…when your dad is beheaded and your eldest brother (Mircea) buried alive by the Turks, all under your young eyes, maybe not… though he did have five children and eyes of gold.
It would seem that the Turks’ ill-treatment of the young Vlad III -under captivity… along with his younger brother- set the precedent of what he was to become… is why he became the Impaler.
I’m sure he felt love… through the pain of what those brutal times did to a person.