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Name: Liz
Personal Journal: rizumcbutt
Contact Info: AIM: the p0rn nun
Other Characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: Janet "Jan" Valentine
Source Canon: Hellsing
Age: 73(ish- it's never said in canon, this is an educated guess)
Role In Canon: Lesser antagonist. The Valentine brothers are the first real obstacle they run into, and they do significant damage, but they only last for one volume/3/4s of an OVA.
Justification: To be honest, I think Jan would make a really interesting female character. He's already an interesting personality as he is, albeit one that isn't all that rare in male characters. He's a character entirely comfortable (and relishing in) sexuality, violence, and aggression. Very typically male traits! What interests me most is taking this very, very male character, totally comfortable in his own body, and changing only the sex. What you have then is a female, cracking masturbation jokes one minute, blowing apart enemy soldiers the next, and flaunting her heterosexuality just as prominently as any male would. I think it's an interesting deviation, as well as a rarer character.
And the changes aside, I'm also incredibly interested in how Jan would handle a setting like this. He's not a character that does well with peaceful, idyllic places, craving chaos and destruction like he does. It will probably make him- her!- a good deal self-destructive, and she'll do anything to stir up something to keep herself amused.
History: n the world of Hellsing, there are vampires and there is Alucard, with a clear divide between the two. Vampires: creatures of the night, violent, mostly single-minded, and without forethought or planning, living just to enjoy the moment. They're a step above humans in strength and agility, and they typically take this as evidence of godhood, as license to rip and tear their way through whatever humans they might encounter. And then there's Alucard, the vampire that takes care of trivial matters like these, and he does it with a shadowy grin and minimal effort.
But eventually there began to come a new breed of vampire, one created to give this vampiric vampire killer, Alucard, a run for his money. Stronger, faster, able to regenerate, unfeeling of pain. Brothers Luke and Jan Valentine were the first two of these introduced in Hellsing. These two, polar opposites to each other despite their relation, were sent to the Hellsing manor with the orders to kill everyone inside, paying special attention to Integra Hellsing herself and her pet Alucard.
Cool-headed and self-possessed Luke descended to the basement to do battle with Alucard, confident that he would be the man's defeat, while hot-headed and excitable Jan (and his moaning, hungry army) took on the Hellsing soldiers to work their way toward Integra. Jan took care of the soldiers that opposed him, gleefully killing them all and turning them into ghouls to be part of his invading army. He took his time actually finding Integra though, preferring to stop along the way to enjoy bits of her wealth. He complained of the class segregation in England as he enjoyed one of her fine cigars, hinting that he was on the less fortunate side of the divide. But discovery of Integra's showy display of wealth seemed to give him renewed vigor, and he marched towards her location deciding, very loudly, to fuck her, shoot her in the head, and fuck her there too.
Walter and Seras were his first real obstacle, and he took to the challenge presented by them with nothing short of utter delight. He watched with alternating amazement and maniac joy as Walter made short work of his ghouls, and the proceeded to start on Jan himself. Jan managed to make it to the end of the hallway and fling open the door to the room in which Integra had been holding her meeting (at the expensive of one of his arms, lost to Walter's wires), only to find thirteen pistols leveled at him.
But even that wasn't too much a damper on his general delight, and as he slumped against the far wall, full of holes and leaking blood from everywhere, his laughter and vulgarity carried through to the end. He knew perfectly well that he'd failed the mission he'd been given, and that he was certainly going to die (by Walter's capable hands after a few rounds of torture, if not more quickly and immediately by his superiors themselves), and didn't seem particularly bothered by it. He had, after all, had one hell of a good time wrecking up the place. He gave Integra the clue Millennium as his superiors activated the self-destruct of the chip responsible for his vampiric nature and burned him to death.
