+ Profile Meme
[Character Name] Cain C. Hargreaves
[Canon] Godchild
[Point Taken from Canon] At the end ch. 32 of the manga
[Age] 17
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Riff-sexual Self-proclaimed ladies' man
[Eye Color] Green/gold
[Hair Color] Dark brown/black
[Other] Has a black earring in his left earlobe, and deep scars across his back from being whipped nightly as a child
[Clothing] Suit of a Victorian aristocrat. See most icons for reference :p It probably won't last long at Som, not having anything similar to change into. In that event, I would say he'd still lean towards dark, multi-layered, long-sleeved, full-legged clothing.
[Background]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Cain
[Personality]
Cain is a self-professed lady's man, at least in public. All the girls think he's tall, dark, and dreamy - the poisonous earl, sinfully attractive and mysterious. From the very opening of Godchild, the women in the room are all atwitter about Cain. When you pan back to the earl, however, you realize he doesn't love society half as much as they're intrigued with him. He's annoyed by the gossip, the materialism, the envy. Of course, it's easy for a cushy and handsome earl to loathe the company. He's had everything handed to him.
Well, almost everything. Not love, as you come to find - something he wants very much. After being denied the love of his parents, Cain craves it in his heart of hearts. Even though his father has cursed him to die alone and unloved, Cain clings to the two people he trusts and loves, in his own way: his sister, Merry, and his butler, Riff. To some extent, he even comes to love his uncle Niel, as stubborn as he is around the closest thing he has left of family.
In this way, he can signify with other characters (a recurring theme in the manga) who are also mad for love, even though he may not seem to pity them. His cousin, Shuzette, in love with a man who is marrying another woman; Madeline, who craved the love of a father; even Mikaila, a doll designed to love him, even though it's twisted by fate and circumstance.
You wouldn't know this is a secret yearning of Cain's however, not judging by the way he carries on. Especially in the earlier parts of the Cain saga, Cain is very much a quick-tempered, loose-tongued teenager. He calls his aunt a hag and is quick to tell off his relations when he doesn't approve of their self-centered behavior. He can be mean and downright cruel when it's of no merit, calling people thieves and liars and fools.
He can put on a pretty face, though, especially around ladies. That he does with little effort, leaning in at just the right moment, speaking in low tones, acting as a gentleman. Although the first woman that shows up in his bed, well, he pulls a gun on her. There is the real Cain, suspicious, distrusting, guarded. He won't be tricked, even by an attractive, half-dressed woman, and it turns out his instincts were right.
Having been physically and emotionally abused by his own father, it's understandable that Cain is desperate to put on a good show and a strong face to the world. He doesn't want to be a crying boy anymore, vowed that the tears he shed over his father's (apparent) death would be his last. But deep down, he still has the same fears, hidden behind his cool mask. That becomes more evident later, with Riff's betrayal.
He trusts his butler so implicitly, he goes through all the stages of denial and hurt and anger until finally resigning himself to the fact that Riff has turned on him - but no, even then he wants to hope, until he's driven to despair when he ends up truly alone and on the verge of death -- but that's skipping way ahead in canon, so never mind that.
In spite of his rumored romps with women, Cain is very self-conscious of his scars, from being whipped repeatedly in his childhood. He only trusts Riff to see and to touch them, careful who he undresses in front of. Later his father uses the public revealing of his scars as a way to humiliate him, mentally bringing him back to the state he was in as a boy, body and heart stripped bare by a cruel man who held such power over him, making him believe he was a tainted chain, unloved, unwanted, a reminder of a sinful union between brother and sister.
Cain loves his sister Merry - but not in any kind of unhealthy way. She is the one person he wants to protect, doesn't even concern himself with his own safety to way he does for hers (and even Riff's, who doesn't have Cain's permission to get hurt). He tries to keep her comfortable, shut away from the cruelties of the world, even though she hates it. But once she realizes how broken his heart is (and how crazy *Cain's* world is and how much he suffers), she invites the guilded cage, inviting Cain to love her in his way, even it is oppressive and overbearing. He truly has good intentions.
