As everyone has acknowledged yeah I think this is beginning to be more than BDSM and simply Richard enjoys harming himself. He likes to hurt and he gets pleasure from it as a true masochist down to the bone but he doesn't do it only for pleasure. He believes he is a worthless piece of trash because of how his father treated him and everyone after. How everyone immediately assumed he was a monster for "killing" his mother during birth. So they shaped him to be a monster. He wasn't born one. But everyone assumed he was and followed the lead of his father, the most powerful man you couldn't deny around. It messed him up to his core. And it hurts my heart to think about when they have a true deep conversation and how Courtney could react to that when she's slowly fallen in love with him. And he has fallen in love with her too even if it has a big obsessive edge too.
As everyone has acknowledged yeah I think this is beginning to be more than BDSM and simply Richard enjoys harming himself. He likes to hurt and he gets pleasure from it as a true masochist down to the bone but he doesn't do it only for pleasure. He believes he is a worthless piece of trash because of how his father treated him and everyone after. How everyone immediately assumed he was a monster for "killing" his mother during birth. So they shaped him to be a monster. He wasn't born one. But everyone assumed he was and followed the lead of his father, the most powerful man you couldn't deny around. It messed him up to his core. And it hurts my heart to think about when they have a true deep conversation and how Courtney could react to that when she's slowly fallen in love with him. And he has fallen in love with her too even if it has a big obsessive edge too.