GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis male, he/him.
ORIGINALLY FROM: Boston, MA.
OCCUPATION: Retired Police Officer.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Ellington.
âIf as Heraclitus wrote, âlightning creates the universeâ, perhaps we can say the wound creates man..â
Trigger warnings/content warnings: drugs, overdose, spousal death, addiction.
Supplied with a mother who dominated the legal system as an attorney and a father who was a tenured judge on stand for trials; adolescence as a Reinhart was not something one would delineate as mundane. Growing up in the heart of Boston, with a perpetually allocated trust fund; Isaac was near pigeonholed as the juvenile who intoned in the choir every weekend and had piano practice every Thursday. Life may have been displayed as monotonous when presented with such tasks, yet in the same breath, life was smooth and inevitably grand. Despite such social chores that littered Isaacâs childhood, his parents proved that one had to work for said life of financial privileged bestowed upon them. For the Reinhart siblings, their parents refuse to spoil them, stating outright ones societal resume earned that sacralized trust fund to come out on top. In fact, once his sister was born, the duo of siblings spent more times than not, competing against one another; their methods of madness to pit against one another, always out of pure fun for the cause. The bets morphing into a healthy and imaginary points system to see who was âbetterâ than the other in terms of their parentâs eyes.
With Isaac as the eldest one would presume he had a leg up on his sister; the duo separated by a staggered six years. While such assumption may had been true when he was reigned in by the dragged formalities life in the lime light had created; all of that had changed when Isaac entered high school. Despite his tunnel vision to get a first class ticket into law school, Isaac had slipped up the moment he met his high school sweetheart; the male never imagining heâd fall in love. As narrated by his father, love ruined your esplanade to success and by any means necessary; one must avoid it until ones path was decided. After all, the veil on his parents marriage could merely dissolve in tandem with Isaacâs aging; his parents union to one another construed into a tawdry business deal of sorts. Inevitably, his parents proved to be power hungry elitists, bland in all their prospective margins, even in spite of their monetary security and reputation. So, with such groomed belief, he didnât mean to fall in love. With a girl nor with a passion that wasnât quite involved with medicine or law school.
His juvenescence was sprinkled with conjectured fortune before Isaac could even walk; the male meant to earn his trust fund and the family namesake. Nevertheless, high school marred such perspective, Isaac no longer concerned for the aspect of a prodigious upcoming; the impression of being up there with his father, or being an attorney akin to his mother vapid in every right. It hardly aided him either, that he hated the sight of needles, so it was safe to scratch out medical school. Isaac wasnât lost, he just wasnât passionate about the things he was so engrossed in as a mere progeny. Perhaps it was on account of the soft spot that was cultivated for his girlfriend, or maybe it was in the sake of coveting the possibility to do what was right â in the best way Isaac could. Thus, straight out of high school, to put it bluntly, Isaac hit the âfuck itâ button.
All the colleges he applied for â Columbia, Yale, Harvard â were now tossed out the window. Isaac could viscerally battle himself; the fine line of being a military man or going into the police academy one he couldnât quite decipher, the male tossing said options around for months before he couldnât take the idle time any longer. With the decision that Isaac couldnât be absent from his girlfriend for more than a few months, Isaac joined the police academy, and a year after that, he married the girl of his dreams.
Katherine was perfect in the way she thus complimented Isaac; their dalliance a pluperfect give and take. The duo bloomed with one another throughout the years of high school; attended prom together, skipped classes to drink out in the woods â the typical âpictureâ of what a high school relationship should have been. Despite their near codependency on one another, and their suspected foundation of trust, there was one important factor Katherine left out. The woman was an addict, severely addicted to a drug that claimed many on the streets of Boston. Isaac had always been overly engrossed in the academy in tandem with verbally sparring his parents snobbish distaste; that he never much noticed the bad days she could have. After all, Katherine was a functioning addict â the days she had her fix one could hardly suspect any misfortune. Perhaps, it was obvious and conceivably Isaac was too ignorant on the matter to connect the dots; but it had taken years for the truth to be unearthed. Isaac catapulted years into a marriage that was built on the lie of an addict.
It was never the impression of her addiction that prompted the marriage to morph into a precarious union; more so how it was handled with such negligence. Isaac had garnered a few years of experience being a police officer; out of the academy and on the streets putting away any with nefarious intent. Katherineâs own collection of money had inevitably run short and Isaac hardly helped at first, fights consecutively emerging, tooth and claw, for his wife to get assistance; yet she never came around. His own ignorance to an addiction that was all consuming, his lack of empathy for the woman he loved propelling such arguments to monumental proportions. It had taken a few months to be broken down; the visible anguish Katherine would succumb to, proving too much for Isaac to bear witness to. As ignorant as Isaac was, figuring Katherine was too far deep with said devil of a drug, he insensibly began to help her. The police officer that was once venerated as a Reinhart was slowly becoming tarnished by his wifeâs secret addiction and in the end, he was turned into some figurative pack mule. Instead of going to arrest the dealers supplying his wifeâs steady downhill drop, he was the one meeting with them to help make the trade off, to help her out of horrific withdrawals.
Said actions are what supplied his guilty conscious to this day; for one night of their incessant quarrels changed everything. An evening where the fighting was at an all time high before his nightly shift, Katherine consequently died. At the age of twenty-nine, Isaac was a widower, for whatever rhyme or reason, his wife tragically overdosing after the male had thus left for his shift on the force. Free of his wifeâs addictions but not of the guilt ridden conscious all his decisions allowed. The man who had grown up playing piano lessons and singing in the damn choir lost who he was. He was branded as a dirty cop. Blackmailed for all the things he had done to âhelpâ his wife. Well, what he had done to think he was helping. And so, instead of fighting the fire, Isaac left the force.
In fact, Isaac soon left Boston all together; an accumulated trust fund and a mountain of grief blindly guiding the way for the male. For a few years, Isaac was stationed in Italy; drinking expensive bottles of scotch and tequila and living life as a bachelor would. Blocking the thought of being a widower out of his mind, his time was spent doting on lavish dates and woman with obnoxiously expensive taste. These were idiosyncrasies that Isaac Reinhart would normally turn his nose up at, yet he was broken from his wifeâs death. And so he went from shattered widower to supercilious bachelor.
It was a visceral ruse he loathed, yet toyed along with all the same. Despite, emotional wounds that Isaac concealed with liquor induced gloaming, the male inevitably willed himself to attempt to heal and move on. At the ripe age of thirty four, he made his way back to the states to attempt such expiates to heal, and out of respect for his passed wife, Isaac made the decision to move back a little closer to home; Devinstone, MA. The couple had always danced with the idea to move to said town, Katherine filled with near adoration for said place; Isaac now willing himself to make such leap alone.
+ clever, efficient, practical.
- demanding, punctilious, disputatious.
