I have a story about a friendship that, to quote Halo 2, was a [i]colossal[/i] failure. There's a lot to it, though, so I'll try to make this post concise. I met this kid years ago, back when I still played Reach. One of my high school friends and I were playing custom games on "forge world motel" or some other infection map, and the kid joined our game. Let's say his name was Pete. He sounded like he had just started middle school, so I thought he would act like any other "squeaker", but my friend assured me that he was cool. My friend was right. The kid behaved surprisingly well. He never interrupted others, he always waited his turn to host a custom game, and he was generally really nice. Then Pete joined this clan. I didn't think much of it until I spoke to the leader and his "inner circle" (lol). God damn the leader was the biggest, most arrogant douchebag you could imagine. He thought he was just as good as pro players, he only treated the members of his "inner circle" well, and he would always harass people for 1v1s. Apparently he took a liking to Pete, so he decided to act as a mentor to him (again, lol). Fast forward a few months and the kid became as big a douchebag as the clan leader. Both the leader and Pete began harassing my friends and I about 1v1s and that if we refused the challenges, we were garbage. In retrospect, it was quite comical. They were all acting like your stereotypical schoolyard cool kids and bullies. I cut off ties with Pete because of how he was acting, but he came back to my friends and I after leaving the clan and apologized. I forgave him, and he wanted to start up a "friendly" clan with us. We all thought it sounded good, so our little clan was born. Our laid-back custom games and Minecraft world-building resumed, and I thought the douchebag clan debacle was over. Nope. Eventually the douchebag clan leader and his friends came back into our lives, and the harassment started up again. On top of that, Pete went back to their clan, but apparently he never left in the first place. He claimed that he came back all apologetic just to get close to us again and build up trust. Immediately after revealing this, Pete relapsed into exactly what caused me to cut ties with him originally. But as if that wasn't bad enough, he began to bully and harass the sister of one of my friends (she had recently become part of our "group"). Something tipped Pete over the edge, and he and his friends mass reported her, and she actually got banned for a day. I -blam!-ing lost it. Normally I'm very relaxed, but this made me go absolutely mental. Here we are minding our own business and this kid comes back to his with his clan, picks on one person in the group for no god damn reason, and gets her banned. I didn't scream at him, but I came really close. I gave him a 10 minute long barrage of pure enmity. All of us removed Pete from our friend lists again and blocked him and the clan leaders and prayed that they would finally leave us alone. I don't remember if we all reported him or not. Luckily, none of us have heard from him since. Hopefully he has matured. TL;DR: A good kid turned into a straight-up bully after joining a clan and harassed my friends and I. Then he and some guys picked on one of my friends, mass-reported her, and actually got her banned.