Suzette

Suzette is a character from Kaori Yuki's manga Cain Saga.

Appearance
Suzuette is a pretty young lady, possessing dark tight curled locks with long wavy hair.

Background
Suzette is the only daughter of Augusta Hargreaves and her unnamed husband. Making her the cousin of Cain Hargreaves on her maternal side. In Cain's flashbacks, Suzette and Cain shared a close relationship, often out playing together in the gardens when they were younger. In the God Child manga, Cain described Suzette as someone who had more courage than most people and that was what made him fall for her. "*Spoilers* As the story progressed on, it was later revealed that she is also half-sister from his aunt and mother Augusta."

Story
Suzette was deeply in love with a proletariat man of society. Apart from supporting him financially, she had also given him her family heirloom, a ring, which bears her house crest. He in return, only gave a cheap chintzy ring which she cherishes dearly. But because of the lovers social standing disparity, unfavourable rumors begun to surface.

Unable to live without her true love and in fear that her step-mother would force them to break up; Suzette devises a plan to replicate the play of Romeo and Juliet. She believes with all her heart, that he will come retrieve her from the grave in incredulity of her passing, and when she awakens, they would happily elope far away together.

For this, Suzette seeks her cousin the Count of Cornwall, for his infamous private rare collection of poisons. Cain at the time, in the dark of her plans, tells her about the ‘Emerald Forest’ that could cheat death. However, on the prerequisite that it needs to be diluted with water a hundred times, for it to be innocuous for consumption. Since the poison, so lethal in its pure form can kill anyone if they came in direct contact with it.

Suzette reveals to Cain what she plans to do with it, but to her dismay, he strongly disagrees and the discussion between them ends in an heated argument. Not taking Suzette determination seriously, Cain leaves on a trip. Unknowing that during in his absence, Suzette had stolen the poison.

Suzette successfully feigns her death with the help of Emerald Forest and was buried. However, after the effects of the poison had worn off, she awaits a whole day in vain. For her lover never appeared. Nearing the brink of losing her mind in the air-tight confinement of the coffin. Filled with unanswered questions and terrified of really dying like this, she breaks free from the ground. In her rage, she kills a grave robber who happened to be there. After that incident, talk in town begun to spread about the ghost of Lady Suzette and the mysterious green hand-print found on a deceased man at the graveyard.

The next night, Suzette went to look for her step-mother, who got awoken by the sound of her calling voice. Suzette had thought of the possibility that it was she who might have kept her lover away, preventing him from coming to save her. She kills her in the same fashion as the grave robber. Cain returns in time to get a hold of Suzette just as she was leaving the manor. He manages to take her back with him.

In that same night, Ariel Ashton, a florist, had snuck into Cain's manor to check if the rumoured ‘ghost’ was actually a living person. Suzette wakes and almost kills Ariel with her poisonous palm. Fortunately, Cain arrives and saves Ariel's life with the antidote in time. Later on, Suzette accidentally overhears Ariel quoting her lovers lines to Cain during their conversation. From there, she learns a shocking revelation and the whereabouts of her lover.

On the third day, Suzette finds her lover by the alter at a cathedral. He turns out to be Ariel's uncle, Miles Ashton. Who is the owner of the flower shop. It was revealed that he was about to marry Lady Claire, the wealthiest woman in town. Suzette's sudden appearance disrupts the wedding ceremony and scares everyone away as they all had thought she was supposed to be dead.

Although realizing that she had been led on, the still very much in love and heartbroken Suzette tells Miles of the dream she had to marry him and how she had been waiting for him within the coffin until she couldn't bear it anymore. Suzette then asks the terrified Miles to recite "You are my little bird. Your beautiful feathers, your bright eyes, they captivate me", the very line he used to captivate her with. However, instead, recites the lines herself. With tears falling from her eyes, she requests for him to give her a kiss. But, Miles was already too petrified to move. Suzette makes the move and gives him the green kiss of death with the Emerald Forest poison that was stored in her mouth.

This act ends up killing both of them.

Trivia

 * The name Suzette means "Lily" in French.