Cid Kagenou/Relationships

Claire Kagenō
Cid has a tense relationship with his sister, Claire. While she always makes every attempt to inject herself into his life, Cid was annoyed by this and tried desperately to ignore her, even running away from her. Despite everything, Cid genuinely cares for Claire and helps her whenever she gets into trouble.

Mr. Kagenō
Due to his cowardice and negligence, Cid does not hold any respect for his father, and also privately fears that he might go bald like his father as he gets older.

Mrs. Kagenō
Cid's relationship with his mother is unknown, though he seems to at least hold her in higher regard than his father.

Skel & Po
Skel and Po are Cid's classmates and his only friends in Midgar Academy. Like him, they are dismissed NPCs in the background of other characters.

In truth, Cid seemingly doesn't possess genuine friendship with them and only hangs around them due to the both fitting his mob background. Hence why he doesn't mind being put through their antics, often remarking on how they always come through in their behavior.

He doesn't mind abandoning them to their fate whenever they get into trouble, due to their own stupid actions. In the anime, he leaves Skel to be taken by debt collectors to work off his gambling debt when the latter tried use him as leverage even as a slave.

Alexia Midgar
Initially, he confessed to the princess as part of a bet but was surprised when she accepted. He was very annoyed, as this ruined his chances of living a quiet life and he became aware she started the relationship with him as a way to annoy Zenon Griffey, her betrothed and an instructor. Over time, they become comfortable with each other, as she had no need to behave like a princess and he was able to receive money for his work as "Pooch". As the days went by, Alexia developed romantic feelings towards Cid, which led her ask him to continue their relationship after being rescued by him as Shadow, to only to end up being rudely rejected by Cid. As a result, she violently attacked him in response and caused a legacy mystery at school of "The Bodiless Murder."

Despite having put an end to their fake relationship, Alexia still has feelings for him and tends to bother him whenever she has free time. Cid shows no problem in interacting with her but is annoyed that she is ruining his chances of being a background character and rejects invitations to Iris's Crimson Order to spend more time together. Even so, Cid does genuinely care for Alexia despite all that, as shown when he heard about the recent murders committed by imposters claiming to be Shadow Garden and thought it was Alexia. Disturbed by the thought and wondering what could have motivated her, he was greatly relieved when he was wrong. In his Shadow persona, he also keeps telling her "not to get involved" in a way to keep her safe.

Sherry Barnett
Sherry was Cid's upperclassman at Midgar Academy, when the two encountered one another after Cid passed Sherry his chocolate at random. Cid and Sherry had a friendly relationship, although Cid doesn't know that Sherry had developed genuine feelings for him. It was during the terrorist attack at the academy that Cid took serious interest in her, thinking she might be important to the "main plot".

One thing to note is that it's implied Cid genuinely did care for Sherry, as he constantly protected her from the terrorists, was seemingly disgusted upon learning that Lutheran Barnett murdered Sherry's mother, and he personally gave the villain a matching painful death in retribution. Although, he didn't tell the witnessing Sherry about her adoptive father's true nature, thinking it was better she kept her loving view of him and hating his alter-ego Shadow.

In the anime, unbeknownst to Cid, after Sherry left to continue her studies and research, she developed an obsessive vendetta against Shadow. Reading about him in the newspaper and posting many wanted posters along her room.

Nina
Unbeknownst to Cid, Nina works for Zeta and is aware of his Shadow identity. She sense a liking and respect to him as she would often refer to him as "otouto-kun" and would do various tasks for him such as homework and info gathering as such.

Alpha
Alpha is the first member Cid inducted into Shadow Garden. He first discovered the elf amid one of his nightly raids against bandits. Upon finding her in her mutated state in a devastated caravan, Cid did not hesitate to use her as his guinea pig in further developing his magical abilities. After a month of experimentation, Cid accidentally restored Alpha's true appearance and Cid realizes she'd be someone he could gaslight to play along with his fantasies and recruited her.

Compared to the rest of the Seven Shadows, Cid has a very close personal relationship with Alpha, especially when they are alone, feeling more relaxed and open to expressing his emotions with her. In the same way, Cid does not usually act like Shadow when he is with her. When the two fought, Cid was impressed and genuinely proud of how strong Alpha became.

Beta
She loyally serves him and expresses great admiration to his abilities and will not tolerate disrespect to him. Beta also holds great affection towards him, while he is oblivious to her attention but considers her a great ally.

