Shine's characters come mostly from Hellsing, but there's a significant overlap with other series. This page will cover all of them. When I finish with it, that is. It's a work in progress; as you can see, I have lots of little circular images to draw.

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Hellsing

Hellsing Organization

Sir Integral

In canon: The tough, no-nonsense head of the Hellsing organization, a Round Table Knight, and master of the vampire Alucard. Inspires fierce respect and devotion from her forces.

In Shine: Walter and Seras occasionally try to get her to relax; the last time they did this, she ended up stranded on a desert island. Wields icy glare of death. When powered up by Perun's Flowers, has potential to wield other nifty powers, though with limits. Catches on to things quickly except where emotions are involved, in which case Walter steps in. Definitely not in love with Alucard. Nope. Not at all.

Alucard

In canon: The self-assured True Undead who serves Hellsing - specifically, Integral. Despite this, generally glides through (un)life with a carefree air, lots of style, and big guns. Is not-so-secretly Dracula.

In Shine: Had a relationship with Walter while fighting alongside him in WWII. Is looking for a good fight, but is embarrassed to reveal his servant status to worthy opponents. Has seen a lot over the centuries, including the Doctor (and Wowbagger, for that matter). Certainly not in love with his Master. Oh no.

Seras

In canon: The young police officer who lets Alucard make her a vampire. Is at first shy and unwilling to drink blood, but eventually embraces her vampire nature and pwns utterly. Rejects Pip's early advances. Wields a freakin' huge gun.

In Shine: Has yet to become True Undead, although her vampiric powers are beginning to unlock. Was opening to Pip's romantic overtures until their date in Paris turned out to double as a business trip. Is now slowly getting to trust him again.

Walter

In canon: The deceptively mild-mannered butler of the Hellsing house. Retired agent "Angel of Death", he wields a weapon dubbed "the dental floss of death". A Dune fan. Always on hand when Integral needs him.

In Shine: A complete sci-fi geek, whose ability to sense when Integral needs his help verges on the supernatural. Handles paperwork in her absence. The most Zen of the group, he deals mildly with everything from his past relationship with Alucard and impending mortality to the kettle whistling.

Pip

In canon: The roguish French captain of the mercenaries known as the Wild Geese. He's quick at thinking on his feet, and his early fear of monsters soon becomes a genuine affection (and, yes, lust) for Seras. Has a strong sense of honor.

In Shine: Every attempt he's made to win Seras' affections has come crashing down around him; he can't seem to stop putting his foot in his mouth around her. Thinks in French.

Wild Geese

In Shine: Several of the Geese have been distinguished as people. One is dating the Nameless Woman from Order 07. Pip's gone out drinking with groups of them.

Vatican Section XIII

Enrico Maxwell

In canon: The snakelike head of the Iscariot Organization. Talks with a smirk and can be very petty, although Integral never rises to his bait. Abandoned as a kid. Willing to have anyone killed for the Vatican's sake, he's a religious fanatic, and eventually goes off the deep end because of it.

In Shine: His descent into madness has been headed off for the moment by self-doubt, largely caused by his overwhelming crush on Integral. Occasionally relates made-up stories about his childhood.

Alexander Anderson

In canon: Iscariot's ace, scientifically augmented into a regenerator: able to heal bullet wounds in seconds and grow back lost limbs. Fights like a berserker when vampires are around, but is the wisest of the lot when his head's clear. Good with kids.

In Shine: By far the oldest of the Iscariots, he's often the calm onlooker. After experiencing the desires of AAxA-shippers, immediately got his mouth washed out with holy water.

Heinkel

In canon: The more level-headed half of the Vatican's dynamic duo of assassins; also acts as bodyguard and troop leader when the situation calls for it. Androgynous.

In Shine: Young but expertly competent. Resents having to protect Yumiko; in denial about her fatal attraction to Yumie.

Yumiko/Yumie

In canon: A split personality. Glasses on, she's sweet and gentle nun Yumiko; glasses off, she's Heinkel's sword-wielding berserker partner. Yumiko is aware of Yumie, and wishes her crazy half could just stay asleep.

In Shine: Both Yumiko and Yumie are devoted fans of Nenene Sumiregawa. Went to Lillian Girls' School for junior high. The Hellsing organization knows of Yumie, but doesn't know she has an alternate identity.

