Trance

The narrative spans a far-future world and a 1980s Los Angeles, linked by experimental time-travel technology. In the future, a retired police trooper hunts a powerful mastermind who can trance people. In 1985, bodies are possessed and altered by the villain, forcing the hero to assume another life to pursue the threat. The tech—time vials and a long-second watch—drives the urgency of every decision.

Angel City is the future name for Los Angeles, a neon-lit megacity where a shadowy regime uses mind control to shape society and hunt for power. The story alternates between its 23rd-century setting and the 1985 present, with the city serving as the hub for the chase through time. Its atmosphere blends high-tech surveillance with urban grit as characters navigate shifting loyalties and hidden agendas.

⏳ Time Travel

Time travel drives the plot, letting hunter and villain cross eras and pursue changing destinies. The story uses devices like time vials and a slow-motion watch to create tense crossings between futures and pasts. Decisions about when and whom to save ripple across timelines, highlighting responsibility across eras. The conflict shows how altering one moment can reshape generations.

🧠 Identity

Body infiltration forces characters to inhabit unfamiliar bodies, blurring lines between self and other. Whistler possessing Weisling and Deth inhabiting Phil Dethton create moral tension around loyalty, memory, and agency. Personal identity becomes a battlefield where choices define whose life is preserved. The climax emphasizes the weight of identity when lives are borrowed or overwritten.

🎛️ Control

Mind-control is the weapon fueling Whistler's power, turning ordinary people into obedient agents. Trancers are produced by projecting consciousness into vessels, showing a chilling loss of autonomy. The story critiques the abuse of technological authority and the erasure of individual will. It questions whether control justifies harm done to others and the structure that sustains it.