When I was in Highschool the students of the college campus we lived near called out town the VIlle and called us the VILRATs. We were always causing mayhem in the campus woods, sneaking into parties, just having harmless fun on the run from capus security. One of my friends took the VILRAT, made it into a character in printed it on a handful of shirts for us. Years later, those shirts became the starting point for something bigger.