Last time, you took a glimpse into the darkness of 'Bayford City', a cold city ruled by beasts. Today, we want to tell the story of our protagonist, Brandon, the only one who will dive into the heart of that hell with a blade in his hand.
He is not your typical 90s action movie hero. He is a survivor who has returned with his soul already shattered to pieces, a walking powder keg.
1. 20 Years of Hell on Earth: A Destroyed Boy and the 'Personality Generator'
20 years ago, Brandon, a rebellious 15-year-old heir to the Legion, had his fate completely twisted in a rainy back alley. He was kidnapped by a cruel 'Doctor' manipulated behind the scenes by the werewolf syndicate.
The Doctor's outward goal was to create an army using werewolf blood, but behind the scenes, he chose Brandon as a test subject for the 'Personality Generator', artificially inducing multiple personalities by applying extreme electric shocks and pain to the human brain.
An ordinary human would not have lasted long before their brain burned out, but Brandon, born with the special bloodline of the Legion's leader, endured this horrific torture for 20 long years.
However, surviving does not mean he is whole. His mind was splintered into thousands of fragments, and his ego was thoroughly collapsed.
2. Fortress of the Unconscious: The 'Memory Palace' and the Master of the Chair
In the midst of maddening pain, Brandon's unconsciousness created a dreamy and grotesque inner space, the 'Memory Palace', to protect itself. A cave pooled with cold water, in the center of which sits an old 'Chair' symbolizing control over the body.
This place is not a sanctuary, but another battlefield. Brandon's scattered primal emotions and countless 'third personalities' forced into existence by the Doctor's torture engage in endless power struggles to claim that chair. The masked inner fragments that suppress and mock Brandon are enemies as terrifying as the werewolves trying to tear him apart on the outside.
3. Prison Break After 20 Years: Liberation Written in Blood
Just as his body reached its limit and the Doctor's scalpel was about to end his life, a miracle occurred inside the Memory Palace. A mysterious ego that had always tried to protect Brandon, the 'Overlord of the Abyss', united the scattered personalities that were trying to kill each other in a single moment.
The Overlord of the Abyss, having won the battle against all personalities, sat on the 'Chair' and poured into the physical body in reality. The 15-year-old boy's ego disappeared, and the murderous intent accumulated over 20 years awakened a 35-year-old killing machine. With superhuman strength, Brandon smashed his restraints, slaughtered the werewolf minions and the Doctor's test subjects with his bare hands, and turned the laboratory into a sea of blood.
Covered in blood, Brandon emerged outside for the first time in 20 years. Before him lay the thick fog of Bayford City, and he stood in front of the hotel, the Legion's hideout. The hotel, which he thought would have long disappeared, appears to be well-maintained from the outside.
He is no longer just a fugitive. Armed with the collapse of his inner self, this is the birth of an executioner who will judge all the monsters in this city that tore him apart.