@@albertgongora6944seras:"holy shit!" Major:"i meant *antics*, the juden where the Führers obsession, not mine and frankly im insulted by the insinuation"
Honestly I love werewolves maybe even a bit more than vampires I mean a lot more I've always absolutely love the Monstrous power of just becoming a beast it makes some of the most interesting characters in fiction
Dawn was only like two or three mega short OVAs. No longer then 7 mins each. The vampire & Butler was on Loli form. It take place in WW2. One small fight only
@@jeremyhall2727 6 Manga chapters and 2 and a half episodes (the last one switched to an adaption of the mangaDrifters for some reason), each 10 minutes long
Awesome stuff, one of my favorite werewolves ever. I've always have the head-canon of his mist powers were a result of The Doctor's experiments, as becoming mist is usually a vampire power rather than a werewolf's.
@@WEREWOLFxALPHA Alucard himself was saying that vampires should be able to turn into mist, which is easier than turning into a bat. But then again, its just his words and we never saw any of the vampires do any of those things in anime (except maybe for Alucard when regenerating his body: there were a binch of bats)
Just a little fact for yeah, werewolfs and vampires are not as old as one another. Werewolfs come from the epic of Gilgamesh and vampires aren’t even talked about in history until about the year 1000A.D. Plus they aren’t even related to one another in any way, shape or form that’s just pop culture nowadays.
Actually there is a myth that if a werewolf’s body isn’t disposed of properly it will resurrect as a vampire so there has been some conflation before modern media. The whole they hate each other thing is definitely modern though
Once again, I have to point out that Casull isn’t the name of Alucard’s pistol, it’s the very real cartridge it’s chambered in, which is named after Dick Casull, its inventor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.454_Casull
The Captain didn’t say anything (at least to the best of my knowledge on him) but he really didn’t need to imo. He lets his actions speak for him and only does what The Major wants him to. Plus I thought the fight he had with Seras was cool.
Actually Germans hated werewolves in the past and you may look up Peter Stumpp or the werewolf witch trials to see how "werewolves" were dealt with. The name probably stems from the novel Der Wehrwolf(Guardian wolf) in which the main character gathered other peasants in the village and used guerrilla warfare to hunt down marauding soldiers and killing them.
True. Europeans feared them too. Naming a military unit after a mythological creature your people naturally fears, is usually an indicator of the deadliness of that unit.
Speaking of Guerrilla Warfare and Werewolves, that’s what the Werewolves mentioned here were, a mix of HJ and others (HJ came in later once the ranks were depleted) doing guerrilla attacks on enemy troops, rumor has it that some managed to hold out for half a decade after the war.
Kinda inaccurate comparison of wolverine without his adamantium since magneto in one comic ripped it out of him. He nearly died then he went more animalistic and has better regeneration since amantium is a toxic metal.
Would a silver bullet like the ones Alucard use be able to kill or do permanent damage to the Captain? It seems like it should, but maybe you have to kill him in melee for it to take, I don't know.
They have the physical properties of silver that make them fatal to werewolves but it seems like either you have to find a workaround to his abilities and force the silver in or it has to be let in by himself like we see
@@DeneuveYT Yes , silver is the only thing that can kill him . But the captain has all kinds of abilities like turning into mist or his super speed ( he's arguably the fastest character in the series ) that help him become almost untouchable . The only way would be by passing his defense or wait he lets you kill him like he did with Seras.
His giant wolf form and that humanoid mist form he used were stomping Seras . The captain barely used those forms and kept fighting only in his base form.
Gonna disagree about Alucard's regeneration being weaker. From my observation Alucard plays with his opponents and does things for dramatic effect and psychological impact. It looks to me like he tanks damage purposely to a point, showing the adversary just what damage they've done, only THEN to regenerate. This seems to throw especially weaker opponents into despair and a terrified opponents is a delight to Alucard. Think about the fight with the Valentine brother.
Yet again you say that someone has a stronger regeneration than Alucard. Alucard's regeneration is the strongest in the series, he can control how fast/slow he regenerates, and he can basically regenerate from a pool of blood as long as he has souls inside his body. We have not seen any of his enemies do the same.
