History Fanfic / HoneyAndVinegar

** Dracula has a thing for women with an extreme sense of determination. His lost love, Elizabetha, clung to her life for as long as she could before she finally succumbed to her illness, and Lisa bravely crossed far into Dracula's territory and demanded to be taught proper medicine.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The Millennium vampires and the Captain are re-imagined as Seras' household workers and servants rather than genocidal sociopaths who kill anyone they want ForTheEvulz.

** While Seras' marriage to Godbrand was arranged and unpleasant, it's joked that, thanks to her later romances with Lenore and Pip, she might have a thing for redheads.

* VagueAge: Seras is roughly 119, having been almost 20 when she died, but WordOfGod states that it's a bit tricky. Since things weren't exactly written down or kept track of well during the Dark Ages due to widespread [[NeverLearnedToRead illiteracy]], Seras' exact age is a little hard to gauge. Seras even states that she really isn't sure on how old she truly is.

* YouRemindMeOfX: Dracula states that he turned Seras into a vampire because she reminded him of his then lost love, Elizabetha.

** For vampires, blessed weapons and tools such as Holy water, the Cross, stakes, iron and salt are useful for killing them or causing them great pain. Averted with Alucard, who, thanks to being a dhampyr, is immune to such things. This is also averted with Seras and Dracula, as both of them are so powerful they've transcended most of their species' conventional weaknesses. In Seras' case, about the only common vampiric weakness she still has is running water (with regular running water being annoying while saltwater hurts like hell), and even then, it's unknown if even ''that'' would be able to outright kill her.

** While Seras' marriage to Godbrand was arranged and unpleasant, it's joked that, thanks to her later relationships with Lenore and Pip, she might have a thing for redheads.

* VagueAge: Seras is roughly 119, having been almost 20 when she died, but WordOfGod states that it's a bit tricky. Since things weren't exactly written down or kept track of well during the Dark Ages due to widespread [[NeverLearnedToRead illiteracy]], Seras' exact age is a little hard to gauge. Seras even states that she really isn't sure on her exact age.

* BoobsOfSteel: Seras is the second most powerful vampire on the planet and it gets remarked during Trevor and Sypha's discussion that she has an enormous rack that very few women can match.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Seras here is cruder and more aggressive than she was in ''Hellsing'', where she was a NiceGal and one of the few unambiguously heroic characters in the series. Her being more callous here is a result of her being much older, more jaded towards the human race, and having grown up in the more [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] medieval ages. By the time of ''Court of Intrigue'', she's [[TookALevelInKindness far more like her canon self]].

* UndyingLoyalty: {{Subverted|Trope}}. With exception to Walter and the Captain, the rest of Seras' house won't follow along with her plan to stop her father from going through with genocide.

** For vampires, blessed weapons and tools such as Holy water, the Cross, stakes, iron and salt are useful for killing them or causing them great pain. Averted with Alucard, who, thanks to being a dhampyr, is immune to such things. This is also averted with Seras and Dracula, as both of them are so powerful they've transcended most of their species' conventional weaknesses. In Seras' case, about the only common vampiric weakness she still has is running water (with regular running water being annoying while salt water hurts like hell), and even then, it's unknown if even ''that'' would be able to outright kill her.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Seras here is more crude and aggressive than she was in ''Hellsing'', where she was a NiceGal and one of the few unambiguously heroic characters in the series. Her being more callous here is a result of her being much older, more jaded towards the human race, and having grown up in the more [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] medieval ages. By the time of ''Court of Intrigue'', she's [[TookALevelInKindness far more like her canon self]].

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Seras never lost her arm here like she did in the manga and ''Hellsing Ultimate'', so she still has both rather than her replacement shadow limb.

* PowerGivesYouWings: Seras can use her shadow powers to manifest demonic wings from her shoulders, as seen when she fights Godbrand.