Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The city is a biomechanical engine fueled by extreme capitalist exploitation, bio-thaumaturgical punishment (Remaking), and corrupt government alliances with organized crime.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The government secretly attempts to breed apex predators (the slake-moths) for mind-control weaponry, but the supply chain fails due to Isaac's illicit research, unleashing the weapon on the populace.
• Reveal a Human Insight: An industrialized society will eventually industrialize its own nightmares, and the collateral damage will always be absorbed by the working class.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Isaac's lab. Climax: The moth hunt.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Hero accidentally causes harm.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Multi-POV, dense.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Elixir is survival at cost of love.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Lin's mind.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Moths escape.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: Low.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: Crisis engine built. PP2: Weaver fails.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: Crisis energy output and the price of illicit research materials.
• The Trap Closes: Isaac realizes the government was feeding political dissidents to the moths to breed them.
• The Autonomy Strip: His lover, Lin, has her mind completely consumed by a moth, stripping her of all consciousness and agency.
• The New Baseline: Isaac survives, but his life and relationships are utterly destroyed by the city's mechanics.