Alucard’s regenerations are fueled by the souls he devours but like the Captain also work on multiple levels of utility through the mist/shadow/bats deforming and reconstituting methods. Alucard has access to more regeneration by sheer number of souls, is probably just as quick as all the competitors (usually just choosing to waste time) and also the occult and near limitless nature of his form working at times seemingly from formlessness even before Schrödinger’s sabotage. I do think his regeneration is the strongest however the Captain’s is effectively going to protect him from all the same physical injuries that Alucard could endure, and he’s doing it with only his one body and soul similar to Anderson. I think it’s more like the order from least to greatest goes something like common vampire, Anderson, the Captain, and finally mature vampire like Alucard although I think Anderson and the Captain should get some added respect here for relying far less on borrowed/stolen power and their regeneration carries with it a danger that’s only so potent because of his own skill and careful use of it. Alucard’s danger comes from how in almost every circumstance you’re just not breaking through and nearing a fatal blow. I suspect in a drawn out battle between Alucard and the Captain Alucard would try to find a solution to the problem of how to force his body to be in contact with a deadly amount of silver assuming he doesn’t just let him like he did with Seras. Perhaps his mind could be targeted to render him immobile but he also seems pretty fortified against a trick like that. If it was Smash Bros the Captain would have permanent super armor and on command intangibility plus a reset to 0% whenever that intangibility is used, and like all Shulk powers at once lmao. Alucard would have most of that too, but he’s got effectively unlimited stocks while the Captain has the one.
The Captain literally had to hand Seras the victory in order for him to be taken down, even Alucard, despite his emo wish, got screwed by absorbing the catboy on accident
Regarding The Captain's Durability and Weaknesses, there are a few important things that were skipped over. 1st: Walter's Wires clearly cut into The Captain's fingers, causing them to bleed. Sure, it had no significant effect on him, however, it shows that The Captain's skin is not unbreakable. 2nd: Unless he was Really Holding Back in the end, Seras Victoria might actually be more powerful than The Captain. - At the very end of their fight both Seras and The Captain threw two punches at the same time and both times their fists collided, and the result was The Captain's arms got destroyed and did not regenerate. - The Captain then followed up with a kick and Seras stopped the attack by catching his leg in her mouth. Given the level of power that The Captain had displayed, doing this this should have resulted in Seras getting her teeth knocked out. But, instead, Seras took no damage at all and her teeth visibly pierced into his flesh. - Finally, Seras kills The Captain with the silver tooth by punching him through the chest This all shows that The Captain is not completely invulnerable and that a True Vampire like Seras, might actually be more physically powerful in some ways at least. The only other possibility that I can think of is The Captain somehow found a way to weaken his own durability.
I don't know, in the 1st, Walter was losing against the captain and only lived because of alucard the 2nd one he did give her the means to kill him when he kicked a box of gold and silver and the arm thing he died that second he kick her so I don't know maybe he was in mid regeneration but the fight with Seas did feel it end to short with the captain but overall im ok with it
Don't beat yourself up. The person making these videos always gets things wrong. He actually thinks Anderson is better at regeneration than Alucard, simply because he doesn't understand the context of the story. The obvious fact that Alucard is a bored vampire that is desperate for sometime of entertainment and a end.
He was holding back against Seras I don’t know how you didn’t see how or if you were truly paying attention but bro gave her the means to kill him if he was fighting her seriously it wouldn’t have been a Seras fight Alucard would have to save her or plot Yeah she may have been bitten by Alucard but all she has is raw strength , supernatural senses/abilities and whatever police training she went through vs people with either decades or centuries of extensive combat experience and Tactics but I won’t deny that she potentially could surpass Alucard in every way once she lives long enough and can compare her body count to his(not that type of body count y’all know what I mean😂)
I disagree about the regeneration. Hes not healing. He can turn himself into mist. So if he's damaged he just uses the mist and rematerializes whatever got cut off. I'll have ro rewatch it, but im pretty sure that when he finally starts taking hard hits from Seras that theres whisps and puffs of the mist from the spots hes taking the damage. Also, the wolf and mist form are both aspects that were used by the O.G. in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
No not complete. In the fight with Walter by Hellsing The Dawn you can see how Walter cut with his String into the head and in the next seen you see from that cut nothing
Alucard has VASTLY SUPERIOR HEALING than Anderson!!! He literally forces it to go slower to troll and undermine his opponent's confidence and mentality!!!!!
