Zorin Blitz

Appearance

Zorin is a female vampire with ash grey skin and short, spiky, orange hair. She is very tall and muscular, giving her an imposing presence. She has narrow green eyes, with the right eye being much darker in color. She has a third eye in the palm of her right hand, which only opens when she is using her illusory powers. In addition to having a muscular body and androgynous appearance, her breasts are more conical like and bulky. However, Zorin's most notable features are her tattoos. They consist of a large pentagram on her forehead, a purple spiral on her right shoulder, and innumerable letters covering the entire right side of her body (or at least her face, neck, and arm). When she uses her illusion powers, the tattoos on her arm appear to slide off and spread out from her hand, being quickly replaced by more tattoos on her skin. Zorin wears a dark green halter top and the bottom half of a standard Letzte Batallion combat uniform (pants and boots). She also wears black gloves on both hands and is rarely seen without her silver and dark grey scythe.

Personality

Zorin is extremely sadistic and bloodthirsty, often enjoying using her illusion magic to mess with her victims’ minds before she finishes them off. She is shown to be quite cruel, as she gleefully shows her enemies illusions of painful past events, such as showing one of the Wild Geese mercenaries an illusion of his dead daughter, and Seras flashbacks of the day her parents were murdered. Like many of the other monsters in Hellsing, she shows little to no respect towards her opponents, calling the Wild Geese mercenaries "sad meat sacks" and Seras a weakling. It could be the fact that before Walter's betrayal, she was the strongest vampire in Millenium so she naturally underestimates her oppenents. She is also quick to anger and impulsive, which led to her going against orders and attacking Hellsing manor, resulting in her demise.

History (part 1)

Although first seen with The Major and the other members of the Letzte Bataillon, Zorin's first mission shown is her attack on Hellsing Mansion during Millennium's invasion of London (Operation Seelöwe 2). Zorin attacked Hellsing manor with roughly 1/3 of the Letztes Batallion, though the attack was initially a disaster. Seras Victoria was easily able to shoot down Zorin's zeppelin with the Harkonnen II's AA cannons, forcing the surviving members to carry on by foot. Despite this, the survivors, behind, halved in number and having lost all their heavy equipment, continued to attack, only to fall into a minefield set up by Captain Pip Bernadotte's Wild Geese troops. Ultimately, the Millennium forces were able to bypass the mine field with the help of one of Zorin's illusions and breached Hellsing Manor. Zorin joined her battalion of troops in the destruction of the Wild Geese; killing all those in her way with her painful illusions and massive scythe. Eventually she encountered Seras, and although Zorin was easily capable of killing her, she wasted time torturing her by scraping her eyes with her scythe, slicing off her left arm, and paralyzing her with a blow to the spine. By the time Zorin moved to finish off her enemy, Captain Pip Bernadotte, who was already severely injured, barged in and tried to save Seras, but was instead mortally wounded by Zorin, leading him to offer the injured Seras to drink his blood and awaken her latent vampiric powers. Seras then healed herself (save for her left arm, which now spews shadow matter) and effortlessly destroyed the remaining members of Zorin's Battalion, leaving Zorin alone.

history (part 2, continuation)

Zorin then attempted to wield her illusions against Seras again, but was instead confronted with an unfamiliar landscape: instead of only one soul to focus her power against, she found Pip's soul inside also, merged with Seras' own (represented by many shards of memories contained within the two of them), making it impossible for her to fool either, and she subsequently lost her power as Seras shattered the shards, confusing Zorin and allowing the young vampire to deliver the deathblow. Seras subsequently killed Zorin in a spectacularly violent and bloody manner, scraping her face across a wall and wearing it down like an eraser on paper.

History (part 3, continuation)

Right before Seras did kill her, Schrödinger appeared and informed Blitz that her inevitable death will come in Seras' hands instead of being burned, as The Major and Doc were too busy working on vampirizing Walter and had no time to activate the microchip, abandoning Zorin to a painful, humiliating death at the fledgling's hands. Her orders were to treat Seras as much of a dangerous enemy as Alucard himself - orders Zorin foolishly ignored by taking too long to kill her. As such, Zorin dies in a complete contrast to Rip van Winkle; an un-glorified death that Schrödinger later describes to the Major as like that of "a gnat", ironically the same words she used to mock Pip. At the end of Volume 10, Zorin's scythe is seen at a shrine alongside items from other characters killed in the series.

Abilities

As one of the top members of the Millennium Organization and a member of The Werewolves, she is a very powerful vampire with very unique vampiric abilities and weapons. She was able to effortlessly toy with Seras in her pre-blood infused state, but she was eventually outmatched once Seras drank Pip's blood. Zorin is a formidable fighter, wielding her large scythe with enough force to cut a man in half. She is equally dangerous at range, being able to throw her scythe great distances with impressive accuracy. Additionally, she displays several standard vampire abilities, such as immortality, regeneration, and superhuman strength. Biological Immortality: Being a vampire, Zorin remains at her physical prime forever. While she is ageless, she is not immortal, and was killed by Seras. Superhuman Strength: Zorin had a degree of superhuman strength, as she was able to lift her massive scythe with ease. Superhuman Speed: Zorin's speed was enhanced to the point where she could run across a field to the Hellsing Manor in mere seconds along with her battalion. Regeneration: Zorin was able to heal wounds such as getting her cheek scraped by the Harkonnen and being shot five times in the chest by Pip. Scythe Proficiency: Zorin's weapon of choice is a massive scythe with enough power to slice a man in half. She is equally dangerous at range, being able to throw it great distances with impressive accuracy. Self-Disintegration: As seen among the most powerful members of Millennium, her body was capable of being remotely cremated via her implanted chip.

Abilities (part 2)

illusion-Casting: Zorin's power was her ability to create illusions, seemingly facilitated by the third eye of her right palm. These illusions include creating an enormous copy of herself (taller than the Hellsing Manor) and showing her victim illusions of painful past events. Zorin's illusions are extremely realistic, to the point of appearing physically tangible to their victims, but sufficiently trained vampires can resist or outright negate the effects. The illusions can also be broken if Zorin is distracted or injured while casting them, and their power is inversely proportional to Zorin's distance from her targets - prior to becoming a full vampire, Seras Victoria was able to see through and counter an illusion when Zorin was a mile or two away from her, but an illusion cast when they were only feet apart proved too strong for her to break. Mind Reading: While a victim is trapped in an illusion, Zorin is capable of reading their mind/soul, seeing which illusions would work better.