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yukaro353 · 4 months ago

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I'm going to condense more than five pages of ramblings here. So my HCs on Republic City organized crime are presented in one excessively long post.

(If you have your own or don't like any of them, let me know, I'm dying to talk to someone with this)

🔥Agni Kai🔥

Its origins are traced back to the dissidents of the Fire Nation armies, groups that were left without government support when Zuko took power, refused to hand over their weapons and continued to survive with violence as their calling card. They did not have any kind of order or clear leader until their arrival in Republic City, a place they avoided for a long time until the Earth Kingdom forces began to dwindle their numbers. The first leader recognized in their history is Sozan, a prodigious firebender capable of using lightning when it was still an elite technique, she became a legend at a young age, many pointed to her as a lost daughter of Princess Azula herself, Princess Azula herself or a pupil of the Wandering Princess, her royal past was lost over the years and she herself fueled those myths to aggrandize her figure.

She formed the Agni Kai and quickly positioned them as one of the most prominent mafias in the city, standing out for their effective assassins and their loan systems. She had several children who stayed away from the criminal life; she prepared her own pupil, Zolt the Lightning, who would relieve her after a confrontation with Toph that left her unable to continue fighting.

Contrary to what Sozan expected, Zolt quickly abandoned his position as leader, taking the best members of the Agnis and taking them to his own gang, leaving the group weak. The gang was close to disappearing until the death of Avatar Aang, where Sayuri, Sozan's eldest granddaughter, appeared out of nowhere and revived her group at the young age of sixteen, much colder and more methodical than her grandmother, she has strengthened the Sozinist discourse in the group and they have established themselves in the borders where they control the main drug lines.

The uprising of the Equalists and the Harmonic Convergence severely affected the Agni Kai, it is rumored that they are about to disappear.

🌊Red Monsoons🌊

The smallest of the gangs, made up mostly of waterbenders, began with a group of the Northern tribes that migrated when the city was founded led by Igaluk, who attracted more people promising to quickly achieve a higher standard of living, most of them were women who left the North in search of freedom from their customs. Once Katara intervened to cut the corruption that fueled the medical areas centered on the theft of supplies and clandestine clinics, the Monsoons saw things black, almost disappearing, it was when Igaluk opened the doors to Yakone, who would arrive to change the course of the gang with his bloodbending, copiously avoiding confrontation with Katara and focusing on expanding the territory by training more and more benders who were attracted and intimidated by his power.

The medical approach was maintained and the Monzones rose above all other gangs becoming known only as “The Followers of Yakone” for almost two decades. It was after the trial that the other gangs came after the Monzones, taking advantage of the fact that they were a headless body and cornered them again. Their golden age had ended.

Najak was then the one who took command when the killing ended, migrating the group's focus to other more political panoramas, before this he helped consolidate the Triple Threat with Zolt and separated when there were differences of thought, he had some freedom with the Monsoons due to his good terms with the Triad, his smuggling of exotic materials such as endangered animals or really rare minerals positioned the Monsoons in the highest circles as a trustworthy organization, added to his dealings with politicians. Najack died during the Robbery of the Fangs, a raid on the Ba Sing Se palace that resulted in one of the largest thefts ever executed.

After her came Ookpik, who had been under Najak's tutelage and who has continued in his footsteps with less success, he does not have the social skills and connections that distinguished his predecessor, he has remained in office because he is a killing machine who they have not managed to bring down. After the harmonic convergence they officially entered a slow death.

🪨Terras🪨

They were never really considered a group, they lacked organization and ideology, they were formed from the many gangs of the Earth Kingdom that arrived in Republic City, they grouped together to dominate the underworld of the city when it was just being built. Their first big blow was during the inauguration of the Council while the Earth King Kuei was giving his speech, they destroyed the entire building, rumors say that Chief Beifong began her military career due to this event.

Once other groups such as the Agni Kai or the Red Monsoons began to be born, the Terras began to lose territory rapidly due to their disorganization. This did not change until the arrival of the first leaders: The Tuo brothers.

Quiang and Jing Lei known for being two bastards of one of the aristocratic families of Ba Sing Se used their education and knowledge to dominate the underworld, literally. They created thousands of tunnels under the city, using the drainage systems to move their goods, introduced many new drugs and founded the first Red Light District, quickly abandoning their other lines to focus on prostitution.

