In my #korps story, the gang of “vigilantes” calling themselves the Arch Dukes, are abducting people from the college campus that my protagonist Caden works at. One kidnapping goes wrong and results in a death. All the victims are openly queer or allies.
But I don’t quite have a motivation for why they’re doing this, and I don’t think “they’re just bigots” is enough to explain the specific action of kidnapping. Could use some ideas! #writing
@IsDaGany I'm not sure if this is the tone or world building you're thinking of but, the U.S. military and their civilian companies like BAE target the poor and disadvantaged at colleges. If you look around you will find diversity and inclusion was recommended and is still ongoing in the civilian sector because there were difficulties getting enough hetero white men to join up and / or work for the military industrial complex. I think if you wrote the story such that a racketeering cult was siphoning off the poor and disadvantaged students to use as expendables for a project that would be compelling because it is what has happened in real life.
It's also a lot of other sectors and companies though.
Pyramid / Ponzi / MLM schemes
Disney
Church cults
Temporary migrant worker schemes
Mercenary work
Extremist groups
AI companies
ICE
ETC
Racketeers are always looking for victims to exploit
@celestestormysea In this case, it’s a world with superpowers. The Korps is an enigmatic group who are labeled as villains for wanting to create better lives for people (It’s a bit more complex than that, but that’s the short version). Many of them are not afraid to do things as, say, assassinate someone who’s using their wealth and power to abuse people. The super “heroes” are basically hired mercenaries protecting the rich assholes who wanna keep things this way. Many heroes and their supporters are bigoted, horrible people, but they “get the bad guys to protect America,” so they’re propped up as idols.
The “vigilantes” in my story, don’t have superpowers, but they think they’re doing good work to support the heroes—but even the heroes view this group as an unpredictable liability. Though some view them as useful expendables.
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