Lucian’s Childhood Trauma
Lucian Blackwell didn’t grow up in a home.
He grew up in a battlefield.
His father, Victor Blackwell, was a self-made titan who clawed his way from nothing to billions in the cutthroat world of 1980s and ’90s finance. Victor had no patience for softness. He believed weakness was a disease and children were the perfect place to cure it.
Lucian was an only child, born late when Victor was 48 and his mother, Elena, 35. From the moment he could walk, Victor treated him like a project, not a son.
Discipline was physical and unrelenting.
A spilled glass of milk at age 5 earned Lucian a belt across the back, sharp enough to leave welts.
A B on a report card at age 8 meant locked in his room for a weekend with no food, only water from the bathroom tap.
Vic
