299 – Lil’ Ragamuffin and Percy
By admin on January 1st, 2016 [ Edit Post ]

And now it’s time for AN URCHIN EVERYDAY January! Yaaaaay!

Also known as Red Rags, Black Ashes, Kid Pilliwinks, The Firebrat, God’s Murder, The Corpse Maker, and The Bane of Queen Molly, Lil’ Ragamuffin is considered one of the most dangerous and unpredictable of the 1919 Garbagetown Urchin brood. She was at first incorrectly identified as an urchin of Reinhoffer-Ootz type #12A: Unaffiliated Steppenurchin by undercover Urchinfinder agents, but more recent researchers have reclassified her as an urchin of type #34C: Ankle-Biter.

Facts on File: Completed the ritual. Sees lines without lines after replacing her eyes with those of a cat. Accomplished on the gypsy fiddle, competent on washboard bass. Knowledgable poisoner. Although illiterate, she does understand hobo signs. A former pugilist, once known on the baby brawling circuit as “Kid Pilliwinks.” Her greatest fight lasted twenty three rounds against reigning bare-knuckle champion “The Hungarian.” She has a tattoo on her back – a weeping swallow under a banner that reads “Dysentary Kills Slowly.” Died for the first time in 1925 from hypothermia, and again in 1928, also from hypothermia.

Lil’ Ragamuffin has never sworn a spittleoath to any Swarmlord, but will often join forces with the Upper East Side swarm known as the Apple Cobbler Gang.

After pupation*, Lil’ Ragamuffin briefly worked in a munitions factory making bombshells for allied forces during World War II, where she was believed to be the mastermind of the alleged plot to kill Hitler’s dog. Sir Percival Throckmorton Scruffs worked in the US army chemical weapons division and was instrumental in developing The Smell that Could Kill.

*The rare urchins who reach the age of 13 will often metastasize into hoboes or hoodlums, depending on how much royal jelly they consumed during their larval stages.