If the show has proven anything, its "it takes a man to kill a monster." No monster's ever gonna defeat Alucard in this show. Only one who beaten him was Van Hellsing.
Thats Alucard rule btw If he dies by another monsters, that just meant than a Bigger one exists Also for the sake of argument one of the major weakness of alucard which is even mentioned brief in the show. (Also novel) you can kill him while he sleeps And while the Sun doesnt kill him he becames weaker and cant use must of his powers It has Hollywood than made Vampires dying to sunlight They never had that weakness in Bram Stolker story nor Carmila if i remenber corretly.
You need to stop saying other characters have more a efficient/superior healing factor than Alucard. Alucard has the greatest healing in the entire Hellsing universe. It is annoying that your mistake others healing as or better. All Alucard has to do is keep his own soul to stay immortal.
I thought his regen was limited but the number of souls he's consumed hitherto. Unless you can state known limits of the the other characters' own regen abilities, I guess you're kind of doing the same thing 🤷🏻
Even if.q thousand of ware wolf challenge alucard, they'd fail woefully, your wrong, alucard is a midst, a midst even stronger and efficient than a fog/smoke. Werewolf regeneration is indeedly slower than even zorins. He rather uses the ability to reshape his body to act as a regenerative factor, but regenerating through shared limbs is definitely slower. When alucard killed Alhambra, he regenerated his hands as fast as a blinking eye. And when against seras, seras deteriorated his arms and he was indefinitely unable to regenerate as for ware wolf, meaning he cannot regenerate from shared limbs that has been throssed or blown up, and the only reason why he could hold Walters wires is simple, he understands perfectly how the wires themselves works and how it is, even walter noticed, and during their fights, it wasn't that the wires couldn't cut through him, it was because he was suffocating walter, rendering Walter unable to use his ability. In a case of vamparized Walter and werewolf, Walter stands more supreme, because now he has a regenerative factor to a normal vamparic level. And also he can teleport his strings, killing werewolf would rather be easy than before when he was younger and human. Remember when ALUCARD turned into a midst of shadows and reformed himself after Alhambra destroyed his legs and arms? That is another form of reformation rather than regeneration. It is the act of reformating oneself rather than regenerating a lost limb. The werewolf may rein supreme in Anderson for reformation, but as regeneration, Anderson without hesitation far exceeds him with regeneration especially when combined with Helenas nail. And also, the captain has prior strength, meaning he has a limit he can muster his abilities to. But overall, the top regenerative individual in the series are alucard, Anderson, Seras , werewolf etc
were did you find dracula?
in a basement!
oh what a coincidence we found our werewolf in an attic.
we found many things in attics
Integra my God the major we met antiques not going to lie I might not be remembering how they said that whole entire thing in the series LOL
@@albertgongora6944seras:"holy shit!" Major:"i meant *antics*, the juden where the Führers obsession, not mine and frankly im insulted by the insinuation"
Such a cool character wish we could have gotten more of him
He is pretty much the Boba Fett in Hellsing: powerful mysterious individual we know nothing about, other than even Alucard backed away from him
That last howling might mean "thank you for releasing me from the nightmare"
His long barreled mauser was one of the coolest guns in the show imo second only to alucards custom magnums.
Um, Seras has an anti-aircraft harness.
Honestly I love werewolves maybe even a bit more than vampires I mean a lot more I've always absolutely love the Monstrous power of just becoming a beast it makes some of the most interesting characters in fiction
Yeah, werewolves are just cool like that. Just unleash your power in Bestial display
Also, Alucard let enemies feel fake confidence as he trolls them with his abilities being SUPERIOR to everyone.
Is all this stuff with Alucard and the Captain from _Hellsing: The Dawn?_ I don't remember Alucard talking about the Captain in Ultimate.
Hellsing ultimate
Dawn was only like two or three mega short OVAs. No longer then 7 mins each. The vampire & Butler was on Loli form. It take place in WW2. One small fight only
@@faiq8630 Which episode?
