Two kind, gentle souls, fully capable of dealing it back to those who might mess with them or their friends. Or, as Ry-Guy said to a gal after seeing off a boy who'd been teasing her: "Let me know if he bothers you again and I'll take care of it."
When I walk the trail behind my house I sometimes find on a bench a New York Times that has been annotated from first page to last by an enlightened individual who, possibly homeless, has quite the intellect.