When they were young, Beta killed enemies at Alpha's order and developed trauma, but Cid would tell the shy and withdrawn Beta fairytales from his original world, which helped her cope with her situation. Unfortunately, about five years later, he became angered once learning that she had sold his stories as her own whilst leaving him out of the profits, but he forgave her when she gave him a "spy mission" while in Lindwurm. On her part, however, Beta is genuinely unaware that she essentially committed plagiarism against him, but Cid lets her continue as he's more interested in the fun of the missions she gives him, fulfilling his espionage roleplay fantasies.

Although Cid acknowledges Beta's intelligence, after they were both transported to Earth, he honestly believed that it would take her at least several months to learn Japanese. As a result, he was shocked when she mastered the basics of the language in just a few days, fearing she might find out about his true origins.

Whilst in Japan, they also got into a fight in an online chat room, though neither knew of the other's true identity. While initially just teasing each other about their outlandish usernames, the situation quickly escalated when Cid mocked the "Black Knight," his 'Shadow' persona on Earth, causing Beta to start sending him death threats until she got banned from the chat.

Gamma
After being left for dead by society, she was discovered and revitalized by Shadow, which caused a young Gamma to develop a deep admiration for the power Shadow possesses, which she regards as life itself.

Being one of the original seven members of Shadow Garden, Gamma had spent time training with Cid and the other girls, particularly Delta, but was dismayed to find herself not as competent a fighter like them. That was until Cid showed her another path through her intelligence, and Gamma listened to Cid's "Shadow Wisdom" from economics to culinary skills to engineering and decided to pour her dedication into learning them.

Two years later, however, Cid would grow quietly jealous of Gamma having used the knowledge skills he taught her to establish the Mitsugoshi Company, whilst essentially keeping him out of the profits. Although he noted that the company was a front for Shadow Garden, and all profits poured into the organization, this didn't stop him from praising Gamma's accomplishment and rewarding her, leaving her and her immediate attendants in awe.

Delta
Cid first met Delta when Alpha introduced her to him, to which Delta immediately submitted to him after their meeting and swearing loyalty to the boy, especially after he cured her of Demon Possession. Despite this, Cid sometimes gets quite annoyed with Delta's overwhelming affection towards him and even more exasperated when he has to deal with the Beastkin Wolf's foolish antics. Although, Cid is still impressed with Delta superior senses, with her being able to realize his identity as John Smith using her nose.

Cid, like the other girls, knows Delta well enough to understand what kind of mood she's in. Delta also loves a few of his piano songs, but she'll fall asleep to Moonlight Sonata.

Epsilon
Following her banishment by her former family and friends, Epsilon came upon Cid when she was wandering a forest, who cured her of her Demonic Possession, renaming her to Epsilon, and she swore her service to Cid afterwards. When he introduced her to the Slime Bodysuit, Epsilon developed a fascination with the unique technology and practiced with it to the point of mastery, well enough for Cid to acknowledge her skill with it. Cid will occasionally complement her as a reward for helping him, ignorant of her feud with Beta about their busts.

Cid enjoyed having Epsilon around who used to serve tea to him when they were children. Unbeknownst to Epsilon, Cid is perfectly aware that she's wearing a specialized slime suit all over her body and thinks she's just trying to improve her skill. This is especially so when Cid and Epsilon share an open air bath in the Mitsugoshi Hotel branch in Oriana, she integrated the slime bodysuit seamlessly into her anatomy that Cid couldn't tell where the slime began or ended.

Zeta
Like the other Shadows and the rest of Shadow Garden, Zeta loves Cid and always takes the chance to spend as much time as she can with him. She also likes marking her scent on Cid's personal belonging or snuggling beside him, but not as intrusively as Delta.

Unbeknownst to Cid, Zeta established a secret branch of Shadow Garden loyal only to her, aiming to make Shadow immortal with the Tears of Diabolos, even going so far as to forcefully merge Claire with Diabolos's arm. However, she and the other members of Shadow Garden is unaware that he can use his magic to extend his lifespan.

Eta
Eta is one of the Seven Shadows, personally trained by Cid in the engineering and technologies of his "Shadow Wisdom." Her intellect surpasses even his understanding, as she was able to mass produce and help Gamma market reverse engineered commodities and technologies from his Shadow Wisdom within two years of establishing Mistugoshi. Eta was also able to "decipher" a message he wrote in Japanese, something he thought impossible with it being an alien language to their world. Besides this, nothing is currently known about their relationship, other than she'll power through her sleep disorder just to hear him speak.

Rose Oriana
Cid interacted with Rose during the preliminaries to the Bushin Festival, and although Cid thought nothing much of it when it ended, Rose developed a respect for Cid's willpower and his ability to continue to face her. Actually, Cid intended to continue his role as a "mob character" and so deliberately let himself be attacked, and wanted to show off his "mob techniques" of defeat.

