Day 11: Plot Outline

Oct 14

Character Arc Notes

Initial Hatred: Consumed by his desire for revenge.

Skill Building: Learning the skills he believes will help him achieve his revenge.

Temptation: Meeting people or encountering situations that tempt him to stray from or expedite his path of vengeance.

Moral Dilemma: Being faced with a situation that makes him question his quest for revenge.

Climax: Confronting his father's murderer and making a choice.

Resolution: Depending on his choice, either finding a new path or succumbing to his hatred.

John Truby KEY POINT: Your plot depends on how you withhold and reveal information. Plotting involves “the masterful management of suspense and mystery, artfully leading the reader to an elaborate … space that is always full of signs to be read, but always menaced with misreading until the very end.”

Act 1

"When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Initial Hatred:

Consumed by his desire for revenge
Hate of the police who did nothing for his father
- calls them vultures

False Belief:

"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake; that will be punishment — as well as the prison." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
While in juvie he read Crime and Punishment and doesn’t believe that a man who pursues and ultimately completes his revenge will suffer

Skill Building:

Muay Thai
- Mentorship / Father Figure
- Mental / Physical Strength
Reading
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sherlock Holmes series
Learning Japanese
- Plans on going to Japan to investigate

Inciting incident:

Cops have probable cause to investigate me because I am covered in blood. I’m actually covered in blood because I just had my debut fight minutes ago.

I can use this to showcase my hatred for the police. Coming after me despite me not committing any crimes.

Maybe I can have them find me coming out of the slums after I took a stroll through there. I return home to find the newspaper clippings and business card.

In the dialogue I want to show my intelligence, impulsivity, lack of trust in others, etc

Also, I want to show what evidence and info I’ve found in my own investigation up to this point, if any.

Do not reveal the fact that he lives with his brother nor the fact that he is a twin

Act 2

Main plot: He thinks that the killer is the owner of the restaurant (why?)

Mysterious letter included a business card for the restaurant

Oscar starts working at Unagi restaurant

Develop a relationship between Oscar and the Owner

Subplot: introduce twin brother

An eye for an eye

Do not reveal the relation to Oscar

Temptation:

Act 3 (Turning Point)

Main plot: Oscar no longer wants to kill the Owner because he thinks he is a good person and forgives him

Oscar starts to hang out with the frequent customer and goes to the smoking bar in Osaka where he begins to have a psychological change

Finds evidence that the Owner isn’t and couldn’t have been the killer

So he starts to think back again, who sent Oscar the letter and why?

Crime occurs which perhaps is similar to how his father was killed, is it the same killer?

Subplot: Introduce the detective character

Do not reveal he is the frequent customer

Do not reveal he is the one who contacted Oscar to help him find the restaurant.

Do not reveal that he was once a cop

Moral Dilemma: Oscar’s thirst for revenge has faded, so despite uncovering the truth behind his father’s death, he chooses forgiveness. However, his brother feels otherwise. As his brother is gets closer and closer to his target, Oscar must quickly make another tough decision. Who does he protect, his brother, connected by birth and blood, or the Owner of the restaurant who has become like a father to him?