I do think there is a 15-year-old boy in that character, but with the power of an adult.

The power to become the character you desire to be in life is by learning how to condition your thinking process to fit that character.

Character is power.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.