Other (Hellsing)

Helena

In canon: The old vampire in child shape who lives alone with her vast collection of books and an old record player. Gives Seras aid and advice in the lead-up to the Incognito fiasco; killed, but unfazed by her death, explaining that her spirit will be freed to wander the sky.

In Shine: After the timeline was rearranged, gave Seras aid in the lead-up to the Valentine Brothers fiasco. Longtime friend of Reseda. Inadvertently drawn into Hell once; rescued through divine intervention. Occasionally does book reviews.

The baobhan sith

In canon: A Scottish vampire who, working for Millennium, infiltrated the Hellsing mansion by hypnotizing the humans to believe she was "Integra's younger sister, Laura". While Incognito distracted Alucard, she tried to turn Integra, and very nearly succeeded.

In Shine: Though briefly seen in Hell before the timeline changed, in the new timeline she was never recruited by Millennium at all. However, she still has ambitions of attacking the leader of Hellsing, and takes the initiative on her own.

Tubalcain Alhambra ("The Dandy")

In canon: The suave and skilled card shark who, during the attack on Alucard and Seras' hotel in Rio de Janeiro, directed the forces and eventually faced Alucard himself. Put up a very cool-looking fight before he was killed.

In Shine: Not dead yet. A huge ladies' man, charming and smooth to a fault, though something about Rip seems to fluster him. Native to Rio. Mildly obsessed with card games.

Rip van Winkle

In canon: The opera-singing, parasol-twirling young Millennium vampire who hijacked the battleship H.M.S. Eagle. Was, unbeknownst to her, a decoy, set to lure Alucard away from England and strand him in the middle of the ocean. Succeeded at this, though Alucard killed her too.

In Shine: Also not dead yet. Cute and perky when in a good mood; snappish when in a bad one. She and Schrödinger bicker like siblings. Takes the Dandy's flirting in stride, as he hits on everyone.

Schrödinger

In canon: The mischeivous catboy created by Doc. Acts as a sort of mascot for the Hellsing series. Like the cat in the scientific parable, exists in a state of some kind of quantum uncertainty: he is "everywhere and nowhere." In practice, this means he can appear in the Hellsing mansion without going through their security. Has, so far, only been used as a messenger.

In Shine: Has had his body (temporarily?) swapped in one of Doc's experiments. His body, with an innocent and kittenlike mind, has been found and adopted by Seras. His mind, in an as-yet unrevealed body, is back at the Millennium secret base.

Major Montana Max

In canon: The head honcho of the Millennium Nazis, originally in charge of the Nazi vampire research project. Despite this affiliation, he doesn't seem to share much of the party's ideology. He just has a thing for war, and his goal is to start a big one. Secretly an otaku.

In Shine: Not yet ready to start the invasion of England, he has been directing assorted plots to study and/or weaken Hellsing. Of course, if it interrupts dinner, all bets are off. Has pictures of '40s DC Comics villains in his room.

Herr Doctor ("Doc")

In canon: The slightly mad scientist who ran the experiments that eventually led to Millennium's use of vampires. Polydactylic. Created Schrödinger somewhere along the line, as well as the chips implanted in Millennium's agents that transmit information back (and set them on fire when they fail).

In Shine: His repertoire of inventions is even greater here; he's cloned I-Jin and swapped minds around. So long as his experiments work, doesn't worry about much else.

Captain Hans Günsche

In canon: The strong, silent type. (Whether he can't speak or just refuses to, nobody knows for sure.) Also, a werewolf, in the "man who turns into a wolf" sense. Fought Walter in 1944.

In Shine: So far, almost exactly the same. Does a lot of standing around and saying nothing. One difference: When briefly in the Major's body during the body-swap storyline, locked himself in the Major's room and sang disco.

Read Or Die

Yomiko Readman

In canon: The British Library's ace, known as "The Paper". An enthusiastic bibliomaniac, she can't get enough of books; she also has the amazingly versatile ability to control and direct paper. Has saved the world. Is Nenene's self-proclaimed "biggest fan"; has saved her, too.

In Shine: Acts as Nenene's bodyguard during a British book-signing tour; collaborated with Hellsing when their duties overlapped. Able to match Alucard evenly in battle. Has not yet accepted that her feelings for Nenene are more than those of a fan for an author.

