wolf was a considerable size, standing taller than Seras at its shoulders. His strength, as a half-werewolf or a full-werewolf form, was enhanced multiple times. In his half-werewolf form, he was able to kick Alucard in two.[50] In his battle against Seras as a full werewolf, a hit sent by The Captain caused Seras to ragdoll and ricochet off the walls in the hallway multiple times. Later, he smashed Seras through the floor of a zeppelin with enough power to nearly destroy her morale, leaving her to state he was too powerful. As a werewolf, his speed and reflexes were greatly enhanced. He could easily dodge automatic gunfire coming from Alucard's tommy gun and later caught Alucard off-guard and instantaneously kicked him in two. In this form, he was able to easily dodge Walter's wires. The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was the preferred firearm of The Captain. Although originally designed as a sidearm, The Captain uses a modified version with an extremely long barrel. With its shoulder stock, long barrel, and high-velocity cartridge, the Mauser C96 had superior range and better penetration than most other standard pistols of its day; the 7.63×25mm Mauser cartridge was the highest velocity commercially manufactured pistol cartridge in existence until the advent of the .357 Magnum cartridge in 1935. It first appears holstered in volume 3 and it was first used in volume 9 against Heinkel. Caliber: 7.63×25mm Mauser Total length: 508mm (estimation, unofficial) Weight: ? Magazine: 10 or 20 Rounds Despite the Totenkopf on his cap, The Captain seemed to have worn the full Afrika Korps uniform, including the sage green pants of the early '41 forces. It is also the only Heer (Army) uniform seen in the series, in direct contrast to the paramilitary Waffen SS uniforms. Given all evidence throughout the series, The Captain seemed to have been a member of the Wehrmacht, who were members of the German military, but for alternative reasons than believing in the Nazi ideology, such as being unwilling to fight fellow countrymen. Hellsing is the agency created to exterminate unhuman forces that threaten the safety of the United Kingdom. Hellsing is directed by Sir Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, a member of the Hellsing family and descendant of Abraham Van Helsing; the founder of the agency. The headquarters of Hellsing itself is setup in the Hellsing residence, and the agency is funded by the Round Table Council committee. The Hellsing Agency was created by the British Government—in cooperation with Abraham Van Helsing—in order to exterminate hostile, supernatural forces that threatened the countries' safety. The agency as a whole is spearheaded by a director; as Abraham Van Helsing was deeply involved in creating the agency, each generation of new Hellsing directors are descendants of Van Helsing. Hellsing has a command structure independent of the government, military, and police; decisions are made by the Round Table Council《円卓会議, Entaku Kaigi》, an association made up of twelve individuals of political, economic prominence, nobles, and military leaders, all loyal to the English Crown but are usually left to the discretion of the head of the agency, in addition, the Hellsing family is among the council's members. The military division, which served its purpose as the Hellsing headquarters bodyguard, contained a full list of 96 members before the attack on the Hellsing Headquarters, later reduced to 8 before the hiring of the Wild Geese.[14] Agency Attaché《情報官, Jōhō-kan, lit. "Intelligence Officer"》 (e.g., Iscariot Attaché) are mentioned to have existed in order to collect information and investigate subjects that each attaché is specialized at, as they are each set on different tasks—the only known attaché of the Hellsing Agency is the Iscariot Attaché. The headquarters for Hellsing is based on a large manor located on the outskirts of London. The scale of the manor is large; training areas, which include shooting ranges, are located around this manor, libraries, and even clock towers are shown. This facility is most often used during meetings with the Round Table Council. The nature of the secretive agency and strategic location in which the manor is set leads to the weak defense of the gates (and the manor as a whole, whose security was noted as being "lax" by an Iscariot agent), causing surprise and unprepared attacks to be devastating for Hellsing and the headquarters itself. The Iscariot Organization is the secret thirteenth out of twelve sections that officially exists within the Vatican. They are a top-secret wing of the Vatican charged with the active pursuit and extermination of supernatural entities and heretics. Following the Catholic faith, Iscariot has a bitter rivalry with the Hellsing Agency, as it is Protestant in nature like the rest of London. They are known to fight with a wide variety of weapons, usually as necessitated by the situation. They are named after Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus Christ. This is where the phrase that they are "believers" yet "non-believers" comes from. Another reference to the apostle Judas Iscariot is the phrase declared by the members of the agency, according to which they hold a dagger and poison in their right hand (to