Reboots over twelve are kept in a separate facility where they are trained to be Super Soldiers who act as a sort of Thought Police for HARC.Įnter The Protagonist, Wren 178. It is later revealed that the under-twelve Reboots are tortured and experimented on for most of that time. If a Reboot is under twelve, they are sent to a holding facility until they become a teenager. Reboots are immediately taken from their families by HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation), which is the closest thing the Republic of Texas has to a government. However, this is not a case of a Teenage Wasteland. These Undead Children are known as Reboots. This works on people of all ages, but adults Go Mad from the Revelation and become dangerous, Ax-Crazy monsters, leaving a bunch of Made of Diamond children and teens, complete with the Healing Factor, living among the few still-human survivors. You don't even have to die of KDH to Reboot: you only have to die, and have had KDH at some point in your life.

The longer you were dead, the less human you are when you return. It killed you, then brought you back - stronger, faster, more durable, able to heal, and a Soulless Shell or at least, the government wants you to think so. However, for certain people, the KDH virus did more than just kill you. It is never explained what happened to the rest of the world: whether it also was wiped out by the plague, or merely decided on a Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice for America and life moved on. Only Texas, which sealed off its borders when the epidemic got bad, is left. It take place in an After the End dystopia where a deadly virus called KDH wiped out all of America. Not to be confused with ReBoot, the cartoon.

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