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Paul's Valley Character Analysis
One person in the town of Paul's Valley has only one purpose in his life and that is to cause anarchy and mayhem. While only three-foot tall and at a young age as well as being physically as imposing as a two-year old he manges to bully and order other just fine. He uses a variety of vehicles in different shapes, sizes, and colors to help him with this and to maintain peace in his own way. For half his reign he had uncontrolled hair as a sign of his infancy in his role but now has short trimmed hair to show his newfound maturity. Some would call him a sort of police to enforce his rules he has put into place to maintain the peace. He has set these rules to keep all troublemakers in line with the two he calls his uncle and grandfather

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