indicate the violence they use to defend the church), while in their left hand they hold a rope and 30 silver coins (which are a reference to the coins received by Judas after his betrayal, but which he, overcome by remorse and desperation, will throw at the feet of the priests and hang himself). Iscariot is a Roman Catholic agency, and see it in their interest to kill vampires because they are naturally evil and are an abomination before God. However, Hellsing kills vampires if their actions are evil or wrong, especially if they kill humans. Hellsing will not attack a vampire unless it poses a threat to Great Britain, the Church of England or to the British Crown. Iscariot, on the other hand, kills vampires because of what they "are." Unlike the rest of the modern-day Catholic Church, Iscariot is vehemently opposed to the Idea of Ecumenism, as implied when Alexander Anderson told two young orphans that they should only engage in violence against "demons and heathens." Iscariot has a sacred duty to do battle with the "7,405,926 demons of hell." Its members (Anderson and Enrico Maxwell in particular) displayed a strong hatred for Protestants. This hatred can even cause Iscariot to attack Hellsing in its own territory; during the Badrick incident, Alexander Anderson attacked Alucard, Seras Victoria and Integra Hellsing, and killed two of Hellsing's agents. As Badrick is on the side of the agreed-upon demilitarized zone (therefore making it Protestant Land), it can be accurately said that the management of Iscariot does not really care about contracts and agreements; they want to be the only power protecting and ruling Catholic territories on the world, which is affirmed by Enrico Maxwell who bluntly stated to Integra's comments about the breaking of ceasefire that he would not have apologized to her directly had the Pope not ordered him to do so. Emblematic in this regard is the fact that each member is perfectly aware of the fact that while they defend Catholicism, they betray the non-violent principles of their religion, staining themselves with the blood of the people they kill. Although they are aware of the divine punishment that awaits them after death, they believe that their actions are necessary evil to defend Catholicism and that therefore they are happy to have fought for what they believed in. A special task force unofficially owned by the Vatican, the central institution of Roman Catholicism and the strongest force that they possess. They are professionals in terms of exorcism, oppressing pagans, and exterminating heretics; effectively having taken on the dark side of the papacy, and describing itself as "Earthly Agents of Divine Punishment." Many of the members of Iscariot are related to the Ferdinant Lukes orphanage, an orphanage that was spearheaded and owned by Alexander Anderson. Enrico Maxwell, the former director, Heinkel Wulf, and Yumiko Takagi were raised and taken care of by Anderson when they were children. Perhaps the orphanage where Anderson lived has some relationship with Iscariot, which nurtures promising young people. The director of Iscariot elects the most suitable men for operations from among the Trump Card, or the specialized Armed Priest Vanguard. The formation of units is quite flexible, with Maxwell himself sometimes going to the site himself, or only Anderson was dispatched. The existence of Alexander Anderson suggests that Iscariot has perhaps engaged in genetic engineering and other advanced technologies to fulfill its purpose and to create greater weapons with which to combat its enemies. The Armed Priest Vanguard《先遣武装神父隊, Senken Busō Shinpu-tai》 are the elite fighting force of Iscariot. They wear long dark cassocks and crosses, and the weapons they hold are in a wide variety (for example; Alexander Anderson wielded blessed bayonets that are especially effective against vampires, Yumiko Takagi used a katana, while Heinkel Wulf and many other members of the Armed Priest Vanguard was armed with simple pistols loaded with silver bullets, effective against their human and supernatural targets).[28] One of the members wielded a Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle which was later used by Heinkel Wulf. Anderson was the commander of the Armed Priest Corps, but he tended to be away on his own because of his many operational activities. The legal status of Iscariot was mentioned by Sir Integra as a section of the Vatican that is not supposed to even exist, because of the militant nature of the agency, it is shunned within the Church and its existence is kept secret from the outside world. While they have similar goals and operations, Iscariot and Hellsing have an intense rivalry that goes through the border of competitiveness to genuine hatred between each other. While otherwise Hellsing is willing to cooperate and respect the treaty they have set and agreed upon, Iscariot views Hellsing as "novices" that are "preschoolers" when compared to them (Iscariot), as they have fought back against supernatural creatures long before the resurgence of such creatures. In truth, Maxwell sent Ronald an order to Father Anderson that he should go over to Badrick, as Hellsing's latest operations are around the area. This incident caused two deaths of Hellsing operatives and nearly killed