i wish i had a friend like you in school because when i was bullied nobody nor teacher nor "friends" said or did anything and now i deal with eating disorder and mental disorder since 9 years because of the trauma :") i remember standing up for others and protecting others but nobody did it for me. i feel like those who witness and do nothing are almost if not as bad as the bullies at least that's my feeling so i really feel the mc on that
I did too. I came from a violent home so I wasn’t intimidated by bullies at school (which pissed them off more). Then one night they came to my home and egged my house and keyed my mom’s car. The person in my family that was an abusive psychopath went after them. My mom and I were actually thankful they didn’t find the bullies that night because I think they would have actually killed those kids. fucking terrifying. I can’t really remember a time I saw someone getting beaten up or verbally abused in school though I know it had to have happened. I think I just tuned so much out that I didn’t notice. I do remember some racist little shit trying to convince me and my friends to prank the black ppl in my neighborhood and throwing around the n-word. I remember looking around to see if anyone’s facial expression looked disturbed, but no one even seemed to notice that what this kid was doing was abhorrent. After I realized no one was going to say anything, I spoke out against him and his blatant racism. I was a small girl and he was a big dude. But I think he was so humiliated that he ended cowering and nonstop apologizing to everyone. Wonder if he’s still a shithead today.
With this story so far is interesting and I like the concept, though one things for sure is if I was around the mc and I saw him getting bullied I would step in and stop the bullies and I’m basing this off of reality bc in middle/high school people would be bullied for nothing and whenever I saw that rather they were my friends or not I just couldn’t sit back and be a bystander that’s why most times I got into fights with the bully, I understand people got problems but that doesn’t mean you can just put your anger and frustration on someone else and some of them were just doing it for fun, point is I know for a fact I wouldn’t be on his hit list nor would I even be in this situation(I’m black we don’t do this bullshit).#-.-)