Traveling Light.1

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Hero:

Oliver / Olivia - Liv

Flaw:

• Distrustful, cocky (permanent),

• dangerous, self-centered (main for first title)

• Affects his life/world:

• Self-centered & distrustful - they has no friends and isn’t liked

• Dangerous - The friend they did have as a kid they lost by being too dangerous and getting them hurt

• Cocky - Authority doesn’t like them so they get in trouble and have no wiggle room

Glass Shard:

• Their parents divorce traumatized them, leaving them with a distant father too busy to interact with, and a drunk mother who emotionally abuses them.

Want:

• Liv wants their invention to travel space to work

• Why doesn’t it?

• The equation isn’t fully defined

• How are they pursuing it?

• They actively search, doing math, experiments,

• Sneaks into a local energy facility to …

Need:

• Humility and forgiveness

• The put others first

Finds their grandfathers notebook, with a schematic in it for a device to travel

Incite = book

2a = build the device

2b = ensuing problem (travel and consequence)

3 = save the boy they were friends with as a kid

Inside Outline

• Act 1

• Setup

• Liv grows without friends, suffers loss of father and abusive mother

• Liv becomes distrustful and closed off

• Inciting

• Liv is made to throw out fathers things, finds grandpas notebook holding schematics for a teleport wrist band

• This is important to Liv because it gives them the opportunity to leave that they have always wanted

• Debate

• Act 2a

  • B Story Character

  • Flashback to Liv getting their friend hurt when they were young

  • It matters to Liv because it represents to them why they have no friends, and affirmed their choice to close themselves off

• Act 2b

• Act 3

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