Nenene Sumiregawa

In canon: An author whose first book, written when she was thirteen, became a smash hit. Has since written several books, although writer's block hits in her late twenties after Yomiko's disappearance. Has a locket with Yomiko's picture.

In Shine: Nineteen when we meet her. The one who knows Yomiko best; able to respond to the bibliophile's moods effortlessly. Also perhaps the only person who can hold her own in a staring contest with Integral.

Other Series

Emma and William Jones, Hakim Atawari
^{For more about Victorian Romance Emma, visit And Shine England Then.}

In canon: These three hail from Victorian Romance Emma. The title character, Emma, is a maid; William is a young nouveau riche; they fall in love. Trouble ensues from all sides. Hakim is an Indian prince and a friend of William's (they were classmates at Eton). He encourages Emma and William to ignore class and go for love.

In Shine: When we meet them in 1897, Emma and William are happily married, and Hakim still comes by to visit - on elephants, as usual. Hakim is the father of Integral's mother.

Madeline

In canon: From Madeline: In a Catholic boarding school in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines; the smallest (and bravest) was Madeline.

In Shine: A regenerator who works with the French equivalent of Hellsing, known as the Holy League. She's still small - and still brave. Travels in a miniature helicopter.

The Doctor

In canon: From Doctor Who, a native of the planet Gallifrey who has been cheating death for hundreds of years, and spends his life hopping through time and space saving planets. Probably present at every major event in human history, as well as the history of any other race you'd care to name.

In Shine: Essentially the same person, though his contact with humanity is much more limited. He drops in during the time travel storyline to put our heroes back on the right path, but he rarely gets that involved in Earth's affairs.

H. G. Wells

In canon: A real person used in Doctor Who, in which he was briefly a stowaway on the Doctor's ship when he was younger. As an adult, wrote some of the earliest modern science fiction, and created the first tabletop roleplaying game.

In Shine: Revived as an I-Jin (a superpowered clone developed from DNA kept in the British Library). The I-Jin Wells developed a portable Time Machine and a small army of Morlocks, and went on to wreak havoc in the past.

Sailor Pluto

In canon: From Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon, the enigmatic Sailor Soldier protected by the planet Pluto. Lives outside of the timeline and guards history; to facilitate this, occasionally arranges time travel.

In Shine: Rarely seen but clearly present. During the time travel storyline she kept a close eye on the proceedings. The result was, if not a straight line, a self-sustaining loop without any paradoxes. Sometimes that's the best you can do.

Robin Sena

In canon: From Witch Hunter Robin, an agent of STN-J, the Japanese branch of the global witch-hunting organization Solomon. Born in Japan but raised in Italy by a priest. She has the power to start and control fires; because she uses this for good, she is classified as "a craft user" rather than "a witch."

In Shine: Appeared in (where else?) the witch-hunting storyline, where, being fluent in Italian, she was one of the few people able to converse with Timothy. Like the Hellsing Organization, STN-J regularly comes into conflict with Section XIII.

The Lillian Girls' School Students

In canon: The ensemble from Maria-sama ga Miteru. Lillian Girls' School is a garden for maidens. The pleats on their skits shouldn't be noticeable. Their white sailor collars should always be tidy. Walking slowly is preferred here. Oh, and all the characters are engaged in intimate, exclusive, intensely personal relationships with each other. But totally pure. We swear.

In Shine: The girls have all their usual drama, with the occasional additional intrusion from vampire slayers and witch hunters. And, yes, they're pretty much all lesbians.

Anthy Himemiya and Chuchu

In canon: From Revolutionary Girl Utena, she is the Rose Bride, passed around among the Student Council of Ohtori Academy in a mysterious system of duels. Shunned by most of the student body, considered weird at best and a witch at worst. Her only friend is her pet/familiar Chuchu, until Utena comes along.

In Shine: The series has ended and Anthy has left Ohtori, searching for her missing Utena. She is currently a student at Lillian Girls' School, enjoying the peace and quiet.

Mystery, Inc.

In canon: Four young people and a talking dog who wander the country solving mysteries and unmasking fake monsters: upstanding young man Freddie Jones, pretty girl Daphne Blake, genius Velma Dinkley, scaredy-cat Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, and of course their Great Dane, Scooby-Doo.

