I mean, to properly convey this, I'm going to go ahead and describe what happens in the first two episodes of X. First episode, the woman he's engaged to betrays him and his father to the Evil Organization, they are both killed, his father's last act is to perform surgery on him turning him into a cyborg. But it turns out his father left him a motorcycle and a secret station at the bottom of the ocean with a copy of his father running it. Has a cool name, the Jin Station (because their family name is Jin) so he gets a cool fortress of solitude, right?
Second episode, a kid he had befriended turns on him because he stopped a knife with his hand, and only robots do that so he's a liar and should quit pretending to be human. So he goes to talk to computer dad for reassurance. Computer dad's response? "I see now this Jin Station was a mistake, you must stand on your own if you are to succeed." So robo-dad incinerates his own memory tapes and blows up the Jin Station. Second episode. Dude could not process a single second of his son's Rider angst before deciding that the whole eternal oblivion thing sounded like the better option after all. And this pretty much sets the tone for X's life going forward. I mean, I know lead Riders rarely have easy lives, but this? I'd say X takes the cake, but actually the cake is taken from him. He gets no cake.
