User:Rikun85/Sandbox

At the beginning of the 20th century, cities were seen as the pinnacle of human civilization and accomplishment. However...every city, no matter the era, hides a seedy underbelly full of tight knit urban gangsters who are more than willing to prey on the fools who wander into their territory. For my debut battle on this forum, I present to you a turn of the century gang battle from two seperate parts of the globe:

Les Apaches: the fierce urban ruffians of Paris that terrorized the populace

vs.

The Highbinders: the enforcers and assassins of the city's Tongs

Which squad of gangsters will be left standing?

The Parisian Apaches
The Belle Epoque (1870s - 1914) was, as the name implies, a beautifully optimistic period where French culture was at its peak. Paris would become the center of arts, sciences, and high culture...but not without hiding a criminal underworld within its alleys.

For the less fortunate lower class of Paris, the choice was either backbreaking work or a life of crime, and for much of the disgruntled urban youth they chose the latter. Through countless muggings, assaults, and other acts of violence these hooligans earned the nickname "Apaches" from journalist Victor Morris after the police described to him a particularly gruesome crime scene. The gangsters in question happily accepted and relished in their newfound reputation.

Since then, the Parisian Apaches became the subject of many dime store novels and the terror of the bourgeois. Even the police would have trouble containing the sheer amount of violence the Apaches would wreak upon Paris. Their reign of terror ceased when the first Great War came to France, conscripting the violence of these youths into a meatgrinder of a war.