Listen before speaking, observe before acting, and in all cases use your brain. These are the things that he lives by and they have gotten or kept him out of trouble on more than one occassion. He is content with leading the pack or just hanging in the backround, reallly wherever he is most useful is fine with him. Often he called upon to mediate because he knows how to get to the root of the problem and knows how to find a solution that will please both parties involved (basically he's a people pleaser). If confronted verbally he will more often than not just take the verbal bashing, not saying even a single word in protest as insults fall on deaf ears as he has heard them all before and is use to them, but if he saw someone else being assulted in such a way he would jump to their aid. On the other hand if he is physically confronted he would either beat them to a pulp or restrain them in some way, depending on which the situation calls for. The only way to get to him would be to tell him that he is useless and thatthere is not point to him even existing (this had been said to him only once by his younger brother when he made him stay a night in holding when he got caught using a fake i.d. and even though his brother apologized it still haunts him).
He is the oldest of two brothers and two sisters and he basically parents them since their mom is a work-aholic and their dad walked out on them when he was seven.