I like to imageine that all of Patrick's ancestors were exactly like him throughout different periods of history.
I close my eyes and imagine Patrick's great-great-great grandfather in the seventeen hundreds.
He would spend all his free time sitting by a window waiting for messengers to arrive by horseback, deliving him news that he was a rotund raggabrash. This figue would then take out a quill and respond "Nay, child, find mirth in thy cell, for 'tis thy fate." When he wasnt responding to neerdowells, he would drink in the local tavern and get into arguments with strangers in the town square about the state of the colonies.
Or, that there was another Tomlinson ancestor who spent all day arguing with people via telegraph abut the franco-prussian war.
Im sure if you trace his lineage back far enough you would find a Patrickus Seanicus Tomlonius. A notorius figure in ancient Rome. Who hated Ceaser and bickered with people about the Gauls and Visigoths. "Nay, Plebian. Enjoy the colosseum. You will find yourself fighting lions and gladiators there soon.