let's definitely do childhood friends! i'm thinking johanes was this gawky, soft spoken kid most of his life. he's from somewhere in europe i haven't fully decided on, and i think there was a bit of a language/culture barrier in there for a while? but i'm thinking he had a really sudden spurt of growth during the last year of high school and somehow crossed over to the brattier crowd of kids. after high school he had a bizarre modeling career in europe that crashed and burned fast, like most modeling careers do, and he's been back in california for 2ish years. now he works at a luxury car dealership and fashions himself a "dj." i think he's grown into becoming a bit of a meathead, but he's really relaxed and fairly nice, he's really into telling very um... colorful stories about himself