Changes: I don't actually think there would have been that many changes, had Jan's character been female. Jan is the sort of character who is going to do precisely what he or she wants to do, and won't allow any kind of silly social issue to stand in the way. Canon never says exactly what it is that turns Jan on so strongly to violence and destruction in the first place, and so there's no concrete elements for me to change there. There's no official changing of her backstory, because there is no official backstory. My personal headcanon is that the Valentines grew up in Brazil (a location chosen because Millennium has a few operations there, and based on Jan's tanned skin), impoverished and generally turning to crime, until they were recruited by Millennium to take place in the vampirism experiments. With Jan being female, I imagine Luke would have tried to protect her more, back when they were just two poor kids. She might have come to resent that, viewing the lifestyle he wouldn't let her have as dangerously exciting. So when Millennium caught up to them and offered them the chance at power, she jumped at it. Luke wouldn't have any reason to protect his little sister if his little sister could rip men apart with her pinky. Her explosion of violence and the relish of it would have been a rebellion against repression, in this case. Of course, that's all headcanon built upon headcanon, though.
As far as actual canon goes, any changes outside of the form her sex jokes take would be subtle ones. Her relationship with Luke, for example. Luke is already resignedly tolerant of Jan, determined not to indulge his idiocies and tendencies to ramble. With Jan being a little sister, instead of a little brother, I think he would be even more distanced from her ridiculousness. Her sex jokes are suddenly not even relatable, instead of just unappreciated. There would probably be a good deal more lip-pursing and eye-rolling going on if Jan were talking about squeezing balls instead of breasts. Also, the direction her pseudo-hitting-on takes during the fights would have been reversed. She would probably have been sexually taunting Walter, for example, instead of Seras, and Seras herself would have been treated more as a rival than a lowly member of the opposite sex. You know, something in the form of "Girl, hold my earrings." With Luke or one of the background ghouls as the addressed "girl", presumably. It's an imperfect metaphor, okay. And, ragingly heterosexual as she is, her threats to Integra probably would have been graphic descriptions of death, and not actual sex. The sex threats would have been reserved for the 12 men Integra was holed up in the room with.
In short, there would be no personality change, excepting the fact that her advances are made on men, not women. There is very little background change, most of it in Jan's earlier years. In her later years, Jan is simply an incredibly gung-ho mercenary that never stops telling weird stories and cracking awful sex jokes, same as always.
Personality: Jan Valentine is vulgar. If she hasn't described something using the word 'fucking' in at least the last ten seconds, then she's not doing it right. She's loud, she says exactly what she thinks, and the devil may care if she's going to offend someone with it. In fact, it's probably going to be more amusing if someone is offended, so why not aim for the top? Insults are flung as casually as greetings. Murder, cannibalism, skull fucking -- none of these are topics that she spares, all get their time in the limelight.
She's also nearly the exact opposite of her brother, Luke Valentine. Luke is a carefully maintained dandy, controlled and calm and well-mannered, dressed perfectly and with his long, blond hair tied neatly back. Meanwhile Jan is a carefully maintained asshole, face full of piercings and manners loud and crass. She's talkative to the point that she needs only her own vocal chords to keep amused, rude enough to drive away a saint, blunt enough to make a sailor blush, and not to mention almost completely self-serving.
Aside from to her brother, Jan knows no real loyalty, and her main drive is generally only to create mayhem and provide herself with with some amusement. It's fine by her if she cheats a bit, bends the rules a little, it's all for the sake of the game. And the only real winner will be, of course, herself -- and whoever took it upon themselves to aim her destructiveness in a desired direction. But while she loves mowing down innocents, if she finds an actual challenge she doesn't get angry, she isn't afraid, and she's certainly not resentful to find herself being potentially torn to pieces; instead she absolutely loves the idea of a real fight, and will laugh herself hoarse even as she's losing limbs and finding holes shot through her body.
But despite her lust for chaos and generally destructive fun, Jan does knows how to keep an operation under control. She can follow orders and she won't lose her head and forget herself in the heat of battle, be it the high of victory or the gut-twisting knowledge of looming defeat. Jan Valentine is, in short, a good soldier, provided she was given enough incentive to pick a side and stay on it.
Abilities: General Hellsing vampire abilities! These include increased speed, strength, endurance, and agility, a mild regenerative ability, and of course lots of sharp teeth.
