He was abandoned as a pawn by his beloved and imprisoned in a cage of paranoia. The pain drains the living soul away, leaving only a puppet on strings that can be pulled by others. The three of them used love as a rope and eventually trapped each other as lifelong prisoners.
Intention: Using love, possession, and obsession as ropes, it seems to control others, but in fact it imprisons oneself. No one is truly free, everyone is a prisoner of self-restraint.