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	Sun Wukong: Look... despite the drama and the fighting and the numerous attempts on my life, I had a lot of fun! But you're with who you're supposed to be now.
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Character name: Sun Wukong
Age: 18/19 (assumed)
Canon: RWBY
Canon point: Argus Limited
History: Wiki link

Three key adjectives: casual, mischievous, earnest

Influential Events:

1. Arrival in Vale.

Not much is shown about Sun's life before the events of RWBY taking off, but we're introduced to Sun as a stowaway on a ship headed to Vale. Despite the fact that there are numerous ways to get to the country that don't involve illegal activity, Sun decides to take the (cheap) route and hitches a ride, showing that he doesn't really care about the societal norms of lawful behavior, and prefers adventure to the boring normalcy of life that comes along with playing by the rules. At first, when he meets team RWBY, they're rather distrusting of him, and who wouldn't be? He's illegally here, stole passage into the territory through shady acts, and fits the bill of a potential criminal who's been raiding Dust (magical essence, to keep it simple) shops.

He approaches Blake and takes her out for a cup of coffee, innately knowing that she, too is a Faunus. The Faunus are a subjugated race with animal features within the world of Remnant, often used as scapegoats for political problems and forced to take slave labor jobs with little to no pay. They're treated as second class citizens, which is a rather large part as to why Blake hides her ears behind a ribbon, trying to blend in with society rather than going against the grain. Sun, on the other hand, believes the polar opposite, proudly letting his tail wag and lay out in the open. He's bold, confident in himself, and doesn't agree with hiding who he is from anyone. This issue is highly conflated due to a terrorist cell, known as the White Fang, comprised of Faunus who take action against the rest of the world who threatens to stamp them out.

Sun proves himself, and his resolve, by helping team RWBY stop an active robbery of Dust from the port in town. When it comes down to it and he sees Blake in danger, he immediately steps in to join the fray, showing that he has a deeply caring relationship for those around him. Sun thinks with his whole heart, and just how he proudly he displays his heritage in the face of adversity is the same resolve he takes in putting faith and pride in his friends. His arrival in Vale shapes how he interacts with team RWBY and the students of Beacon Academy deeply, having allied himself as a friend.

2. Uncovering White Fang Operations.

While Blake begins to act increasingly cagey and exclusive of everyone around her, and even to some extent, her own team, her and Sun are paired up together to find out more details about the White Fang and their recruiting methods. The rise in activity of the organization is something to worry about, and even as Blake protests him lending a hand in the operation at all, he tells her that it's "better to have friends involved in their plans." The road to friendship with Blake is a pretty push and pull endeavor, and the trust Sun gives her is often times a one way street. However, upon infiltrating the recruitment event of the White Fang, these two Faunus find out that they're planning to militarize, with help from a crime lord's stolen fleet of mech warriors.

They eventually make it out of the situation, taking down one of the robotic foes, but the realization that the White Fang are a serious threat hadn't been as deeply entrenched into Sun's motivations up until this point. As someone who grew up in the wild frontier of Vacuo, the lines between races were less pronounced than they were in the rest of the world. Survival and mettle is a major threat to life on the desert continent, so he often sees the tension between Faunus and humans from a different angle than the Faunus outside of Vacuo see them as. He knows, however, that every fiber of his being is telling him that the White Fang are doing something vitally wrong and inherently evil, and even though he's a proud Faunus himself, he can't align his goals to theirs. Especially not when they resort to violence as a be-all, end-all solution.

3. Battle of Beacon.

Beacon Academy is assaulted by an unknown external force at the height of a unification tournament known as the Vytal Festival. Huntsmen and Huntresses (students of the various academies in Remnant who train to take down monsters known as the Grimm) compete in combat for honor and the titled glory of winning. The tournament turns out to be the cover under which Cinder Fall and her team infiltrate the school to obtain something that it's been hiding from the world. The subsequent attack on Beacon Academy becomes a colossal, tragic event where Grimm, White Fang, and the dubious team who infiltrated the Vytal Festival begin to attack and lay way to everything that it stands for.

