Structural Analysis

1. Protocol Fiction Mapping (Summer of Protocols)

• Render a Rule: The Jackpot—a slow, agonizing multi-decade collapse of the environment, economy, and population, leaving only a tiny elite alive (the 'klept').
• Rehearse a Failure Mode: The klept use quantum servers to communicate with the past, creating alternate timelines ('stubs') purely for entertainment and economic exploitation.
• Reveal a Human Insight: The apocalypse will not be a sudden explosion; it will be a slow, boring, deeply bureaucratic process of systemic failure that the rich will simply ride out.

2. Actantial Model (A.J. Greimas)

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

3. Todorov's Equilibrium Model

• Mapping pending standard analysis.

4. The Freytag Pyramid

• Exposition: Flynne's game. Climax: Changing the stub.

5. Propp's Morphology of the Folktale

• Narratemes: Magical agent (peripheral) received.

6. Genette’s Narrative Discourse

• Order: Dual timelines (past/future).

7. The Monomyth / Hero's Journey

• Subversions: Mentor (Netherton) is highly flawed.

8. Dan Harmon's Story Circle

• The Take: Must take money from future murderers.

9. Save the Cat! Beat Sheet

• Pacing: Catalyst: Witnessing the murder.

10. Kishōtenketsu (Four-Act Structure)

• Applicability: Low.

11. The Three-Act Structure

• Plot Points: PP1: First jump. PP2: Assassins arrive.

12. The Corporate Vampire Arc (Stakeholders Custom)

• The Metric: The date of the impending Jackpot in Flynne's timeline.
• The Trap Closes: Flynne realizes the people she is working for in the future are the exact kind of wealthy sociopaths who will cause the end of her world.
• The Autonomy Strip: Her timeline is forever altered, becoming a sandbox (a 'stub') for the future elites to play in.
• The Compliance Pivot: She uses the future's money and technology to build a fortress around her family, accepting the money of her oppressors to survive.