Worldbuilding Wednesday: Gangs Of Canopy

We saw a wide variety of gangs menacing the industrial district of Canopy back during Poppy 3, but we didn't really get to spend much time learning about them. So here's a quick rundown of some of the bigger ones.

The Fixer Chicks

An all-women's gang originally created to defend and avenge victims of abuse, they ended up becoming a bit too engrossed with the "revenge" aspect while forgetting about looking out for any actual victims. Now they mostly just go around harassing any poor man unfortunate to cross their path alone, treating emasculation like a game. If a young woman is on the path to delinquency, it's pretty likely that she'll spend at least a few months bumming around with the Fixer Chicks, playing tricks for kicks. 

Despite the name, they don't go around castrating people. They have some standards of decency. Also, Everyone gets a super cute leather jacket once they join.  

The Prime 8's

Less of a gang and more of a group of mercenaries, "the Prime 8's" refers to the group as a whole, but more specifically to the main team of eight leaders, who each run a chapter with very rigid membership counts. The chapter operating in the Bourbon region are known as the Crazy 108. Some of the larger chapters are more willing to bend the rules than others, and will recruit "honorary primates" in order to pad their ranks on short notice. Features of honorary primates include: opposable toes, large nostrils, very fine posture, or a general willingness to wear an ape costume.

Their head honcho is known only as the Monkey King, and possess a lucky star that allows him to morph into any other kind of primate.

The Hairless Dogma

A cult based around the divinity of being or willingly becoming bald. 

They don't participate in gang wars or any kind of general violence at all. They're just a bunch of weirdos trying to make a religion out of their fetish.

The Degenerate Housewives

 Extremely bored housewives who decided to clean up the streets one day. All three of them have spent time in prison and it's said they know how to dispose of a body more thoroughly than anyone else. Everyone avoids them just in case.

The Steel Wool

Of all the groups occupying the city, this is probably the most genuinely dangerous. The Steel Wool are a sheep/goat-exclusive gang of caprine supremacists, looking to "liberate" their country from outsider species. Many of their members are remnants of the old Ram government that used to run the country when it was still known as Aries, hoping to reclaim their former glory (ignoring the fact that they were terrible leaders, constantly infighting and running their lands into the ground). They are generally violent toward foreigners, and some of their ranks have committed multiple acts of terrorism, leading law enforcement to crack down especially hard on them. Their symbol is a red flag with a yellow X over it.

They're not considered very fondly by the majority of the country's sheep population, who see them as brutish radicals.

Next month's Worldbuilding Wednesday will be primarily about weather phenomenon, with secondary columns for any $10 patron-submitted inquiries.