Cain C. Hargreaves

Top of its 17 years, this frail domiciled young man with London is the hero of the Manga Count Cain of Kaori Yuki.

Born from the inceste between Alexis Hargreaves and his Augusta sister, this character has seemed to live in the sordid one for his first days. Having seen her adoptive mother successively then her biological mother dying in front of her eyes, it is maintained with the variation of the world by her father which whips it every evening before trying to kill it by poisoning it, but without success.

These tragic events durably hardened the heart of the young count, who as of the 13 years age cannot count any more but on his majordomo Rif to support it. Now, it became one fringant young man whose main thing hobby consists in collecting the poisons (an old tradition in the Hargreaves family). The knowledge of these dangerous substances and its perspicacity are to him besides of a great help to elucidate the crimes of which its existence seems filled.

One could believe that this difficult childhood pushed it to mature more quickly, but it makes some of it is not nothing: Cain remained very puerile on several aspects. For example, accustomed since always being alone, it is extremely possessive with the people of its close entourage (Rif and Maryweather, mainly) and ungrateful with the others. From the moment when one is interested in him, he thinks indeed that it is right for its row or its fortune. It will then take him time before realizing that certain people appreciate it in a satisfied way, and that its behavior does nothing but wound them. In the same way, it has much evil to accept criticisms negative, not understanding that they can be to him made for its good. Thus it creates for itself itself sometimes this loneliness from which it suffers so much. And its multiples (and short) adventures with various women do not seem to fill it.

Otherwise, it is about a rather frank person even insolente, not hesitating to say what he thinks of the aristocracy which surrounds it. So some are some shocked, others on the contrary appreciate this honesty which slices with the hypocrisy of its similar, which seems to initially estimate a person on her row and not on its qualities.

Today, it seems to be much better than when it was small, and tries to save those which suffer from the same wounds as them his. However the events or his/her father prevent some constantly. Moreover, just like the marks of whip in its back refuse to disappear, its past the traumatize still. It frequently makes nightmares on its childhood and sometimes to simple allusions to the torments which inflicted to him his/her father are enough to destabilize it dangerously. He is even moments when only the presence of Rif still manages to prevent it from rocking again in despair.

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