User blog comment:SodaCat/Diamonds Chapter 6: Off-Script Hero/@comment-26358727-20150713013233/@comment-26358727-20150714171846

Oh no! We've become Russell's Angels! Ha! x'D

Seriously?! Well, I certainly enjoyed your characterization of both - especially when they're together - and it brings a lot of life to an otherwise undiscovered area of the story. I think it was very enlightening. It's an area of the story I never really considered, but it feels much more fleshed out now.

Nope, they most certainly are not! But then, even in the middle, I'm not sure that there is such a thing as a life without problems. Circumstances mean everything, but that's way more than just finances. For simplicities sake, however, as we're shown in Bully (very glossed-over stereotypes and caricatures), you're absolutely right. As Cherry told Ponyboy, "It's rough all over".