When terrorists attacked Midgar Academy, he stepped in to protect Rose from an attack if only because she was "too important of a character" to die. Rose mistakenly interpreted this was his way of showing "his love" for her, as after the attack was over and she learned that he was still alive, she went straight ahead to his hospital bed and hugged his hand while thanking him for saving her and told him that her heart was his. Ever since then, she has affectionately clung to him while Cid was annoyed as the Oriana princess tried to get close to him, knowing that Rose fell in love with him for saving her. He tried to shake off her declarations of love and get space, but she always found him. At one point, he slept on the ceiling of his train cabin to escape her after she tried to sneak in.

As it turned out, Cid met her before when he was roughly 10 years old and saved her from bandits under the alias "Fancy Bandit Slayer." Cid told her to get home safely after freeing her, not knowing his actions later inspired her to be a great warrior, and that she would remember him during the God of War Festival.

After hearing of Rose stabbing her fiancée, Cid developed a genuine respect for her, assuming that Rose was rebelling against the marriage. When Rose confronted Perv Asshat, he assumed his Shadow alias to save her from his minions and is surprised to hear call him bandit slayer before she reveals their past meeting. He recalls this while being surprised that Rose was the same girl he saved as a child. Rose later joined Shadow Garden and served under his Shadow persona, though Cid was ignorant to her membership and she was unaware of his dual identity.

He was upset that Rose eventually decided to marry Perv Asshat and visited her in an attempt to restore her rebellious spirit. After mistakenly revealing her mother's compliance in Duke Asshat's usurpation of the throne, Cid returned as himself and his mistakenly leaving behind the Black Rose ring key misled Rose to think he was confessing his love with a proposal ring.

Nu
After meeting Cid, Nu became very loyal to him and was shown to have a crush on him, thanking him for granting her freedom. Cid was also impressed that she was a newcomer but earned her placement among the top 20 of Shadow Garden as a Named Number. Like the others, Nu will become hostile and strike down anyone who did the slightest grievance towards him. Such as her ex-fiancé, Marco Granger, but she halted her wrath when he needed her help to save the entrapped academy.

Victoria
Cid saved Victoria on a whim under his 'Shadow' guise when she was about to be executed for having Demon Possession. Afterward, she was so grateful that she developed feelings for him and joined Shadow Garden, eventually making her way up to becoming one of the organization's strongest members behind only the Seven Shades, while still acting as No. 559. However, upon meeting her again, Cid found that he barely even remembered her and only recalled her after a moment of her talking about the mission.

Akane Nishino
Akane was the classmate of Minoru Kagenō, Cid's previous life. The two had a tense relationship, mainly on Akane's part. He didn't bother to remember Akane that much, even misnaming her. However, it's only after rescuing her from being kidnapped that Cid started to at least remember her name right, which surprised her. Their interaction didn't progress, due to his death.

Currently, Akane is trying to find a way to reunite with him after realizing he was alive somewhere.

Aurora
The Witch of Calamity and the true identity of the demon, Diablos. Cid named her Violet due to her violet-colored eyes. When the two fought at the Goddess trials, Cid wished to fight her at her full strength. Aurora summoned Cid for help in freeing her from the Holy Ground. Despite their short time together, Cid developed a friendly relationship with the witch. Before she departed, Aurora asked Cid to kill her. So far, Cid doesn't know Aurora's true identity.

Annerose
Cid met Annerose when he participated in the Bushin Festival as Mundane Mann.

She initially looked down on him, believing he didn't deserve to be in the competition but did defend him from Quinton after the latter bullied him. He was deeply ecstatic that the Vegaltan woman was a witness to his outlandish feats. Annerose apologized for her earlier belief but believed she got his fighting style down, though Cid noted that she was far from right and tries to ignore it.

After their duel was finished, Cid complimented Annerose for her efforts in fighting him when he had removed his weights before the start of the match.

Beatrix
Upon first crossing paths, Beatrix immediately reminded Cid of Alpha (as they are aunt and niece). Noticing his reaction to her appearance, Beatrix asked him if he knew someone who looked like him (meaning Alpha), to which he lied that he did not. Seeing through the lie, Beatrix proceeded to swing her sword at him to interrogate him. However, Cid dodged it by pretending to stumble and his subsequent terrified act finally fooled her into believing he was just a regular person, causing her to apologize and back off. Still, having sensed a glimpse of his true strength, Beatrix believed that Cid might get strong in the future, which he denied.

Upon seeing Cid's "Mundane Mann" and later Shadow personas in action, Beatrix immediately grew interested in him and wanted to fight him. She ended up getting this chance when shed his disguise and become Shadow to aid in Rose Oriana's assassination of her father. Facing each other, Cid and Beatrix appeared evenly matched until he got a "little serious".

