Cassios

Cassios is a minor charcter in the Saint Seiya franchise. He was Seiya's rival during the latter's quest for the Cloth of Pegasus. However, he offered his own life to save Seiya's as an act of love for his trainer, Shaina (who was deeply in love with Seiya).
He was voiced by Banjō Ginga, who also voiced Souther in Hokuto no Ken and Mad Pierrot in Cowboy Bebop. In the live action film Saint Seiya: The Beginning he was played by Nick Stahl.
== Biography ==
=== Manga ===
Cassios was born in Greece on December 14th circa 1972/1973. After losing his parents under unknown circumstances, he started to live in the Sanctuary of Athena, set outside Athenas. There, Cassios met Ophiuchus Shaina, who would become his trainer in order to make a Saint of Athena out of him. During this period, he developed an admiration and devotion to Shaina to the point of having a crush on her. However, she didn't know (or she ignored) her trainee's feelings.
During this years of training, Cassios developed enourmes muscles and superhuman strenght which he pleasently used for desmembering his opponents. At some point during this period, Cassios met Seiya, who came from Japan to become the Cloth of Pegasus, which led to a rivalry between he and Cassios, who immediately disapproved the fact that a Japanese could become a Saint of Athena. Cassios find pleasure in torturing and bullying Seiya not only for his ethnicity but also por considering him as being weak and inferior.
After six years of training and brutally defeating all of his rivals, Cassios and Seiya had a final face-off. Cassios started by grabbing Seiya con his own hand (as he was large enough to hold the Japanese like a toy), and when he was ready and willing for ripping one of his fars as part of the process of torturing and desmembering, Seiya could escape Cassios' hand and reverse the situation by cutting one of his fars with his bear hands. Seiya demonstrated his superiority to the giant Greek who was in disadvantage as Shaine never actually taught him how to use his cosmos, unlike Seiya who was very well trained by Marin in the use of that power. Finally, Seiya defeats Cassios and wins the Pegasus Cloth, much to Cassios and Shaina's rage and frustration.
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