I was listening to my iPod and it hit me like...I don't know. Like a brick in a pie shoved into my face?
Anyway, this isn't my usual romantic humor story type so I really need opinion on this. (Also because it's kind of complicated, so please forgive me if it's long)
It's about a girl named Rayne. It's set in the future. Because society is so obsessed with perfection, everybody is bred. There is no such thing as marriage/social interaction. Men are required to donate to sperm banks and women their eggs. Every year one batch of around a hundred children or so are produced, all from the same father. The batch will have the same family name.
The children are separated into three groups: the Civis, who will become the civilians; the Affis, who will become government officials and the Differs, who will become the government's assassins. Usually only two or three Differs per batch. The Affis are the most charismatic people and the Civis are everyone else. They're all brought up in the same house.
Civis are raised together but are isolated for two years before release. The ones who don't survive the isolation (eg, turn crazy) are promptly killed. Those who do are assigned an angel, a house and released into the streets. Usually out of about a hundred children, eighty-five will become Civis, ten will become Affis and five will either die or become Differs.
Affis are bred together - they are the only people in society who actually have social interaction. They are raised to be extremely loyal to the Mother, the ruler of this new society. They're assigned fresh angels, not rehashed ones like those of the Civis. (I'll touch on the angels in a while)
Differs are raised to be assassins - they are raised isolated. Their only companion will be an android who will teach them how to use weapons. Needless to say many don't survive so Differs are precious to the government. They kill those who dare to oppose the government and hunt down new angels.
As for the angels, it all started when a woman named Giselle Mathers captured one of them decades before the story. She broke his spirit and found that angels could bond to humans. The angel would protect the human, go everywhere with it, be a nagging conscience, etc. Soon, people were crazy about catching them and getting one. So in the "present" society, all people - except Differs - are presented a broken angel. When the person dies, the angel - who is implanted with a locator chip - will return to the institution until he/she is assigned to a new one.
Everything is done with computers, people aren't allowed to talk to each other - their only companions are their angels.
Anyway, back to Rayne. She's a Differ from the Sinclair batch. Differs aren't supposed to be released from the Institute - ever. Only Civis are - Affies and Differs are directly transferred to the Winter Palace. (the center of the government).
Everytime it's their birthday, they have to fill out a form. Rayne filled out hers but she liked spelling her name as Rayne, not Rain like it's supposed to be. So the computer's filters didn't catch her and they released her instead because the one they were supposed to keep in was Rain Sinclair, not Rayne. (Does it make sense to you?)
She gets released without an angel or a house (these are assigned to Civis the day before release). So she stumbles into the street and sees an illegal - a person born out of an actual copulation. He's half-insane because even his own mother won't talk to him. So he tries to attack Rayne.
Rayne would have defended herself but she didn't need to. A wild angel comes down.
In this dysfunctional world, angels have learned to stay away from it or else get caught and become a broken - chained to their human.
But Keion is (yes, I admit) a little bit on the insane side. He's the quiet kind of genius insane. Anyway, Keion wants to kill the Mother and fix the world - he's an Angel of Death. But he can't get in the Winter Palace without a human - it would be suicide to do so if he went in without seeming like a broken.
He finds Rayne in the street, about to be attacked by a nutter that he planned to bond with and manipulate. Fascinated by her reflexes, he kills the nutter instead and asks her if she wants to be his partner. He shows her our society, which in comparison to the world she lives in, was heaven. He tells her that he could fix the world. She believes him and so begins their adventure.
The two of them against the world. A wild (slightly psychotic) angel and a Differ without any weapons.
So what do you think? Is it too complicated? Is it bad? >.<" It's just stuck in my mind so I was wondering if it was nice.
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