Eliza Leagan

Eliza Leagan (イライザ・ラガン Iraiza Ragan) is one of the main antagonists, also a lead main antagonist and along with her brother, Neil Leagan.

Appearance
Eliza has brown eyes and hair in the Illustrations and in the anime she has pinkish-brown hair. Her hair is often styled with curls and a ribbon to match with. She loves wearing dresses

Characteristics
Apparently she's very mean to Candice.

Ever since she first appeared in Episode 5 she likes pulling pranks alongside with her brother Neil. She would do anything to make Candy suffer. Eliza can fall in love so easily especially with Candy's love interests (Anthony and Terry). Eliza despises dresses from a lower class and loves to lie and gossip or spreading rumors all about Candy, she can be very short tempered and loves bragging.

Plot
She first appeared in Episode 5 with her brother Neil pulling a prank on Candy. Mrs. Leagan tells Candy she is Miss Eliza's playmate, not a sister, nor her daughter. Her father is more kinder and convinced that Candy is exactly the friend his out that Candy constantly seeks out the company of the servants and refuses to be her playmate, her mother  decides to downgrade Candy to a servant.

The next days Eliza takes Candy as porter into town on a shopping excursion with Neil to buy a new ballroom dress. At the ball Eliza tricked Candy by getting locked up inside a dark room in a hallway that fits the description of Archibald's ghost story. Meanwhile, Eliza detains Anthony from searching for Candy by dancing with him

When Mrs Leagan banishes Candy to the barn a few days later Mrs. Brighton and Annie come to visit the Leagans. Up to their usual tricks, Neil and Eliza press Annie into horse riding, frighten the horse Cleopatra into a panicking gallop and then persuade the adults that Candy caused the incident. When Candy comes to blows with Neil, exhorting a promise from him to never hurt Annie again, Eliza perverts the situation so that either Annie or Candy have to confess the truth about Annie's past.

When Anthony named his white roses "Sweet Candy" after Candy Eliza was so envious of her .Neil attempts to poison the horses so he and Eliza will frame Candy for it, however, a shadow rushes into the barn and punches him, before running out again just as Candy arrives. Eliza blames Candy for Neil's black eye at the first opportunity, and torn between his pride, Eliza's wishes and his mother's insistence. Anthony helps Candy to retrieve the horses Eliza and Neil chased out of the barn and compliments her on her lasso throwing skills. The Leagan children chased off the horses as a distraction, so they can frame Candy for thievery. As a result, Mrs. Leagan decides Candy will be sent to Mexico in Dorothy's place. Then Candy was adopted by Mr William Ardley. Neil and Eliza still try to persist in their lies and accusations, embarrassing great-aunt and provoking Anthony and the Cornwell brothers to remind them that Candy is a member of the family.

Eliza lures Anthony on a horse riding trip with a lie. After a dispute over it, both horse riders nearly collide with Tom's cart. When Tom demands repayment for the spilt milk, Anthony gives his name, before leaving with Eliza to have her taken care off and upon her pleas remains at her bedside until late at night. The messaging via pigeon continues. One day, they learn Anthony plans to participate in a rodeo in Tom's village. When Eliza learns of Anthony's plans, she informs great-aunt Elroy who charges Candy with the mission to dissuade Anthony on a visit out of fear for injury.

When Anthony died Eliza and the Leagan's gardener Mr. Whittman, are uprooting Anthony's roses. Candy's passionate argument that Anthony's spirit will return when the roses bloom again makes the servants pause to reflect on their actions. If Eliza wants Anthony's roses, then she can do it herself, just as Anthony grew them with his own two hands. After the death of Anthony Eliza and Neil attended St. Paul's Academy along with Archibald, Alistair and Candy. Eliza loudly introduces Candy as the "Barn Princess", her former maidservant who was abandoned by her parents, and Anthony's murderess. Eliza challenges Candy into a recital. Candy pretends to play the violin, while the actual violinist hides behind a curtain. But Eliza will not be fooled and pulls away the curtain and finds Patricia who pretends to be the violinist. After witnessing a few more pranks from Eliza. When Eliza's attempt to defame Candy by disparaging a letter from Pony's Home and to trick her into a violent reaction backfires, Eliza involves Neil who forces Candy into the forest where two of his friends wait to harass her, Terry intervenes using his whip and fists, sending the cowards running.

