Adding to the reviews in case others are also wondering -
I had a chance to test this today.
Two brothers entered on the bus, one older and bigger. They were bickering, at first seemingly like normal siblings do, then the larger one got in his face smacked him in the head repeatedly, and hard, asking him what he was going to do about it.
No one around said anything about it.
The younger one kept telling him to stop. Instead of obliging, the boy grabbed his belongings out of his backpack and kept harassing him. Cue my growing infuriation watching this happen. Before speaking up, I activated this DM with the intention for it to work if the kid kept hitting him.
- immediately after, he stopped hitting him.
He continued leaning in his face and asking him to do something.
I increased the intention to activate if he kept doing that.
- immediately he backed off and his body language softened a bit.
I waited to see if he’d stop completely. He didn’t, so I said, “Hey. HEY!” Until he looked at me. “Leave him alone.”
At first it seemed like he ignored my request and kept muttering harassing things to the boy.
However, I noticed the boy became a little more confident after being defended. Then, the older one glanced in my direction a couple of times to see if I was watching. I was staring at him. He slowly returned the boy’s belongings to his backpack.
I planned to inform the bus driver of the harassing, hitting boy if I got off the bus before them.
I asked spirit to end the situation for good. The bully pulled the stop lever and got off the next stop and tried to entice the boy to come with him. The boy stayed.
The next stop was mine. I fist bumped him on my way out and told him to not allow people to treat him that way, and to leave if he has to. He nodded in agreement and fist bumped me back.
Works well in defense against these
bullies.!
Let’s hope it works just as well for the ones harassing me!