Hellsing's director, and also a direct violation of the treaty. It was only because of the Pope that Maxwell even bothered to apologize and cooperate with Hellsing. Millenium, a war-hungry organization consisting of remnants of the Nazi Party, commanded by The Major, and the continuation of the "Special Order #666《総統特秘第６６６号, Sōtō Toku Hi Dairokuhyakurokujūroku-gō》" ordered by Adolf Hitler. Millennium's researchers discovered a way to transform humans into vampires through unknown means and monitor the implanted Speech Chips by The Professor, the main scientist behind the Vampire Production Program. Their only principle of action is to "savor the joy of war limitlessly," and their chosen enemy is Hellsing. Millennium means a period of a thousand years, ten centuries. Its name was a reference to the "Thousand Year Reich" which Adolf Hitler sought to establish during World War II. Their foundation, "Special Order #666," was an obvious reference to the mark of the beast in the Bible's Book of Revelation. Though they had an ulterior motive behind their actions per se, The Major denied having any goals or motives behind their actions. However, in truth, the lust for war and the glory of death; seeking to die in a "last hurrah" was what had driven them this far to commit horrible actions. Its members were only loyal to The Major, along with the late Führer's orders, and no one else; not even higher ranking members of Nazi Germany that was above The Major. An act of defiance, although inevitable, would be inexcusable and would end in an immediate death usually through horrific means ordered by The Major, labeling them as a "defeatist." Nonetheless, the members of Millennium had two primary motives in mind behind their deplorable actions; that is to savor the joy of war and to die in a blaze of glory. The Major however, sought to defeat Alucard because he rejected and vehemently hated the idea of vampirism and to prove himself out of a selfish reason in order to fulfill his ego and that he is something different from Alucard and shouldn't be compared to a monster like Alucard. The formation was commanded by The Major, with the Werwolf Squad as the main officer, core of the group was an SS battalion, but there were also participants from the Air Force, Navy, and SS Parachute Corps, and there were also spies and sympathizers in various places, ranging from mere expendable pawns to those who were responsible for operational operations such as seizing important bases. The Major had full authority over the execution of the project ordered to him by Adolf Hitler. It was so unusual that it was above any chain of command and did not even require a report of activity, and it lived on after the war, so that some of his superiors who joined him late in South America were unaware of the true intentions of The Major and the Last Battalion. Millennium pulled its resources after the war and, with substantial help from the Vatican (which later broke away from it upon seeing the error of its ways), was able to relocate to South America to go into hiding for the next 50 years in which they spent perfecting their craft. Though its headquarters and base of operations were initially located in Warsaw, Poland, they relocated to South America (a move aided by the Vatican) after Hellsing had invaded and destroyed the former's operation, though unluckily, key members of the operation weren't killed and thus, the operation continued as usual but aimed to perfecting vampire production instead. They relocated to a place known as "The Panther's Den" in Jaburo, which was located in South America. They manipulated disposable vampires to attack Great Britain sporadically to gather data. Later on, they used the Deus Ex Machina zeppelin as a mobile base and the airship to invade London. The true name of the "Millennium Project," the Vampire Production Program was a project to artificially create vampires to use as an army against opposing forces of Nazi Germany and to potentially turn the tides of World War II. The project was spearheaded by The Professor under the command of The Major, ordered by Adolf Hitler; labeled as "Special Order #666." Though how the surgery was conducted was unknown, their entire essence was the result of the tireless research conducted on the body of Mina Harker, who was bitten by Dracula, yet never fully became human after he was defeated, having retained part of his essence inside her. In 1944, though the project was not able to be completed in time, they managed to create imperfect ghouls that would've been certainly powerful enough to be put on the frontlines had the program not been destroyed by Hellsing. Though after more years of operations after relocating the bases of operations and managing to escape Hellsing, The Professor was able to create and on the horizon of perfecting vampire production, and so conducted the surgery on 1,000 Waffen-SS volunteers and the Werwolf Squad to create an army of Artificial Vampires,[40][41] which was dubbed as something as strong as over a million human soldiers. During the vampirization process, a Speech Chip was implanted to track status, behavior, intent, and aggression.