On the fifth Sunday of the month, pupils get a day off from campus as long as they are accompanied by an adult. Eliza,Neil and the Cornwell brothers were accompanied by the great-aunt Elroy. When Annie Brighton arrives at Saint Paul's Academy and is formally introduced to Candy at an Ardley meeting set up by Alistear and Archibald, Annie grows fastly envious of Archibald's attentiveness and admiration for Candy.When the May Festival was announced Eliza's head is filled with dancing with Terry too, after he rescues her out of a pitfall that Neil had meant for Terry. The day of the May Festival has arrived Eliza invites Terry to dance with her to no avail. Eliza interrupts them and invites Romeo for a dance. Candy refuses and walks off. Eliza follows him to find out more and fins out Romeo's true identity as Candy changes into Juliet's costume. Terry informs her that Eliza knows about Romeo and invites her for a dance on the hill. Meanwhile, Eliza acquires Sister Gray's approval to visit the contemplation room and Candy is unable to make it back in time. Luckily, Terry pretends to be her, sleeping in bed to foil Eliza's scheme.

At Scotland the Cornwell brothers are staying in a nearby house that great-aunt Elroy rented and has Eliza and Neil staying with her for the summer. Eliza gets so upset due to seeing Candy and Terry together it capsizes her boat. Archibald and Alistear, believing Eliza to be swimming rather than flailing in the water, refuse to come to her aid, but Terry dives into the lake to rescue Eliza. And yet, when Eliza refuses Candy's assistance, Terry easily turns his back on her and returns home. At Eliza's suggestion, great-aunt Elroy agrees to hold a white dress garden party to thank Terry for his heroism. Insulted that Terry never showed up, Eliza barges in and smacks Candy before storming off and insulting Annie and Patricia over it.

After her vacation from Scotland green with envy, Eliza warns Terry about Candy's thieving ways, but Terry points out that Eliza needs to take a good look in the mirror. Eliza gets her opportunity for revenge, when she discover how Patricia and Alistear use a hollow tree to pass secret letters to each other. Eliza uses it to set up a night meeting for Candy and Terry in the stables. Just as Candy and Terry start to put two and two together, Sister Gray arrives with a patrol and Eliza and her friend Louisa as witnesses.The brothers recognize Eliza's handwriting, but Sister Gray will not accept unclear or conflicting evidence. The Cornwell brothers and their girlfriends confront Eliza alone in the park and try to make her confess, but she deflects them by pointing out that Sister Gray would deal harshly with them for ganging up on her. Terry made his final decision as he approaches Eliza at the recreation grounds and spits in her face. Eliza protests over Candy's release in front of everyone, and openly disagrees with Sister Grey that Terry was sent from school. Eliza's cockiness and insolence earns her a week of confinement. Meanwhile, Neil and his bullies feel sure they can bully Candy all they want since Terry cannot protect her anymore. Candy admits to herself that she is in love with Terry and recognizes Eliza acts the way she does out of jealousy and Eliza's punishment lessens while Louise learns that she has to leave the Academy because her father cannot pay such tutelage anymore. Through Candy's mechanisms, Louise can spend the last few days with her best friend.

Eliza and Neil returned to America in Chicago to stay at Grandfather William's mansion and visit their Great-aunt Elroy. The Great-aunt's health worsens with every word said. Despite Elroy's animosity, Candy still applies her nursing skills as the old woman is sleeping. When Eliza enters, wakes great-aunt Elroy and pretends to have taken care of her, Archibald reveals how Candy nursed her. Elroy ultimately realizes her debt to Candy, and when Eliza presses her to oust Candy, she finds she cannot. Eliza cannot bear that two orphans from Pony's Home will stay the night in the Ardley mansion. When Neil and Eliza's initial plan backfires, Eliza involves her mother Mrs. Leagan as representative for the Ardley family. Great-aunt Elroy is too tired to make any decision, and so Mrs. Leagan orders Annie and Candy out of the house.