They maintained their reign for a very long time, they saw great figures like Sozan and Yakone fall, they would have kept things that way if it weren't for the fact that Quiang was killed during a trip to the Ember Islands betrayed by his right hand, that deeply frightened Jing Lei, who took all the money he could and left the city with his nephews. The leader position was assumed by Minwei, one of the most famous actors of the red light district, noted for his performance, despite being a non-master he had such magnetism that he was quickly accepted, however under his command the conditions in the Red Light District became harsher fattening the networks of human trafficking, his reign of terror was fleeting, his capture occurred only six years later at the hands of Major General Lin Beifong, merit that would give him the leadership months later. The last known leader was Feiju, Minwei's right-hand man, who collaborated with the police to turn him in and continued to push the bigwigs in his group into the jaws of the police until he was able to get his charges greatly reduced and was able to retire without ever stepping foot in prison.

The Terra ceased to exist as a gang a couple of years before Avatar Korra's arrival in the city after losing the turf war against the Creeping Crystals.

⚜️Creeping Crystals Triad⚜️

They started in Ba Sing Se under a branch of the Dai Li that researched and used the properties of their crystals for combat. Once the restructuring took place after the war, much of their research was banned, forcing those less happy to continue in the shadows, spreading terror in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods until the Dai Li high command intervened in an effort to clear their name and disassociate themselves from that part of their past. There were many captures in the process, however there was a part that survived and escaped to Republic City with their knowledge under their shoulders.

There they spread terror left and right with genamite, weakened the Agni Kai by stealing much of their territory and suffocated the Red Monsoons who had just lost Yakone, with the Terras they were more negotiative, actively participating in commercial and territorial deals with the Tuo brothers, the leader of that time was the former Dai Li Haoyu, who would be captured by Chief Toph Beifong after he attacked the Police Academy with Genamite during the graduation of the so-called "Golden Generation", where Academy personnel and civilians died.

After this, the gang was considered dead for a good couple of years, its territory was claimed by other gangs and the use of genomite was heavily regulated by the Metal Police supported by Kyoshi warriors who infiltrated the gang and identified their routes; the fall of the gang began to be used as a warning not to mess directly with the chief Toph Beifong. Toph's predecessor, Jing Shezen, kept his foot on the gang's neck until passing the baton to Lin, under his mandate the laws were toughened initiating the deportation of these criminals to Ba Sing Se where they faced inhuman treatment in the reign of Hou-Ting.

It was considered the death of the gang until luck smiled on them.

The council subjected Lin Beifong to a trial for her attack against the Temple of the Island and removed her from her functions for almost two years as a sanction, a fact that coincided with the appearance of Jargala Omo.

Born in the villages surrounding Ba Sing, she brought with her new injections of capital and gathered former gang members, spreading terror in the city, causing escapes in the most renowned prison to return the gang to the maps.

Her biggest coup was against the Police Council using Genamite. This led the council to lift Lin's restrictions allowing a war without quarter between both women that culminated in a deal under the table that calmed the waters after the Creeping Crystals could not sustain the battle against the constant injection of capital and personnel at the hands of the chief in the police forces.

Their numbers dropped considerably during the Equalist uprising and the Harmonic Convergence rekindled the territorial fight, Jargala has managed to maintain his group but finds himself at a critical moment.

🔸Triple Threat Triad🔸

One of the newest gangs, founded by Zolt after taking power from the Agni Kai, had been in contact with members of other gangs for a couple of years, building ties for this project.

They dominated the commercial area with loans, extortion, illegal betting and systematic robberies. The diversity of the members of their gang attracted many people, who saw there an opportunity to exploit their skills without fear of discrimination and extremist discourses that were handled by other gangs.

They quickly expanded their movements, taking advantage of the falls of other groups to take over the territory. They came to have control of almost the entire city. Such was their territorial dominance and the impunity that their members wielded that rumors that they were working with the police were not long in coming.

They subjected the Metal Police to scrutiny never seen before, uncovering moles and corrupt dealings that forced the restructuring of the judicial forces. The growth of the triad was halted during this event, called "The Bay Trials", led by the then Chief Inspector of the Organized Crime Department Lin Beifong, who was spared scrutiny for her active role in the trials.

