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Underlying obsession (Augusta)
Vol. 12:
- "You're [Augusta] like the mother Mary who's full of familial love. So you'll forgive me no matter what sin I commit, won't you?" [pg. 44]
- claims to see Augusta as an experiment-- a way to test her love for him (as he seemed to have been antagonised by his own father: "My father feared me because he knew my true personality. But my older sister was the one who kept the peace between us." pg. 43.)
Fatherly affections
Jezebel:
Volume 8 [Godchild vol. 3] pg. 91-- in regards to the regeneration ritual necessitated by rising to Major Arcana rank: "I won't allow you to hold back. No son of mine will stay in the lower ranks."
Volume 12 [Godchild vol. 7] pg. 155-- rids Jezebel of his guilt in eating animals and taking lives in order to live (by serving Snarc-chops, telling that the organs he had received in transplant were from his sisters, and revealing Cain as the successor).
Cain:
- rationalises Augusta's death by pinning the charges onto Cain (sins). [vol. 12 pg 41-42]
- "In exchange, I want to observe how a child of the Devil, who had a cursed birth and was never loved, will grow. I created this man you are so taken with [Riff] for exactly that purpose." [vol. 12 pg 45-46]
- uses Cain as a means to an end: through union with he and Michaela, a faetus of even further distorted genes would come and then be used as a sacrificial offering to plunge the world into darkness.
- firmly believes in the Cain and Abel parable (see God complex on Wiki?)
.... This is obviously going to take some work. Holy dysfunctional family dynamic, Batman.