ANDY (jr.) & JACK (jr.)Brothers. The only two children of Alma (aka Jill) and Andy (aka Jack). Both served in the United States armed forces after graduating from high school.
Andy is the elder by three years and has been, since returning to Fairvale from his Army service, a police officer. Throughout his career as an officer of the law, Andy has remained resolutely easy-going, never allowing the pressures of his job, which have been, he would be the first to admit, relatively modest, to subvert his essential humanity. As a result, he has found himself frequently sought out as an arbiter of disputes and is a good person to have around when a situation is at risk of getting out of hand. Andy is now, technically, past the age of retirement, but, never having married and having invested by and large the entirety of his identity in his being a police officer, he made it clear that he would like to continue on in his job as long as he is physically able. In light of his forty-plus years of service to the community during which he earned a near universal (within the confines of Fairvale) renown, strings were pulled and an exception was made, allowing Andy to continue making his rounds, and so maintain his position in the community and reason for living, the loss of which Andy feared would leave him face to face with nothing.
Jack is, if anything, even more easy-going than Andy. In fact, if it were possible to somehow concoct a competition for laidbackness (which, by definition, it probably shouldn’t be), Jack would be a World-Class contender. Having had handed down to him by his father the moniker, “Jack-of-all-trades” Jack just takes it as it comes and lets it all hang out; all the while nonetheless managing to keep it between the lines. Like Andy, Jack never married, and, while there was a period of many years where Jack practically lived at Andy’s, he has always technically lived at home; and since their father’s death, Jack has found himself spending more and more time at home with his mother, who is now nearly ninety.
Except for the time each spent serving their country, Andy and Jack have managed to spend some time together each and every day throughout the entirety of their lives. Their daily rounds and habits have each been shaped by the other to such an extent that the two are nearly indistinguishable. They just know that they'll run into one another during the course of the day; if it's not for breakfast or lunch at the Downtown Diner, then it's for dinner or drinks at the I'll Get By Bar & Grill. They both know that, one way or another, between the time they wake and the time they sleep, they'll see each other.
The one thing about Jack that bothers Andy more than anything else, is the amount of time Jack spends with Neal. For the life of him, Andy can't imagine what Jack sees in that character.