Sun, a participant in his own team for the Vytal Festival, answers the call to defend Beacon- like all the aspiring Huntsman and Huntresses do. He fights valiantly to protect not just the school, but a way of life. The battle rages long and hard, and through the process- Yang loses her arm in a battle against the leader of the White Fang. As the military arrives to take people away from Vale, Sun is there, looking at the damage it's caused to people he deeply cares about, he tells them to get on the ship and to safety. Ruby and Weiss argue against it- saying that Jaune and Pyrrha, two of their friends- are still within Beacon Academy. Sun doesn't want to see anyone else get hurt, and he sees the resolve in their eyes. He knows he can't stop them, and as they leave to go find the missing two students, he sighs and calls them idiots. Even the White Fang have withdrawn from battle, and a massive Grimm is circling the school. He stays behind to watch after Blake and Yang. This shows that he's based in pragmatism and knows a losing fight when he sees it, but instead of running away, he stays behind to make sure that his injured friends eventually make their way to safety.

4. Menagerie.

Blake leaves the team after the Fall of Beacon. She aims to return home to Menagerie, but Sun follows her by... stowing away on a ship, again. He's really good at that. While traveling with her back home, she eventually accepts his presence, and they develop their friendship over time while uncovering the motives and the location of the White Fang's activities in Menagerie. Blake reunites with her parents, but continues to show reticence to accepting help or relying on her friends when she needs it. She ran from RWBY after the Battle of Beacon, leaving them behind and harbors guilt for that, but as Sun stays by her side, he tries to instill something that he's come to know over his development.

He tells Blake that when she pushes everyone outside of her life, it "hurts more than anything the bad guys could ever do to us." It shows that he cares for Blake in a way that we haven't really seen him before this point- often acting as a bit of a doofus, embarrassing himself around her parents to extremes, and generally stirring up more questions than answers whenever he's around. However, it's his resolve and his wisdom that he imparts to Blake that showcases who he really is, deep down inside. Highly insightful, caring, and supportive. Blake reveals her past to Sun, informing him that she used to be deeply involved with Adam Taurus, the leader of the White Fang. He accepts her and her past, which is something she hasn't had a lot of time to really process and understand herself.

Eventually, this culminates in the Battle of Haven- another of the academies in Remnant- where Sun leads a large group of Faunus to fend off the White Fang's attacks. It shows that he had leadership skills, although he knows for a fact that he's been lacking in that department himself, having abandoned his own team after the Fall of Beacon and not providing them the support they need and deserve. After the battle is finished, he helps Blake reunite with her teammates, hopefully leaving her in a place where she can be more open and honest with herself around them and start the path to forgiveness.

5. Return to Vacuo.

After the Battle of Haven, Sun bids farewell to his friends. They're on their way to Atlas, the location of another academy, but Sun decides that it's time to return home. He has to do his part to protect Shade Academy, his own school. Bidding them farewell, this is the springboard for Sun to step into a role that he's shirked for a while. Communication back and forth from Vacuo has been destroyed due to the Fall of Beacon, so what lies ahead is a big unknown. But after learning through his journey how important it is to have people around you that support and love you, he's ready to return, inform them of the events going on outside the world, and protect his homeland from inevitable attack.

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Re-App portion

After the devastation caused by the events of Lyrabar, Sun decided his skills would be better served in another branch in the Bureau, and instead of spending time in hunting down relics to bring them back, he joined the squad of Regulators. His chief task was mostly hunting down people who had come into contact with extremely powerful items and bring them to justice. His most recent accomplishment was spent during his time in Luskan, where he diverted a weird plot to turn all the beds in town into weird bed-dragon monsters.

Chosen path: Monk(ey)
5 Abilities:

○ Aura/Semblance: Via Sun. Sun's aura manifests through his semblance, Via Sun, which allows him to emit up to 3 spectral clones of himself. They have the ability to collide and explode on impact, but the initial outpouring of the ability requires meditative concentration while he's channeling his clones to do anything, leaving him somewhat open to attack (the ability doesn't require him to be standing completely still, but the concentration it takes limits him greatly). There is a strong theory (unconfirmed) that his semblance acts stronger when the sun is out and is harder to manifest/does less in the absence of it.

Aside from the semblance, Aura in general provides heal over time effects and acts as an extension of Sun's soul, shielding him from damage... to an extent before it breaks and he's depleted. At that point, he won't be able to use his Semblance, and it takes time to recharge back to its original amount.

○ Empty Body

○ Radiant Sun Bolt

○ Observant

○ Deflect Missiles

Why this path?: Sun's primary focus of combat fits very closely to how a monk engages in battle. His abilities to meditate and concentrate are already innately something he knows how to do, so this provides a close approximation of his skills and how they'd be applied in Faerun.

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