ABOUT POACHER
Shortly after returning from 10 years in the middle east in special operations, Garrison Vega makes an attempt to adjust to life in the states. Having never had the opportunity to attend college, he enrolls to begin traveling a new path. His second week on campus, Garrison, in an alcohol-fueled PTSD episode, beats a dog to death at a Frat party.
Garrison is given a choice by the College Advisory Board: either complete 200 hours in community service with an animal related endeavor, or face expulsion from the university. He volunteers in an animal studies lab and participates in a series of experiments to determine to what degree animals think and feel. A glitch in an experiment to prove that animals have the capacity for self awareness leaves Garrison with a unique side effect. He's become a mirror-touch synesthete - only for non-humans. Like a shark picking up on the distress signals of a wounded fish, Garrison is imprinted with the unfiltered sensory data -- pain, anger and confusion -- of abused animals in his proximity. But here's the kicker - he learns that the only way to unburden his mind from these horrific experiences is to find the person who created them. He performs sort of a forced Vulcan mind-meld to download the sensory data directly into their limbic system so that they can look forward to their very own self - inflicted post traumatic stress disorder.
Poacher is a neutron bomb for humans and the ultimate super hero for the animal kingdom, delivering justice in its rawest form!
Shortly after returning from 10 years in the middle east in special operations, Garrison Vega makes an attempt to adjust to life in the states. Having never had the opportunity to attend college, he enrolls to begin traveling a new path. His second week on campus, Garrison, in an alcohol-fueled PTSD episode, beats a dog to death at a Frat party.
Garrison is given a choice by the College Advisory Board: either complete 200 hours in community service with an animal related endeavor, or face expulsion from the university. He volunteers in an animal studies lab and participates in a series of experiments to determine to what degree animals think and feel. A glitch in an experiment to prove that animals have the capacity for self awareness leaves Garrison with a unique side effect. He's become a mirror-touch synesthete - only for non-humans. Like a shark picking up on the distress signals of a wounded fish, Garrison is imprinted with the unfiltered sensory data -- pain, anger and confusion -- of abused animals in his proximity. But here's the kicker - he learns that the only way to unburden his mind from these horrific experiences is to find the person who created them. He performs sort of a forced Vulcan mind-meld to download the sensory data directly into their limbic system so that they can look forward to their very own self - inflicted post traumatic stress disorder.
Poacher is a neutron bomb for humans and the ultimate super hero for the animal kingdom, delivering justice in its rawest form!