Hey Now, You're a Brawl Star! (A Brawl Stars Story)

Bibi Arc

TRIGGER WARNINGS: racial discrimination, but not in the way you think. I promise. As a side note: that behavior is portrayed as bad and is in fact, bad.

Things got scary after Bull left.

Not right away, but gradually. Maybe a few wayward glances on a walk, mostly gossips passing rumors about where her brother went.

Soon enough, it got out that he was a brawler. That's when they started to get concerned.

Dad wasn't getting as much business, but school was starting up and the tourists were leaving. At least, that was what they chose to believe. Until the notes started coming.

They were just taped on to the door or left on the front step usually, but occasionally there would be a shattered window and a brick on the floor in the morning.

Mom and Dad generally didn't let her read the notes, but she saw one when they had left it on the table one day.

"Keep your psycho kids away from our food, fucking brawler spawner" it had read. Bibi had run to her room, horrified. She called Bull as soon as she had flung herself onto her bed. She had sobbed into the speaker for a few minutes before she could even begin talking.

School was worse.

The other kids had known she was a brawler for as long as she had, but they had only gotten cruel when their parents had. Their town was small, so word traveled fast. Soon enough, most of the school either avoided her like the plague, or openly teased her whenever they got the chance. She wore the leather jacket her brother had gotten her every day, half to remind herself it would be better one day, and half to hide the bruises.

She did, however, have one friend.

The girl was her age, with cornrows she kept tied back and a flamboyant personality. Her name was Elizabeth Doleson, but she let Bibi call her Eli. The girls found solace in each other, and worked to defend each other from the bullies that roamed the halls of the school. One of the girls was at the other's house more often than not, and Bibi suspected that that was the only reason she hadn't been driven out of town yet: Eli's mother was a police officer, which granted anybody she liked protection because of the sort of unspoken fear that surrounded her.

And so, Eli and Bibi took on the world day after day.

Until Eli moved, that was.

Her mother had been offered a fantastic job in San Fransisco, one that paid more than Bibi's family made in a year. When Eli broke the news, she joked that it was like the Sonic movie.

Bibi spat back that at least Tom came back.

Eli's family waited until the school year had ended to leave. The actual departure was tearful, with the two girls clinging to each other until the last possible second. When the Dolesons got in the car and began to drive away, Bibi rode alongside them on her bike until the bridge just before the town line.

The entire scene was oddly reminiscent of Bull leaving for Brawltopia.

However, when Mrs. Doleson left, so did the last thing keeping the town from running the Tsunematsu-Trankstons out of town. The situation with the restaurant quickly escalated, and at least one light was broken every night. The people who threw rocks through the door liked to aim for those. Bibi's dad had taken to putting plywood over the windows each night, simply to prevent people from breaking them.

The police turned a blind eye.

Over the summer, the discrimination got so bad that Bibi managed to convince her parents to let her homeschool herself. Some members of Bull and Crow's gang offered to help, so she would spend her days in the old warehouse where Bull had discovered he was a brawler. It was actually nice, she decided. The gang would tell her about her brother or about brawling during breaks.