Orc Knight
Auror
This is a recent concept for me, though it comes on the tail of me re-writing one of my first and earliest stories that I thought might have some potential. So, obviously the world setting is Earth many years in the future and heavy on cybertech and biotech and all sorts of other things (clones are common as droids) but it is also a world of massive megacorps and other standard cyberpunk and sci-fi drippings like independent Lunar and Martian colonies. And then enter the gangs and their religious outlooks, along with anyone who's daily life is on the street. And enter the Saints of the Streets.
Which are canonized in different ways and usually don't have so long of wait. These Saints often live short, brutal lives and often are popular not just within their general area but all around their cities. Some are more then just gang lords and the like, charismatics and revolutionaries are among them. Several become more and end up their own religions and cults of personality.
But, at the end of the day, especially depending on how they died, they end up a patron of the streets. Currently I've only managed two, Sorrow and Hell Kat Maggie. Sorrow being a heavy empath that cried blood and tried to help out on the streets, which when died turned the followers into a highly religious gang attempting to follow their tenants and keeping the skull that still cries blood as a miracle.
Whereas Hell Kat Maggie led a gang known as the Misfits and almost took over the entire mega city of Blues Bay (the settings primary set piece) more then thirty five years ago. She was inspirational person, big on revolutionary ideas, heavy against the corpo's and a hugely popular populist sort who's calling card was Haven Is Real, being a basis of her entire railing against the world. Haven was what she would rename Blues Bay once it was hers and had burned out the worst of it. But she got killed trying to take one of the city's highway bloodlines known as the 18th Street Corridor. Pummeled into the tar by a jet trooper cop named Nyvaz and her signature mechanical claws ripped from her. And within a year she was sainted and has became a patron saint of sorts for the current day revolutionaries and her old gang tags and the Haven graffiti has come back around.
This has became more of one of my rambles on it going no specific direction I guess. Thoughts? Idea's for other Saints? More look into the building gang culture and the religious stuff within them? Roll with them.
Which are canonized in different ways and usually don't have so long of wait. These Saints often live short, brutal lives and often are popular not just within their general area but all around their cities. Some are more then just gang lords and the like, charismatics and revolutionaries are among them. Several become more and end up their own religions and cults of personality.
But, at the end of the day, especially depending on how they died, they end up a patron of the streets. Currently I've only managed two, Sorrow and Hell Kat Maggie. Sorrow being a heavy empath that cried blood and tried to help out on the streets, which when died turned the followers into a highly religious gang attempting to follow their tenants and keeping the skull that still cries blood as a miracle.
Whereas Hell Kat Maggie led a gang known as the Misfits and almost took over the entire mega city of Blues Bay (the settings primary set piece) more then thirty five years ago. She was inspirational person, big on revolutionary ideas, heavy against the corpo's and a hugely popular populist sort who's calling card was Haven Is Real, being a basis of her entire railing against the world. Haven was what she would rename Blues Bay once it was hers and had burned out the worst of it. But she got killed trying to take one of the city's highway bloodlines known as the 18th Street Corridor. Pummeled into the tar by a jet trooper cop named Nyvaz and her signature mechanical claws ripped from her. And within a year she was sainted and has became a patron saint of sorts for the current day revolutionaries and her old gang tags and the Haven graffiti has come back around.
This has became more of one of my rambles on it going no specific direction I guess. Thoughts? Idea's for other Saints? More look into the building gang culture and the religious stuff within them? Roll with them.