Mary Weather Duke

Mary Weather Duke, or Merriweather Duke, is a character from The Cain Saga.

Appearance
Mary is a very beautiful girl who seems to resemble a porcelain doll with long blonde hair and blue eyes. She is always seen wearing expensive dresses and bows that are given to by Cain Hargreaves (Mary's older half brother).

Personality
Mary is a very kind, cheerful and warm girl who can be quite meddlesome, she often goes out of her way to help others and she is also noted to be very smart by her tutors. However, she has a notable temper that can usually flare up up whenever she is annoyed or upset.

Story
Mary is Cain Hargreaves's ten-year-old half sister. After Allegra Duke (May's mother) committed suicide in order to protect Mary from Allegra's obsessive husband where Mary lives on the streets of London as a fortuneteller. During this time, she believed that the Hargreaves family had killed her mother and spent her time trying to avenge her mother and Mary was helped by Eric (Mary's weather). She then met Cain when she tried to kill him by having Eric plant poisoned needle on Cain's wallet. After becoming aware of the situation, Cain believes that she is his half-sister, and adopts her.

During the Count Cain series, Mary is introduced to Gilford Lauderdale, the eldest son of the Lauderdale family. Although he is Cain's age, Gilford displays the behavior of a young boy and his family keeps him locked away out of shame. Mary befriends Gilford, keeping him company while her brother courts Emmeline Lauderdale. When Gilford's mature darker side surfaces, Gilford kills himself to ensure that Mary isn't harmed.

Outgoing and strong-willed, she is often annoyed by Cain's relationships with women. She does not like how Cain shelters her, but accepts it because she believes that it eases his suffering. Oscar Gabriel (one of Cain's friends) becomes her self-proclaimed fiance to win back his father's attention. As the series progresses, he risks his life to protect her, and she realizes that he genuinely cares for her.

It was revealed near the end of the series that she was the child of Allegra Duke and the head butler at the time of her employment in Cornwall Castle. This disproves Cain's belief that Mary is the illegitimate daughter of Alexis Hargreaves (Cain's brother). Although she is actually not related to Cain, he loves her regardless.

After Cain's death, Mary Weather visits the mausoleum her brother had commissioned months earlier. As she ponders it's true purpose, Augusta Hargreaves makes her first and final appearance as she possess the body of Alexis Hargreaves. Augusta reveals how she had manipulated Alexis into taking over Delilah and dabbling in the occult. She then moves to attack Mary, preferring her body over the body of her brother, but is sealed in the mausoleum by a trap laid by Cain.

Many years after the death of Cain and Riff, Mary is shown to be married to Oscar (which now makes her Mary Weather Gabriel) and she is currently bearing his child. Mary still hopes that somehow her brother survived the Judgement Day incident, and longs for him to return home. She was told that there was a noble-looking young gentleman dressed in black nearby the Hargreaves estate, and she believed him to be Cain. When she arrived at the location, there was a table set up for a tea party, and Suzette's ring (which Cain wore) was on the table. Mary cried tears of joy, believing that her brother was indeed still alive. However, it was revealed that it was actually Crehador who put the ring there, as he had found the ring on Cain's palm, as if asking Crehador to bring it back with him.

Facts

 * The name Mary means "Wished-for child", "rebellion" and "bitter" in Hebrew.
 * Mary is not Cain's real sister and Cain was eventually aware of this fact.
 * Mary was once a fortuneteller and she was very good at it, stating she was never wrong.
 * Her fortunetelling device of choice was tarot cards, which she kept even when she was living with Cain.
 * Allegra Duke (Mary's mother) was also a psychic.
 * At the end, Mary is married to Oscar Gabriel (which now makes her Mary Weather Gabriel) and she is currently pregnant with his baby.