####Joseph Peter Strongfellow
######(Referred to as JP by most)

####Fourteen Years Old

####Male

**Appearance**

The girls at school call him cute. His cheeks slant inward at the right places and his chin is slightly angular, though the point softens to a subtle parabola. His nose is not too big, but large enough that his mother refers to it as 'a strong German man's nose.' With eyes as beautiful as the rolling waves of the ocean, they shimmer and dance in the sun, fluctuating between blue and green. He is not excessively tall or large, standing at five and a half feet and weighing 145 pounds.

For a boy that is trapped in the early stages of puberty, his skin is relatively clear. A small pimple stands out in stark contrast to his otherwise fair and pure skin. Feathers of the white blonde are neatly combed into order every morning before he leaves his bedroom to join his mother and father at the breakfast table.

The boy's wardrobe is ample but simple: polos and khakis are for school while jeans and t-shirts are meant for play. Every Sunday, the boy wears a suit and tie beneath the garb that makes up the uniform of an Altar Boy. Joseph owns two pieces of jewelry threaded on the same thin, golden chain, tucked gently out of sight beneath the neckline of his shirt: a cross and a swastika, both given to him by his father.

  

**Personality**

There are three rules when you are a member of the Strongfellow family.

- The word of God is law.
- The word of the parent is law.
- The family is first; the Skin is second.

In public, Joseph is a kind boy that holds the door for elderly people leaving the pharmacy on a regular basis. He is the boy seen at the animal shelter sweeping out cages and feeding the cats while collecting no wages. Joseph is a swell kid. There is no evidence to prove otherwise. Every word spoken to any person is one of chivalry and quaint humor: he tells no dirty jokes to his friends at school and he never speaks an ill word of another person.

Behind the Strongfellow walls, only the white friends are allowed to come to dinner. There are no other friends that are spoken of to Mother and Father. They do not exist nor will they ever. His room is always straight, his dishes always washed. Other parents would be delighted to have half the son that the Strongfellow's do. This behavior, however, is not a treat for them; it was taught from the time the boy was learning to walk.

**Brief Biography**

Hope has always been home. Raised in the town from birth, Joseph has left three times in his life. Once to visit his grandparents and twice he attended the White Youth Association's Young Leaders retreat. Taught from a young age that bloods were never to be mixed, Joseph lives his life according to the three rules set in stone by generations of Strongfellows.
  
Once the danger of handling a firearm was no longer feared by the boy, but respected, he was taught to use one. It began with BB guns and soon expanded into light .22 caliber rifles. By time he was ten, he learned, with some difficulty, to fire a .45 caliber handgun with formidable accuracy. He learned to hunt and to fish, to identify poisonous plants and edible berries. There is always a survival bag at the ready in case Joseph must leave without the company of his parents.
  
The fourth rule, unspoken and unnecessary to be written, is preparation. An hour's preparation in the morning secures success in the evening.

**Relationship with Parents**

Joseph's parents love him equally. He has learned to cook on an open fire from his father, to bake from his mother. He learned the ways of the wilderness from his mother and her books of herbs; his father taught him to fish and fire handguns, how to sharpen a knife and the best way to make a spear. His obedience has earned him a cache of knowledge and superb treatment from both parents.  The only tie that sets his father apart from his mother are the two pendants he gave Joseph for his Twelfth birthday.

**Virtue**

Humility


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