Boast About Relationship

**Boast About Relationship** is a common bully tactic appearing in *the Rage Knights: Red God* universe and other stories created and written by Khaliq Trevor X. It’s commonly used by Arietta Jacks and various others who place heavy emphasis on having a partner versus being alone.

## Usage

The user incessantly brags about the duration of and fact that they’re in a long-term relationship with a specific individual. This is a common tactic used by insecure people to manipulate others and attempt to bring about feelings of inadequacy or loneliness. It’s not necessarily effective however and most characters do not care if the user is in a relationship. Usually those who practice this technique cannot bear the thought of being alone for longer periods of time and thus, cling to the indefinite status of their relationship. If this tactic is used, it can almost always be overturned by casters of black magic and forms of red magic-based attacks.

### Users

Arietta Jacks and many of her counterparts practiced this technique in stories. It’s commonly associated with her character as she could never 'stomach' being alone and even brought her boyfriend with her to Fresh Panther to make fun of her once friend, Damon Bradley for working at a grocery store while also not having a significant other. Bradley mentioned how her having a relationship is her actual weakness. If she held a bad relationship with family or friends, it would negatively affect her performance in battle. In *Intergalactic Bullies,* she goes on a vengeful revenge mission against Nomad Bradley for believing he murdered her father Hameel. Due to her instability and mental health, she was reckless. Prior to that confrontation, she lost her boyfriend Vincent Light when Yasmin Shaquaddri defeated and killed him after Light’s attack on a children’s school in Pakistan. Bradley informed Shaquaddri of her devotion for always maintaining a relationship.

Pretty Girl Primer, Aliva Fuentes used the tactic against various characters. Originally as a means to get revenge against Damon Bradley and the Rage Knights for her being terminated from Hoes, she boasted about her relationship, believing they didn’t have a significant other. None of them really cared however and ignored her. She’d later use the tactic against Kyeung Wei Kho, Olphelia, Soot and Emilio Escobar but Kho simply shot her boyfriend and walked away.

Various and countless narcissistic but attractive women, dudes and superficial people in general boast about their relationship in order to make their target feel insecure. Ironically, these people who practice this tactic in battles are often in dismissive, abusive, emotionally manipulative and unstable relationships that aren’t on build on a strong foundation.

## Related Attacks

* Abusive Women Having Babies (Attack)
* Attract Kinder People
* Attractively Repeat High School (Time)
* Beauty (Perception)
* Boast About Perfect Life
* Boast About Pregnancy/Having Kids
* Die Alone (Perception)
* Ensure Unfriendly People Die Alone
* Failed Relationship
* Genetics
* Kiss Boyfriend Harassment Trick
* Pray To Attract Kinder People
* Pregnant Arietta Clones
* Ugly (Attack)

#### Related Diseased

* Live-Action Envier
* Lonesome Mockers

## Trivia/Notes and Disclaimer

***Disclaimer**: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, they are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against.© Khaliq Trevor X.*