Hal secretly idealizes and protects Mario

texture · standing; the legate YDPAH (2008)

• When: ongoing; the U.H.I.D.-legate beat dated "Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland" (YDPAH, 2008)
• What: Hal's defining bond: "his younger and way more externally impressive brother Hal almost idealizes Mario, secretly"; Mario "floats, for Hal"; "He calls him Booboo but fears his opinion more than probably anybody except their Moms's." Grounded in shared early childhood at "36 Belle Ave., Weston MA" (blocks, tangrams, See 'N Spell). Protective beat: in YDPAH, when a veiled U.H.I.D. legate came to the E.T.A. gate to recruit Mario, "it was Hal, brandishing his Dunlop stick, who told the guy to go peddle his linen someplace else." Establishes Mario as Hal's moral pole and the one relationship of uncomplicated devotion in his life.