[@AdvancedJ3lly] The "avoid a early grave" part was from a original draft of the character sheet, originally Phillip was going to be a coward and the whole "avoid a early grave" thing means that he'd run off as soon as combat would get intense, but however I thought you all would hate him if he was a coward so I changed it so he was brave, I just forgot to delete that part. because I can be lazy, I don't rewrite too much, I just delete some parts and call it a day.

Phillip believes that he's already dead. no matter what he does he won't be able to change the fact that at the end of the day he's not going to live. So he tries to have as much happiness as he can before he dies, Drugs can potentially fuck up your life and kill you but to Phillip it doesn't matter as he's going to die anyways. The reason why he's so brave is because he believes that he has no control over his own death, so he just embraces death. Ironically his Nihilism could end up killing him because when threatened with a challenge, he chooses to give up all hope and die regardless of a possible escape.

He hates Religion because he knows that his God has no power, He's seen what happens when you die and thus he know's the Emperor is either

A: A Corpse
B: Hates him

Yeah he's kindof fucked in the head.