#how do you think Dracula would react to modern Alucard?

[cry-ptidd]

"All I see is a slave."

"And all I see is a fool."

[elixirvitae]

Okay than, I’ll shoot my shot;

How would Alucard react to or treat an Empath?

My OC, Angel, is a witch and an Empath. An Empath is someone who can fully interpret the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. Some users may learn to read emotional imprints left into environment or objects. Usually over time, an Empath's power grows to the point that they can manipulate emotions in others, and possibly use them to empower themselves.

Angel is an eccentric, emotional, kind, and ‘too smart for her own good’ intelligent black teenage girl and confesses to being kind of crazy. And by her own admission, has a soft spot for monsters. Angel speaks her mind, even if it may sound crazy or strange to others, with her signature Mona Lisa smile followed by her usual series of airy giggles and is a very touchy feely person when she gets comfortable with someone, which is often when she first meets them due to her deep understanding of people.

She has ‘Hellsing: Abridged’ mixed with ‘Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt’ dub humor and is always wearing her Mona Lisa smile and is always giggling about something. She is loosely based off of Delirium from ‘The Sandman’ and Winter from the ‘Lunar Chronicles.’

In my slowly - very slowly - progressing story, Angel figures out that Alucard is or was Count Dracula when they first met and even pointed it out by playfully calling him ‘Count Dracula’ and wasn’t shy about teasing him in good fun.

~ When she starts getting comfortable around him, she would lean against him or causally play with his gorgeous hair or steal his hat and sunglasses and wear them on herself.

~ Angel is very much a modern teen and teases Alucard about being an old man and even calls him a ‘boomer’ when he remakes on certain modern things such as Angel’s eccentric sense of fashion or her technology or her unorthodox way of doing things.

~ She calls his little late night walks his ‘eldritch zoomies.’

~ She refers to the medical blood packs he’s always sucking on his ‘caprisuns.’

~ She also gave him the nickname ‘Al’ and called him ‘Allie’ when he’s being particularly snowflaky. Or if he’s being an asshole she’ll call him the ‘Crimson Fucker’ (shoutout Team Fourstar!).

Because she is an Empath, she knows what goes on beneath what Alucard chooses to show to others and brings up his troubles only when they are alone and knows his internal struggles and mechanisms. And due to her abilities, and only under certain circumstances, Angel can blanket her presence around Alucard as a way of calming him down like a heated weighted blanket.

Despite her love for the modern age she was born into, Angel is a bit of an old soul though, she loves the vintage jazz vinyl records that she inherited from her mother and due to the resources she has access to due to her family and her being a witch, can talk about certain archaic and ancient historical subjects for hours, usually about certain things that she shouldn’t know or that most people would understand.

Basically, they’re two chaotic peas in a pod and have a very strange relationship.

As you can see, it’s a lot but i this is the compacted version but I just needed to geek out about my OC to someone and get your opinion since you’re a bloody genius when it comes to having a deeper understanding of Alucard and Hellsing lore in general.

Thank you for your compliments! I'm glad my thoughts resonate!

Your character is really interesting, and she has a lot in common with mine so I do have some thoughts for you regarding someone with clairsentient abilities. So if we figure it exists in a literal sense in the Hellsing verse, I think he would steer clear of her as soon as he learned she was an Empath, while acting as casually as he can of course. Being close enough to touch him would not be comfortable for him. He works very hard to conceal all those pesky thoughts and feelings so nobody knows they exist. I also believe it would be very difficult to get a read on Alucard himself, because he is a hive of consciousnesses and their memories and feelings. I think it would take an empath a duration of time with enough interaction with him to start to pick out a pattern of the feelings that came up when they were near each other, and narrow down what seemed the most likely to be Alucard's own feelings.

He'd probably react in anger the first time she brought up his feelings on a matter, and would probably be rude for a while. The strongest feeling he would be radiating would be, I think, that of a wolf cornered by a hunter.

I think initially he'd be very firm about not talking about anything she gets from him that isn't a conscious, verbal sharing of information. Not to him, or especially anyone else. Eventually, once that boundary has been respected, he'd start to open up to her. But I think he would hate the idea of having his feelings manipulated and I don't see him letting up on that. I love the idea of your oc earning his trust so he can have somebody just to hang out and just be himself with. He'd be the coolest best friend. And you can bet if he trusts her that much, he'd go to war for her. He loves jazz music! He'll share old records of his from the first half of the 20th century. He loved American music, and he would tell her about all the legendary black artists that gave us the evolution of music into what we know it to be now. Of course he gushes about Screamin' Jay Hawkins. My OC is an anthropologist and specializes in occult and mysticism! So our characters have in common that they can talk about such things with Alucard, and I think Alucard would really enjoy being able to talk about things from history without having to give context to everything or explain what he was talking about. I have a headcanon that he would text both oc's with a random picture and tell them to blazon it as Heraldry. They text each other back and forth doing this when they're bored. Or whenever they see something weird.

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I love this piece.

"All I see is a slave."

"And all I see is a fool."