Rip van Winkle (Hellsing)
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First Lieutenant/SS-Obersturmführer Rip van Winkle (リップヴァーン・ウィンクル中尉 First Lieutenant Rippuvān Winkuru?) is a character in the manga Hellsing and a member of the Millennium forces.
One of Millennium's top soldiers, and member of the Werwolf special forces, her troops stole a VTOL carrier called the Eagle from the British.
She uses a long-barreled flintlock musket that fires magic bullets that "punish all without distinction", tracking targets of their own accord, and which are seemingly armor-piercing (they destroy helicopters, fighter jets and missiles with ease) and they are even able to change their trajectories in mid-flight repeatedly peppering a target with the same bullet. She doesn't appear to have any other powers beyond this however. She also enjoys singing operas, especially Der Freischütz, and she often compares herself to the character Kaspar from that opera. The Major even notes that she is very much like Kaspar and that Alucard is Samiel, the antagonist of that opera.
Alucard instills a great deal of fear in Rip as he approaches, and inevitably kills her. Alucard stakes her through the chest just left of her heart with her own gun and drinks her blood in the climax to Volume 5 of the manga before using his shadows to devour her body, killing her and making her his familiar.
Ironically, The Major would not permit the Doctor to fry her through the chips, and in fact, in a rare gesture of "generosity", requests other members of Millennium to Nazi Salute her, bidding her "auf wiedersehen". Her mission was to effectively trap Alucard on the Eagle because he cannot cross water without the aid of a ship and his coffin. By using the Eagle as a decoy, Millennium isolates Alucard in the middle of the ocean while the rest of Millennium makes its landing operation. Unfortunately for Millennium, Alucard can pilot a ghost ship.
Rip later shows up after Integra releases Alucard's zero restriction.
In the most recent chapter of The Dawn, Rip also makes an appearance as a young, farsighted soldier, encountering Alucard after his initial defeat by the Captain. She appears in full uniform, wearing her hair in two braided pigtails, and bears the rank of Untersturmührer. Her glasses make it difficult for her to focus properly, and Alucard spends some time trying to make her understand who he is and why he's in the building. Finally, realising that he is an enemy, Rip tries to shoot Alucard, but is knocked unconscious by his sentient coffin.
Rip will appear in the OVA series, as promised by the trailer, but her voice actress has not been announced. Along with Zorin Blitz and Schrödinger, she appears briefly during Hellsing III, and also during the ending credits.
