The Whole Children were a loose association of Hyperscribe political activists and later insurgents who squatted in the ruins of Emerson High School. They drew their name from the "Whole Child" philosophy of the school's 1909 founder - partly as a reflection of their ideology, and partly to make use of an abandoned but working sigil.
They waged a radical campaign of publicly-directed Signspells that raised the ire of the Gary Free State Regime, leading to an era of paranoia that created Gary (City-State).