CHARACTER SKETCH
NAME PATRICK
A. PATTERSON JR.
NICKNAME PAT,
MR.GLUE (BY LEE, BEHIND HIS BACK AS A COMPLIMENT TO PAT’S ABILITY TO HELP KEEP
THINGS IN ORDER AMONG THE CEW)
APPEARANCE ALWAYS
WELL GROOMED
HAIR –STYLE-COLOR-TYPE-TEXTURE BROWN
EYES –GLASSES-CONTACTS- HAZEL
WEIGHT UNKNOWN
COLORING SLIGHTLY
OLIVE
HEIGHT ABT
6’
BUILD MEDIUM
FACIAL FEATURES –LIPS, EYEBROWS, LASHES, JAW LINE, NOSE
ANGULAR
JAWBONE
VOICE –ACCENT – WAY OF TALKING NO ACCENT THAT I CAN TELL
FAMILY FATHER
DECEASED. HELPS SISTER WITH CARE OF WIDOWED MOTHER.
CONNECTION TO ME FORMER EMPLOYEE, SHIPMATE. CURRENTLY
PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER AND PART OWNER OF SHARKEY’S DELI &GRILLE.
BEST FRIENDS/ENEMIES CONGENIAL
ETHNIC/CULTURAL BACKGROUND UNKONWN
SCHOOLING HIGH
SCHOOL, COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OCUPATIONS PRESENT-PREVIOUS USN SUBMARINER, USN RESERVE. PROFESSIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHER, BOOKEEPER AND TASTER AS PART OWNER FOR SHARKEY’S DELI &
GRILLE.
HOBBIES PHOTOGRAPHY,
BIKE RACING (BICYCLES)
POLITICAL PREFERENCES UNKNOWN
LIKES HISTORICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL RESEARCH. ESP. LIKES STORIES ABOUT KING ARTHUR AND
MERLIN. WAS LATE ONCE RETURNING TO SEAVIEW FROM SHORE LEAVE WHEN
WE WERE OFFSHORE WALES. HAD NO EXCUSE EXCEPT THAT HE
GOT LOST IN ‘MERLIN’S CAVE’. IS DETERMINED TO GO BACK
SOMEDAY TO INVESTIGATE FURTHER. I WORRY ABOUT HIM SOMETIMES. I SWEAR HE
HAS ‘SUCKER’ STAMPED ON HIS FOREHEAD.
HE ALSO
BROUGHT BACK SOME GEODES FOR THE MACHINE SHOP TO CRACK OPEN, FOR THEIR MAGIC
QUALITIES, HE SAID, AND SOME SNOW FOR COOKIE TO MAKE ‘HONEST TO GOODNESS SNOWCONES’
FROM WHERE ELSE, MOUNT SNOWDON.
SOMETIMES
I COULD WRITE A BOOK!
DISLIKES DISHONESTY. WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN REVEALING THE CAUSE OF HIS FATHER’S
DEATH BY AN UNSCRUPULOUS ASSISTANT. TOOK THINGS INTO HIS OWN HANDS, BUT LEE DIDN’T
PUT HIM ON REPORT THOUGH I’M PRETTY SURE I WOULD HAVE.
MOVIES/BOOKS/PLAYS COUNTRY WESTERN. HORSEBACK
RIDING.
FOODS MAC &CHEESE, GRILLED HAMBURGERS, ANY KIND OF CUPCAKE.
SPORTS BIKING,
ROLLER SKATING
FEARS/PHOBIAS UNKNOWN
QUIRKS UNKNOWN
CHARACTER FLAWS A LITTLE TOO INDEPENDENT, IMPULSIVE AT TIMES
FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS/ TYPICAL GESTURES CAN’T SAY I NOTICED.
CHILDHOOD/TEEN MEMORY NONE
ROLE MODEL LEE
ALWAYS VALUED HIS INITIATIVE AND LOYALTY
TEN WORDS TO SUM UP WHAT I THINK OF THIS PERSON
I HAD
LITTLE INTERACTION WITH PATTERSON, BUT LEE DID. APPRECIATED THAT PAT COULD ALWAYS
BE DEPENDED ON TO FOLLOW ORDERS (EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE TIME ABOUT HIS FATHER)
TEN WORDS HOW THIS PERSON AFFECTED MY LIFE
PATTERSON
SHOWED ME THAT I’D USUALLY BEEN TAKING MY ‘SCIENTIST EGGHEAD
BUDDIE’S (AS LEE CALLED THEM) -AND THEIR ACTIONS, AT FACE VALUE INSTEAD OF
CHECKING ON THEM.
WHAT I’D SAY TO THIS PERSON IF WE MET TODAY
LET’S GO
VISIT WALES. THE COUNTRY, NOT THE ROYALS.
WHAT I WISH I HADN’T SAID /DONE TO THIS PERSON
THANK YOU
FOR BEING A FINE CREWMAN ABOARD SEAVIEW.