One of the funniest things about book Stebbins to me is that I think he *genuinely* believes he's good at emotionally manipulating people when, between the logistics of the walk and him being high school aged, means he spends most of his time around teenagers, a non-insignificant amount of whom are notoriously easy to rage bait largely because of how the way a lot of societies work conditions them to be often justifiably fuck ass mad.
(Which, to be clear, I'm not saying this as an adult bemoaning The Youths, I'm saying it as a former teenager who maybe, possibly, perhaps, perchance spent a bit more then my fair share of time looking for fights with just about anyone I disliked and had to regularly be in close proximity to.)
I'm sorry kiddo, but your sense of scale is out of whack. Pissing off one of your peers who admitted to himself in his internal monologue that he's an easy target by throwing 'haha you're gay' and 'I bet you want to fuck your mom' at him is not the accomplishment you seem to think it is.
No fr and I think this applies to how people see Barkovitch too like bro was not that annoying or clever have you ever talked to a teenage boy ever
