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background: The 26th child of the King of Bengal, Soma came to England with his butler, Agni, in search of a missing servant from his household. When he was young, he received a palace, complete with attendants, from his parents. Among those servants was a woman named Meena, a cook, who he came to see as an older sister. However, one day, Meena disappeared from the palace, leaving Soma devastated.

Circumstances surrounding Meena's disappearance causes Soma to take his search for her to England, where he accidentally runs into Ciel and Sebastian in the East End. Though originally he orders Agni to fight on the side of the Indian thugs (calling them his "brethren") against Sebastian, when he hears that Ciel did nothing to provoke the thugs, he switches sides for the sake of honor. After the fight, he follows Ciel back to the Phantomhive manor and proceeds to make himself at home. He claims that as an acquaintance of his, under the customs of his home country, Ciel is now required to entertain Soma as a guest.

personality: For someone of his rank, Soma is surprisingly casual. He seems completely at ease even in a foreign country (aside from occasional comments on his own country's superiority to England) and is comfortable hanging all over Ciel despite only knowing him for a brief period of time. Though he can be quick to anger under the right circumstances, by and large Soma tends to be good-natured and easily amused. However, a good deal of this casual cheerfulness may be due to the fact that he is genuinely unaware of much of how the world outside his palace operates. He has the habit of taking people's good will towards him for granted, whether or not this is actually the case.

However, despite his somewhat naive view of the world, Soma's self-assured nature and charismatic smile have won him Agni's near-fanatic devotion, and even Ciel manages to tolerate him most of the time.

[highlight for spoilers] After Agni's "betrayal", Soma receives a rather rude awakening about the truth of his existence. Hearing that most of his servants probably only put up with him because their other option is poverty, Soma begins to re-evaluate his life. He mentions that he admires Ciel for being so self-sufficient at such a young age. He later says that it's getting to know Ciel that allowed him to handle Meena's true feelings. It's his goal to become a worthy and unselfish man, and to show this to Ciel. Currently, he and Agni are looking after Ciel's London townhouse.

note: "Soma" is the name of a Vedic ritual plant/drink, and later a Hindu deity.