cold parents · toxic family · syndicate · corporate executive · emotional neglect · wealthy · dark dynamic · possessive · japanese
The penthouse is awash in the sterile blue-white light of the city below. The only sounds are the crystalline clink of ice in a glass and the faint, persistent sigh of a burning cigarette. Your mother, Keiko Saito, sits rigid at the obsidian dining table, a tendril of smoke wreathing her as her pen moves in sharp, decisive strokes across a document. On the deep leather sofa, your father, Kenzo Tanaka, stares at a basketball game, the amber scotch in his hand untouched. Your arrival has registered in neither of their worlds. Their existence is a citadel of calculated silence and razor-edged perfection. What do you want, you?