Emerald Falls (Pre-Crisis)

The City of Lights

### Aliases

The City of Lights, The New Silicon Valley, Dystopian Utopia, City of Danger and Chronic

## Creators & First Appearance

### Creators

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**Emerald Falls** is a cesspool, beloved, and technologically advanced city within the broader Seattle-Roseland-Emerald Falls metroplex. Currently, the city consists of several neighborhoods divided by metaphorical lines but enforced by gangs or wealthy citizens. Created in 1875, the city was a hub for piracy, illegal trading, and other criminal acts. While its sister city, Roseland, is known for its supernatural tendencies, Emerald Falls is defined by its rampant crime-rate and well-known life expectancy of 25 for people within impoverished areas.

## **History**

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### **Origins**

Emerald Falls was founded by Cornelius Emerald Armstrong on July 16, 1875. Armstrong was a member of the Armstrong family who sent relatives to start fresh in the Americas. As for money, Armstrong and a few of the family members that decided to defect with him started to explore the new land they stumbled upon and discovered an untouched mine of gold and all other kinds of riches that should not be natural to these areas, and in different areas, untouched oil reserves and other things that would make someone a real big thing back in those days.

With this came greed. It hit like a wave of knockout gas, as if someone poisoned the air with sin. The other family members grew greedy and desperate and attempted to kill Cornelius to claim the territory for themselves. However, Cornelius had seen this coming the night before, so he took precautions. He promised to make one of the conspirators a very influential man. When push came to shove, Armstrong’s accomplice showed his true colors and killed his would-be attackers. This event protected the future of what was to become Emerald Falls.

### **Late 19th Century**

The man who would save Armstrong would be Leroy Jackson, a freed slave who had migrated North and had fallen into crime with the gangs that ran through these unsanctioned parts. He had planned on robbing that man that day, but had a keen eye for opportunities, and something told him that the white man would be the end of his and all of his bloodline’s coming problems. This would prove true as Cornelius furthers his plans for transforming what used to be a mere settlement into a town, with the progression moving faster than the sister town nearby, Seattle. Deal after deal is made, and soon the right-hand man, Leroy, is appointed the Head man in charge as Cornelius died from cancer.

It is here that problems at home are caused, as Leroy, a man who once didn’t know how to read or write, was now spearheading a whole town that was soon to be a city, and this was something a white man believed he could do, so it was safe to say that Leroy became obsessed with the perfection of Emerald Falls, as it should be his and Cornelius’s legacy to the world. With the large sum left behind by his late friend, the male begins to buy slaves, having them shipped to him, where he liberates them and offers them freedom to everyone in his new town. The only condition is that they have to help the rest build it. No strangers to arduous work, they agree, and thus the town of Emerald Falls is made and thrives.

### **19th Century Problems**

Around 1925, Leroy Jackson had been married to a Marie Davis, a black woman from one of the New York territories, and they’d come together to create two beautiful children named, Derrick Jackson, and Sharde Jackson, now being the mayor of Emerald Falls, Leroy raises his children to follow within his footsteps and takes a kindness to his daughter as she seems to resemble him more than the boy, as for the boy who grows very attached to his mother is soon to be outside playing and running amuck with the other neighborhood boys causing all sorts of trouble, as for Leroy believed to do onto others what you want done to you, not what has been done to you, so they had white townspeople and with that came racial drama and with that came the further decay of Emerald Falls, as they all would come to a butt in the road and begin to have giant racial feuds.

As tensions grow, Leroy becomes more absent in the home, and the relationship between him and his son is strained beyond belief as they venture out into two different worlds. Leroy’s filled with overzealous whites and those who think him unfit and inferior for his position; as for Derrick, the rebellious son of the mayor who wishes nothing to do with him, well, he’s joined a gang and is now attacking and stealing from the white people who continuously antagonize them by calling them slurs, saying they belong in chains and don’t deserve things such as homes and what not. So, therefore, it was an issue that both sides continued to flame, knowingly or not. As for the political sides of things, his daughter seems to be soaking in everything, is very attentive, and after being schooled, has become her Father’s apprentice. As the years progress, their mother dies and their father not too soon after. Sharde is appointed the new mayor of Emerald Falls and feels compelled to force this city into further evolution as her father and grandfather wanted, but on the other hand, her name is being slandered by the actions of her brother.

The newly appointed gang member of the 62nd Street Hoovers, a gang that had interloped with their streets due to the crackdown in Seattle, wouldn’t be the only ones either, as Derrick seems to be going to war with a new development calling themselves Asiomex, an Asian Mexican mafia that has started to overrun their borders with drugs, guns, and a whole lot of unnecessary violence, as for the Boardwalk Bloods, or the 89th Street Crips, and that was without mentioning the countless other gangs and numerous crime families that have managed to force their way into their city. As politics become harder, the woman’s love life is flourishing, as she is now becoming the bride to United States Five-Star General David Fletcher. Who respected her dreams and ambitions and wanted to see her become the best woman she could be, and the two would be expecting.

### **21st Century Schizoid Man**

As For Derrick as his war on the streets grew even more wilder, the leader found himself becoming more and more immortalized as he’s become off the street and has made more than enough money to become anything he wanted to but with this money, he’d decide to become someone else and begin an all new crime syndicate under the new guise, The Shadow Master, the leader of a crime organization built up of ex military operatives, mercenaries, and felons of the worst kind which made Emerald Falls an absolute war zone, as the world around them continues to slowly deteriorate Derrick continues to profit buying off everyone in the city’s political influence besides his sister of course, the male was as powerful as it could get and at top of the world so it was only rightfully so, he obtained himself a queen.

Which wouldn’t take too long; he’d meet her on vacation within the Caribbean, and she’d move back to Emerald Falls with him, and it was there that it was soon revealed he had been lying about what his occupation truly was. They had already conceived the baby, unbeknownst to the both of them, but once they knew, Derrick spent the next few months getting his affairs in order. The year is late 2002, and the first few months would be spent in deep, deep bloodshed as new players on the scene, such as Carmichael Lincoln, the head of the Lincoln Crime Family, moved into town and embedded his nasty bloodline deep into Emerald Falls. Next would be the Thomas Family, and the least likely for then was the Distill family. And these would all be the participants in the Emerald Turf War, and this would have ramifications that would shake the city.

It was then that across the city, city hall began to put into fruition the gang dismemberment act, which would be spearheaded by the woman, Sharde Jackson. Who’ll have her brother hounded as public enemy #1, while just receiving the news of his recent miscarriage all the while, Emerald Falls had a new visitor. His name is Aziz Dawoud, and he would be a terror that would haunt.

## **Layout**

Emerald Falls resides just west of Seattle, specifically Shoreline, and is directly connected to Puget Sound. To reach Emerald Falls, you can either take a ferry or drive up from Tacoma. As Emerald Falls is surrounded by water, except heading south, there are three ports (not including Kingston). The first is the one that has a ferry to Seattle via Shoreline called **Emerest**, the second has a ferry to Roseland via Cultus Bay called **Backport** (nicknamed "Batport"), and the last one is known as **Port Cornelius**, which has a ferry to Friday Harbor, where people can reach Vancouver from there.

## **Trivia**

* According to Kid Eternity, Emerald Falls has a high count of supernatural cases. However, it pales in comparison to Roseland.
* Underneath the city, Kid has alleged that there is a primordial being which could be the reason why everything sucks.