Charles Grey

Status and role

Private Secretarial Officers and butlers, works for the royal family, his pseudonym is Double Charles, along with his colleague Charles Phipps; Former graduate of Weston College. Thanks to his work, he is an excellent fighter and is good with a sword, knowing where to hit a person for an easy hit. Grey is about 24 years old.

Appearance

Grey is a young man with silver eyes, long eyelashes, and choppy, uneven silver hair; his hair is largely of chin-length, except for some locks at the rear of his head that extend to the middle of his back. He is roughly a head shorter than Charles Phipps. Grey dresses in a white swallow-tail coat, which is unfastened, thereby exposing a dark, lace-embellished, button-down shirt and a white western tie. His white pants are tucked into knee-high boots, over which are knee-high spats. He sports black gloves and a pin consisting of a bow with a profile view of Queen Victoria hanging on a short chain. His belt supports a gold-caged rapier on his right-hand side.

Personality based on his actions

Grey is a bold, self-assured individual with a penchant for close combat; he finds fighting rather thrilling and refers to it as "play" at times. Grey is staunchly loyal to Queen Victoria and dutifully carries out his tasks alongside his counterpart Charles Phipps, with whom he is frequently paired. Confident in his swordsmanship, Grey readily engages in combat whenever the opportunity presents itself, such as when he battled Mey-Rin, a professional assassin, and, with consummate ease, sliced her double guns..On one occasion, he admitted that he enjoys toying with an opponent who is unable to resist and that he hates losing, even if it is only a game..He harbors a propensity for violence, as indicated when he stomped on Mey-Rin's chest hard enough for her to spit blood. Furthermore, Grey is exceptionally astute. For instance, he was fully aware of how to manipulate Ciel Phantomhive into agreeing to an optional mission, and he was justifiably suspicious of how impossibly quick it took for Ciel and Sebastian Michaelis to send a package from Germany to London, while Phipps, in contrast, was dismissive of that detail. Reputedly, Grey serves England with the same shrewdness that his grandfather possessed. Additionally, Grey has a voracious appetite. He once devoured an entire dinner's worth of curry when he was only "a little hungry." Furthermore, Grey is a heavyweight, having heartily drunk multiple glasses of wine. Moreover, Grey is afraid of ghosts, having claimed that he only believes in things he can cut with his sword. He is also afraid of snakes.

Personality in general

Manipulative, eloquent when required, intelligent at events. Sadistic and loves battles. Witty, cunning and reasonable. He is good at billiards and similar games that require ingenuity and accuracy.

Relationship

With Count Ciel Phantomhive: it’s like he’s playing, testing this child’s wits and trying to set him up at an opportunity, because Ciel is the queen’s watchdog. With servants Phantomhive: He doesn't care about them, but he has fun fighting with them.

background

Queen Victoria has ordered Grey to kill Georg von Siemens, a banker and central figure in the expansion and advancement of Germany's heavy industries, in order to prevent the growth of Germany's military power. She has also instructed Grey to frame Ciel Phantomhive for the murder as punishment for the unsatisfying results of the Noah's Ark Circus incident. Sometime after, Grey arrives with Charles Phipps at the Phantomhive Manor, where they let themselves in by cutting down the door. Baldroy and Mey-Rin are in the kitchen—the room Phipps and Grey have invaded—and they immediately go on the defensive. While Phipps observes from the side, Grey battles Baldroy and Mey-Rin. His speed overwhelms Baldroy, and while he is impressed with Mey-Rin's double guns, his superior fighting skills allow him to slice the guns with relative ease; he proclaims that he wins at close combat. He stomps on Mey-Rin, and agilely dodges Baldroy's attack from behind. He is about to stab Baldroy, but Sebastian stops the fight by compelling Grey to pierce through the dessert he is carrying instead. He urges Grey to taste it, and the latter blithely complies. Grey and Phipps, then, formally introduce themselves as Queen Victoria's private secretarial officers and butlers, and reveal that they have a message from the Queen for Ciel.