Cadenza - Headcanons
He is heir to one of the oldest duras families, which are considered novelty in Infernos and being famous for their blood red hair (and blood thirst). Their family crest resembles a lion with a blood red mane.
There aren’t many family members. In fact he is currently the only known (and living) one.
He had a sickly little sister.
There was a time so many centuries in the past, where he actually had more empathy (but he still was arrogant af).
He grew up with a very strict and gruesome father, who was a infamous General Class Duras himself serving the king.
His father trained him mercilessly and if Cadenza failed a task or his father wasn’t satisfied with the training results of the day, the punishments were gruesome. He won’t get any food or water and his wounds won’t get treaten. It’s the father’s way to ensure that his bloodline will keep on being famous and strong. Cadenza’s father hoped that his son will follow him in his steps as a General Class Duras.
His mother was the exact opposite. Kind and tender and tried to shield her son from his father a lot. She was also a victim to his violent temper.
Cadenza comes after his father, who had shorter red hair and a beard. He inherited the wild locks from his mom, who had silver blond hair. His sister had the same hair like his mother.
Cadenza hated his father, but loved his mother dearly. His hatred peaked, when his father killed his mother one night. He was still young, just reached the Opast level recently and came back from a journey to witness her murder. He killed his father in a peak of rage, earned and inherited the nickname “Bloodhound” from his father.
He hated the nickname, but endured it since the king became aware of him after the tragedy. He started to serve under the king with this nickname and evolved to General Class.
He didn’t want to follow his fathers steps, serving under the king, but he needed the income to care for his sister.
Since the king allows certain members of his peers to get summoned Cadenza worked on another nickname for himself, starting to kill his masters, until he was known as the ‘Master Killer’.
He lost the last part of his heart when his sister died from her condition. Since then he views the bonds of others as something ridiculous and unnecessary and loves to destroy them by killing one of the people and playing with the remaining other half.
He is even for Duras standards beautiful, therefore a cunning ladies man. The women and men love the bloodthirsty and wild, but yet elegant aura around him. He never stays long around one partner and certainly has no thoughts of bonding to one and have a mate (Duras equivalent of marriage). In fact, he doesn’t even care to preserve his bloodline, since everyone he ever cared in his family is no more.
________________________________________ Yeah, I headcanon Cadenza as novelty, although Hotaru Odagiri once wrote in a chart, that he is only an Opast of Rank S and therefore ‘just’ an officer. But whenever I see him appearing in the series, he gave me elegant and noble vibes, similar to Dracula. I could imagine him living actually in a castle, surrounded by servants, while drinking the blood of the last poor guy who dared to summon him :’D
