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They were scared. Of course they were. How could they not be if their head and her… pet represented everything that was damned and everything that was holy?
They were like yin and yang. Darkness and light. The light in the darkness and the darkness in the light. You could even see it.
Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing Their head, their leader, chosen by blood. A woman, a knight, a warrior, and—let’s be honest here—a chain smoker. She, of course, represented yang.
She was everything that was light, everything that was holy.
She also often seemed to represent everything that was cold, rarely ever being seen showing much emotion.
Yang… the representation of light, but also of aggression and maleness itself. The masculinity could be explained. After all, Sir Hellsing intentionally chose to present herself in a very masculine fashion. Only wearing dresses or anything feminine if necessary.
Aggression, on the other hand, was another topic. The unschooled person, or rather, a person not particularly well acquainted with Sir Hellsing, would pass this point off as not fitting. After all, she rarely ever got truly outright angry in front of others, and even if, she didn’t attack. This highly unschooled person simply isn’t aware of just how aggressive Integra could get, how angry she could get. Just how gladly she could command her soldiers—and her monsters—to attack and to rip apart the enemy in her name.
Yes, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing truly represented the symbol of Yang. A beacon of light with a at times terribly dark core beneath.
But if she truly was Yang, then that made the vampire Alucard the sheer embodiment of Yin.
The pure representation of darkness and, in his case, everything that was damned.
Alucard. Turn his name around, and you get his original name, Dracula. He is way more popular under this name, even more so than under his human one, Vlad. Better known as Vlad the Impaler, cursed from the beginning, a very monster to the core, pure darkness.
Now the more studious person will notice that yin doesn’t necessarily mean darkness. It means femininity and passiveness. The femininity is rather easy to explain, should you ever have seen Alucard in his more womanly form. After all, his body is but a mere shadow.
The passiveness seems very out of character for him as well. After all, Alucard is hardly known for being particularly passive or patient. Preferring to attack his victims in a most brutal fashion, quite literally slaughtering them while laughing at their plight.
If you know where to look, though, if you can read between the lines, you can see that he is capable of being passive, capable of waiting. Waiting passively for his masters command to slaughter. Perfectly content to stay by her side, not unlike a dog on a leash, until told otherwise.
Yet they each have qualities of the other.
That way, Alucard is mainly in his masculine form and more than ready to brutally attack if left unsupervised. Just as Integra has been seen wearing a dress and waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Two sides of the same coin. Alucard and Integra. Dracula and Hellsing. Yin and Yang. Qi. The cosmic power that created the universe. And as we all know, what is capable of creating is also capable of destroying.
Yes. Truly, the round table had no choice but to be scared of them.