Levi
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Modern White Criminal Roleplay
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Misconceptions
I'm composing this guide with my own knowledge on white criminals in California. Primarily criminals within the Aryan Brotherhood's influence. My knowledge comes from a multitude of sources: Facebook/Instagram/Twitter accounts, articles, guides from other roleplay communities.
The reason I'm writing this guide is to help bring RCRP's future factions up to the standards of factions on other servers, where white criminal roleplay flourishes. RCRP's past peckerwood/skinhead factions have been rooted in stereotypical and out-dated misconceptions, this has led to the scene stagnating and players losing interest because they're still portraying an old hat concept that's been done to death and is no longer up to date.
I won't be going in-depth and covering old ground that's already been covered in past guides. I mainly want to help correct mistakes in portrayals and give some advice on how to accurately build a realistic and interesting character and how to develop it into the world of white gangs.
In the the near future I will be making a more in-depth guide on drug use, addiction and the constant battle addicts have, riding the thin line between sobriety and using. As well as a white car tattoo guide, showing each tattoo, their meaning and how white inmates acquire/earn them. But for now I've put this together for my peckerwood faction which is almost ready and will be open soon. Thanks for reading.
The reason I'm writing this guide is to help bring RCRP's future factions up to the standards of factions on other servers, where white criminal roleplay flourishes. RCRP's past peckerwood/skinhead factions have been rooted in stereotypical and out-dated misconceptions, this has led to the scene stagnating and players losing interest because they're still portraying an old hat concept that's been done to death and is no longer up to date.
I won't be going in-depth and covering old ground that's already been covered in past guides. I mainly want to help correct mistakes in portrayals and give some advice on how to accurately build a realistic and interesting character and how to develop it into the world of white gangs.
In the the near future I will be making a more in-depth guide on drug use, addiction and the constant battle addicts have, riding the thin line between sobriety and using. As well as a white car tattoo guide, showing each tattoo, their meaning and how white inmates acquire/earn them. But for now I've put this together for my peckerwood faction which is almost ready and will be open soon. Thanks for reading.
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Misconceptions
"Locals only!"
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A phrase which originates from the surf community. I know GTA SA has stores called "Locals only" and past factions shouted it and spray painted it everywhere, maybe it's a thing in redneck towns but that isn't a "thing" in peckerwood or skinhead circles that aren't surfers. Anyway, Locals Only is a huge part of surf gang culture and it has nothing to do with race. It's a form of localism. Surfing is not a team sport. With a few exceptions, surfing, with its one-wave-per-person rule, is a strictly individual endeavour.
Ergo, localism. The term is used to describe harassing, intimidating behaviour perpetrated by local surfers to discourage outsiders from surfing “their” breaks.
In 2016, a lawsuit was filed against local surfers in Palos Verdes, California to quell the ruthless and systematic localism at Lunada Bay. For decades, despite continuously swelling crowds at surrounding breaks, locals had Lunada Bay’s waves all to themselves. Such exclusivity was maintained by locals threatening violence, fist-fighting, assaults with weapons, badgering, heckling, throwing rocks at any non-locals who dared walk down the cliffs to the wave.
Surf gangs still run amok today and beach bums are a common sight. Commonly referred to as "surf nazis" or "surf punks".
Active surf gangs in California today: Lunada Bay Boys (Palos Verdes, California) The Westsiders (Santa Cruz, California), The Silver Strand Locals, Pierpont Rats (Ventura, California) Bird Rock Bandits (La Jolla, California)
"If you don't live here, don't surf here"
Territorialism
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White gangs aren't territorial, they don't gangbang, tagbang or war with other gangs for turf. Being active all over an area is why their gang names incorporate a greater territory name that's bigger than a town or a street. The majority of peckerwood gangs are named the same as their 'County car' (A County car is further segregation within the white car, peckerwoods/skinheads will fall in with others from their area). Example, San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods (SFVPW) (The largest County car.) These white gangsters operate out of drug users properties and motels, laying low and trying to avoid getting caught by law enforcement and they try not to get into altercations with gangbangers if they can help it, like many they follow the path of least resistance and a turf war simply isn't profitable or worth the heat..
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White gangs aren't territorial, they don't gangbang, tagbang or war with other gangs for turf. Being active all over an area is why their gang names incorporate a greater territory name that's bigger than a town or a street. The majority of peckerwood gangs are named the same as their 'County car' (A County car is further segregation within the white car, peckerwoods/skinheads will fall in with others from their area). Example, San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods (SFVPW) (The largest County car.) These white gangsters operate out of drug users properties and motels, laying low and trying to avoid getting caught by law enforcement and they try not to get into altercations with gangbangers if they can help it, like many they follow the path of least resistance and a turf war simply isn't profitable or worth the heat..
Latch-key Kids
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A historic misconception on the server is that peckerwood and skinhead characters all started as teenage latch-key kids (A latchkey kid is a child who returns to an empty home after school or a child who is often left at home with no supervision because their parents are away due to work.) that ride around on their skateboards and BMX's causing mischief out of boredom. This is false. In the past PENI (Public Enemy Number 1) have been known to recruit middle-class latch-key kids from the punk scene but this is not the case today, recruitment is done in prison.