Eliza invites Candy,Annie,Archibald and Alistair to a dinner garden party she is hosting. But Annie's suitcase has gone missing and so the girls have to come to the party in their common dresses. One of the guests, the French military physician Michael, agrees with the Cornwell brothers' casual attire and thinks highly of Candy that she studies to become a nurse. Candy finds out that Annie's suitcase is in the top room of the high tower and climbs the stairs to fetch it, walking right into Neil's trap. The door closes behind her, and Candy's only way out is a rope and dangerous rappel while holding on to Annie's suitcase. Michael lost all interest for the cold and spoiled Eliza and has high regard for Candy.

While Candy is working as a nurse at a hospital in Chicago Eliza has tried to bribe Nathalie to make sure Candy cannot go to the play. Nathalie is so disgusted about it that she volunteers to take Candy's shift, even though she admits to not liking Candy very much. At the reception in honour of the play, Terry sees Eliza. Realizing the Cornwell brother, Eliza and Neil are in Chicago, Terry becomes more sure that he did hear Candy. When a patient who has fallen from a moving train is brought in for a severe operation. Candy's worst fears become reality when the patient is called Terry Grandchester. Candy tries to talk to him, but the completely bandaged patient does not respond. When Eliza learns of this, she monopolozises the care for Terry and pulls strings to have Candy work at the medical section, instead of the surgical. When Eliza finds out the truth during a night visit, she promises to be silent if Candy leaves Chicago. Candy cannot sacrifice her career, but tries to reason with Charlie to give himself up. Meanwhile Eliza contacts the police. Officers take Charlie into custody while Candy may lose her position under suspicion of aiding and abetting a fugitive.

Candy meets Eliza and Neil again. Eliza tells Candy she will be going to Broadway and visit Terry. But nothing Eliza says can bring Candy out of her good mood. And while Eliza takes every opportunity to disparage Candy, Neil finds he cannot. Candy encounters the Leagans again when she went to New York for Terry's Broadway performance Neil tears her ticket in pieces and Candy is denied admission. Candy sneaks in backstage and hopes Terry will act on her behalf, but it is Karen who helps her in with a personally signed program, upsetting Eliza even more. When Candy went to Graytown along with Archibald and Annie. Meanwhile in Chicago, Eliza's plot backfires: Arthur was not found, Candy is still free, somebody else was arrested, and Archibald catches her in his room with his mail. Nelson gives Candy the responsibility to find a foster family for Belle in Chicago, and because Candy cannot find it in her heart to tell Belle the truth, Belle thinks she is going to see her mother again Eliza who went snooping in Archibald's desk found Candy's closed letter as well as copies of Archibald's letters to Candy concerning Arthur. But Archibald and Annie arrive from Chicago volunteering to work as cooks until Margot can come back after her trial, and Candy persuades Belle to return to the construction camp.

When Eliza discovers the whereabouts of Annie and Archibald she uses her ties in Candy's hospital. Annie and Archibald are ordered back to Chicago, while Candy will be transferred to Alaska. Then Eliza witnessed the awkward exchange and is frightened to lose her brother due to him being interested to date Candy. First, she hopes to make Neil interested in a friend of hers, but when that does not work and she discovers Candy's handkerchief at Neil's bedside, she involves her mother and plants the idea that Neil might decide to marry Candy. Mrs. Leagan visits Dr. Leonard and threatens to withdraw the Leagan funds of the hospital if he does not fire Candy on the spot and make sure she leaves Chicago.Though first annoyed at having to drive Eliza's friend around, Neil looks upon it as an opportunity to make Candy jealous when he sees her walking in town. But she thinks he knows of what his mother has done, and in her anger makes a dent into his car. And when Eliza tells him of her and his mother's success over Candy. Neil stands up to his scheming mother and Eliza and insists he loves Candy with all his heart and that the two of them will run away to be together

Mrs. Leagan refuses to consent to the idea of Neil marrying Candy, but Eliza realizes that the marriage would regain her power over her brother as well as make Candy unhappy. Eliza is nowhere to be seen in the finale of the series

Trivia

 * Eliza shared with personalities with Dokin from the Anpanman series when she was having a relationship.