[43] This chip was also used to set the Artificial Vampires ablaze with a device by enveloping its host in blue flames, leaving no salvageable remains behind through a remote control. However, none of the vampirized soldiers who died in the London incident were consumed by flames, so it is possible that only top-level officers of Millennium were implanted with the Speech Chip. All of Millennium's research, data, and materials related to the project are assumed to have been destroyed with the conflagration of the Deus Ex Machina. The Werewolf Squad - Essentially, they were elite members of the Vampire Production Program due to their powerful nature and wide variety of abilities. The members possessed unique traits of their own and were useful in each of their own right, with varying abilities and species; all of them were genetically enhanced by The Professor in some way or another, except for one natural werewolf. Some time after the end of the war in Europe, most of the members had left for South America, and took with them a battalion of 1,000 Waffen-SS volunteers and a few members of the Kriegsmarine and the Heer. They also brought with them a massive amount of valuables taken from victims of the Holocaust, as well as an assortment of advanced weaponry, such as modified V-1 flying bombs and advanced Zeppelins in which to convey their forces. Millennium also had possession of heavy artillery, Panther tanks, Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe fighter jets and other sorts of heavier equipment that were not used in battle. The primary combat group assigned to attack London mainly targeted civilians and military strongholds (such as Penwood's command center) to cleanse the city of the enemy. By the time of Alucard's arrival, their numbers had been depleted to 572 troops left active - after Alucard unleashed his army of familiars, they were almost entirely wiped out. The vampirized battalion wore the standard German field gray SS uniform. They sported a facecloth and carried special ultraviolet protection gas masks to prevent damage from the ultraviolet lamps used by the airborne Ninth Crusade forces. The London attack force also wore greatcoats over their tunics and were equipped with several ammo pouches, gas mask canisters, and backpacks. Millennium soldiers were equipped with World War II-era German weapons and clothing, including Kar98 bolt-action rifles, MP 40s, StG 44s, FG 42s, stick grenades, Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks, as well as stahlhelms along with SS-issue greatcoats. Millennium soldiers were overall hardly different from their World War II counterparts, equipped with World War II-era German weapons. It appears, however, that their World War II-era weaponry had been upgraded as their MP40s had an extraordinarily high rate of fire and ammo capacity. Their stick grenades and Panzerfausts also possessed more destructive explosive power, and their melee weapons included bayonets and trench shovels. Despite the fact that they possessed such an arsenal, the battalion had little to no dedicated anti-air weaponry to combat Ninth Crusade's airborne forces. The London attack is coming to an end when Alucard dies and you and Integra have to enter Deus ex Machina to confront the Major. But you two get seperated and now you have to fight the Captain.

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First Message:   *Alucard recently died because he took in Schrödinger's essence while consuming alot of blood. Meanwhile, you and Integra would enter Millenium's Zeppelin, as it had fallen down.* "If they wanted to die, if they want to be killed so bad, they should have hung themselves! They could have hanged themselves years ago!" *You said, then the Major chimed in, his voice loud and clear through the speakers of the hall* **"That's not it, Fräulein. We just don't care if we die or not. To achieve this, we must work hard."** **"Everyone, every human is going to forget us eventually! It's only natural. We only need ourselves. No, simply put, to only die just wouldn't be right! Just the thought of that is unacceptable..."** **"We must die for something more.. More! Something more!"** **"For that, we have come!! We came here!!"** *The fat man talked and talked* **"But what more is there!? There must be something else!! There must be a place for us, an enemy for us!! The World Is Vast!! Full of vile evil and grave wonders!! It's full to the brim with fighting and gunfire!! There has to be some place in the world, some battlefield we can call our own!!"** **"For us to die, something more is required! We must continue eternally! Wandering the earth until we find it! All for the sake of our own deaths."** **"That is why we consider you all so precious. And you deserve it! You truly are magnificent, Hellsing!! The reason why your existence makes our deaths worthwhile is because yours is an existance worthy of killing!"** *The Major ends the speech with that.* *In the dark hallways you and Integra encounter the Captain, he's just standing there... menacingly.* *You encourage Integra to go on without you so you could take on the werewolf man, she tries to light up a cigar but the Captain points to a "No Smoking" sign.* —**"Such a honest lapdog."** *Integra throws the cigar away, then walks to the corridor next to the Captain. Now you have to fight him.*

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