More than thirty-five people from the Triple Alliance were captured and their activity dropped considerably. However, in less than a year they had filled the positions and reorganized their methods, their ability to adapt kept them from disappearing.

Their most formidable rival appeared with the arrival of Jargala to the Creeping Crystals. This enmity did not last long, as in order to survive the hunt of the then Chief Lin Beifong, Jargala sought her support. Unfortunately, Zolt had his own dealings with the police and helped sabotage his new ally to stay ahead, this betrayal was not discovered. The "deal" lasted until the uprising of the Equalists, who removed Zolt from his power by taking away his firebending, leaving the leadership in the hands of Viper, his second in command, who saw the reduction of his territory, the loss of the dealings with the police and the loss of his best men during that stage. After the Harmonic Convergence, talk of their downfall began, pushing for less favorable alliances with other gangs in the face of the hunt that the dissidents of the Agni Kais began to direct against them. However, luck smiled on them again and after Kuvira's attack, the Triple Alliance recovered much of its territory by temporarily allying itself with the police under the table to stifle the new gangs that wanted to take advantage of the chaos.

They are negotiating a merger with the Jargala gang in order to be able to disengage from the authorities and stabilize.

🐺White Fang🐺

It was a small group, made up mainly of teenagers and children, founded by Amaruk, son of a non-bending Southerner and a northern waterbender, raised in one of the concentrated neighborhoods of natives of the Poles, he was always steeped in that culture.

During one of the gang fights between the Red Monsoons and the Agni Kai, the neighborhood was plunged into disaster because the gas pipes were affected and fires did not take long to appear, there were many losses and families moved towards the borders of the City. Amaruk soon began dealing with the merchants who came and went helping with small orders, he was so elusive and a good businessman that they began to nickname him "Viper", he learned water control from his father and taught other children in the area in exchange for charging them favors, little by little he prepared his neighborhood companions to help him carry messages, drugs and other packages that adults were willing to pay, that evolved into hired thugs, going to break furniture in stores that did not pay their fees or directly hurting debtors of other larger gangs. They would be absorbed by Zolt during the founding of the Triple Alliance when he offered Viper to be his second.

🎭Equalists🎭

Their origins can be traced back to the Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom, where there were scattered groups of non-benders who spoke of elemental supremacy and invited questioning and confrontation. The one who would unify them and give them purpose would be a foreign figure who led under the name of "Amon." His excellent oratory and his strange ability to withdraw the power of the benders encouraged many to follow him religiously.

The one who introduced the chip lock to the group was a former Kyoshi warrior named Kushi, who imparted her knowledge after resigning from her position as director of one of the Kyoshi Academies in the Fire Nation when one of her students burned down the facilities and was not punished accordingly due to the intervention of her aristocratic parents.

The right-hand position was in her hands until the arrival of the Lieutenant, who quickly surpassed her in skill and took the movement to Republic City, Kushi would leave the group after the introduction of Hiroshi Sato due to his rejection by the higher echelons.

They managed to terrorize the world's capital and take power over them by appeasing both gangs and national forces such as the police or the fleets of the United Forces, their success seemed imminent until the revelation of Amon as a waterbender. The moral blow that this produced greatly destabilized the members of the terrorist group, who were quickly suffocated, there were arrests, extrajudicial executions, deportations, severe sentences and a huge rejection by the population after the identities of the members were revealed by a leak of information from the police files; many dispersed and the movement was considered dead for a couple of years until Kuvira's attack on Republic City.

Kushi came out of retirement to raise the Equalists again, now outside of Republic City and focused on being a protective force against the benders, unfortunately they have begun to fall into protection fees and, again, acts of terrorism.

That's not all, there's another file talking about events like "The Yakone Trial", detailing the attack on the Academy and so on because I'm unemployed (Metaphorically)

And that, I hope at least they entertain themselves lol I have to go collect street names from Republic City on AO3

#avatar the last airbender #avatar the legend of korra #tlok #headcanon #toph beifong #lightning zolt #jargala omo #viper #lin beifong #ocs #metalbending police #cristal creeping #triple threat triad #red monsoons #Corrupt police #I have drawings of half of the OCs I mention

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