@@jeremyhall2727 6 Manga chapters and 2 and a half episodes (the last one switched to an adaption of the mangaDrifters for some reason), each 10 minutes long
@@Etzelsschizo yep 👍🏾 I really need to finish watching drafters too. I saw like 5 episodes 🤔 back in the day. Like 10 years ago or something
Awesome stuff, one of my favorite werewolves ever. I've always have the head-canon of his mist powers were a result of The Doctor's experiments, as becoming mist is usually a vampire power rather than a werewolf's.
good head-canon, but the captain was 100% unaltered by the doctor
Vampires don’t have mystical mist powers dude vampires are just vampires plus that mist stuff seems more like a phantom or ghost powers
@@WEREWOLFxALPHA Alucard himself was saying that vampires should be able to turn into mist, which is easier than turning into a bat. But then again, its just his words and we never saw any of the vampires do any of those things in anime (except maybe for Alucard when regenerating his body: there were a binch of bats)
Just a little fact for yeah, werewolfs and vampires are not as old as one another. Werewolfs come from the epic of Gilgamesh and vampires aren’t even talked about in history until about the year 1000A.D. Plus they aren’t even related to one another in any way, shape or form that’s just pop culture nowadays.
exept that in a world of a occult a witch can be both and it is a old beilif
Actually there is a myth that if a werewolf’s body isn’t disposed of properly it will resurrect as a vampire so there has been some conflation before modern media. The whole they hate each other thing is definitely modern though
Once again, I have to point out that Casull isn’t the name of Alucard’s pistol, it’s the very real cartridge it’s chambered in, which is named after Dick Casull, its inventor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.454_Casull
The Captain didn’t say anything (at least to the best of my knowledge on him) but he really didn’t need to imo. He lets his actions speak for him and only does what The Major wants him to. Plus I thought the fight he had with Seras was cool.
he only talked back in the "desert guardian" when he fought against Israeli soliders in Egypt.
Actually Germans hated werewolves in the past and you may look up Peter Stumpp or the werewolf witch trials to see how "werewolves" were dealt with. The name probably stems from the novel Der Wehrwolf(Guardian wolf) in which the main character gathered other peasants in the village and used guerrilla warfare to hunt down marauding soldiers and killing them.
True. Europeans feared them too. Naming a military unit after a mythological creature your people naturally fears, is usually an indicator of the deadliness of that unit.
Speaking of Guerrilla Warfare and Werewolves, that’s what the Werewolves mentioned here were, a mix of HJ and others (HJ came in later once the ranks were depleted) doing guerrilla attacks on enemy troops, rumor has it that some managed to hold out for half a decade after the war.
Kinda inaccurate comparison of wolverine without his adamantium since magneto in one comic ripped it out of him. He nearly died then he went more animalistic and has better regeneration since amantium is a toxic metal.
True Duality without glaring flaws of contradicting nature = Favorite Antagonist
Thx for doing the video I really want Hellsing to be a game that way we could have far more side quest as well as explore the lore a lot more
Would a silver bullet like the ones Alucard use be able to kill or do permanent damage to the Captain? It seems like it should, but maybe you have to kill him in melee for it to take, I don't know.
Silver is the only thing that not only hurts him, it actually kills him in the manga.
@@BloodyWinterwolf So, yes, I guess.
Silver can hurt and kill him but its very hard due to his durability, ability to become mist at will and ungodly agility
They have the physical properties of silver that make them fatal to werewolves but it seems like either you have to find a workaround to his abilities and force the silver in or it has to be let in by himself like we see
@@DeneuveYT Yes , silver is the only thing that can kill him . But the captain has all kinds of abilities like turning into mist or his super speed ( he's arguably the fastest character in the series ) that help him become almost untouchable .
The only way would be by passing his defense or wait he lets you kill him like he did with Seras.
If he didn't give her the solver bullet he wouldve won the fight
His giant wolf form and that humanoid mist form he used were stomping Seras . The captain barely used those forms and kept fighting only in his base form.
Gonna disagree about Alucard's regeneration being weaker. From my observation Alucard plays with his opponents and does things for dramatic effect and psychological impact. It looks to me like he tanks damage purposely to a point, showing the adversary just what damage they've done, only THEN to regenerate. This seems to throw especially weaker opponents into despair and a terrified opponents is a delight to Alucard. Think about the fight with the Valentine brother.
Mein favourite werewolve Bruder der Captain such a beautiful soul
Ich dachte du bist tot
Yet again you say that someone has a stronger regeneration than Alucard. Alucard's regeneration is the strongest in the series, he can control how fast/slow he regenerates, and he can basically regenerate from a pool of blood as long as he has souls inside his body. We have not seen any of his enemies do the same.
