Phil

Philbert Healy, but he goes by Phil, is a potential love interest of Mark and cousin of Penny in Coming Out On Top.

Character Summary
Phil is a marine fresh out of boot camp and is being considered for Recon program once he graduates from infantry school. He is very disciplined and strict, but has a hotheaded streak that sometimes crops up.

During his childhood, Phil was rather nerdy and played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. He also developed a fondness for obscure trivia through his father's collection of military history books. Although he considers most of his former activities trivial and wasteful after boot camp, he still holds a distinct fondness for trivia. Phil even gets aroused by Mark's ability to answer trivia questions correctly.

His father, Donald is running for state senate.

Appearance
Phil has cropped hair with a slim muscular build and medium dark skin. His body is described as being solid as a statue, attributed to his boot camp training regimen. He often wears a brown vest and white shirt with a black tie. On causal occasions he wears a red polo tee, or a short sleeved black tee. And a huge meaty cock.

Route
Penny mentions her cousin Phil as soon as Mark comes out to her and Ian. She immediately gets the idea of setting the boys up.

Mark attends a fundraiser thrown by the Walkers to see Phil again. If the player refused to take the top hat off at the first fundraiser party, Patrick will pull Mark aside to talk to him about it. Phil later shows up at Mark's graduation party to bid him farewell before he leaves and asks him if he'll miss him. The boys exchange a romantic moment before the game ends and Mark graduates as Phil left for Recon. After Phil leaves, he and Mark begin dating long distance. They break up at some point for 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 4 seconds before getting back together again. When Phil comes back, Mark is there to greet him at the airport.

Mark
Phil was not impressed by Mark at first due to Mark putting his foot in his mouth a few times in their first meeting and Phil's own disconnect with civilian life. Phil starts to warm up to Mark after Mark helps him deal with Violet's antics on the night they were supposed to go to a ballet concert. Their relationship grows stronger afterwards with Mark helping Phil train for the swimming part of his Recon test, and the boys competing on a trivia contest together. After Phil is deployed to recon they get in a long distance relationship. Notably, Mark helps Phil keep his calm at various points during his route, especially when dealing with Violet and Knutson and Zelinski.

Penny
Penny and Phil were very close growing up. Phil recalls fondly one instance in which they accidentally burnt his parent's garage when they poured water on the sodium fire they'd created. Even after his time in boot camp, their relationship is still strong. Phil tries to get Penny to stop calling him "Philbert", as he believed he had outgrown the name, but relents by the game's end, admitting that he missed hearing it from her.

Violet
Violet is the daughter of his family friend, the Walkers, who are also large donors to his father's campaign. Phil resents that he has to entertain Violet for the sake of his father's campaign and finds it very difficult to put up with her, but he acknowledges that she is a not a bad kid.

Knutson & Zelinski
Phil's colleagues from boot camp. The pair constantly tease and harass Phil in order to get a reaction out of him. Most notably, they try to insinuate that Phil is gay with statements about how he admired his comrades in boot camp.

Trivia

 * Phil was the president of the chess club and plays the bassoon.
 * He is the middle child of the family, with an older sister in business school and a younger brother still in high school.
 * His mother is a former ballerina, currently having a debilitating illness that keeps her mostly at home.