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 #PennedPossibilities 71 - was your MC ever bullied as a child?

Hawk, a six-foot-seven-inch-tall black-furred anthropomorphic wolf who wears 'intimidating' leather fetish clothing pretty much 24/7 and who has a baritone Brooklyn accent and attitude... was in fact bullied as a child, especially in middle and high school. 

He looked mean and didn't have many friends, and didn't pick physical fights, and so was immediately branded an outsider. It doesn't matter why you're an outsider or who you are; schoolkids will tease you for that. At least in America; I don't know what this is like in other countries. 

He does not get bullied as an adult. If someone tries to bully him, they will regret it, at the very least because they'll have to listen to him go off about it.