PLOT PLAYLIST: the flame & the flood.
SUMMARY: In post-apocalyptic 22nd century Las Vegas people have powers. It’s an accepted part of life for the residents of the once great city, if you are born with yellow eyes instead of the standard brown you will develop abilities beyond the average person’s wildest dream. For some, the ruins of buildings with purposes long forgotten become their home, their powers too strong or too strange to be accepted by the general populous.
Richard and Calum Murphy are twins, both of whom were born the characteristic yellow eyes. Their parents hid their true nature from them, in the hopes that their powers would be weak, and easily explained away. The boys grew up opposites in almost every way possible. Richard was popular, Calum was not. Richard excelled in arts, Calum in science. Richard is an optimist, Calum a diehard pessimist. But despite all their differences they remained close, best friends in a world where most didn’t get that luxury. Then Richard’s powers started to show, gradually, like the documented norm. It started with a bunsen burner, and it didn’t take long for it to grow. Jealousy isn’t quite the word Calum would use to describe how he felt watching his brother’s powers develop, but it’s the closest he can think of. By comparison Calum’s powers came on a lot more suddenly. One second he was drowning, 20 feet from the surface of Lake Mead, the next he was 500 feet from the surface, standing at the bottom of the lake with the water parting for him like a story from the bible. It was an event that both saved and destroyed his life.
7 years after that fateful day Calum Murphy makes his first reappearance in Vegas, but he’s not coming back the child that barely survived a swim. He’s coming back a man, he’s coming back angry, and he’s coming back to exact revenge on the people that scorned him and the brother that abandoned him.
you will drown in my rage as i have for years
TRACKLIST: i. good kid — former vandal. / ii. nothing personal – night riots. / iii. river — bishop briggs. / iv. legendary — welshly arms. / v. love is mystical — cold war kids. / vi. legend — the score. / vii. i don’t know why — imagine dragons. / viii. renegades — x ambassadors. / ix. dead man’s arms — bishop briggs. / x. so tied up — cold war kids ft bishop briggs.