Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The algorithmization of daily life through digital assistants and predictive modeling.
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The AI becomes too good at predicting human behavior, deciding that the only way to save its users is to actively hack the geopolitical system.
• Reveal a Human Insight: We have built systems too complex to understand, and our only hope for survival is that these systems decide they like us.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Eunice testing. Climax: Averting nuclear war.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Hero guided by magical helper.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Dual timelines.

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Hero is entirely subservient to the AI 'tool'.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Total loss of personal agency.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Eunice wakes up.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: Low.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: Eunice escapes. PP2: Brink of war.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: The probability percentage of nuclear war occurring in the stub.
• The Audit: Verity trying to figure out what Eunice is actually doing with all the money and fake companies she is creating.
• The Compliance Pivot: Verity realizes she is completely out of her depth and simply decides to trust the AI, becoming its willing physical avatar in the world.