Submisions: Market Prompt

#109 It's the Paperdemon Guild Open Market! What sort of wares or services is your character selling? How does their stall look? Would they prefer to be a customer pursuing other guildmember's stalls? Or perhaps they might go the route of thievery when no one's looking…

 

So, listen. Petty crimes are, petty… It’s… beneath a Crowe, so, so far beneath them. Though, when you’re in a minor situation, and by that, by a minor situation, Aza means he’s broke. You gotta do what you gotta do, you know. So, markets, the hub of any town, city, or village. Easy, easy, easy Aza swears. He can get whatever he wants practically for free.

 

With his element being augmentative he uses it to quiet his footsteps, is stealing wrong? Of course stealing is wrong, but it’s not as if he’s stealing just because he can! Nonononono! He’s stealing wallets because he just saw the greatest thing ever. Waterproof eyeliner, in the same red shade he does his regular eyeliner! Also half off nail polish.

 

Is this petty? Yes, does he care? He’s done more for less, so no. And don’t even get him started on his mothers shenanigans when she herself was an adventurer, she was never secretive about her childhood crimes, never ashamed of them either. Was she a bad example? Yes, moving on.

 

Aza looks for the best targets for ‘wallet snatching’ and goes for it, typically just grabbing what he needs and then dropping the wallet/coin pouch/bag itself on the ground somewhere and moving on. Now, he may have been making a small joke to himself when he thought “this is just for the eyeliner and nail polish” albeit a terrible joke.

 

Really, it is those two things, but also one other thing. His partner had never tried certain snacks before, and he wanted to get a whole bunch of new snacks. To share of course, he’s not sharing all of the snacks! That’s asking too much. Still, it does take quite a bit of pickpocketing before he gathers enough money to start actually shopping. Better to get too much than too little.

 

Aza eventually does head off to the markets themselves as nonchalantly as possible to avoid suspicion and purchases his personal cosmetic items first. He then starts exploring the market itself looking at all the different snack stalls. Snack picking is very important because you need to make sure you get snacks that you would like but also some you think your partner might like too. You wouldn’t want to come off as inconsiderate, not to them.

 

Aza’s only ever had one person he cares about in this way, his one and only partner and he was going to get the bestest snacks. He knows his partner definitely hasn’t had chips or chocolate bars before, they’ve had chocolate snacks but whole bars of the stuff? Unheard of. At least in their homeworld.

 

For a moment Aza wonders if he could maybe collect some other tasty treats from other portals, but that might take too long and he has to be places tomorrow.

 

Yeah, these snacks are good. Snacks, eyeliner, nail polish, oh.. Toothpaste. Do they have toothpaste in this world? Maybe? Maybe not? He should really see if he can go find some, whether it be in this world or not. Sharp teeth are hard maintenance okay!?

 

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