Anastacius de Alger Obelia/Relationships

## Relationships

### Claude de Alger Obelia

The two had a close brotherly relationship as children. Anastacius used to praise Claude during their lessons and the latter would seek out company from his older brother. When Anastacius realised Claude was abused by Anastacius’ mum, he was sympathetic towards his plight and offered to one day play hooky with him. As they got older, their relationship became strained and Anastacius regarded his gifted and talented little brother as an annoyance. Claude cut all ties with Anastacius when he slept with Claude's fiancée, Penelope Judith. Their relationship reached a breaking point that upon becoming emperor, Anastacius killed Claude's mother and even attempted to kill his own brother using black magic, in which he failed. Since he was always wary of Claude's stronger mana, he conceived Jennette Margarita with Claude’s former fiancée using black magic to create a child whose mana would surpass Claude’s.

### Penelope Judith

Penelope was Claude's fiancé whom Anastacius slept with.

### Jennette Margarita

Jennette is Anastacius' biological daughter though Jennette is unaware of this. Anastacius first approaches her outside while she is looking around and curses the gift she bought for her ‘sister.’ He uses her as a tool to carry out his plans and finds her easily gullible and naive, using these particular traits to manipulate her into carrying out his plan. When he finds his plan to simply be nice to her proves to be ineffective, he contemplates brainwashing her with dark magic which risks breaking her soul. To maintain his facade, Anastacius displays a kind and almost father-like demeanor towards Jennette, promising to keep her secrets to emphasize his trustworthiness. Even after finding out about the secret of Jennette's royal bloodline he promises to tell no one, leaving his daughter relieved and trusting of him. At the core, Anastacius is an expert manipulator, taking advantage of his daughter‘s naivety for his own plans to get to Claude. However, after Jennette revealed her definition of family, he finds himself subconsciously caring and warming up to her.

### Athanasia de Alger Obelia

Anastacius officially meets Athanasia during the two cousins’ outing, his interactions with her are formal and polite as he generously offered to show the two where the handcraft shop was. Athanasia remains wary of him initially wanting to refuse his offer and his cold expression towards Jennette doesn’t go unnoticed by her so she interrupts their conversation in order to get Jennette away from him. Anastacius avoids direct physical contact with Athanasia as it causes her protection magic to activate, harming him in the process which he considers a hindrance to his plan. When Athanasia bumped into him, the scar wound on his chest re-opened and he was forced to leave immediately. Athanasia finds Anastacius indifferent attitude towards her confusing and somewhat offensive as he also behaved the same way when she tripped and he avoided contact with her. Anastacius wants to use Athanasia as part of his plan with Roger Alpheus to get to Claude.

### Roger Alpheus

The two formally meet at Athanasia’s debutante ball, Anastacius thanks Roger for raising his daughter and Roger is shocked to see the former emperor is still alive. Anastacius perceives Roger as simple minded and despite working together, Anastacius tends to operate independently from him. This always ends in Roger rebuking him as Anastacius often takes action that the latter strongly disapproves of. In his presence, Anastacius drops his kind facade and takes on a laidback, nonchalant attitude while having dry, humorous undertones to much of his actions which either doesn’t get appreciated or goes over Roger’s head.