In the end, even with Iris Midgar aiding her, Cid easily defeated Beatrix and told her to "not to lose sight of their true enemy" before disappearing.

Iris Midgar
Cid acted respectfully towards the princess hence why he stayed at the special seating booth instead of leaving.

When the two faced off, Cid (as Mundane Mann) was disappointed in Iris's strength after he easily took her down with one strike. However, when Iris called him out as a coward, Cid unleashed a powerful aura to terrify the princess into submission.

In contrast, she views his alias Shadow as a menace both for his vigilantism and for the destruction his actions have cause,

Elisabeth
Cid first met Elisabeth during his infiltration of the Lawless City's Red Tower. Having heard of the "Blood Queen", he was excited to fight her. However, upon finding her coffin empty, as the ritual to revive her not had been completed yet, he lost interest and left.

However, Cid would later return to save the Shadow Garden members from the revived Elisabeth and a fight ensued. Despite not fully comprehending the situation, the Shadow was still able to see that the Blood Queen was not fully in control of herself and subsequently used "I AM ATOMIC" to revert her to normal. Afterward, while in their civilian personas, Elisabeth gave Cid a thankful look, having deduced his identity, though Cid denied knowing her to Claire.

Mary
Unaware that Shadow and Cid are the same when she helped Claire stop the ritual in order to save him, She was thankful when Shadow saved Elisabeth without killing her.

Yukime
Yukime acted teasingly and unashamedly flirty with Shadow after he protected her prostitutes from the vampires during the Lawless City incident. After defeating Elisabeth on his own, Yukime desired his aid in a joint effort to take down the Great Corporate Alliance and Mitsugoshi Co under her personal agenda of taking down her ex fiancé Gettan. She would attempt to seduce Shadow in a attempt to have him work with her but was turned down.

When the two worked together, Yukime was quite wary of her partner under his alias of John smith, who possessed power and seemingly supernatural intelligence. Still, Yukime developed respect for John that, by the time their plans were complete, she apologized to him for using him for her revenge.

In reality, they had encountered each other years earlier when Shadow was the "Stylish Bandit Slayer" and had saved Yukime from Gettan, after she refused to join the Cult of Diabolos. During her final confrontation with Gettan, she deduced that John/Shadow was the one who saved her that day many years ago, believing it was out of care. Due to this, and him healing her wounds free of any scarring, Yukime would fall in love with him and would ultimately hold no ill will towards him after learning from Alpha that he played her to take the down the Great Alliance to protect Mitsugoshi. Yukime would ally with Shadow Garden by having her legitimate enterprise, the Snow Fox Corporation, be a public partner for Mitsugoshi Company, to continue helping Shadow.

Marie
As Shadow, Marie was one of Yukime's prostitutes he saved during the Red Moon incident. After being saved, she would use the opportunity to quit her job as a prostitute to set up a tavern in Oriana in hopes of paying him back one day. While serving a young boy, Oriana soldiers demanded money from her or prostitution as payment. She would offer what little money she had when the boy tried to protect her.

Later, Marie would hear her windows open to look and find a mysterious jet-black robed figure leave before she could respond. She noticed the money she offered to the soldiers on the floor and cried in happiness when she realized that Shadow had looked out for her once more.

Claudia
Like many others, Claudia was astonished by Shadow's strength and asked for assistance to defeat Elisabeth to which he declined citing that he'll defeat her on his own.

Juggernaut
Not much of their interactions are known beyond the Red Moon incident where Juggernaut would be astonished by Cid as Shadow's feats against the Monarchs including himself. However, Shadow did not pay much mind to him and held nothing personal when he frivolously ordered Delta to kill him when he was under the alias "John Smith".

Cult of Diablos
Cid and his organization Shadow Garden are sworn enemies to the cult. He formed his organization in an attempt to stand against them and their evil experiments that have ruined the lives of many civilians.

In truth, Cid believed he made the group up, in order to recruit Alpha to join his crusade against evil. He currently has no idea the villains actually existed and even when told by his subordinates of their progress against the enemy, he still believes they are roleplaying and the villains they fight are bandits and petty criminals. It is unknown if he will ever discover the truth or what his reaction would be.

Grease
Viscount Grease abducted Cid's sister, Claire, right before her departure to the Midgar Academy. While the Seven Shadows rightfully deduced he was a member of the Cult, Cid believed Grease was just a bandit since he considered the the Cult to be part of his improvised backstory as Shadow. He defeated Grease, despite the villain's augmentations, and "educated" him on proper magic usage. Victorious, Cid left none the wiser.