In reality there's two main reasons why these people end up in gangs, drug addiction and prison.
Firstly drug use is the catalyst to these individuals ending up in prison, committing crime to fund their addictions and eventually landing themselves in prison. Drug addictions aren't cheap and money doesn't grow on trees. Petty theft, robbery, burglary and small-time drug dealing are a few ways of how addicts fund a $200 a day heroin habit, for example.
So how do these people end up in hate-filled gangs?
It's the prisons. They're a breeding ground for white supremacist gangs that use white superiority ideologies as a recruitment tool, creating a false sense of belonging, a pack mentality and for some of these people, a family bond that they never had. Gang members will slowly bring new inmates under their wing inside the pen, showing them the ropes, programming with them and getting them to "put in work".
Racism
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Skinheads arise from all sorts of backgrounds. Many start out as unaffiliated peckerwoods, and go on to become skinheads. Many seek out being a criminal skinhead due to the reputation of gangs like PENI, COORS, and NLR. Many people have friends in the gang or lifestyle, and that brings them in. At the very beginning stages, most of the people that grow up to be skinheads don’t adhere to any ideologically racist way of viewing the world. They are coached into, and encouraged to think along these lines so the gang can recruit them and control them.Every gang functions separately, however, most criminal skinheads gangs don’t vehemently coach these beliefs until the potential recruit is locked up. Recruitment usually starts before the recruit in question knows it, as they may be a friend or family of another member. They initially begin to befriend a member, and that member slowly indoctrinates them. They’ll shave their head and eventually the recruitment becomes overt. Once they first join the gang they’re often held to a high standard. They may be shown the ropes, but they’re often expected to be the first in line to put in any particular work that needs done.White supremacist gangsters are quite simply an enigma, they use white supremacist views and theories to support their own personal view of the world, twisting them to fit their warped perspective. Many only believe in these ideologies on a surface level for recruitment and control. The majority tend to ignore these beliefs when it comes to everyday life outside of prison, crossing racial boundaries for profit and personal gain.
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Skinheads arise from all sorts of backgrounds. Many start out as unaffiliated peckerwoods, and go on to become skinheads. Many seek out being a criminal skinhead due to the reputation of gangs like PENI, COORS, and NLR. Many people have friends in the gang or lifestyle, and that brings them in. At the very beginning stages, most of the people that grow up to be skinheads don’t adhere to any ideologically racist way of viewing the world. They are coached into, and encouraged to think along these lines so the gang can recruit them and control them.Every gang functions separately, however, most criminal skinheads gangs don’t vehemently coach these beliefs until the potential recruit is locked up. Recruitment usually starts before the recruit in question knows it, as they may be a friend or family of another member. They initially begin to befriend a member, and that member slowly indoctrinates them. They’ll shave their head and eventually the recruitment becomes overt. Once they first join the gang they’re often held to a high standard. They may be shown the ropes, but they’re often expected to be the first in line to put in any particular work that needs done.White supremacist gangsters are quite simply an enigma, they use white supremacist views and theories to support their own personal view of the world, twisting them to fit their warped perspective. Many only believe in these ideologies on a surface level for recruitment and control. The majority tend to ignore these beliefs when it comes to everyday life outside of prison, crossing racial boundaries for profit and personal gain.
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Accurate Portrayal, Character Building & Development
A solid foundation
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The foundation of your character is the most important point, you need a strong foundation to build character and to be able to develop them realistically.
So, what would be a solid foundation for a character that you want to develop into being in a white criminal gang? Like the majority of American gangs, your character would be from a low-income family, a single parent household, orphaned and growing up in the system or living with a relative. They could be older and a little more developed with pre-existing drug habits and in a bad place financially and mentally. It's only disenfranchised whites who go down this path of being a career-criminal and running with a gang.
Shotcaller is NOT good inspiration, it's what Son's of Anarchy is to the OMG scene (Outlaw Motorcycle Gang), a white collar guy in his mid 40s with no history of drug addiction, who earned well and has nothing in common with peckerwoods or skinheads would not be rising to such heights in the white criminal underworld IRL.
We've established your character should be from a low-income background. Secondly, you're American, a West Coaster. Your character grew up influenced by a mixture of cultures and this should be paramount to who your character is and how they act. Black and Latino influences would be heavily ingrained into your characters American psyche. They wont be very racially consciousness, growing up with people from a wide variety of cultures and this should be reflected in their interests and language.
Thirdly, the environment your character grew up in will also play a big role in who they are. A character from Las Colinas Valley trailer park would be more accustomed to city life and have grown up around a lot of Hispanic/Latino people, this would influence them in a variety of ways, vocabulary being one way. Life in LCV trailer park has historically been known for motocross and this may be a hobby and interest for your character which creates a lot of roleplay opportunities to roleplay, be it working on a dirt bike, stunting or racing with friends.
