Cassandra Gladstone

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Cassandra Gladstone is a character from Kaori Yuki's Cain Saga.

Appearance
Gladstone has shoulder length straight hair. He is seen dressed in fine, fashionable clothing. When performing his duties as High Priest, he wears long robes.

History
Cassandra Gladstone, commonly referred to by his surname, is known through London as a charitable Lord and politician. He often makes donations to the poor, or takes in orphans. His public focus is to help the needy. In reality, however, he is a cruel man who believes the streets of London need to be cleansed of the lower classes, going as far as cooperating with the Belk Boys through numerous bribes to let them set off bombs at the Crimone Gardens during the "Castrato" arc.

He serves under Delilah as the Head Priest. His tarot card is the High Priestess. His duties as Head Priest include orchestrating an initiation process known as the Ritual of Rebirth. During this ritual, Gladstone is able to view all the past events of a person's life. Gladstone also uses his psychic abilities to hypnotize people.

While initiating Jizabel Disraeli to the position of Death, Gladstone was able to see the tragic events of his childhood, as well as his desire to kill his half brother, Cain Hargreaves.

Story
Gladstone is introduced in the manga during the beginning of the "Bloody Maria" arc, initiating the Ritual of Regeneration for Jizabel, being able to

Gladstone takes a more prominent role during the "Castrato" arc when Cain is searching for information on his father's underground society, Delilah. Gladstone meets Cain in an opera house, where he introduces his most recent charge, a mute girl named Latisha. After an attempt at hypnotizing Cain to figure out his true intentions of coming to the operahouse (which was foiled by Latisha), he invites Cain and his manservant Riff to his home. Prior to Cain and Riff's arrival, Gladstone reveals his plans to Jizabel regarding taking over the Cardmaster's position, and has Latisha imprisoned in a torture device, the Scavenger's Daughter.

When Cain and Riff arrive at Gladstone's manor, Gladstone is there to greet them. However, once Cain mentions of wishing to have a room for Riff, Cassandra uses the opportunity to separate them from each other. Cassandra later gloats about this same task to Jizabel,

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Relationships
Jizabel Disraeli — Jizabel has expressed discomfort whenever he is around Cassandra, due to Cassandra treating Jizabel much like a plaything, exploiting the other's memories and weaknesses to Cassandra's advantage. An example of this is in the last chapter of the "Bloody Maria" arc, where Cassandra brings up Jizabel's past to the point that Jizabel is brought to an upset and gets into an emotional meltdown in his lab moments after their meeting.

Cassian — Cassandra, seeing as he dislikes the poor, holds a hatred for Cassian. He does not hesitate to address the other as if Cassian is a child (though in reality Cassian is the same age as Cassandra more or less), and gives Cassian no respect, going as far as to kick him in the face during the "Castrato" arc.

Alexis Hargreaves —

Cain Hargreaves — Cain seemed to have a dislike of Cassandra from the start, noting that Cassandra has a bit of a "savior complex" regarding his attitude towards the poor. Cassandra, however, seems to admire Cain, at least for his looks. Cassandra also mentioned to Jizabel that he looks forward to seeing the darkness in Cain's soul prior to Cain's arrival at Gladstone's manor.

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