Name: Liz
Personal Journal: rizumcbutt
Contact Info: AIM: the p0rn nun
Other Characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: Janet "Jan" Valentine
Source Canon: Hellsing
Age: 73(ish- it's never said in canon, this is an educated guess)
Role In Canon: Lesser antagonist. The Valentine brothers are the first real obstacle they run into, and they do significant damage, but they only last for one volume/3/4s of an OVA.
Justification: To be honest, I think Jan would make a really interesting female character. He's already an interesting personality as he is, albeit one that isn't all that rare in male characters. He's a character entirely comfortable (and relishing in) sexuality, violence, and aggression. Very typically male traits! What interests me most is taking this very, very male character, totally comfortable in his own body, and changing only the sex. What you have then is a female, cracking masturbation jokes one minute, blowing apart enemy soldiers the next, and flaunting her heterosexuality just as prominently as any male would. I think it's an interesting deviation, as well as a rarer character.
And the changes aside, I'm also incredibly interested in how Jan would handle a setting like this. He's not a character that does well with peaceful, idyllic places, craving chaos and destruction like he does. It will probably make him- her!- a good deal self-destructive, and she'll do anything to stir up something to keep herself amused.
History: n the world of Hellsing, there are vampires and there is Alucard, with a clear divide between the two. Vampires: creatures of the night, violent, mostly single-minded, and without forethought or planning, living just to enjoy the moment. They're a step above humans in strength and agility, and they typically take this as evidence of godhood, as license to rip and tear their way through whatever humans they might encounter. And then there's Alucard, the vampire that takes care of trivial matters like these, and he does it with a shadowy grin and minimal effort.
But eventually there began to come a new breed of vampire, one created to give this vampiric vampire killer, Alucard, a run for his money. Stronger, faster, able to regenerate, unfeeling of pain. Brothers Luke and Jan Valentine were the first two of these introduced in Hellsing. These two, polar opposites to each other despite their relation, were sent to the Hellsing manor with the orders to kill everyone inside, paying special attention to Integra Hellsing herself and her pet Alucard.
Cool-headed and self-possessed Luke descended to the basement to do battle with Alucard, confident that he would be the man's defeat, while hot-headed and excitable Jan (and his moaning, hungry army) took on the Hellsing soldiers to work their way toward Integra. Jan took care of the soldiers that opposed him, gleefully killing them all and turning them into ghouls to be part of his invading army. He took his time actually finding Integra though, preferring to stop along the way to enjoy bits of her wealth. He complained of the class segregation in England as he enjoyed one of her fine cigars, hinting that he was on the less fortunate side of the divide. But discovery of Integra's showy display of wealth seemed to give him renewed vigor, and he marched towards her location deciding, very loudly, to fuck her, shoot her in the head, and fuck her there too.
Walter and Seras were his first real obstacle, and he took to the challenge presented by them with nothing short of utter delight. He watched with alternating amazement and maniac joy as Walter made short work of his ghouls, and the proceeded to start on Jan himself. Jan managed to make it to the end of the hallway and fling open the door to the room in which Integra had been holding her meeting (at the expensive of one of his arms, lost to Walter's wires), only to find thirteen pistols leveled at him.
But even that wasn't too much a damper on his general delight, and as he slumped against the far wall, full of holes and leaking blood from everywhere, his laughter and vulgarity carried through to the end. He knew perfectly well that he'd failed the mission he'd been given, and that he was certainly going to die (by Walter's capable hands after a few rounds of torture, if not more quickly and immediately by his superiors themselves), and didn't seem particularly bothered by it. He had, after all, had one hell of a good time wrecking up the place. He gave Integra the clue Millennium as his superiors activated the self-destruct of the chip responsible for his vampiric nature and burned him to death.
