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□ Name: Walter C. Dornez (Dollneaz)
□ Journal: nolifebutler
□ Series: Hellsing Ultimate
□ Canon point: End of series, after his death
□ History: Hellsing Wiki
□ Personality: In his youth, in 1944, Walter was brash, foul-mouthed, confident, and an accomplished killer. By 14 he had earned the moniker of Angel of Death and was considered the best man to infiltrate a Nazi research facility in Poland. Even faced with a creature that was beyond his ability to defeat, he threw himself into the fight, and everything about his behavior and attitudes screamed "adrenaline junky" from jumping from an airplane with no parachute and whooping with glee to throwing himself into battle without hesitation. Even when he slipped and showed fear, he didn't back down from the fight, rising to the challenge. In 1999 Hellsing, he was 69 years old and no longer the trashman he used to be. He had aged into "only" a retainer unless circumstances demanded the return of the old Angel of Death. He was still fastidious, prideful, intelligent, aware of his master's expectations, and devoted to his duty to Hellsing. He had a sly sense of humor and demonstrated familiarity with computers and an awareness of modern military technology. There was also still a sadistic streak shown in his toying with Jan Valentine and his utter lack of hesitation in torturing him. He claimed that as an old John Bull, he was at peace with growing old. "If something can be achieved easily, it probably isn't worth it."
All of that was a lie. All evidence points to his having been a traitor to Hellsing from 1944, playing a very long game. He doesn't try to excuse himself at all. Sir Islands theorizes that Walter set up Integra to be hunted by her uncle after her father's death. Canon never fills in those gaps and there is no solid "this is when his allegiances flipped" moment. What becomes clear when he returns to the fray as a vampire, is that he has been a consummate liar. The one characteristic that follows through from 1944, to 1999, to his return to the battle for London is that he is a prideful creature. "I'm here on no one's orders. I fight for my own sake. I stand here as Walter C. Dornez. And it is by my will alone that I will separate you this dawn." He refuses his own name when Integra tries to call him Walter, telling her not to call him that anymore, breaking his ties to a woman who was in many respects a surrogate daughter to him.
In the end, for a reason never fully clarified in canon, Walter accepts being a vampire as a means to the end of fighting and killing Alucard, to become an angel of death in "body, mind, and soul." Millennium's Major says of him: "We've given all we can. Taken all we can. His life, his lord, his faith, his loyalty, he sacrificed them all, to no avail. He even bid our fortune, as if we were loan sharks. Even if the next dawn brings him bankruptcy, he risked it all to settle his 50-year feud with Alucard! He's just like us. Betting it all in a single night of battle."
There are moments when there are flickers of the man he had always appeared to be, even on the battlefield, a softening of his demeanor when Seras thanks him. Even his repudiation of Integra's calling him by name can be seen as a means of separating the monster he has become from the man who had been by her side at almost every milestone in her life. And when Alucard dies, and his hastily made form starts to fall apart, he asks, "is this what I wanted?" and more cracks show.
By the time he drags himself onto the Deus Ex Machina, he almost seems as though he's remembered himself and the loyalties he had always pretended to take pride in. There is no Alucard to focus his rage on, and he turns his hatred back to Millennium.
When he dies, he bids Integra farewell, and she feels his death, indicating that his connection to her is not fully severed.
Who he will be after his death is a creature reconciling his lies with his fate, trying to put together a man out of smoke and shadows, but his pride will always keep his spine straight.
"It was a one-night, one-act farce. This war, and this world alike. I just wanted to play the biggest role I could."
□ Age: 69
□ Gender: Male
□ Appearance: Hellsing is famous for ridiculously tall characters, and Walter is no exception at 6'7". He is tall and lanky with long black hair that he wears back in a ponytail and grey eyes. He habitually wears trousers, waistcoat, and tie, a monocle, and fingerless gloves with rings on every finger.
□ Abilities/Powers: He is inhumanly fast and agile (and was even when he was human). He was able to dodge bullets when he was human, and he is only faster as a vampire. Hellsing vampires have acute senses, night vision, and are inhumanly strong and durable. Walter's idiosyncratic weapons are the wires that drop from the ten rings he wears. With those he can manage manipulations as delicate as plucking a pack of cigarettes out of a man's pocket, or snatching a ring out of a man's lip, or damage as extensive as cutting down buildings and destroying entire platoons of soldiers with a flick of his fingers. He can use the wires to jump from an airplane without a parachute, cut bullets from the air, form shields against bullet volleys, and for his most disturbing trick, burrow them under another vampire's skin and manipulate him like a puppet, with extensive fine motor control of the puppet. Even without the wires, he is a skilled fighter, both hand to hand and with a knife, and he isn't above improvised weapons if they're at hand. Artificial vampires such as Walter also create only ghouls with their bites. He is shown fighting at dawn without need for the UV protection that other lesser Millennium vampires have to use. He is a skilled gunsmith, crafting weapons for both Alucard and Seras during the series, from handguns to heavy weapons.
□ Personal Items: His rings (predicated on the idea that the inhuman dexterity required to wield them safely won't be returned to him until higher levels anyway.) A copy of Moon and Sixpence. A gun cleaning kit (but no gun). Four neatly packed changes of clothes and a pair of pajamas to mock him when the sun rises.
□ First Person Sample: 1st person, it's kind of old, but hopefully it'll do.
□ Third Person Sample: 3rd person at the test drive
