A Dying Light Fan Fiction

Latchkey Hero

by Tafferling

 

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” – George Orwell

Based on the fantastic game, Dying Light, by Techland.

The city of Harran has fallen to a mysterious virus, its effect reducing all those infected to hungry, hateful creatures. Locked behind a tight Quarantine, the city’s remaining populace is at the mercy of the outside world, relying on a much coveted supply of suppressants to stop those freshly infected from turning. Enter Kyle Crane, a mercenary and daredevil, contracted by the Global Relief Effort to infiltrate Harran and secure the formula for a cure.

Latchkey Hero is a Dying Light Fan Fiction in three seasons, completing at around 350k words, and written over a little more than three years. It is rated for language and violence, and it can be read even by people who are entirely unfamiliar with the game.

Season 1

The fall of Harran robbed man of its humanity, and Zofia Sirota of her innocence. Finding redemption, with the city rotting away around her, seems to be a pipe dream at best, until a man falls from the skies and turns futility to hope. Either that, or he’s about to make things a whole lot worse. 

 

 

Season 3

Hidden in the sprawling outskirts of the crumbling Harran metropolis, sits the key to a cure. Supposedly, anyway. Not like it matters, since Kyle Crane is done waiting for the outside world to fix this mess and hasn’t ever shied away from trying his luck where there’s often none to be found.

 

 

Season 2

Beaten by a ruthless storm and at the mercy of an uncaring outside world, Harran sits at the brink of a grim and unsteady future. But its heroes are far from done. Together they set out to search an abandoned shelter beneath the luxurious domes of Old Town, even as whispers herald a much greater threat than the remnants of Rais’ legacy. 

Kyle Crane and his Cranebar