Alucard’s regenerations are fueled by the souls he devours but like the Captain also work on multiple levels of utility through the mist/shadow/bats deforming and reconstituting methods. Alucard has access to more regeneration by sheer number of souls, is probably just as quick as all the competitors (usually just choosing to waste time) and also the occult and near limitless nature of his form working at times seemingly from formlessness even before Schrödinger’s sabotage. I do think his regeneration is the strongest however the Captain’s is effectively going to protect him from all the same physical injuries that Alucard could endure, and he’s doing it with only his one body and soul similar to Anderson. I think it’s more like the order from least to greatest goes something like common vampire, Anderson, the Captain, and finally mature vampire like Alucard although I think Anderson and the Captain should get some added respect here for relying far less on borrowed/stolen power and their regeneration carries with it a danger that’s only so potent because of his own skill and careful use of it. Alucard’s danger comes from how in almost every circumstance you’re just not breaking through and nearing a fatal blow. I suspect in a drawn out battle between Alucard and the Captain Alucard would try to find a solution to the problem of how to force his body to be in contact with a deadly amount of silver assuming he doesn’t just let him like he did with Seras. Perhaps his mind could be targeted to render him immobile but he also seems pretty fortified against a trick like that. If it was Smash Bros the Captain would have permanent super armor and on command intangibility plus a reset to 0% whenever that intangibility is used, and like all Shulk powers at once lmao. Alucard would have most of that too, but he’s got effectively unlimited stocks while the Captain has the one.
And Alucard himself admitted in Hellsing: The Dawn that the Captain is strong, even for him, showing uncharacteristic reluctance in facing him.
Dawn manga a bit of acid trip, the way Alucard leaves.
But yeah thats true@@jorgebersabe293
Regeneration for days
The Captain literally had to hand Seras the victory in order for him to be taken down, even Alucard, despite his emo wish, got screwed by absorbing the catboy on accident
Yeah he wss a pretty awesome dude. I so wanted more of him
Thank you been requesting this.
Thx god! I didn't think you'd acually dig into the subject
Is there still going to be a origins explored video for The Captain?
Regarding The Captain's Durability and Weaknesses, there are a few important things that were skipped over.
1st: Walter's Wires clearly cut into The Captain's fingers, causing them to bleed. Sure, it had no significant effect on him, however, it shows that The Captain's skin is not unbreakable.
2nd: Unless he was Really Holding Back in the end, Seras Victoria might actually be more powerful than The Captain.
- At the very end of their fight both Seras and The Captain threw two punches at the same time and both times their fists collided, and the result was The Captain's arms got destroyed and did not regenerate.
- The Captain then followed up with a kick and Seras stopped the attack by catching his leg in her mouth. Given the level of power that The Captain had displayed, doing this this should have resulted in Seras getting her teeth knocked out. But, instead, Seras took no damage at all and her teeth visibly pierced into his flesh.
- Finally, Seras kills The Captain with the silver tooth by punching him through the chest
This all shows that The Captain is not completely invulnerable and that a True Vampire like Seras, might actually be more physically powerful in some ways at least.
The only other possibility that I can think of is The Captain somehow found a way to weaken his own durability.
I don't know, in the 1st, Walter was losing against the captain and only lived because of alucard the 2nd one he did give her the means to kill him when he kicked a box of gold and silver and the arm thing he died that second he kick her so I don't know maybe he was in mid regeneration but the fight with Seas did feel it end to short with the captain but overall im ok with it
Don't beat yourself up. The person making these videos always gets things wrong. He actually thinks Anderson is better at regeneration than Alucard, simply because he doesn't understand the context of the story. The obvious fact that Alucard is a bored vampire that is desperate for sometime of entertainment and a end.
He was holding back against Seras I don’t know how you didn’t see how or if you were truly paying attention but bro gave her the means to kill him if he was fighting her seriously it wouldn’t have been a Seras fight Alucard would have to save her or plot
Yeah she may have been bitten by Alucard but all she has is raw strength , supernatural senses/abilities and whatever police training she went through vs people with either decades or centuries of extensive combat experience and Tactics but I won’t deny that she potentially could surpass Alucard in every way once she lives long enough and can compare her body count to his(not that type of body count y’all know what I mean😂)
It is so obvious that the captain wanted to die and held back more and more during the fight.
