*Barty may be a frail thing with daddy issues but one trait he has never possessed is angst from his school days - it's not that he was particularly popular or even that he tired to keep his head down - rather he was avoided - avoided because even the most nubile of children can recognize batshit insanity in their own way, and batshit insanity is something Barty has a great abundance of, it's this very abundance that causes him to be deathly afraid of removing a bamboo stick and yet perfectly content in grasping the offending pick axe, meaning to wrestle it away, confident he faces imminent success*