Zorin Blitz (Hellsing)

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First Lieutenant/SS-Obersturmführer Zorin Blitz (ゾーリンブリッツ中尉, First Lieutenant Zōrin Burittsu^?) is a character in the manga Hellsing and a member of the Millennium forces.

She is a tall, massively muscled female vampire who works for the Millennium organization and is part of its Werwolf force. She is also the commander of one of Millennium's zeppelin forces, and is apparently the instigator of the Valentine Brothers' attack on the Hellsing mansion (though this is simply conjecture from mixing the manga and anime storylines).

She is a formidable fighter, wielding a giant scythe with enough force to cut a man in half. One side of her body is covered with tattoos, which include some designs but are mostly letters (into which Hirano occasionally sneaks phrases such as "Trigun Maximum"); when exercising her power of illusion, they flow from her body onto the walls and ground around her, extending her influence over the area. She can also read minds/souls allowing her to determine what illusions work best on her victims.

She attacked the Hellsing mansion during Millennium's invasion of London (Operation Seelöwe 2) and kills Pip Bernadotte, leading Seras to drink his blood and awaken her latent vampiric powers. Seras subsequently kills Zorin in a spectacularly violent and bloody manner, scraping her face across a wall like butter across toast. Right before Seras did the deed, Schrödinger appears and informs Blitz that her inevitable death will come in Seras' hands instead of being burned, as she disobeyed direct orders from the Major. Her orders were to wait for the others before entering Hellsing Manor. She disobeyed this by entering and attacking as soon as she could. Schrödinger also tells her that the Major and Doc have no time to use the microchip inside her to burn her to death, because they have a "new toy" to play with (Walter). So Zorin dies in a complete contrast to Rip van Winkle, an unglorified death that Schrödinger later describes to the Major as like "a worthless insect". Ironically, these are the same words she used to describe Pip.

Her tattoos are different from panel to panel, in terms of images (in volume 7 she is show to have a pentagram on her right cheek, though in at least one panel it is a Star of David instead) as well as number and arrangement of letters, though it's never stated if they actually change or if Hirano simply didn't bother trying to maintain identical patterns of hundreds of letters and images.