ince his sister was once a shrine miko, he must have lived in a very traditional household in Japan or he's just trying to get hold of his cultural identity through Taylor.
Nah, being a Miko is basically a part time job in Japan, unless you're a member of the household that inherreted the shrine/maintains it
I was talking out of my ass.
But now that I think about it, with the way Lung has been absorbing gang members with a care in the world and Oni Lee not much of a conversationalist, the ABB might be really divided beneath the surface. Fear as the sole means o acquiring power becomes ineffective over time. It makes the followers hesitant and more likely to hesitate, even for just an instant, when given an order. It also increases the chances of frightened shaking while holding a weapon. The ABB would have eventually fallen under its own weight without Bakuda shoving bombs in everyone's head and detonating those bombs on a whim. And if Bakuda managed to die than the ABB would lose the bulk of their members.
Eh, not really. Consider what Lung did when he hit the states: picked fights in major cities until he found a city where they couldn't kick him out
So he's secure in Brockton, no one can dislodge him and no one will try
Then he got the gangs together, not the Japanese Gangs. Not the Chinese Gangs. All the damn asian gangs, even if they traditionally hated each other.
(In general I think, with the exception of the main generic ABB, the various factions of the ABB continue acting as they had been before, just under Lung's aegis, and a side of covering for each other. So the drug selling tagging little shits, The Ko-lin keep being tagging little shits and selling drugs. Meanwhile the Akaishi fiends, or whatever, continue, well doing what they did to Emma. (Since large scale the Emma thing is basically untenable.) In the meantime, the Ko-lin keep watch out for the Akaishi, and if some skinhead spits vafuely in a Ko-lin's direction they'll break his legs.)
Further, any Cape, who is thus a potential threat to him, that would not bend a knee got bent in half.
Anyways, result? Lung has his recliner, women, cigarettes, his beer, and no one is going to fuck with him. He has his comfort, his ease, and what else would he want? Keeping the gang running is just a means to keep his funding coming to afford his nice apartment wherever it is, his fridge stocked, etc. Which is one reason why he reacted violently to the theft in canon, that was his goddamn beer money.
The ABB isn't so much a gang so much as it's Lung's territory.
Thank you for speaking my brain-thoughts, only better
