#i like to tag “Alucard Hellsing” it sounds like Hellsing is his last name too

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10 Characters, 10 Fandoms

Got tagged by @hopeymchope​

Rules: list your top 10 favorite characters from 10 different fandoms (in no particular order) and then tag 10 people.

Kyouko Kirigiri of DanganRonpa: man, where to start? She inspires me to keep on going and to work harder, she teaches me things I’ve never had to think about but have richly benefitted from, and I even sometimes find myself asking “what would Kirigiri do?” when I hit a problem that isn’t so easily solved. I guess you could say her whole character arc across the wild ride that is the Hope’s Peak saga just speaks to me. She speaks to me as the great mind she is, as someone on the emotional journey she struggles through and ultimately, as a force of hope. That’s probably the best way to say it: she’s my hope.

Dante of Devil May Cry: He’s kinda like a bro you’d party with and a 90′s styled badass escapist fantasy you love to watch doing cool stunts along with his own share of emotional scars hidden beneath all his power and skill, all rolled into one. I never get tired of watching his fights during cutscenes with all his reckless abandon and shameless devotion to cool, but playing as him... the adrenaline packed into every slash and gunshot while he switches styles like crazy is just indescribable. Stylish, thy name is Dante.

Negi Springfield of Negima: What does Negi mean to me? Well, while this series was running, his life dominated mine. I watched him grow, watched him become more competent while defying so many Shounen conventions about hard training. Oh, he got strong through effort, certainly. But he was still a teacher, still a polite gentleman and still someone prone to negative thinking from the start: he kept going anyway while never losing that, instead turning them all into strengths in their own right, whether as a tactician, a diplomat or a dark mage. He’s the anti-Shounen protagonist disguised as a harem protagonist. There’ll never be another like him.

Mio Akiyama of K-On!: I don’t know what to say? I suppose it’s that she comes off as cool at first, with her studious nature helping her work as hard as she does at her instrument only for it to be revealed how cute and shy she actually is. Then, against that hurdle, she puts all she has into her shows and proves herself to be a great performer. Lastly, her turning down her college recommendation, actually defying her studious nature so that she can keep being a band with her friend was possibly one of the most badass moments in the series. A shy and cute girl that, in a sense grows into a badass. That... rocks.

Alucard of Hellsing: Second red-coated monster slayer? I have a thing for that 90′s/early 00′s aesthetic of cool/badass. He’s like an escapist character turned up so high that he becomes a horror movie monster, and I love that. His violence is almost artistic in its creativity, and the younger me couldn’t get enough of it; he may have also informed my fashion sense for a while, I’m afraid to admit. As I get older, I subscribe more and more to his world-weary mindset about the power of humans when they show the inclination to fight on. As you see more and more of his acknowledgment of his mistakes and the sheer amount damage he’s weathered to be so powerful, from a horrific escapist character you end up seeing a vulnerable tragic hero, a cautionary tale behind the lens of bloody action. Nowadays he informs my approach to growing older; pretty good for an old guy in a gaudy red coat, eh?

Kat of Gravity Rush: She’s kinda my image of an ideal superhero, as odd as it sounds in the face of Marvel and DC’s output (Spider-Man was my childhood hero). She finds herself with no memory lost in a strange city with only some mysterious powers to shift gravity that she can’t explain. Yet the first thing she does is protect a man and his son from a gravity storm just because she’s there and she can. Life often knocks her down, she isn’t always respected or thanked despite her best efforts to protect the city, and some citizens tend to ask her for trivial favors and odd jobs that are embarrassingly beneath her abilities. Yet despite all that, she doesn’t hesitate to use the powers she was given to help others any way she can, jumping straight into danger. All that makes the kind of hero you can’t help wanting to cheer on. Hail to the queen... the Gravity Queen, that is.

L of Death Note: The second detective on this list. I should start by mentioning that I actually started sitting like him shortly after finishing the series. Does it improve my reasoning capacity by 40%? Well, it hasn’t failed yet. This lovable detective reflects so many of my weirder habits and quirks that I can’t help wanting to see him revealing his wild deductions and being completely on-point, balancing brilliance with just a hint of brazenly childish brass. You could say, he taught me that being the oddest in the room is fine if you’re right. Is that a bad habit? Most likely, but it hasn’t failed yet.

Vegeta of Dragon Ball: Something about his arc is strangely inspirational. Every chance it got, the world kept tearing down his cocky attitude to remind him that for all his natural strength, his maniacal need to launch headlong into danger was just never practical. He’s the world conqueror, the lone renegade, the bitter, retired warrior and eventually the loving husband and father who uses that natural strength he puts so much pride in to protect the earth however he has to. All that without the need for a bump on his head.

Joel of The Last of Us: I loved seeing how many more ways the game could expose how much the apocalypse has weathered his sensibilities about the rest of the human race and blurred the moral lines he’d cross to survive. I loved seeing him bounce dialogue off Ellie, growing from tolerating her as an annoyance that he only keeps around and protects as a favor to Jess to eventually treating her like his daughter. I loved seeing him learn to love again. It just goes to show that no matter what life throws at you, you can always keep going; because it can’t all have been for nothing.

Eddie Riggs of Brütal Legend: I admit, he kinda represents my metalhead side so I may be a little biased. Putting that aside, though, I can sympathize with how hard he works while choosing to stay out of the spotlight. I can respect that he’d prefer his place backstage while nonetheless enjoying life in his own roadie way. He’s got the humble blue-collar sensibilities that you could see yourself moshing with. He also managed to make me a fan of Jack Black, so kudos for that.

Apologies, but I’m not too big on tagging others. Still, this was fun. Again, thanks @hopeymchope .