In Shine: There are many, many incarnations of this canon; the one most likely to match the Shineverse versions is A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. They're twentysomethings in the present in Shine time, and tackle Alucard the same way they would any monster: by trying to pull off his mask.

Fangirls
_{For more on the fans, see Attack of the Fangirls' Profiles.}

In reality: A flock of real people, Hellsing fans and Shine readers all. Willing to email descriptive information to Erin on request, including loving rants about their favorite characters.

In Shine: They come through a portal that opens every year, for reasons as yet unexplained. It usually opens into Integra's office (although one year it was diverted to Hell), and the fans shoot out to latch on to their favorite characters. Removing them is a tricky job. When Integra is loaded up on Perun's Flowers, she can close the portal herself.

Original Characters

Reseda
_{For more on Reseda, see her profile page.}

Originally: Reseda was my first Mary Sue (oh, the nostalgia), written for a Sailor Moon fanfic, and I've been un-Sueing her ever since. When I first saw Hellsing, the Reseda voice in my head enjoyed it immensely; so I decided to write her into a Hellsing fanfic one day.

In Shine: Reseda is a chordewa - a type of vampire, originating from Bengal, which favors cat form but can be distinguished by a normal cat by its odd way of mewing. She arrives on the Hellsing mansion's doorstep as a cat, looking for news of Helena, and ended up acting as a pet for Seras until her identity was uncovered.

Baalberith

Originally: In Johan Weyer's hierarchy of Hell, Baalberith was the minister of pacts and treaties. A fallen Cherub, Baalberith also functions as Hell's notary public; whenever someone makes a deal with the devil, it's Baalberith who notarizes it and makes it official. Baalberith is most active in June.

In Shine: Hell is a bureaucracy, and Baalberith is a master at dealing with paperwork. S/he tallies up people's sins to assign them to the appropriate sublevel, and has personal jurisdiction over subcircle 813 - the home for those (mostly vampires) who opposed Hellsing's mission from God. Ironically, s/he seems to have a crush on Integra's shoulder devil.

Lisa

Originally: She's a Cabbage Patch Kid that I own. Had my younger brother been a girl, my parents were going to name him Lisa; instead, I used the name for my doll. And now you know.

In Shine: One of Baalberith's two angelic counterparts. (In the Fall, one of every three angels sided with the devil.) Lisa is a sweet and adorable cherub who brings cheer to a section of Heaven frequented by characters relevant to Hellsing. Whether it's Seras' parents or the organization's dead soldiers, she's around to light up their afterlives.

Shoulder sprites

Originally: The shoulder angel and shoulder demon are a traditional plot device for representing the inner conflict of a character. They appear on a character's shoulders and give advice - one good, one bad.

In Shine: Sir Integral's shoulder devil spends her free time with Hell's succubi, acting out Integral's suppressed dominatrix impulses. The demon Baalberith has a crush on her, much to her irritation. Integral's shoulder angel relaxes in Heaven, acting out Integral's suppressed desires to be cheerful and openly kind. Both manifest on Integral's shoulders to advise her when the situation calls for it.

Diane

Originally: A villain in the classic "evil twin" mode from The Sailor Neopets RPG. I needed a design for a briefly appearing villain, so I pulled hers. (Like Incognito, she has eerily distended limbs.)

In Shine: The vampiric quarry traced by Hellsing to France, where the Wild Geese had a clash with local vampire hunter Madeline (while Pip and Seras tried to have a relaxing date). A childhood rival of Madeline. Killed by Seras.

Timothy

Originally: Named after St. Timothy, who gained great admiration from St. Paul for devotion at a young age.

In Shine: Like Enrico Maxwell, Timothy grew up in the Ferdinant Lukes orphanage, where he admired both Enrico and Father Anderson. Recruited to Iscariot at a young age, before being adopted. Though his foster father doesn't want him to continue, Timothy wants desperately to emulate Enrico and stay - and Enrico, seeing himself in Timothy, plans to keep him.

Marian

Originally: Based loosely on every Mary Sue you've ever met. The difference is that she can't actually warp canon; she just thinks she can.

In Shine: A young baobhan sith who accompanied "Laura" in leaving her sisters to seek out Sir Hellsing. Thinks of herself as a dramatic heroine, and acts accordingly - which is part of what makes her a comedic sidekick.