Rowdy a bully?

Sure Rowdy might be aggressive and angry but its not really his fault for being that way, living with a drunken abusive father he has to let his anger out some way and its just his way of letting out his feelings. A kid who gets beaten up in the class by him would probably think hes a bully but he also has a best friend, Junior. He protects Junior and if anyone tries to beat him up he protects him. So hes not completely a bully, he protects the one who's there for him and is nice to him and reads comics with. Seems that if just as long as your nice to him he'll be nice to you.