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Who: Sun Wukong, Open
What: Just him monkeying around and tormenting people selling fruit.
When: 2/10
Where: Genessia City

With recent events, Sun felt he was in need of some unwinding. And what better way than pissing off the fruit vendors? Well, there were probably a ton of better ways, but this was the option he was going with. The vendors outside were the easiest targets, it would have been a little more tricky to steal from the stands in doors.

Sun is running down street right now, three vendors in tow. He’s holding a couple of pieces of fruit that he swiped from one of their stands, but he’d stolen from the other guys before so..they were all giving chase. He looked back over his shoulder to him,

“Come on! You can’t be mad at me because you guys are terrible at watching your merchandise!” They yell something back to him in return, and whatever it is causes him to laugh in response. He sets his sight ahead of himself. He rounds an upcoming corner and when the vendors round it too, Sun is nowhere in sight.

They look around for a moment before continuing onward to try in find him. Meanwhile, Sun is sitting on top of the nearby building, peering a little over the edge at them. He has his spoils sitting next to him. Those guys obviously didn’t see him, though he couldn’t be too sure if anyone else around might have or not.

“Man. Those guys make this way too easy.”

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And he shouted right back down to her. “Why should I do that?! I stole them fair and square!” He took another bite of the delicious apple. No, his spoils were sticking with him no matter what anyone had to say about it. The guys he took them from probably didn’t want them back so much as they wanted to give him a swift kick in the butt.

Why should he do-- What? Surely he can't be asking her why he should return something that he stole. That much seems obvious.

"Because stealing is wrong!" She yells up at him. But since he has no interest in listening, she's going to have to go up there... Maria studies the building for a little while before moving around the side of it. She saw a fire escape there... even if the ladder was several feet off the round, there was a dumpster back there, so she used it. She climbed on top of it and leapt to grab hold of the ladder and pull herself up.

From there it was just several flights of stairs until she could climb up onto the roof.

When Sun saw what she was doing, he just sat down on the roof and took another bite of the apple while waiting for her to climb her way to the top. He wasn’t sure if she was seriously going to try to push him into returning the fruit that he stole, but it wasn’t going to work. The fruit would be gone by the end of the day, though. But that was only because he will have eaten it all.

“You know you are wasting your time, right?” He calls out to her.

"Ngh...!" Pulling herself onto the roof, and stood and stepped towards him - but not too far. He'd run off if she tried to approach too closely, that much she knew.

"I'm sorry," She says, "But as a soldier of the Ironhart Military, I can't just let you steal things like that. I have to ask you to return..." A pause. "... What's left."

"Those merchants worked hard to acquire the food they sell. They work to make a living. By stealing what they've worked so hard to gather, you're stepping on their livelihood," She says. For a second she swallows, probably gathering her nerve. "So... return what you took, or I'll be forced to... perform a citizen's arrest!"

Sun continues to the eat the apple, nearly finished with it now, but he listens to the girl speak. He’d quick enough that he could scoop up the remaining fruit and run if he needed to, but he hopes that it doesn’t have to come to that. He was enjoying the view from up here and would very much like to relax and eat his fruit.

“And as the thief of this fruit, I’m going to have to politely decline to return this fruit. I didn’t take nearly enough for it to hurt their profits. And I’m pretty sure they would rather have my head than the return of their fruit.”

Hmmm. Maria's stuck for just a moment because, yes, she can't assure Sun that nothing bad would happen. But, he's a simple fruit thief, and she's just a civilian... she can't justify drawing a weapon on him. So for a while, she's genuinely stuck. She takes a breath after a little bit and relaxes.

"... You obviously know that stealing is wrong, and if you keep stealing nothing good can happen... so why?" She decides then to at least try and understand him.

"And stop eating those!" Yes, she also sees past what you're doing. Keep her talking long enough and there won't be any fruit to return.

He didn’t think Maria would notice that. It’s a good plan, if you ask him. And he wasn’t going to abandon it just yet.

“Well, okay. One, it is just fruit. Not even expensive fruit. The vendors won’t even take any hit in their profits for me taking it. I never swipe more than I need. Two, It’s not like I have any money to pay for it anyway. No different from back home. Except I think the vendors back home do a better job of guarding their merchandise."

At least he was pretty sure they did. "And three! It’s just plain fun to see them get so riled up when you show them the fruit that you just swiped from them. You see had red that one guy’s face was? Hilarious.”

Sun seemed to ignore the moral implications of his actions completely, and that was strange. He was also talking like he didn't have any other choice, which was also strange. But by the sounds of it, he's been stealing for a long, long time... That was a habit that was hard to kick.

"No money?" She blinks, "What happened to your money? When I arrived here I thought everyone was given just enough money to survive for a few months. Did you not look for work?"