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| “ | Birds, deer... I've even crossed oceans to hunt bears. But one does get tired of hunting for things that do not react to the hunt. And that is where you come in, my prey. | „ |
| ~ Baskerville expressing his hobby for hunting |
Charles Baskerville is a minor antagonist in the 2016 manga series, Moriarty the Patriot. He serves as the main antagonist of the The Hunting of the Baskervilles arc.
He is a sadistic, reviled aristocrat who takes sadistic delight in not just hunting commoners but mainly children he had abducted from the slums in his hunting grounds on Dartmoor alongside his colleagues. He has a habit of collecting his past victims' heads to expand a collection of them, skulls and skeletons as well, as a means of offering them to God as claimed. His cruel, vile actions caught the attention of William James Moriarty and company.
Appearance[]
Charles is a tall, young man with long, light blonde hair who is mostly seen wearing a newsboy cap and a patterned mask that covers half of his upper face. He's seen wearing a long coat, a dress shirt with a tie, black pants, and leather boots.
Personality[]
Charles is a sadistic psychopath who indulges in killing and hunting children, stating that they're comparable to animals. He holds utmost delight in one of his hunts against them and makes false promises just to further their misery under spiteful mannerisms, even allowing his fellow colleagues to indulge in how they'll torture them as they desire.
He's also shown to be a complete fanatic, which he believed God would appeal to his collection of severed heads of children, which even explores his arrogant side.
Biography[]
There's not much on Baskerville's background. Though it is likely that Baskerville and the rest of his colleagues have arranged a twisted game of hunting and torturing children they abduct from the slums monthly by having them lured into a carriage driven by a "magician" to get their attention at dawn, as well as giving them candy in case. For every hunt, he had bear traps scattered around the hunting grounds while having one of his colleagues hunt and shoot them down until they reached the fortress, at the same time, he endorsed the rest to either set the children on fire, mutilate them, or slash their skin while naked. Any child who goes into the fortress is doomed to be decapitated by Baskerville himself and has a collection of dozens of children's severed heads, as well as skulls that are likely from his past hunts, all to offer them and appeal to God.
On one of his hunts, he had abducted six children, one of them being both a brother and sister, and had one child mutilated from his arm to waist before eyeing the siblings. He made the brother gouge his own eye with the pretense of promising to spare his sister's life without any intention to do so, and once the brother painfully gouged it out, he got hold of it and plans to keep it for his collection. He then begins the hunt, where the brother is caught in one of the bear traps and immediately to the point, decapitates the boy while his sister makes it to the fortress. Tragically, the sister ends up horrifically decapitated as Baskerville shows her the head of her brother while doing the same to her, adding them to his collection while his colleagues continue their respective harm against the other children, laughing with glee.
Unfortunately for him, his hunting days came to a karmic end when Fred Porlock informed William James Moriarty about the former's vile crimes and came to an agreement to put a stop to him. Entering the outskirts of Baskerville's domain, the group ended up killing every last one of Baskerville's colleagues, while at the same time, rescuing a new batch of children they kidnapped. Baskerville was last seen about to kill two sisters, boasting about his previous killing of a sibling pair and how his collection would be offered to God, which unbeknownst to him, William from behind manages to strike him by the neck.
In Baskerville's last moments, he pictured William as "the Devil" and wondered why he came for him, not before he was deservingly decapitated by the latter, avenging the children killed by him and his colleagues, as well as putting an end to his human hunts.
Trivia[]
- Baskerville is one of the few villains from the original manga to not be included in the anime adaptation; presumably due to the gruesome and graphic nature of his crimes.
