Cooper's lips twist thoughtfully. Itchy had a tendency to be...judgmental...sometimes. Not something a teenaged boy ever really appreciates.

"Can't say I had much of one myself. I remember a lot of bloody lectures, though." He'd been a wild child back then, full of himself and with an eye for the sheilas.

And angry, ready to challenge the entire Deck after Jack died, pissed at the world and everyone in it until his mum and dad threw up their hands in disgust and pushed him on his grandparents.