Elias Ledesma

Miguel Anthony Castillo-Larrazabal, popularly known as Elias Ledesma, is one of the main protagonist of the 2018 Filipino TV series Cain at Abel. 
He is the long lost brother of Daniel Larrazabal, who became his greatest rival in his life, but later his partner after he was redeemed for his crimes. He is also the father of Sammy T. Ledesma, and the ex-boyfriend of Margarette Tolentino.
He is portrayed by Dennis Trillo.
== Background ==
Born as Miguel Anthony C. Larrazabal in a working family from Antonio Larrazabal and Belen Larrazabal, and lived normally with his brother Daniel. The changes of their life came, when his parents separated alongside with his brother Daniel. Daniel was raised in a wealthy lifestyle with his father and stepmother, while he was raised in a small fishing village. He was separated by his mother at an early age, due to his mother’s worsening mental condition, which she was sent in a mental institution causing to lose her memory thanks to the manipulation of William. As he started living alone, he met Juancho his longtime friend, who performed different petty crimes just for them to live and gradually forgotten his brother Daniel.
As time comes, he eventually started dating his childhood friend Margarette and tried to make their relationship solid. He then tried to entered small time jobs, but became a victim of injustices, which forced him return doing petty crimes for survival. At some point, he was caught by Margarette causing an end of their relationship and revealed that she is pregnant. Despite this, he was till allowed to visit their son once in a while, however, his life had a great change when he discovered he was terminally ill and required an expensive surgery for his son’s treatment. This made him desperate, returning his life of thievery until he was caught and tortured by the authorities. 
In order to prevent exposing Governor Gener Buenaventura and Daniel ‘s involvement in the death of Brent Evangelista, he volunteered to be the fall guy as an exchange for payment for his son’s medical bills. However, this caused a total end of his connection with Margarette preventing him from getting near Sammy, but unknown to her, Elias was actually helping them and Governor Gener and Daniel was the one who paid Sammy’s needs. At some point, he requested to visit his son in the hospital and he was allowed to see Sammy for the said time but this was stopped after an unexpected riot caused by Oscar Evangelista resulting a hostage crisis. He was sent back to jail, and later transferred in the corrections as he was declared guilty for his case. He then became desperate, seeing Sammy and winning back Margarette causing him and his friends escape from prison. He then secretly takes Sammy, and hid together in a safe place away from the authorities. As Sammy’s condition gets worse, he was forced to return them to Margarette and Daniel, unfortunately Sammy gets shot after SPO4 Alex Ibarra failed to shoot Elias during his arrest making him further runaway from them. 
Learning about his son’s death and Daniel started dating his ex lover Margarette, his grudge manifested to Daniel and vowed himself to kill Daniel, and unknown to him that Daniel is his long lost brother. He joined forces with Diego Garcia, a ruthless crime lord alongside with his friends Ramon and Juancho, for his mission to take down Daniel. They started attacking Daniel, which started the rivalry of the long lost brothers. One night, Belen who’s still mentally unstable suddenly stopped her car due to her engines malfunctioning, Elias coincidentally saw her having trouble and fixed her car’s engine. This time Belen, has sensed something close about him, which is actually his long lost son. Nights later, Daniel and Elias are once again having intense duel, only to be stopped by Belen after she regained her memory back, however, Elias refused to believe them causing him accidentally shoot his mother.
Days later, the brothers once again had a duel, which is their final duel, however he was defeated in this fight, as Daniel threatens him with gun but begs his life. Instead, Daniel chose to spare him and help him redeem from his crime. His name was finally cleared, as Daniel surrenders to the authority and reveals that Elias was just the fall guy in Brent Evangelista’s death. As he plans to escape from Diego’s gang, Margarette and her family were abducted as his hostage. Learning that they were abducted, he met Daniel near their homes and attempted to rescue Margarette. They were able to defeat Diego by shooting him until his death, unfortunately Margarette was killed as she attempts to escape. Elias laters surrenders to the authorities, and he was seen again in prison uniform visiting his deceased family with his brother Daniel and mother Belen. Daniel then suggests that he will hire a lawyer that can help him clean his case, but Elias decided to atone his crimes instead.
== Personality ==
Despite of his villainous acts such as thieving and antagonizing Daniel in the series, he is seen to be compassionate individual showing that he shows kindness to every people he cares about him such as his ex lover Margarette, Sammy, and eventually his long lost family Daniel and Belen. He has also strong fatherly instinct as seen that he will do everything despite of the high risks proving that he will do everything as much as he can just to help his ailing son survive and be the best father for his child to prove that he still deserves him to his ex-lover Margarette.
== Trivia ==
* From the title, he is the one portrayed as Cain based from the biblical story Cain and Abel for ending up as the bad son from the rivalry of the two brothers.
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