Borgie (Runt)

Borgie is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Cecily) of the 2021 film Runt.
He is portrayed by , who also played Derek Zoolander Jr. in Zoolander 2.
== Summary ==
=== High School ===
=== The Toxic Revenge ===
In fear, Cal skipped school the following day and bought brass knuckles to fight against Vic and his gang. Cal came to school, and his best friend, Borgie, lauded Cal’s retaliation. At this point, Borgie explained to Cal that he cut his bike’s chain in anger because Cal wasn’t doing anything against Vic and his bullies. After school, Vic and his gang cornered Cal and tried to hit him. Cal took out the knuckles from his bag and punched the gang, and broke Vic’s finger. Vic wouldn’t be able to play the football game with a broken finger, and he blamed Cal for it.
A rival gang invited Cal to a bowling party, and Cal felt confident and proud of his toxic fight in school. At night, Cal called Cecily home, and even she praised Cal’s reaction to his bullies. To spend the night with his new girl, Cal left Runt outside the house, and the following morning, a tragedy hit him.
In the morning, after Cecily left, Cal found out that someone killed his dog with a baseball bat and threw the body in the bin. In a fit of rage, Cal confronted Vic in school, but he denied the allegations. To take his revenge, Cal started stalking Vic and his gang. On the game night, Cal sneaked into the locker room and replaced Hank’s cocaine with Ajax Bleach Powder. During the half-time, Hank and Big Ern snorted the powder and burnt their nostrils with bleach. The coach called the doctors, and Vic’s team lost the match.
After the tragedy, Cal confronted Vic with a baseball bat and hit him. Under threat, Vic confessed to killing Runt and explained to Cal that he came to the house to beat him, but his dog started barking at him. In a way, Runt saved Cal’s life or saved him from injury, but he lost his life in the rescue.
Cal asked Vic to apologize for killing his dog, but an abusive and proud Vic refused. Vic was filled with toxic ego and pride and didn’t feel guilty about bullying Cal and killing his dog. Cal tried to hit Vic when Borgie came there with his mother’s gun to teach him a lesson. Cal patiently convinced Borgie not to use the gun and destroy their future. He took the gun from Borgie and asked him to leave. Vic ran away from there using the opportunity, and Cal followed him with a gun in his hand.
== Abilities ==
* Marksmanship: Borgie has proficiency in wielding a firearm, for in his own time he would shoot at Cans with the revolver he stole from his mother which he managed to hit at long distances.
*Manipulation: In the film, he also has a way of convincing people to decisive action in manipulating them. As after being insulted by Cal's using his attitude towards the bullies as scapegoated on his friend, who knew he still refuses to do anything to get back at them and due to forcing him to go to the party Borgie in anger decides to cut his bike chain, which later Cal finds and thinks it was Vic and his friends who were responsible. After which, Cal gets fired from his job, manipulating his anger as the spark that builds the courage to drive straight to Vic's house and burn his car. Afterwards Borgie came to support Cal of the situation getting worse and tells him that he was the one who caused Cal to lose his job but would pay him back, at the end of school there was a brawl which Cal won against the 3 due to his street fighting skills he developed in the days of skipping school. Then during the big game, Borgie and Cecily realizes Cal was confronting Vic and gets his revolver to fire a warning shot to scare Vic off of Cal.
== Equipment ==
*Car: During the film, he rides this vehicle for personal transportation.
*Revolver Pistol: On his personal time, Borgie would shoot at cans with Cal using this pistol, then at the end of the film uses it to save Cal.
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