So that's why They made "WEREWOLVES OF THE SS" and "ILSA, SHE-WOLF OF THE SS", wolves and werewolves were associated with Germany. Interesting.
Honestly it looks like he came out of the World of Darkness,
I disagree about the regeneration. Hes not healing. He can turn himself into mist. So if he's damaged he just uses the mist and rematerializes whatever got cut off. I'll have ro rewatch it, but im pretty sure that when he finally starts taking hard hits from Seras that theres whisps and puffs of the mist from the spots hes taking the damage.
Also, the wolf and mist form are both aspects that were used by the O.G. in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
No not complete.
In the fight with Walter by Hellsing The Dawn you can see how Walter cut with his String into the head and in the next seen you see from that cut nothing
Fun fact:In Helsing abridged alucard calls him Logan 😂
Unexpexgex Hellsing video on main page 😮
do an anatomy on the vampire soldiers, whenever u want
I would love to see alucard vs the captain
Alucard has VASTLY SUPERIOR HEALING than Anderson!!! He literally forces it to go slower to troll and undermine his opponent's confidence and mentality!!!!!
Over 50 years the captain didn't grow or get stronger, while alucard gets a little stronger with every soul consumed
Had no idea Germany loved werewolves
Why I don’t remember wolves in hellsing
Wait, didnt he say that anderson was the only equal to alucard?
If the show has proven anything, its "it takes a man to kill a monster."
No monster's ever gonna defeat Alucard in this show. Only one who beaten him was Van Hellsing.
Thats Alucard rule btw
If he dies by another monsters, that just meant than a Bigger one exists
Also for the sake of argument one of the major weakness of alucard which is even mentioned brief in the show. (Also novel) you can kill him while he sleeps
And while the Sun doesnt kill him he becames weaker and cant use must of his powers
It has Hollywood than made Vampires dying to sunlight
They never had that weakness in Bram Stolker story nor Carmila if i remenber corretly.
You need to stop saying other characters have more a efficient/superior healing factor than Alucard. Alucard has the greatest healing in the entire Hellsing universe. It is annoying that your mistake others healing as or better. All Alucard has to do is keep his own soul to stay immortal.
Woah easy, it's just a video, it can't harm you.
I thought his regen was limited but the number of souls he's consumed hitherto. Unless you can state known limits of the the other characters' own regen abilities, I guess you're kind of doing the same thing 🤷🏻
@@benyoung2287 actually watch the dang thing. He and Victoria say it!!!!
Even if.q thousand of ware wolf challenge alucard, they'd fail woefully, your wrong, alucard is a midst, a midst even stronger and efficient than a fog/smoke. Werewolf regeneration is indeedly slower than even zorins. He rather uses the ability to reshape his body to act as a regenerative factor, but regenerating through shared limbs is definitely slower. When alucard killed Alhambra, he regenerated his hands as fast as a blinking eye. And when against seras, seras deteriorated his arms and he was indefinitely unable to regenerate as for ware wolf, meaning he cannot regenerate from shared limbs that has been throssed or blown up, and the only reason why he could hold Walters wires is simple, he understands perfectly how the wires themselves works and how it is, even walter noticed, and during their fights, it wasn't that the wires couldn't cut through him, it was because he was suffocating walter, rendering Walter unable to use his ability. In a case of vamparized Walter and werewolf, Walter stands more supreme, because now he has a regenerative factor to a normal vamparic level. And also he can teleport his strings, killing werewolf would rather be easy than before when he was younger and human. Remember when ALUCARD turned into a midst of shadows and reformed himself after Alhambra destroyed his legs and arms? That is another form of reformation rather than regeneration. It is the act of reformating oneself rather than regenerating a lost limb. The werewolf may rein supreme in Anderson for reformation, but as regeneration, Anderson without hesitation far exceeds him with regeneration especially when combined with Helenas nail. And also, the captain has prior strength, meaning he has a limit he can muster his abilities to. But overall, the top regenerative individual in the series are alucard, Anderson, Seras , werewolf etc
what garbage scripts created by chatgpt
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It means he’s ignoring to tangerines
Love this show so much wish there was more but that’s what’s books are for