| rdfs:comment | - Lucy becomes very attached to her new best friend Nicole. Mary has bad vibes about Nicole's negative influence on Lucy, but the real trouble starts when Mary's seemingly unjustified accusations prove to be correct. Meanwhile, Matt is stunned when a beautiful young woman at school turns him down, and Ruthie hatches a plan to regain the attention of her very pregnant mother.
- The Cutters are one of the largest gangs in North America. They trace their origins to a gang in Los Angeles in 1980s. They have chapters in major cities, and in 2054 were one of the largest (second largest) gangs in Seattle, after the Ancients and before the Tigers (a gang affiliated with the Eighty Eights triad). A biological warfare agent incident, , decimated the Seattle branch of the Cutters in 2054. Since then they have been slowly rebuilding their strength. The Cutters accept members of all metatypes except elves, due to their ongoing enmity with the Ancients. Leadership in 2054:
- "Cutters" is a derogatory term for the kids who "cut" (were truant from) school, and end up not going on to college after graduating from, or dropping out of, high school. This regional slang popular especially in midwestern US college towns was given wider exposure from its use in the 1979 movie Breaking Away - the movie cover even pictures them wearing "Cutters" T-shirts they made. In Breaking Away, "Cutters" refers to the boys' parents' profession of stonecutters in the quarry. In the movie, "Cutters" are townies, sharing their community with college students their own age.
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| abstract | - Lucy becomes very attached to her new best friend Nicole. Mary has bad vibes about Nicole's negative influence on Lucy, but the real trouble starts when Mary's seemingly unjustified accusations prove to be correct. Meanwhile, Matt is stunned when a beautiful young woman at school turns him down, and Ruthie hatches a plan to regain the attention of her very pregnant mother.
- "Cutters" is a derogatory term for the kids who "cut" (were truant from) school, and end up not going on to college after graduating from, or dropping out of, high school. This regional slang popular especially in midwestern US college towns was given wider exposure from its use in the 1979 movie Breaking Away - the movie cover even pictures them wearing "Cutters" T-shirts they made. In Breaking Away, "Cutters" refers to the boys' parents' profession of stonecutters in the quarry. In the movie, "Cutters" are townies, sharing their community with college students their own age. Cutters is also a pun on, or reference to, the use of a knife.
- The Cutters are one of the largest gangs in North America. They trace their origins to a gang in Los Angeles in 1980s. They have chapters in major cities, and in 2054 were one of the largest (second largest) gangs in Seattle, after the Ancients and before the Tigers (a gang affiliated with the Eighty Eights triad). A biological warfare agent incident, , decimated the Seattle branch of the Cutters in 2054. Since then they have been slowly rebuilding their strength. The Cutters accept members of all metatypes except elves, due to their ongoing enmity with the Ancients. Their main area of operations is Downtown. Compared to other gangs, Cutters organizational structure is relatively sophisticated and business like. They tend to care more about profit than pure reputation, and most of their actions will be carried out only after a cost-vs-profit analysis. Leadership in 2054:
* Blake: leader of the Cutters in Seattle, sophisticated black human (alive in 2058)
* Ranger: Cutters' war boss (dies in 2054)
* Vladimir: Cutters' lieutenant, bloodthirsty, vicious (alive in 2058, deceased in 2070)
* Springblossom: Cutters' lieutenant, Deer shaman (alive in 2058)
* Musen: Cutters' accountant
* Fahd: Cutters' business developer Colors: gold and yellow In the 2070s, one of the largest chapters is the one in New York City. It controls much of the areas of Manhattan that were abandoned by the Manhattan Development Council like the pit since they ousted the other major gangs, like the Axemen, in that area. Both leaders of the Smoker's Club assassins organization - Riser and Yankee - were former members of the Cutters gang.
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