This is what I had written about the wife in the brief outline for the RP in our earlier thread:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">He meets his father's 'trophy wife' (28 yrs old) for the first time, and realizes there's more to her personality than he'd assumed. He sees how her father found solace and comfort in her company, and how she was a wise and caring soulmate.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Lorenzo waited till his son got into college before re-marrying, since he didn't wish his son to grow up under a step-mother. He'd rather Leonardo's childhood was in his aunt's care. Only when Leonardo goes abroad, and Lucrezia marries the banker, that the father starts feeling a little lonely. He'd have married Catherine, but she wasn't sure about them having an open relationship, and he respected her views & dedication to duty. It was during that time that he grew closer to this woman, way younger than him, but wise beyond her years, and definitely the emotional support he was looking for.<br/>That's the way I see the father's character, and the wife's role.<br/><br/>This is what the son values later - how the young woman brought herself into a world of twisted people, to take care of someone she loved. He appreciates what she had done for his father.<br/><br/>So, to be honest, I think their relationship should be a much softer, emotional one rather than a master-slave kind of thing. I get your point about giving him a dark side, but his life otherwise is dark - he's a mafia family head. His wife, to me, would have been one of the few brighter aspects of his life.<br/><br/>As to why I placed this in the bondage forum, that was just to keep the options open for pleasure games between the characters, like maybe handcuffs being used by the police woman in a scene. I didn't want to place the thread in the Light forum if this wasn't going to be allowed there.<br/><br/>Hope this clarifies lots of things!