Stepney

### Date of Death

2012, 2012, 2012 (aged 52), 2013, 2013 (aged 53), 2014, 2014, 2014 (aged 54), 2015, 2015 (aged 55), 2016 (aged 56), 2017 (aged 57), November 2019 (aged 59), Early 2020 (aged 60)

### Date of Death

2012, 2012, 2012 (aged 52), 2013, 2013 (aged 53), 2014, 2014, 2014 (aged 54), 2015, 2015 (aged 55), 2016 (aged 56), 2017 (aged 57), November 2019 (aged 59), Early 2020 (aged 60)

### Place of Residence

Thames Burrow, London, England, United Kingdom, Earth, Milky Way

### Occupation

Refuse Collector (1970-2000), General Criminal (2000-2020), Robber (2000-2020), Drug Dealer (2010-2020),

## Womble Information

### Burrow

Thames Burrow (1960-2000, 2022-Present)Wimbledon Burrow (2000-2010)

### Position in Burrow

Resident (formerly refuse collector [1970-2000])

## Relations

### Friends

Bungo, Bermondsey, Tomsk, Orinoco, Wellington, Alderney, Shansi, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Madame Cholet

### Enemies

John C. Star, Adolf Hitler, Paul (born 1967), Horace, Che Guevara (swan)

**Stepney**, commonly referred to by his nickname **Cheeky Spiky Black-Haired Womble** or just **Cheeky** (born 1960) is an English Womble former criminal who is notable as formerly being “one of the most troublesome wombles in history”.

Stepney was born in the Thames Burrow in central London in 1960. In 1964, when he was four years old, he entered the Thames Burrow Womblegarten. Stepney was resistant to authority and often played tricks on the other students and rarely did what was asked of him. It was during the 1960s that Stepney met Bermondsey, his first good friend and a womble he would know for several decades. Stepney graduated from the Womblegarten in 1970, at the age of ten, which was later than most wombles. He graduated later than usual as despite Stepney’s street skills, directional abilities and above-average intelligence, which could have seen him graduate the Womblegarten at the age of 7, he was always uninterested in completing his work, which he was fully capable of and much preferred to disrupt the lessons with Bermondsey. When he did eventually graduate, Stepney was allowed to choose his name from the Thames Burrow London Streetfinder Book (which is the Thames Burrow’s equivalent of the Wimbledon Common Burrow Atlas) and decided to name himself Stepney after the district, Metropolitan Borough and Parish in East London. After graduating from the Womblegarten, in 1970, Stepney became a refuse collector and was tasked with collecting litter nearby to the his home. As the Thames Burrow] is located in Central London, Stepney became very streetwise, much more than the comparatively rural Wimbledon wombles. Stepney, despite his general aversion to work, greatly enjoyed litter collection and would gladly work for far longer than he was required to. He was also very competitive and would boast about the rubbish he had collected that day. He also regularly traded litter with other wombles, even those from other burrows, to acquire better quality rubbish and would frequently barter with other wombles and sell rubbish he collected or exchange it for better quality rubbish. Despite some wombles believing that Stepney was arrogant and selfish, he was generally well-liked and respected by the other wombles due to his confidence and litter collecting abilities. Stepney was easily able to retrieve an item which would have usually taken several wombles to bring back to the burrow and to discover items that other wombles had missed. For his litter-collecting skills, Stepney was often praised and rewarded, such as being given extra portions at supper. He operated a warehouse nearby to the Thames Burrow in which he stored the majority of items he collected. Located inside the warehouse was a workshop where Stepney would repair the items he collected. Stepney was very skilled in his workshop and built himself a rubbish collecting barrow which was many times more effective than the tidy bags used by the Wimbledon Burrow and many other womble burrows. Stepney’s barrow would appear to ‘vacuum up’’ the rubbish, but it actually worked by using brushes to sweep up the rubbish. When it was full, Stepney could pile rubbish on top of the barrow. It was around the time Stepney built his burrow, that he met the wombles of the Wimbledon Burrow. He first encountered them in the early 1990s when he visited Wimbledon Common to look for more litter as he had cleared up the litter in his patch that day. The first Wimbledon Womble Stepney met was Bungo who saw him using his barrow and approached him to ask who he was. Stepney told him and told him about the Thames Burrow and Bungo informed Stepney about the Wimbledon Burrow. Bungo and Stepney got along well and decided to meet each other again. Stepney found Bungo to be the only other womble he had met who understood his hatred for authority and love of chaos and Bungo found Stepney the only other womble he had met to accept his actions which other wombles found unacceptable and to regard them as humorous, instead as immoral as his fellow Wimbledon wombles did. Because of his close friendship with Bungo, Stepney visited the Wimbledon Burrow more and more frequently over the next six years and by 1998 spent at least half of his time at the Wimbledon Burrow. Bungo and Stepney enjoyed playing practical jokes on the other wombles, especially those which most wombles would consider unacceptable and would frequently steal items from the other wombles. Despite his problematic behaviour, Stepney was allowed to relocate to the Wimbledon Burrow in 2000. This caused Bungo and Stepney’s friendship to become stronger and their actions to become more severe. Stepney, though generally fearless, even of his own death, was, for many years, extremely fearful of water, refusing to go swimming or boating and could not swim. This is atypical of wombles, as wombles in general are excellent swimmers and enjoy being in and around water. By 2019, however, it appeared that Stepney had recovered from his fear of water as he and Bungo dove down to the seabed for the purpose of retrieving the remains of an inactive organism, a Streeting, to reactivate it and release it to cause chaos for nearby settlements. It was during the 2000s that Stepney acquired his well-known nickname , ‘’Cheeky’’, which he is often referred to by both his friends and enemies. Despite how he is commonly referred to, his nickname in full is actually ‘’Cheeky Spikey Black-Haired Womble’’ which he gained due his personality (cheeky) and his physical characteristics (spikey black-haired womble). Stepney is usually referred to as Cheeky (by most individuals), Stepney (in formal contexts) or Spikey (by some individuals). By 2005, Stepney and Bungo had become inseparable and though they were prone to commit socially unacceptable acts alone, together they were much more likely to engage in more severely problematic behaviour. During the 2000s they began their spree of thefts and robberies and would often steal from shops and homes, despite having no particular use for the items they stole. Neither Stepney nor Bungo ever felt any remorse for their crimes and would instead laugh hysterically as they committed their crimes. Their laugh became closely associated with them and has been compared to machine gun fire ’’HEE HEE HEEE HEEE’’. By 2010, Stepney and Bungo had started to engage in violent and drug-related crimes and were intensely disliked by their fellow wombles. They were regularly imprisoned for their crimes, but often escaped and then engaged in even more violent crimes and often committed murder. They had no particularly motivation other than to cause chaos and have fun, but they did steal money when they could. Eventually, they were both banished from their respective burrows in 2015, but they continued to cause trouble for several more years. From 2012 onwards, they were killed several times in an attempt to stop their criminal activities, but they got resurrected several times thereafter and often within weeks or months of their deaths. In 2019, Stepney and Bungo threatened the lives of tens of thousands of individuals, including thousands of wombles when they deliberately ‘’reactivated’’ an ancient and inactive organism, a Streeting, which could have resulted in many deaths if it had not had been stopped. Following this event Stepeny and Bungo were killed again, but were able to return at least once, if not several times, in 2020. As they had previously, they caused as much chaos and disruption as they could before being killed again. Stepney was reconstructed in 2022 and has been permitted to return to the Thames Burrow and the Wimbledon Burrow. He has not engaged in any problematic or criminal behaviour since his reconstruction and has expressed a wish to be a beneficial member of society.