[Canon] Godchild
[Point Taken from Canon] At the end ch. 32 of the manga
[Age] 17
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Riff-sexual Self-proclaimed ladies' man
[Eye Color] Green/gold
[Hair Color] Dark brown/black
[Other] Has a black earring in his left earlobe, and deep scars across his back from being whipped nightly as a child
[Clothing] Suit of a Victorian aristocrat. See most icons for reference :p It probably won't last long at Som, not having anything similar to change into. In that event, I would say he'd still lean towards dark, multi-layered, long-sleeved, full-legged clothing.
[Background]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Cain
[Personality]
Cain is a self-professed lady's man, at least in public. All the girls think he's tall, dark, and dreamy - the poisonous earl, sinfully attractive and mysterious. From the very opening of Godchild, the women in the room are all atwitter about Cain. When you pan back to the earl, however, you realize he doesn't love society half as much as they're intrigued with him. He's annoyed by the gossip, the materialism, the envy. Of course, it's easy for a cushy and handsome earl to loathe the company. He's had everything handed to him.
Well, almost everything. Not love, as you come to find - something he wants very much. After being denied the love of his parents, Cain craves it in his heart of hearts. Even though his father has cursed him to die alone and unloved, Cain clings to the two people he trusts and loves, in his own way: his sister, Merry, and his butler, Riff. To some extent, he even comes to love his uncle Niel, as stubborn as he is around the closest thing he has left of family.
In this way, he can signify with other characters (a recurring theme in the manga) who are also mad for love, even though he may not seem to pity them. His cousin, Shuzette, in love with a man who is marrying another woman; Madeline, who craved the love of a father; even Mikaila, a doll designed to love him, even though it's twisted by fate and circumstance.
You wouldn't know this is a secret yearning of Cain's however, not judging by the way he carries on. Especially in the earlier parts of the Cain saga, Cain is very much a quick-tempered, loose-tongued teenager. He calls his aunt a hag and is quick to tell off his relations when he doesn't approve of their self-centered behavior. He can be mean and downright cruel when it's of no merit, calling people thieves and liars and fools.
He can put on a pretty face, though, especially around ladies. That he does with little effort, leaning in at just the right moment, speaking in low tones, acting as a gentleman. Although the first woman that shows up in his bed, well, he pulls a gun on her. There is the real Cain, suspicious, distrusting, guarded. He won't be tricked, even by an attractive, half-dressed woman, and it turns out his instincts were right.
Having been physically and emotionally abused by his own father, it's understandable that Cain is desperate to put on a good show and a strong face to the world. He doesn't want to be a crying boy anymore, vowed that the tears he shed over his father's (apparent) death would be his last. But deep down, he still has the same fears, hidden behind his cool mask. That becomes more evident later, with Riff's betrayal.
He trusts his butler so implicitly, he goes through all the stages of denial and hurt and anger until finally resigning himself to the fact that Riff has turned on him - but no, even then he wants to hope, until he's driven to despair when he ends up truly alone and on the verge of death -- but that's skipping way ahead in canon, so never mind that.
In spite of his rumored romps with women, Cain is very self-conscious of his scars, from being whipped repeatedly in his childhood. He only trusts Riff to see and to touch them, careful who he undresses in front of. Later his father uses the public revealing of his scars as a way to humiliate him, mentally bringing him back to the state he was in as a boy, body and heart stripped bare by a cruel man who held such power over him, making him believe he was a tainted chain, unloved, unwanted, a reminder of a sinful union between brother and sister.
Cain loves his sister Merry - but not in any kind of unhealthy way. She is the one person he wants to protect, doesn't even concern himself with his own safety to way he does for hers (and even Riff's, who doesn't have Cain's permission to get hurt). He tries to keep her comfortable, shut away from the cruelties of the world, even though she hates it. But once she realizes how broken his heart is (and how crazy *Cain's* world is and how much he suffers), she invites the guilded cage, inviting Cain to love her in his way, even it is oppressive and overbearing. He truly has good intentions.