User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Volume 2 episode 6: Burning the Candle/@comment-10390252-20140905091829/@comment-24218038-20140905124221

I don't believe their father was that bad. I believe he still cared for them but for a while he wasn't the same loving father. The way Ruby talk about her father fussing over her in the second episode of vol 1 tells me he got better.