Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The Intertidal Property Pricing Index—how global finance abstracts and profits off the disaster of a flooded, ruined city.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The financial system is completely detached from the physical reality of the water; it will happily drown a million people if the algorithm dictates it.
• Reveal a Human Insight: Financial markets are just collective hallucinations; they can be broken if enough people simply refuse to pay the rent simultaneously.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Flooded NYC. Climax: The rent strike.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Heroes band together.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Multi-POV.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Return is a new economy.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Financial security.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Coders kidnapped.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: Low.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: Investigating buyout. PP2: Market crash.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: The water level, and the pricing index of flooded real estate.
• The Anomaly: The kidnapping of Mutt and Jeff, which breaks the polite, cooperative illusion of the Met Life tower.
• The Audit: The characters investigating the financial shell companies attempting a hostile takeover of their building.
• The Compliance Pivot (Inverted): Instead of complying, they leverage the system against itself, using Franklin (the hedge fund manager) to execute a catastrophic short on the very banks trying to ruin them.