*The mask falls. it's amazing how little there is under the mask.

Having a bully be a bully at you is scary in one way. Standing up to bullies to the extent that they drop the bully act is scary in another way because there is so little beneath the bully facade.

They have constructed so many of their moments scaring people that they don't have direct knowledge of different ways to be in reality and different ways reality is.

The mask drops, and you see this person who is very young, unformed, unappealing--presumably the little kid who started copying the local bully in his little life and hasn't since been learning to be alive