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Children
born with special abilities are brought to the “Institute” where they are to be
trained. Amy Berg is such a girl. Once a ward of the state, she was allowed to
live with Dr. Lonnie Talbot, however when Lonnie was killed in the line of
duty, Amy’s official status became in doubt.
As
she had exhibited an ability to sense things, she was brought to the institute.
As Lonnie’s partners (an investigative group) begin to explore this mysterious
Institute, they find that via the Patriot Act, the government was allowed to
seize all children who exhibited these special powers.
Heading
the Institute is Dr. Keller and it is revealed his has big plans for the
children and especially special ones such as Amy.
Background
The
Savants (formerly known as the Rain People) idea was introduced in the pages of
Raven Chronicles which is about a team of paranormal investigators. Amy became
a ward of Lonnie Talbot, one of the members of Raven Inc. but she was killed
within the series.
The
first mention of The Rain People was in Raven Chronicles issue 3 and it was
revealed that a special drug found in the Amazon (tarit-doca) could release the
special abilities that people had. Amy, however, manifests her abilities
without ever being exposed to the drug.
After
the one shot issue, it was decided to branch the Rain People off into their own
storyline, and starting off was a 4 issue comic book series to introduce the
idea but it was certainly open to becoming an ongoing storyline.
The
Abilities
At
first glance, this might seem a bit superheroish but in The Savants, the
“powers” exhibited will have more of a realistic base. Most of them will be
chemical or based on brain aspects. Ability to perceive, or breaking computer
codes, or languages would be the more applicable abilities. There will be some
physical abilities such as strength, agility, ability to play with light or
process energy but nothing that goes to extreme and is not based on some
science feasibility. So, there will be no flying or ability to control the
weather or transportation…as none of those are exaggerations of humans’
abilities.
Mix a little bit of Enders Game with Divergent and a touch of Scanners
and you have Rain People
Coming Soon as a comic book series
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Created by Gary Reed
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