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PREMISE
Entire story condensed to a single sentence. Premise is concrete, it’s what actually happens.
Alastar a closet misanthropist with a inferiority complex, must navigate his delusional past and present to save the future.
wiki/Misanthropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy
wiki/Inferiority complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex
DESIGNING PRINCIPLE
“Synthesizing idea”. Shaping cause of the story.
A misanthropist must save the world.
CENTRAL CONFLICT
Who fights whom over what?
Alastar fights with himself to change for the better.
BASIC ACTION
WEAKNESS: Alastar struggles to engage with a world that doesn’t make sense.
ACTION: Alastar builds a device which will change the way humanity powers technology.
CHANGE: Alastar’s path finds him uncovering a universal truth and a deeper understanding of the chaotic nature of humanity.
CENTRAL THEME
Chaos theory - As small as we are we can have a great influence on the world.
STORY STRUCTURE
HERO: ALASTAR KENLEY
WEAKNESS AND NEED:
Alastar is a borderline misanthropist. He is socially withdrawn, ultra aware and paranoid. He has lost faith for the social system and dreams up ways to change this while feeding the war machine to fund his work.
Fuelled by the work of his missing father and a chance to turn the tides on his families history.
PSYCHOLOGIAL NEED:
Alastar wants to change the horrific legacy of his family and find out what happened to his father.
MORAL NEED
ALASTAR needs to stop creating advanced weapons and war machinery and take responsibility for his actions.
PROBLEM
When Alastar hits and kills a cyclist, he becomes emotionally aware of the mark his work has made. Alastar seeks a psychiatrist after having a hysterical break down.
DESIRE
Alastar’s problem drives his desire to change the horrific legacy of his family and in the process find out what happened to his father.
OPPONENT
Alastar unknowingly finds himself in another dimension where another version of himself has almost built the device and plans on using it to evaporate the earth’s water supply.
PLAN
Alastar thinks he is delusional and is manipulated to help evil Alastar. Evil Alastar plays on Alastar’s desires of making the world a better place.
BATTLE
Alastar takes action when he discovers he has been used to achieve evil Alastar’s goals and be framed for the work.
Alastar also finds out that in this dimension his father is still alive in prison and is the true opponent that Alastar must confront. Alastar must kill this dimension’s version of his father which becomes an intense and painfully emotional experience.
SELF-REVELATION
Alastar is returned to his dimension at his lowest point. His true father returns to him from the sky. Alastar learns the true reason of his journey which elevates him higher then any worldly meaning. Alastar’s true father explains that the makers are in search of universal truths. That they have been trying
to find a greater understanding to the equation of chaos.
Alastar’s journey was a modeling in the attempt to understand the chaotic nature of humanity.