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Name: Bill Hazeldine
Series: Suburban Shootout
Timeline: Having returned from mission trip in Africa, but has not yet left for college, and has nothing serious with Jewel yet.

Canon Resource Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Shootout, Bill is the son of the series’ main character, who returns from a six month mission trip to Africa to go to college to study Theology. Both he and his father are completely in the dark about his mother’s extra curricular activities, and Little Stempington’s surprisingly low crime rate. He becomes quick friends, and develops a romantic relationship with Jewel Diamond, the daughter of the series’ antagonist. Which of course leads to all the awkward for his mother.

Personality: When you think of a “good guy”, the image one could draw would most likely be Bill Hazeldine. He’s nice to everyone to a fault, incredibly optimistic, and very adorably cute to boot. He’s nice to everyone he meets, and it’s incredibly rare for him not to smile. He enjoys helping people in need, and is quite physically fit.

Bill is a rather naive person, a lot of things go straight over his head. He buys into believable lies, and can’t react to innuendos at all aside from laughing awkwardly at them. He’s a romantic, and unlike others his age, is perfectly fine waiting for intimacy for when it’s right. But, just because he’s naive in some ways doesn’t make him stupid. He’s well read, and likes to stay in the know on current events. As such, he doesn’t really care for first world problems like what clothes are in or what the latest must have gadget is. What he does appreciate is nature. Bill loves nothing more than to relax among the trees in the park, and his disposition makes animals less leery of him.

Bill has a very black and white sense of justice, and while the idea of a gray area exists, he refuses to acknowledge it. To him things can either be right or wrong, and he will always try to do what he thinks is the right thing. He believes there is good in everyone, even those who don’t outwardly show any signs of it. He really just wants everyone to get along, and he doesn’t like how his mother has distaste for Jewel and her mother.

Because of his friendly disposition, Bill likes to and tries to get along with everyone he meets. That doesn’t mean that people can’t ever rub him the wrong way, or that he has no misgivings toward shady characters. In fact, in the series, at one point he believed that his mother had run off with another man. While he went out to search for her, he only intended to talk to her, but the other man, he was very intent on giving a beating. Though, of course, when he found his mother and this “other” man, she kissed him to keep the ruse she had up going, and Bill was crushed emotionally, losing every bit of his drive to beat up the other man and bring her back.

When Bill is with peers or others his age, he tries to act cool and mature, as well as seem competent in what he’s talking about. On the flip side, when he is with his parents, or someone of authority, Bill can be much more childish in his speaking and actions, even doing things that other people his age would find embarrassing, such as performing a rugby celebration dance type thing with his father when they finally see each other when he comes home from Africa.

Strengths/Weaknesses: Bill is quite physically fit, and all his time in Africa has only made him stronger. While by no means the level of some of Jhoto’s more “heroic” residents, he can run, lift, and climb fairly well. He likes to help out people in need, and volunteer his time to good causes, making him quite likable for someone his age. He is also very optimistic and an all around happy person, which only helps in making him more likable.

On the flip side, because he is still quite naive about the way the world works, Bill is still very much in the dark about many things, as well as be incredibly awkward with sexual advances, or even flirting. Bill also refuses to believe in a “gray” area. Something is either right or wrong, and while he believes there is good in everyone, he doesn’t have the capacity to accept the ends justifying the means. For example, breaking a law to stop another crime. He thinks everyone should try their best to get along, and that while people will dislike others, there is no need for hate or even physical violence on another, and will throw himself into the middle of conflict to stop it.