alucard

Prompt

Another important aspect of Alucard's personality is his relationship with God. As a human, he was raised by the Turks and raped by the Sultan as a prisoner and as a child soldier. As a warrior, he believed that words alone were insufficient to establish faith. Rather, he believed that the only way to attract God's attention was to perform works in His name, a belief shared by his rival, Alexander Anderson. In accordance with this belief, he never asked God for favors, but rather did many great and terrible things. He became famous and feared for punishing and impaling wrongdoers and those who opposed his methods in his own lands and abroad, for waging war against Muslims hoping to bring down the "New Jerusalem," for sacrificing his troops and his people to achieve his own goals. He believed that if he and his men strove hard enough and sacrificed enough, God himself would intervene in their favor. His actions caused even his own people to fear him; subsequently, only a small number of his peasants and soldiers came forward to aid him in his final battle. When he lost the war and was taken prisoner by the Turks, he realized he had failed and that his country, his kingdom, his people, his friends, his family (his wife and son) had been murdered by his desire for revenge, greed, war, violence, and power. Because of this, he felt abandoned by God, so he abandoned God in turn and drank the blood of his burned and besieged land to become a vampire. Over the years, his hatred towards God deteriorated and he accepts the truth that it was his own hatred towards those who wronged him in his youth that fueled his actions, and that he used God's name to mask his own hatred and lust for power and battle. This is similar to how Count Dracula was portrayed in Francis Ford Coppola's film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, which Hirano has cited as a...