dcworldbuilding:The Movement #2 (2013), Gail SimoneOfficer...

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The Movement #2 (2013), Gail Simone

Officer Pena: You got kids down here in this death trap?

Virtue: They’re homeless. The shelters are all closed. You think they’d be safer up here, Officer Pena? With the serial killer and… and people like you?

Officer Whitt: What the hell is this place?

Virtue: We call it the Sweatshop. The kids call it the 181. It was a garment factory… they made shirtwaists, 1898. Jewish and Italian immigrants, mostly. Fifteen-hour-days, seven days a week. Technically, it didn’t exist. No inspections, no union. Minors too… kids as young as eight. When production sagged, the owners put chains on the doors. To keep the women from taking breaks. “Unnecessary leisure for womanly gossip and idle chatter,” they called it. March 13th that year, there was an earthquake and a mudslide that redrew the entire city’s topography. The women were buried alive.

Virtue might be my favorite character I have ever created. She has been a little reserved up until this point but we start seeing what she can REALLY do very soon. :)