Zenon Griffey
Cid was once a student in Zenon's class. He thought that any woman would be lucky to have Zenon as a husband and wondered why Alexia would have problems being with him because of his reputation. However, he became suspicious of him after the latter had him brought him in for Alexia's disappearance and had him beaten in his interrogation, but Cid allowed it because it strengthened his image as a background character.

When Cid faced Zenon as Shadow, he hardly saw the man as an actual threat, even taking the chance to mock his skills. Cid only called Zenon pathetic for using the red lozenge, as using that borrowed power is considered weak. He decided to teach Zenon a lesson by unleashing his "I Am Atomic" attack, killing him.

Lutheran Barnett
He was initially wary of interacting with Lutheran, due to his high status and was greatly worried to hear he was Sherry's father. This coincides with his desire to stay in the background and their attempts to meet with him made it hard.

Upon learning that Lutheran murdered Sherry's mother and adopted Sherry to exploit her, Cid gets genuinely upset that he decides to inflict the old man the same death he did to his victim. Although Lutheran told him that Shadow Garden would be blamed, Shadow simply said he and his followers were vigilantes that were used to this situation so it wouldn't be a factor before he killed the latter. Although Sherry walked in on this, Shadow didn't tell her about her stepfather's true nature and allowed her to mourn the latter.

Rex
Cid encountered Rex during the terrorist attack on Midgar Academy. Despite easily overwhelming the man, Cid complimented Rex before eviscerating him to pieces.

Jack Nelson
When meeting the Knight of Rounds, Cid was as himself and massacred the memory projections of Olivier while detailing how he survived. Cid then demonstrated his magical precision, bypassing the magical negation effect of the Sanctuary core, and used his "I Am The All-Range Atomic" spell to destroy Nelson, the Sanctuary, and flood Lindwurm outside. This ensured nobody would learn his secret identity and he enjoyed showing off.

Perv Asshat
Duke Perv Asshat was not in any real regard for Cid, even before Rose stabbed him during the God Of War Tournament. After news broke of Rose marrying Perv, Cid raced to Oriana and met the Duke while posing as the apprentice of renowned pianist, Shiron. Cid then swiped the wedding ring from Perv's coat, ignorant that it was the key to the Black Rose, and mistakenly left it in Rose's residence when he visited her as Cid to try and convince her to admit to what she wanted. After the wedding failed and monsters started pouring out from the Black Rose anomaly, Cid arrived as Shadow and didn't even know Perv was dead.

White Demon
The White Demon's only with Cid as Shadow was after deciding against fighting Yukime and Juggernaut before concluding that Shadow was a pushover. After deciding to face him, Shadow made quick work of him thus resulting in the three entering the Crimson Tower and the the watchdog's death.

Crimson
Crimson was the acting Vampire Lord of the Crimson Tower readying to revive Elisabeth under the Red Moon. However, Shadow arrived and defeated the Vampire without allowing him a chance to gloat or brag about his supposed victory, mainly because Shadow wanted to kill the vampire queen and show off to his "audience" before they arrived. However, when Elisabeth didn't revive, Shadow helped himself to the tower's treasury, barely acknowledging Crimson's presence and giving him an ignoble death for his troubles.

Gettan
Gettan has actually met Cid as "Stylish Bandit Slayer" long ago when the latter prevented him from harming Yukime. Since then, Gettan became deeply envious of that man's power, wishing he had it so that he could saved those he loved.

The two met again when Cid (as John Smith) when he confronted him about stealing what's "precious" to him. Gettan believed John Smith was Yukime's new lover much to his anger and jealousy. Gettan tried to attack John to prevent Yukime from being stolen from him again only to be outmatched by the masked man.

It was after being defeated that Gettan realized that John and the individual that bested him years ago the same person. Accepting death, Gettan entrusted Yukime's safety to John.

Mordred
The mastermind of the attempted coup d'etat on the Oriana Kingdom, Mordred like other Diabolo Cult members underestimated him until the defeat of Ragnarok. Refusing to accept defeat, Mordred consumed a piece of Raganrok's flesh in a last ditch effort to take down Shadow and his organization. The knight's last resort failed as Shadow's atomic attack resulted in his death and his severed head being transported to earth for Akira Nishino to find and use it for his experiments.

Akira Nishino
Although the two interactions were few and the former unable to recognize Cid, Cid has recalled in his past life as Minoru that he was punched and humiliated by Akira thus vowing to vandalize Sakurazaka University. However, this would never come to fruition due to Minoru's untimely death and latter's death by the hands of Yuuka.