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Vener-shipping comes from the words veneration (worship), venerer (hunter), and venereal (sexual) which are the crux of Han and Alucard's relationship. Work in progress while I try to elaborate on the venereal part because their relationship isn't so much so that they're sexual in the traditional sense of sex (they've never had penetrative sex) but they're sexual insofar that sexuality is an exploration of union and control.

Work in progress.

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Han met Alucard when he was contracted by the Triad. Their first meeting was turbulent as, apart from finding Han's crew cut ugly and his scent off-putting, Alucard didn't spare Han his interest——and Han found offense in Alucard's vocalized thoughts.

When they were shipped out to Siberia and ambushed, Alucard got lost in the wilderness for months and eventually found the cabin where Han and some Triad members had taken refuge. Alucard killed and ate some Triad members in front of Han, sparing Han only because he let Alucard sleep inside. A particularly nasty storm trapped them inside the cabin. The surviving Triad members decided they would kill Han and Alucard to save on their dwindling resources. This was known to Alucard but Han was oblivious until he found body parts laying around outside, all killed by Alucard. Alucard developed an attachment to Han and Han was on a morbid, guilt-and-fear-ridden, self-aware power trip.

After three months, they eventually escaped the wilderness and returned back to base together, lying about the disappearance of the team they went with. Alucard started following Han around more than ever.

The first time they touched intimately was after Alucard's cryochamber malfunction. Alucard was dumped at Han's doorstep with a "he asked for you, he's your problem now!" Han ran Alucard a warm bath for the hypothermia and forcibly tried to hold him under the water as Alucard thrashed around, feeling as if he was being boiled alive and drowned. His struggling opened his neck wound back up and without the proper equipment, Han wrapped his hands around Alucard's throat and choked him to try and stop the bleeding. Han ultimately succeeded but it was a sloppy job. Han passed out on his couch from exhaustion while Alucard cleaned up the massive mess of water and blood by himself and then stood awake the entire night, watching over Han.

Due to the amount of inconsistencies, slip-ups, and just pure skepticism in the retellings of what happened in Siberia, the Triad became distrustful of Han and secretly called for his death by Alucard's hands. Alucard almost went through with it until Han crashed his car into him and the side of a truck off a bridge, causing a small but fatal explosion midair. Han fled but passed out and was tracked down by Xinrui several kilometers away. Xinrui took aim to shoot Han point-blank but Alucard, having survived the crash and crawled with his wounds to find Han, stood between the barrel and Han. Alucard uncharacteristically promised to kill Xinrui if he was to take the shot. Highly disturbed and shaken by Alucard's direct disobedience, Xinrui allowed Han to live.

The event made Xinrui realize that his control on Alucard was slipping. Driven by fear, he decided that he needed to dispose of Alucard at once rather than later like planned. Work in progress but this is when he sends Alucard after Dirge, intending for Dirge to kill Alucard.

When Han regained consciousness, he returned to the Triad as if nothing had happened. Alucard's absence is not questioned by him as he recalled that he had crashed Alucard off the bridge, presumably killing him. Han began to question his own beliefs and fell into a spiral. Weeks later, Dirge appears to take revenge on the Triad. Han confronted Dirge and Dirge coldly admited to being the one who killed Alucard, taking Han to see the grave with a body as proof. Han, finally able to direct his grief and blames somewhere central, promises Dirge that he will return to inflict retribution on him.

Over the next years, Han is haunted by an Alucard-shaped effigy that his mind had conjured. Han lived in fear of Alucard coming back, angry about the crash and a million other things that he should be angry at Han about, to kill him.

Work in progress.