TV-Series
Description
Rufus Glenn, a Scottish vampire operating in 1923 Japan, initially collaborates with Imperial Army General Nakajima. He maintains a polished demeanor, sporting blonde hair in a ponytail, green slit-pupil eyes, and distinctive attire: a grayish-navy cape, dark red pants, and a light blue button-up shirt adorned with a purple collar accessory featuring a red pendant. Beneath this charm lies chaotic cruelty and a penchant for targeting the vulnerable, especially children or child-like vampires.
Partnering with Nakajima, Glenn develops Ascra, an artificial blood source marketed as a vampire vaccine. Secretly, he contaminates Ascra with a modified virus to further his own ends. The tainted blood transforms humans into mindless, flammable vampires or creates addicted vampire soldiers, deliberately manufacturing a crisis Nakajima aims to solve with a super-vampire unit. Glenn orchestrates Ascra's smuggling via liquor barrels and triggers vampire outbreaks across Japan.
Glenn holds specific animosity for the ancient child-vampire Defrott. He kidnaps Defrott's associate, journalist Aoi Shirase, using her to lure Defrott into deadly traps like sunlight-exposure bunkers, actions driven by apparent malice. Glenn also murders General Nakajima's daughter, Misaki, after she overhears his plans with her father. He stages her death as a stage accident, though Defrott intervenes, turning her into a vampire moments before her apparent demise.
His abilities include expert voice mimicry, employed to assassinate and impersonate Japan's military leadership. After seizing control of Nakajima's vampire troops, Glenn imprisons the general and declares himself "The King of Vampires." This self-proclaimed title proves hollow; his erratic leadership and irrelevance to most vampires—including brain-dead Ascra victims, rebelling soldiers, and independent vampires like Code Zero—hasten his downfall. His escape plan fails when his protégé, a young vampire girl he previously exploited, betrays him and flees with another vampire. Glenn's schemes ultimately collapse due to his own instability and lack of genuine loyalty or influence.
Partnering with Nakajima, Glenn develops Ascra, an artificial blood source marketed as a vampire vaccine. Secretly, he contaminates Ascra with a modified virus to further his own ends. The tainted blood transforms humans into mindless, flammable vampires or creates addicted vampire soldiers, deliberately manufacturing a crisis Nakajima aims to solve with a super-vampire unit. Glenn orchestrates Ascra's smuggling via liquor barrels and triggers vampire outbreaks across Japan.
Glenn holds specific animosity for the ancient child-vampire Defrott. He kidnaps Defrott's associate, journalist Aoi Shirase, using her to lure Defrott into deadly traps like sunlight-exposure bunkers, actions driven by apparent malice. Glenn also murders General Nakajima's daughter, Misaki, after she overhears his plans with her father. He stages her death as a stage accident, though Defrott intervenes, turning her into a vampire moments before her apparent demise.
His abilities include expert voice mimicry, employed to assassinate and impersonate Japan's military leadership. After seizing control of Nakajima's vampire troops, Glenn imprisons the general and declares himself "The King of Vampires." This self-proclaimed title proves hollow; his erratic leadership and irrelevance to most vampires—including brain-dead Ascra victims, rebelling soldiers, and independent vampires like Code Zero—hasten his downfall. His escape plan fails when his protégé, a young vampire girl he previously exploited, betrays him and flees with another vampire. Glenn's schemes ultimately collapse due to his own instability and lack of genuine loyalty or influence.