inFAMOUS: Second Son

Story

Second Son is set in 2016, seven years after Conduit protagonist Cole MacGrath sacrificed himself in Infamous 2 to rid humanity of a plague and destroy the Beast. Cole uses the powerful weapon Ray Field Inhibitor, which kills him and most of the other Conduits. The U.S. government creates the D.U.P. to hunt down and capture the world's remaining Conduits, using the pejorative term "bioterrorists" to describe them. The protagonist is Delsin Rowe (Troy Baker), a 24-year-old graffiti artist and the local criminal of the Akomish reservation. Delsin has the unique conduit ability of power imitation, which allows him to copy the powers of any conduit he comes in contact with. His brother Reggie (Travis Willingham) is the local sheriff and often arrests Delsin for his acts of vandalism. Both are Native Americans of the Akomish, whose territory is on the coast of Salmon Bay in Washington. The antagonist is Brooke Augustine (Christine Dunford), the head of the D.U.P. and a conduit with power over Concrete. Her actions on the Akomish reservation lead Delsin to travel to Seattle, which has since been sealed off by D.U.P. forces. Delsin and Reggie meet three other Conduits: Henry "Hank" Daughtry (David Stanbra), a convict who has control over Smoke; Abigail "Fetch" Walker (Laura Bailey), an ex-junkie who uses his neon powers to hunt down illegal drug dealers in Seattle; and Eugene Sims (Alex Walsh), a reclusive video game addict who uses his video powers (digital materialization) to save suspected Conduits from the D.U.P. After Reggie catches Delsin vandalizing a billboard, their argument is interrupted when a military truck carrying three Conduit prisoners crashes on the Akomish reservation. Two of the Conduits escape, but Delsin manages to pull the third, Hank, from the wreck, accidentally absorbing his smoke powers in the process. Shocked and frightened, Delsin pursues Hank to find out what happened and how to control his powers. However, the two are cornered by Brooke Augustine. She imprisons Hank and interrogates Delsin, suspecting him of hiding something. Delsin can choose between telling Augustine the truth about his powers or saying nothing. Regardless of what Delsin decides, Augustine knocks him out before going to the other tribe members. When Delsin awakens a week later, he finds that Augustine has tortured the rest of the tribe to get information without success. However, she has left them to die one by one from the concrete shards embedded in their bodies, including their leader Betty (Karen Austin). Reggie, who was spared the torture, learns that the only way to remove the shards is to use Augustine's power on them. Delsin realizes that he can absorb the Conduits' powers and decides to go to Seattle to take Augustine's powers and save the tribe. Reggie reluctantly accompanies Delsin to keep an eye on him. They reach Seattle to find that the D.U.P. has placed the city under strict martial law in order to find the other escaped Conduits. With Reggie's help, Delsin fights the D.U.P. forces and tracks down core fragments to develop his powers. He eventually encounters the other two escaped Conduits, Fetch and Eugene, and absorbs their powers. After both confrontations, Delsin defends the Conduits from Reggie, who initially sees them as "freaks" and can either redeem them or corrupt them.