Radioactive Dreams story
Two young men ventured out from the bomb shelter they'd spent their entire lives inside to pursue their mutual dream of becoming a private detective.
15 total · 8 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| friendship | major | The story follows the fast friends Philip and Marlowe as they try to become private detectives in a post-nuclear holocaust world. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | The story is set in the year 2001 - 15 years after a world nuclear war. The story plot followed two aspiring detectives who had to prevent some rival gangs from obtaining two keys that would grant access to the last nuclear weapons. It turned out that each gang plotted to blow up the world using this last nuclear weapon. |
| nuclear weapons | major | The plot turned on different rival factions trying to obtain the last nuclear bomb on Earth. It turned out that each faction plotted to use the weapon to blow up the Earth. |
| past point of view | major | Philip and Marlowe viewed everything through the lens of 1940s era private detectives on account that they'd grown up isolated in a bomb shelter filled with detectives stories from that time. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | The story is set set in the year 2001 - 15 years after a nuclear holocaust. Civilization is totally collapsed, and mutants are roaming around at night attacking people. |
| private investigator occupation | major | The story followed the aspiring private investigators Philip and Marlowe hard at work trying to learn their craft. |
| the desire to pursue one's dream | major | Philip and Marlowe left the bomb shelter they'd grown up inside and ventured out into a post-nuclear holocaust world in an effort to become private detectives, as was their mutual dream in life. |
| what if the fate of the world was in my hands | major | The whole story turned on Philip and Marlowe saving the world by preventing any among a handful of rival gangs from blowing up the world. |
| abandonment | minor | Philip and Marlowe sometimes wondered to each other about why their parents had locked them up in a bomb shelter and never returned. Rusty Mars confided in Philip that her dad had abandoned her and her mother when she was just a child. |
| betrayal | minor | Rusty Mars betrayed Philip by deliberately leading him into the hands of cannibals. |