Alucard from Castlevania Netflix series

Alucard as a Social 4

Social 4, ok but why not E1 ?

Alucard is introduce in the series with a fight against Trevor, wanting to know if he was worthy of his time, and will help him in his quest : killing his father and stopping him to like commits a genocide against humanity, basically. Dracula (Alucard's father) has gone mad after the murder of his wife Lisa, a human killed by the Church. Alucard, knowing that his mother will never accept the behaviour of her husband, but also because he knew that this was truly evil, sided with Humanity in order to stop his father but also to release him from his suffering.
Through the second season, we see how Alucard put an emphasis on his duty to kill his father because of his wrongdoings against the humans, but much more because of his mother’s wish and her love for humanity. Alucard is a pure Fi dom and by extent cannot be a type 1.
If Alucard was a type 1, his goal wouldn’t be to only kill Dracula, but to kill every vampires : the enneatype 1 views things in a black and white way, and vampires being monsters, it makes no sense that Alucard wants for and foremost to kill his father and don’t really care about the other vampires working for him.
The driving cause of his quest also wouldn’t be to kill Dracula to end his pain and to stop his madness in the name of her mother (Fi dom acts based on their own values and principles and not because society or norms find it “good” or “bad”), but because vampires are evil and because of that they have to be killed.

Also, individual from type 1 seeks to be perfect, and because perfection is unattainable, they devalue themselves and are in a constant disapproval of their doings, because it is never enough, the world is not good enough, their surroundings are never enough. That is a reaaaally quick summary of e1. And of course, non of this above fit Alucard : he never tries to be a “better” man or to change his surroundings even when he hates it (Trevor behaviour in like, every episode basically), and don’t depreciate himself because he's not good enough but because he sees himself as a monster, as someone who don’t deserve to be loved.

Social 4 characteristics in Alucard

Social 4 is an individual who hates himself for who is his, believing that how he is, his true self, will never get accepted and loved. He has an “excess craving for love that it entails to never answer the chronic sense of inner scarcity and badness” (Naranjo, 1994). His “Envy” (Passion of the e4) leads him to crave for something that he thinks don’t have, that he lacks and that is why people don’t love him.
OK but what’s the link with Alucard ?
Alucard is a great character of fiction, but because of a lack of real narrative in the series (and introspective speech), certain points are just guessed based on more obvious characteristics of him as a Social 4 : the defence mechanisms (introjection) and his overall behaviour.
Introjection in the terms of enneagram 4, is how the individual introject the bad words, remarks and thoughts that others said in himself. Like that, it’s not this person who hurt me, but myself, and the self-hate can be fed constantly by the rejection that e4 faces in the world. Because even if the enneatype 4 suffers from it, “the use of pain [makes them] hope of obtaining love through suffering” (Naranjo, 1994).
Introjection is also helpful for the type 4 in terms of managing the hurt caused by others : indeed if someone says harsh words to you, you cannot do anything. But if these same words is made by yourself, you can do something about it.

We can see this defence mechanism in Alucard when he is alone in his castle, talking to dolls of Trevor and Sypha : “You are a horrible, terrible person, and many other words for horrible and terrible, because I know all the words, because I am smarter than anybody”.
Alucard, with this dialogue, shows how he views himself compared to his friends, and how he devalues himself, thinking that they see him this way. He is not smart as Sypha, and not easy going as Trevor, and perhaps he killed his father, so How can they love him ? How can they stay with him ? It is surely for these reasons that he is now alone, trapped in Dracula's castle while they are enjoying their journey.

Unlike a Sexual 4, who will compete against the one that he envies, or Self Preservation 4 who will do everything to obtain what they “lack”, Alucard is more fitting and behaving like a Social 4.
Social 4 feels guilty to want, and shame is a really strong feeling in their life : they are deeply ashamed of themselves, compare constantly to others and think that they will never have their needs met, because they don’t really deserve it. Alucard has a deep longing for companionship and a desire to be loved, but he never really expressed it.
For example, when the twins come to his castle to find help against a vampire, Alucard helps them without even thinking of himself. In fact, he doesn’t even believe that they enjoy his presence and that they care about him, why would they ? He is a vampire and them, human.
Same goes for Sypha and Trevor : when they explain to him that they will go travel and hunt monsters, Alucard doesn't tell them that he wants them to stay, in fact he acts like he is totally fine with that. He cannot think of him as worthy of their affection.

The deep trauma of Alucard doesn’t help him from this self-deprecating spiral : he kills his own father. Even if it was for the greater good, even if he knows it has been the wish of her mother and that his father has gone mad, he did a parricide.
He plotted and hurt his own father. How can he be worthy of love after that ? What is his purpose of life after this act ? He is a monster. And without the (kinda random) goal that Trevor found him for his life (guarding the castle in order to not let the dead weapons, spells ect in the wrong hands) he would have literally killed himself.

I didn’t talk about Alucard in Castelvania Nocturne’s series cause, he faced all of his traumas in the Vanilla’s one soooo....
I hope my analysis is not that messy, english is not my first language and it’s my first time doing such a large writing based on enneagram and a little bit of Jungian functions.