Los Angeles
<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Los Angeles</default></title>
<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> Los Angeles is a major city in the United States of America and the home of PRT Department 2.
Residents
The Los Angeles Protectorate team was the second-largest in America.<ref name="23.1">Drone 23.1</ref> They were led by Alexandria, and later Rime.<ref name="23.1"/> The team included Arbiter and Usher among their number.<ref name="23.1"/>
The Los Angeles Wards team was led by Vantage, and included Leister.<ref name="23.1">Drone 23.2</ref>
Points of Interest
- Following the 2013 Endbringer attack, Santa Fe Springs and all of the neighboring districts were uninhabitable and riddled with traps.<ref name="I26a"/>
History
Background
Rebecca Costa-Brown was treated for cancer in Los Angeles, where she was approached by Doctor Mother.<ref name="15.z">15.z (Donation Interlude 3; Alexandria)</ref>
Alexandria in Los angeles as a hero prior to the founding of the Protectorate, taking down villains Stongarm and Mongler.<ref name="15.z"/> She went on to lead the Los Angeles chapter of the Protectorate after Hero's death.<ref name="R1">Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref name="23.1"/> Background info on Wildbow<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>:
"Los Angeles is Alexandria's city, and is the second largest department. It features the largest branding department of the PRT, and serves/administrates countless other branding departments and offices across the country. For just about half of the towns and cities in the US that don't have their own branding department, the LA office will get the photos, notes on powers, names and other details and will have teams handle the costume and projection of the individual. There's a constant stream of people coming and people going just for the seminars and classes and rehabilitation on the branding front. LA is a machine on this front.
It's large enough that it has several Protectorate teams to cover different areas of the city, all administrated in a general sense by Alexandria.
Being on the West Coast, LA is caught up with the Elite, which is the second largest cape group in the US and the largest villain group, though it's villainy is ambiguous. I won't say much more, but they appear in brief in Worm. Long story short is that they snap up all of the rogues (ie. if Brockton Bay were on the west coast, Parian would be leveraged into joining one of the Elite's subsidiaries) and they control a lot of corporate 'hero' teams from behind the scenes. They're organized crime with an emphasis on organized and a varying emphasis on crime, depending on the city.
As a setting, between Alexandria's hard-hitting teams, vast numbers of visiting heroes going out to stretch their legs, and the general iron grip of the Elite, LA provides very little elbow room for local villains. The ones that do exist are such small fry that they barely count, are very successful and very careful (to the extent you probably wouldn't know about them until you'd been around for a few years) or are itinerants who only spend 1/20th or less of their time in LA and are only considered LA villains because they're so rooted in the villain ratings game and flash and pizazz.
Bambina is an example of an itinerant: she hits other cities to make a splash, she shows off, and she tries to grab ratings and rankings on top villain lists that she can then leverage into back-alley sponsorship deals and merchandising. Between her episodes, she returns to LA, lives a life of luxury, and gets spends good money on training and counseling in (villain) branding and kicking ass."
Post-Echidna
Rime was appointed leader of the Los Angeles Protectorate, transferred from Philadelphia.<ref name="23.1"/>
The Timeskip
On May 17th, 2013, Los Angeles was attacked by the Twins. Tohu selected Alexandria, Phir Sē, and Lung for her powers. The Endbringers were defeated by Eidolon and the Guild.<ref name="25.6">Scarab 25.6</ref> This was the fight where the heroes realized that the key to defeating the Twins was to respond quickly, before Tohu had her masks and Bohu managed her influence.<ref name="I26a"/> The heroes used some kind of superweapon comparable to that used at New Delhi.<ref name="28.3">Cockroaches 28.3</ref>
Post-Timeskip
Jack Slash travelled to the area of Los Angeles modified by Bohu with some of the the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand to confront Golem.<ref name="I26a">Interlude 26a</ref>
Golden Morning
Khepri briefly hallucinated Los Angeles, among the other ruined locations.<ref name="30.3"> Speck 30.3</ref>
References
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