Bennet Issac

## Bennet Isaac

> *"How GOOD does it feel to be in pain then see someone else suffer like THIS?"* -Bennet Isaac to Rudolph Richardson
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## Bio

A former "friend" of Rudolph Richardson back in Denmark who was shown to have had an abusive relationship with him for several years and introduced him to snuff films.

## Appearance

Shaggy brown hair, olive skin, somewhat almond-shaped hazel-green eyes, tall, slender figure.

## Personality

Ben has a penchant for using guilt and self-esteem (or his own lack thereof) to control others. He tends to play the victim whenever he gets backlash for his actions and becomes very sorry and remorseful to whoever he upset, showing an acute inability to manage his own emotions and seems to display a major difficulty with calibrating his behavior, both his aggressive outbursts and self-shaming despair afterwards genuinely uncontrollable for him likely due to a severe underlying mental illness though seems resistant to treatment for it - if the treatment he's receiving is even effective at all. At moments, he seems afraid of even himself, insisting Rudy call the police next he acts out and weeping that he wants to be better. He's habitually manipulative and controlling and he continues to have contact with Rudy even after Rudy had moved countries after what seems to have been a traumatizing event bad enough to be mentioned in an online article. He uses snuff films to feel better about his own personal torment, comparing his suffering to those suffering worse in order to feel like he isn't suffering at all by relativity.

Ben was raised by two parents (Olivia and Jacob) that heavily emotionally neglected him. He wasn’t taught certain social norms by his parents — how to respect his property, how to make friends; anything a healthily developing child would need to learn nor was he shown parental love or affection, more often treated as if inconvenient by his mother and a golden goose his father has to put up with, resulting in a remarkably unstable and codependent mindset. His criteria for making a friend in his childhood was ”will you die for me?” because he needed reassurance that whoever he befriended would have blind trust in him and thus be worth trusting in turn, and he gets that from the naive Rudy. He clings to it because he doesn’t have anyone else in his life nor feels the need to reach out for any other untrustworthy people, putting all of his needs and woes on Rudy. Ben also didn’t know how to deal with relying on someone, finding himself putting his entire life in the palm of Rudy's hand and burdening Rudy with the responsibility for his own wellbeing. His fragile mental state and explosive temper as well as Rudy's habit of repeatedly forgiving his outbursts made their friendship especially dangerous.

## History

Ben‘s father, Jacob, constantly forced his son to be the best at everything he thought he should be and made him every class he could — from instruments to martial arts to multiple languages simultaneously without care for his son's actual wellbeing or desires. Jacob constantly bragged about Ben to his friends and other parents, but never demonstrated any affection towards him, Ben seemingly reduced to nothing more than a prized possession than his actual child, Ben having no siblings to share the burden with. Ben's mother, a real estate agent named Olivia, passed away when he was fourteen due to an apparent temperamental blackout in which Ben lashed out in anger at her, his mother claiming that as a child he owed his parents, and unintentionally shoved her over the railing of their home's indoor balcony, the woman landing fatally and breaking her neck. Ben claims at her funeral they weren’t even close, but still seems somewhat stiff/distraught and brushes off Rudy's nervous attempt to console him. Ben claims that his father's perceived sadness was only an excuse to continue to brag about Ben to his colleagues, stating they had no love for one another.

Jacob's best attempt at ensuring his son's stability seemed to be sending him to a psychiatrist and/or therapist and having him be medicated despite he himself being a licensed psychiatrist which only upset Ben more as Ben felt he wasn't even worth the attention of his own father's profession.

His father is aware of his snuff film affinity as well as the people he gets them from but does nothing about it until he feels it's become inconvenient to him personally and wants Ben to focus even more on the tasks he sets for him. He becomes more restrictive of Ben's habits, searching his room while he's away and taking things he no longer approves of, and Ben rapidly finds himself reaching an inevitable breaking point, it currently strongly implied that he requested Rudy help him with an assisted suicide.

## Trivia

* Ben is sometimes referred to as avocado eyes by the fandom but by no one in the comic.
* Ben speaks English, Danish, French, Chinese and German.
* Ben takes piano and clarinet lessons as well as classes in various martial arts.
* Ben has been in therapy for years but it doesn't seem to have any bearing on his wellness.