charmed side blog

At first we see He tried a gentle, fatherly approach first. Only after the nice approach fails, does Leo shift tactics. Leo then began intentionally using verbal taunts and tough love. He believed hitting a nerve would snap Chris out of the demonic influence, force him to defend himself, or release his bottled-up adrenaline safely. However Leo drastically underestimated the depth of Chris’s hatred and deep-seated resentment toward him. Chris’s fury wasn’t just the demon talking; the infection simply stripped away his inhibitions, letting decades of built-up pain from being neglected by his father in the future boil over. As a result Chris snapped, threw Leo across the room, pinned him to the ground, and began savagely and repeatedly punching him in the face. Realising he had made a massive mistake and finally seeing his son's immense emotional agony, Leo completely stopped trying to fight back. He laid there defenceless, begging "Chris, don't," and let Chris beat him until the sisters arrived to pull him away.