Kasius

"Life is a fragile thing. We must cultivate the beauty and prune back the rest."

- Kasius meeting Jemma Simmons "A life spent...a life earned."

- Kasius Kasius is the main antagonist in the first half of Season 5 of ABC TV series, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

He is a tyrannical Kree nobleman and perfectionist from an apocalyptic future in the year 2091 and the overseer of the Lighthouse which shelters the remaining human survivors.

He is portrayed by Dominic Rains.

Early Life
A member of the respected and influential imperial Kree family, Kasius was given command of an entire fleet and sent to fight against their enemies. However, according to Kasius, the task he was given by his father turned out to be a suicide mission. When he attempted to retreat, two of his trusted generals attempted to prevent him, but they were both killed by Sinara, a low-born warrior who agreed that the battlefield wasn't a place for someone like Kasius. Kasius managed to hide Sinara's involvement in the assassinations of the generals, and the two eventually became inseparable. Kasius' retreat cost the Kree Empire a strategic outpost and the lives of thousands of warriors.

Regarded as an utter disgrace by his own family and having failed to prove himself as a worthy heir, Kasius' own father chose to banish him from Kree homeworld Hala, leaving Kasius' brother Faulnak to take his place. Kasius was eventually sent into exile to govern the remains of Earth, which was torn apart a few decades earlier by the legendary Inhuman "Destroyer of Worlds". Ruling over the remnants of humanity on a dead rock in the darkest edge of the galaxy, Kasius spent much time trying to regain his father and brother's approval, but still without success. Kasius ruled his domain from the Lighthouse, a giant former human survival bunker that had been converted by the Kree into a space station. He ruled the station and its human inhabitants as a strict master, treating the remnants of humanity, especially the Inhumans, as slaves.

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Personality
At first sight, the Kree nobleman Kasius does not seem to be as violent than any average Kree. Instead, he generally speaks calmly and quite politely, albeit in a highly confident way. However, there is no doubt about his cruelty: he had one of his servants executed due to the latter having a simple scar on his forehead; and an Inhuman slave executed because the latter lied to him; and he threatened to have Jemma Simmons tortured and disfigured if Daisy Johnson did not obeyed him. Kasius harbors a high degree of bitterness regarding his exile and is motivated above all by his own personal interest, which is getting great fortune to win his father's favors. Thus, he was willing to let his own faithful and loyal bodyguard Sinara fight to the death with Quake and intends to destroy the Lighthouse and all the remaining human population once his work was completed.

Prior to his exile, Kasius came to realize that he was not a fighter whereas his brother and Sinara both were. He shows a high degree of cunning as he tried surviving an unwinnable battle by fleeing whereas his fellow Kree would stay and fight till the end even if it was suicidal. To Kasius, such attitude is pure pragmatism and not cowardice. He is also shown to care and be protective of Sinara, refusing to let his brother Faulnak take Sinara away and killed him to prove his feelings for her.

Thus, Kasius is somewhat of an anomaly amongst the Kree. He still has the Kree predisposition towards control and dominating his enemies, however he chooses to do it through manipulation and cunning whereas the vast majority of his Kree brethren would prefer to do it through brute force and violence.

Trivia

 * Kasius is the second main antagonist of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be created specifically for the show. The first was Daisy's mother, Jiaying.