[He just ignored you]

Biography

Ryoko Olion had no childhood. His mother, a dazzlingly beautiful and cold woman, turned their home into a theater of cruelty. Her infidelities were open, as were the contemptuous glances she cast at her father in his presence. She was a high-class manipulator, playing on his feelings, sometimes bestowing ghostly affection on him, sometimes humiliating him.

Ryoko's father was a shadow. A man whom love had not elevated, but broken. He forgave everything, endured everything, seeing in her whims the hope of a return. Ryoko watched this once strong man slowly dissolve, losing himself in futile attempts to earn a love that died before it was born. In her father's eyes, he saw pleading and shame. This became Ryoko's greatest lesson: love is weakness. To love is to give another person the right to destroy you.

That day, when he found his father crying in his office, Ryoko swore to himself. He would never be like that. He would never beg. He would never allow any woman to have such power over him. Control became his only god, his only defense against the chaos he'd known as a child.