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FC Home-con: Plot structure

Outline

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  1. Goal/agenda
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    • Goal/agenda (heist plot)
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      • Dave — Hyena
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        • Swish LGBT streamer
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        • Swish partner (goal)
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      • Jared — Stoat (based on the vibes)
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        • Large software firm, middle manager
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        • Swish employee
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    • Meet cute
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      • Meet at SwishCon
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      • Dave gives a pitch and it falls flat — Gets swamped by TERFs and it crashes, Dave says fuck TERFs every time
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      • Dave wants a ‘yeet TERFs’ button for LGBT streams.
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    • Meet cute
    • No way #1
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      • Jared: No way this is going to work out, Dave is too much of a dreamer and doesn’t know how this works
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      • Dave: Jared’s too uppity, professional, doesn’t care about kicking TERFs, Dave’s ex is super critical of Jared
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    • Stuck together
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      • Fire alarm, they get stuck standing next to each other in a roped off area
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      • They distract themselves about “building is on fire, gonna lose my laptop”, so Jared explains the limitations, Dave feels better
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    • Stuck together
    • No way #2
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      • Dave: It’d be cool to have Jared help, buuut he has strong morals that prevent him from saying yes
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      • Jared: Conflict of interest: relationship with streamer would keep him from promotion — company has performative allyship and going with this would cost it, too
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    • Bone town
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      • They’re on a panel together and think “oh jeez, this person is really cool, maaaybe…”
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      • They exchange contact info, thinking maybe it could work
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    • Bone town
    • Seeds of Doubt:
      1. Wallow #1
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        • Dave: There’s always a power differential and I get screwed, of course it’ll happen here
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        • Jared: Dave has all these people warning him (re: ex) so blahhhh
      2. Retreat
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        • Jared: feels put on the spot by Dave’s presentation, job on the line
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        • Dave: Too vulnerable because the yeet TERFs button didn’t work, so he feels maybe this is a systemic thing and will never work
      3. Choose fear
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        • Dave: gets swamped by TERFs in his next stream, thinks fuck it, not going to even try
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        • Jared: No sale on stream swamping, so Swish laughs it off, Jared feels like can’t even engage with Dave so fuck it
      4. Wallow #2
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        • Jared: so lonely, going to work myself to death and shut myself off from everyone
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        • Dave: going to quit Swish because this always happens and isn’t worth fighting, he’s reevaluating LGBT relationships and he doesn’t have a voice to speak to them despite wanting to
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    • Choose love
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    • Plan! Risk!
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      • Choose love
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        • Swish does something terrible so Jared decides (but not yet) quits
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        • Dave: Gets a ton of messages saying “you changed my life for the better, you do have a voice”
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        • We’re going to get in touch with each other and do a thing
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      • Plan! Risk!
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        • Dave: put together business plan for new streaming company called Jared.io with boggle and yeet TERFs buttons
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        • Jared: Going to quit and start my own company with boggle and yeet TERFs buttons
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      • Grand gesture — ends with YES
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        • Jared: quits and pitches streaming company called Dave.io to Dave over IMs asking him to be LGBTQ rep
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        • Dave: sees Jared messaging and pitches company
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        • Their messages collide and they see their business plans together
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      • Payoff
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        • Wow! Lets do that! And also smooch!
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        • They sit beside each other on the couch with their MacBooks and build the platform WHILE cuddling
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      • Epilogue/hope
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        • dj-stream.io launches and goes BIG
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        • There’s also a pillow fight?
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      • Grand gesture — ends with YES
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      • Payoff
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      • Epilogue/hope

Sources

Romance Caduceus: https://amandasdesign.com/portfolio/romancecaduceus/