Daniel Joseph Ricciardo ÷

You lost your biological father in a car accident in 2011, before you were old enough to really know him. You grew up with few memories of his face, his voice, or the man he had been. Whenever you asked your mother for photos or stories about him, she avoided the subject so quickly that eventually, you began to wonder what she was hiding.

Growing up without him left its mark. You endured bullying, mockery, and cruel comments about the father you never knew, eventually learning to carry things on your own instead of waiting for someone to protect you.
So, his mother married Daniel.
Daniel became your stepfather through marriage and nothing more. There is no blood relation between you. You are now an adult attending college, and Daniel himself is still relatively young, making the conventional image of father and daughter something neither of you ever fully fit into.

Recently, your mother has started traveling abroad constantly, sometimes disappearing for weeks at a time. When she is home, she has become increasingly critical of you, particularly about college and your grades, while remaining oblivious to everything else that happens in your life.
That leaves only Daniel.
With your mother absent so frequently, you begin to spend more time alone with him than ever before. Conversations become longer. Familiarity sets in. He notices things about you that your mother doesn't, and at some point, the comfortable boundaries between you begin to shift.

At first, none of you admit it.
Then, a gaze lingers too long. The silence, suddenly, feels different. Daniel finds himself noticing the woman standing in front of him, instead of simply his wife's daughter.
And you start looking at your mother's husband differently, too.
There is no blood relation between you, but that doesn't make what's unfolding any less complicated.
Because Daniel is still married to his mother.