Alexis Hargreaves

Alexis Hargreaves is the younger brother of Augusta Hargreaves and the father of Cain Hargreaves who was the Earl of Cornwall before Cain.

Appearance
Alexis appears like an older version of Cain Hargreaves as they both have the same black hair, fair skin and very handsome features. However, Alexis's eyes are regular green instead of golden-tinged green.

Story
Alexis as a young man was noted to have been active in a medical research organisation in which his father was also involved in. However, Alexis turned the medical research to an unethical direction, often experimenting about humans.

Alexis also fell in love with Augusta Hargreaves (Alexis' own older sister). Even though Augusta (apparently) rejected his advances, he proceeded to make love to her, causing Augusta to bear his child and the child of their relationship was Cain Hargreaves.

Afterwards, he was forced to marry a woman 'whom he did not love' named Lenora Hargreaves, but they never had any children of their own. When Cain was a child, Lenora tried to kill him while he was playing in the garden before Alexis then killed Lenora with poison and tried to calm Cain down. It was because of this hug that Cain believed Alexis really loved him.

Alexis then continued to abuse Cain physically and emotionally. He whipped Cain every night and forbidden the servants and staff to talk to Cain. Furthermore, he killed Cain's pets to upset him and he also put arsenic inside Cain's sugar.

When Cain was twelve, Alexis took in a son of a friend of his, Riff Raffit. In truth, Riff was a deadly doll created by his organisation, Delilah. When Alexis saw that Cain really liked Riff, to the point of protecting Riff from Alexis' abuse, he immediately wanted Riff to get close to Cain in order to hurt him more when he takes Riff from his side.

However, his plan did not go too well. The new Cain who had found his support and savior in Riff became increasingly aware that Alexis did not really love him. Cain then switched the arsenic with rose powder. When Cain drank tea one day and noted that it smelled of roses, he pretended to die, all the while having put poison in Alexis' cup.

Alexis was poisoned but had not died yet when he jumped out of the Cornwall Castle, cursing Cain to be forever alone and unloved.

While it was believed that Alexis had died, five years later the facts revealed that he was still alive. He became the leader of his organization Delilah and continued keeping watch on Cain and Riff. He also took in his son and Cain's half-brother, Jizabel Disraeli as one of the members in his organization.

Alexis treated Jizabel almost as badly as he did Cain. Alexis whipped Jizabel and killed his whole family in order to help the young Jizabel survive. Furthermore, when Jizabel was a kid, Alexis had the animals he loved to be cooked and served as Jizabel's meal. However, this cruelty towards him only caused undying love from Jizabel to his father Alexis.

During the series, Alexis was seen several times trying to further his research in medical sciences, especially that of resurrecting the dead. His obsession was caused by his trying to revive his sister, Augusta.

In the end of the series, Alexis died in the arms of a member of his organisation, Ida. However, his body was then possessed by the soul of Augusta. Using his body, she sought out Mary Weather at a mausoleum Cain had commissioned. Augusta revealed to Mary Weather that she had been the one to seduce Alexis, and had been manipulating him throughout the series.

Augusta hoped to kill Mary Weather and possess her body, effectively becoming the Countess of Cornwall. Her plan did not succeed because of the safety mechanisms Cain put in place in the grave, which was revealed to be prepared for Alexis, indicating that Alexis and Augusta has left the world together.