Yep, that was it Nislen. He was very smart, and had both very good and bad examples in his family.
I can't remember any one time when he got significantly dirty or scared of anything. We'd play who could stay in the snow wearing just underwear or boxer shorts the longest, but I don't think that's really dirty.. Dirty would mean getting thrown in the mud, but that's the sort of thing that he never let happen.
One of the clearest images I remember, was hunting birds with snowballs from what seemed, at the time, to be impossible distances.. Everyone's snowballs looked slow and lobbed in comparison to his. Nailing birds right in the chest so fast they never saw it coming was so much fun
Anyone who could threaten him, he either ridiculed, decked out, or befriended easily.