Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-220.255.2.155-20130714080138/@comment-10390252-20130714164414

I think it's worth considering the context:

This is a girl... maybe 16-18 years old at most (note Junior's doubtful comments regarding her legality - I wonder if the Bear gang check IDs?)... who walks into a mafia-run nightclub to confront the son of the Don and get him to help her find a potentially enormously dangerous Dark Dust-Witch. She's probably scared out of her wits. Naturally she comes on very aggressively. She probably thinks that the only way to stay alive is to be the first one to use force and to do so overwhelmingly.

Did Junior call the police and have her arrested for assaulting him? No. Did he wave off his goons and give her one minute to get out before he called the cops? No. He made a dire and rather cliché threat. Naturally, she defended herself against foes who were clearly aggressive enough to keep attacking even after she demonstrated she could do a lot of damage.

In retrospect, she could have tried a carrot instead of a stick; maybe she could have offered Junior an unspecified reward if he co-operated and knocked him unconscious after he took her backstage to collect. However, she's young, she's inexperienced and, once again, I got the impression she was scared and in a hurry.