@jermdaworm Agree. I think ML's need to be able to control things comes from his childhood trauma. Imagine you think you'll have father and loving new family, but you get stepbrother, who hates you till the point of trying to kill you, a bunch of "relatives" who also hate and abuse you and weak a** dad, who can't protect you 😓 ML obviously had feelings for MC, but he didn't want to unknowledge them and thought his desire to control MC is just so he could use him. But deep inside he thought that if MC had feelings for him, he would let go of the past and chose to be with him, instead of killing himself.