[@KillamriX08]bring the game boy. Everyone will probably want to try it. 

Secret fear … maybe he’ll figure it out as he learns more about himself. He’s the child of farmers … maybe there is a fear of losing the farm, fear of not being good enough compared to the city folk, maybe he carried a knife because he’s got a fear of some type of monster, beast, animal. Maybe just a sense of his own mortality. 

But in the end … always up to the writer.