Changes: I don't actually think there would have been that many changes, had Jan's character been female. Jan is the sort of character who is going to do precisely what he or she wants to do, and won't allow any kind of silly social issue to stand in the way. Canon never says exactly what it is that turns Jan on so strongly to violence and destruction in the first place, and so there's no concrete elements for me to change there. There's no official changing of her backstory, because there is no official backstory. My personal headcanon is that the Valentines grew up in Brazil (a location chosen because Millennium has a few operations there, and based on Jan's tanned skin), impoverished and generally turning to crime, until they were recruited by Millennium to take place in the vampirism experiments. With Jan being female, I imagine Luke would have tried to protect her more, back when they were just two poor kids. She might have come to resent that, viewing the lifestyle he wouldn't let her have as dangerously exciting. So when Millennium caught up to them and offered them the chance at power, she jumped at it. Luke wouldn't have any reason to protect his little sister if his little sister could rip men apart with her pinky. Her explosion of violence and the relish of it would have been a rebellion against repression, in this case. Of course, that's all headcanon built upon headcanon, though.
As far as actual canon goes, any changes outside of the form her sex jokes take would be subtle ones. Her relationship with Luke, for example. Luke is already resignedly tolerant of Jan, determined not to indulge his idiocies and tendencies to ramble. With Jan being a little sister, instead of a little brother, I think he would be even more distanced from her ridiculousness. Her sex jokes are suddenly not even relatable, instead of just unappreciated. There would probably be a good deal more lip-pursing and eye-rolling going on if Jan were talking about squeezing balls instead of breasts. Also, the direction her pseudo-hitting-on takes during the fights would have been reversed. She would probably have been sexually taunting Walter, for example, instead of Seras, and Seras herself would have been treated more as a rival than a lowly member of the opposite sex. You know, something in the form of "Girl, hold my earrings." With Luke or one of the background ghouls as the addressed "girl", presumably. It's an imperfect metaphor, okay. And, ragingly heterosexual as she is, her threats to Integra probably would have been graphic descriptions of death, and not actual sex. The sex threats would have been reserved for the 12 men Integra was holed up in the room with.
In short, there would be no personality change, excepting the fact that her advances are made on men, not women. There is very little background change, most of it in Jan's earlier years. In her later years, Jan is simply an incredibly gung-ho mercenary that never stops telling weird stories and cracking awful sex jokes, same as always.
Personality: Jan Valentine is vulgar. If she hasn't described something using the word 'fucking' in at least the last ten seconds, then she's not doing it right. She's loud, she says exactly what she thinks, and the devil may care if she's going to offend someone with it. In fact, it's probably going to be more amusing if someone is offended, so why not aim for the top? Insults are flung as casually as greetings. Murder, cannibalism, skull fucking -- none of these are topics that she spares, all get their time in the limelight.
She's also nearly the exact opposite of her brother, Luke Valentine. Luke is a carefully maintained dandy, controlled and calm and well-mannered, dressed perfectly and with his long, blond hair tied neatly back. Meanwhile Jan is a carefully maintained asshole, face full of piercings and manners loud and crass. She's talkative to the point that she needs only her own vocal chords to keep amused, rude enough to drive away a saint, blunt enough to make a sailor blush, and not to mention almost completely self-serving.
Aside from to her brother, Jan knows no real loyalty, and her main drive is generally only to create mayhem and provide herself with with some amusement. It's fine by her if she cheats a bit, bends the rules a little, it's all for the sake of the game. And the only real winner will be, of course, herself -- and whoever took it upon themselves to aim her destructiveness in a desired direction. But while she loves mowing down innocents, if she finds an actual challenge she doesn't get angry, she isn't afraid, and she's certainly not resentful to find herself being potentially torn to pieces; instead she absolutely loves the idea of a real fight, and will laugh herself hoarse even as she's losing limbs and finding holes shot through her body.
But despite her lust for chaos and generally destructive fun, Jan does knows how to keep an operation under control. She can follow orders and she won't lose her head and forget herself in the heat of battle, be it the high of victory or the gut-twisting knowledge of looming defeat. Jan Valentine is, in short, a good soldier, provided she was given enough incentive to pick a side and stay on it.
Abilities: General Hellsing vampire abilities! These include increased speed, strength, endurance, and agility, a mild regenerative ability, and of course lots of sharp teeth.