Die Scharfschützin - A Fansite For Hellsing's Rip Van Winkle "A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted... Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself, She turns to favour and to prettiness." - Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. SPOILERS The very nature of this site - not just a fansite but a fansite about a character who appears late in the series - means that it's full of spoilers. NAZIS Rip Van Winkle wears a swastika pendant because the army she is part of, The Millenium Group, are Nazis. Real Nazism is a despicable and scientifically ignorant ideology, but fiction is fiction and no real harm is being done. # I'd sum up this site as a type of fan-fiction. Some people get off on pairing their favourite characters with Mary-Sues and I like speculating. The result might sometimes be a bit dodgy, but it's gotta be better than those Mary-Sues. My overall concept here is that Rip Van Winkle's role in the story was as an otherwise unconnected villain for Alucard to defeat - in other words, that she's not likely to have any secret significance. I most certainly don't believe that makes her one-dimensional though - Kouta Hirano's characters have enough quirks and innuendos to make sure that hardly any main characters are one-dimensional. Much of this site is about trying to work out what Hirano may have intended for Rip, what would work in fanfiction and what would manage to creep past the 'might really have happened' filter. # Guestbook SIGN | VIEW [Hellsing and Rip were created by and are copyright of Kouta Hirano.]

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