In this changed reality, where an alternate Booker was a lieutenant of Daisy Fitzroy and working with Cornelius Slate to bring down Comstock's reign of oppression, dying in the process, Chen Lin and his wife are dead, but not before the gunsmith had supplied enough weapons for an armed revolution. After passing through another Tear where the tools are no longer in the police station, Booker and Elizabeth find themselves in a Columbia in the middle of an uprising. Traveling through to Shantytown, home of the poor and oppressed citizens of Columbia, the pair arrive at the local police station to recover what they find to be a huge pile of the gunsmith's tools. In this Columbia, the conflict between the two factions is at a tipping point, though Chen Lin, partially phased out of time, has had his tools confiscated. When Chen Lin is found to be dead, brutally murdered at the hands of Fink's henchmen, Elizabeth opens a Tear to an alternate Columbia, one in a state of revolt. As part of a deal with Daisy Fitzroy, Booker and Elizabeth set out to find Chen Lin, a Chinese gunsmith sympathetic to the group's cause. When Booker enters Columbia, the Vox are organized and ready to fight, but lack the weaponry needed to stand against the Founders. One spark and we'll have a blaze we cannot control.” ― A Founder Commander ĭuring the events of BioShock Infinite, the Vox Populi's status changes from an underground resistance group to the dominant power in the city. “ The Vox and weapons go together like fire and gunpowder. They perform similar modifications upon hijacked hovercrafts and Zeppelins, lashing long sheets of red cloth to their hulls in order to mark the vehicles' change of allegiance.īooker DeWitt, martyr of the Vox. Some Vox fighters make use of clothing and equipment appropriated from the Founders, such as body armor and masks, which are decorated with their signature red paint. Later in the game, hijacked Motorized Patriots bear the features of Abraham Lincoln, a figure reviled by the Founders for his support of the oppressed. In combat, Vox fighters tend to imitate the battle cries of Native Americans, one of the many groups the Founders attempted to eradicate. In opposition to the Founders' blue, the Vox's primary color is red. In mockery of Jeremiah Fink's perception of workers as cattle, many Vox fighters wear helmets in the shape of bull heads. Most of the Vox Populi's symbols exist to oppose those of the Founders: In stark contrast to the Founders' puritanism, the Vox adorn themselves with devil horns and hoods. Joining minorities within Columbia, there are supporters among the white Protestant population of Columbia. Another recruitment source is the working class, in lower-class neighborhoods and market shops. Among these are Irish, Asians, Blacks, Italian, and Native Americans.
The Vox Populi draws its main recruitment from Columbia's segregated communities. Vox Populi members can be seen murdering, robbing, and terrorizing civilians in Emporia. They also torture innocent citizens they come across, inflicting upon them the same oppression they lived through. Driven by vengeance, they destroy entire portions of the city and vandalize the rest, executing anyone standing in their way. Once revolution breaks out in Columbia, the Vox show their true colors. As idealism turned to bitterness, however, the Vox simply sought to appropriate all that belonged to their oppressors. Though the Vox do not claim to adhere to any particular ideology, their original goal was to breach the divide between Columbia's privileged few and the rest, erasing the social and racial boundaries imposed by the Founders. They had even set up a secret code, called the Vox Cipher, to keep secrets hidden from their enemies. Driven underground by the Founders' repressive measures, the movement eventually abandoned its initial peaceful tactics in favor of retaliatory violence against the Founders. Led by Daisy Fitzroy, the Vox Populi first began as a protest group and a confederation of working-class citizens and oppressed groups, but as it became more organized, its members grew more militant.
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