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The foundation of your character is the most important point, you need a strong foundation to build character and to be able to develop them realistically.
So, what would be a solid foundation for a character that you want to develop into being in a white criminal gang? Like the majority of American gangs, your character would be from a low-income family, a single parent household, orphaned and growing up in the system or living with a relative. They could be older and a little more developed with pre-existing drug habits and in a bad place financially and mentally. It's only disenfranchised whites who go down this path of being a career-criminal and running with a gang.
Shotcaller is NOT good inspiration, it's what Son's of Anarchy is to the OMG scene (Outlaw Motorcycle Gang), a white collar guy in his mid 40s with no history of drug addiction, who earned well and has nothing in common with peckerwoods or skinheads would not be rising to such heights in the white criminal underworld IRL.
We've established your character should be from a low-income background. Secondly, you're American, a West Coaster. Your character grew up influenced by a mixture of cultures and this should be paramount to who your character is and how they act. Black and Latino influences would be heavily ingrained into your characters American psyche. They wont be very racially consciousness, growing up with people from a wide variety of cultures and this should be reflected in their interests and language.
Thirdly, the environment your character grew up in will also play a big role in who they are. A character from Las Colinas Valley trailer park would be more accustomed to city life and have grown up around a lot of Hispanic/Latino people, this would influence them in a variety of ways, vocabulary being one way. Life in LCV trailer park has historically been known for motocross and this may be a hobby and interest for your character which creates a lot of roleplay opportunities to roleplay, be it working on a dirt bike, stunting or racing with friends.
Character development
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Character development is the process of building a unique, three-dimensional character with depth, personality, and clear motivations. Character development can also refer to the changes a character undergoes over the course of a story as a result of their actions and experiences.
As explained above, characters join white gangs in prison not on the street. Your character could develop a drug addiction by hanging out with the wrong crowd and starting to abuse soft drugs and then eventually moving onto harder drugs. Over time your character will develop addiction to these substances and will very quickly not be able to afford their fix. This will lead your character into prison and eventually into a prison gang if roleplayed correctly.
A quick example for a character developing into a white gang.
Little Timmy grew up in LCV trailers with his mother. At age 17 Timmy had a motocross accident, he broke his arm. The doctor prescribed oxycodone for the pain, Timmy likes how they make him feel. He doubles his dose. Timmy keeps abusing the prescription meds. Eventually Timmy's arm heals and the doctor refuses to prescribe more pain meds. Timmy turns to street dealers to get his fix. Timmy falls in with a crowd of drug addicts, he's being influenced by them. Timmy starts abusing harder drugs. He's now shooting heroin, he started smoking it. Timmy's habit costs him $300 a day as his tolerance has got higher. Timmy doesn't have a job. He's stole his mothers valuables and sold them. He's living on the streets. Timmy and his drug addict friends get caught in a botched burglary. Little Timmy's now a new fish in County, he gets punked on. Timmy gets sent to State Pen. He begins programming with white gang members. Timmy enjoys the protection the white car gives him. Timmy learns the ropes. Eventually Timmy gets asked to put in work for the gang. He puts in work. Timmy earns his County Letters (Tattoo). Timmy's a gang member.
DISCLAIMER: I've straight copy-pasted some information from a GTA World guide, credits to them for that part
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Character development is the process of building a unique, three-dimensional character with depth, personality, and clear motivations. Character development can also refer to the changes a character undergoes over the course of a story as a result of their actions and experiences.
As explained above, characters join white gangs in prison not on the street. Your character could develop a drug addiction by hanging out with the wrong crowd and starting to abuse soft drugs and then eventually moving onto harder drugs. Over time your character will develop addiction to these substances and will very quickly not be able to afford their fix. This will lead your character into prison and eventually into a prison gang if roleplayed correctly.
A quick example for a character developing into a white gang.
Little Timmy grew up in LCV trailers with his mother. At age 17 Timmy had a motocross accident, he broke his arm. The doctor prescribed oxycodone for the pain, Timmy likes how they make him feel. He doubles his dose. Timmy keeps abusing the prescription meds. Eventually Timmy's arm heals and the doctor refuses to prescribe more pain meds. Timmy turns to street dealers to get his fix. Timmy falls in with a crowd of drug addicts, he's being influenced by them. Timmy starts abusing harder drugs. He's now shooting heroin, he started smoking it. Timmy's habit costs him $300 a day as his tolerance has got higher. Timmy doesn't have a job. He's stole his mothers valuables and sold them. He's living on the streets. Timmy and his drug addict friends get caught in a botched burglary. Little Timmy's now a new fish in County, he gets punked on. Timmy gets sent to State Pen. He begins programming with white gang members. Timmy enjoys the protection the white car gives him. Timmy learns the ropes. Eventually Timmy gets asked to put in work for the gang. He puts in work. Timmy earns his County Letters (Tattoo). Timmy's a gang member.
DISCLAIMER: I've straight copy-pasted some information from a GTA World guide, credits to them for that part
