Save the Cat---- ICarus FLys again --story outline:

 https://www.savannahgilbo.com/blog/plotting-save-the-cat

SAVE THE CAT/

FULL NOVEL OUTLINE:

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2. Opening Image [1]: An opening snapshot.
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4.        1. Icarus goes to Darthmore for the first time /loses control and flies into air in the middle of class, 
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2. He has holy vision in the sky of battle/themes of winged soldiers, cages, and freedom.
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6. Theme Stated [5]: We are introduced to the central theme or lesson of the story.
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2. Theme stated in opening scene - Icarus' desire for freedom, and liberation -- to not have his disability hold him back in life, using his flight a both a metaphor for disability and a direct depiction. 
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4. Spififcally hold him back from his dream of being a writer, though most of his life he never considered himself an active player, just a passive observer, witch is later changed in him through Robbie, so he's not at the start talking about freedom to achieve his dreams, as he has never been allowed or had a reason to have them, he desoivers his dreams through the story.
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8. Set Up [1-10]: The hero and the 'ordinary world' are introduced.
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2. Robbie is introduced, as well as the killer queens' club's anarchistic antics. By crashing a house party with Joydn Boar, introducing him and Robbie's rivalry/Icarus's attraction to Robbie, it's pretty soon into Chapter 2. 

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1. Flashbacks of Icarus' life growing up in the hospital highlight these points (he tells to roommate to illustrate how sheltered he was/where his mind is still at) 
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2. Vivian's controlling, abusive presence (the mother role she resents) 
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4. His close relationship with his older brother, Grover and his punk mentorship
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6. Doctors oppressive and abusive experimentation on him/efforts to keep him secret lie to him about his potential to learn to fly and manage his condition instead of repressing it.
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8. Show his obsession with making lists, encyclopedias as a way to have control.
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10. Establish the mystery of who Icks' father is, the key, and his troubled family life.
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2. Catalyst [12]: Something happens that sets the story in motion.
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2. Robbie (after bonding and falling in love with Ick, in his pov chapters) as his roommate, introduces him to the Dandies of the Underworld. -- His wild friend group of radical artists -- 
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4. Robbie makes him feel like he belongs for the first time, like he's special and a part of something greater, starts to plan to use Ick in a very elaborate scheme to disrupt Beatbash --- huge music festival put on by Darthmore doubling as a galla for worlds worst sentors reelction campaign. (the scene is esstinaly Robbie recruiting Ick and making their plan sound really exiting and important, but he is not being totally up front. 
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6. Lots of scenes of the Dandys of the underworld regaulr spy and sabatoge missions, and artsistic/protest actions, artistic indulgence and partying. (As well as time travel montoge of Robbie and Ick taking drugs to achieve inspiration for their artistic projects and artsic conccionniss overall) --Ick becomes Robbies muse they start to fall in love --- Robbie is one the first people to ever fall in love with Ick, and belive in him/convince him not to wear waights and learn to fly on his own for his role as the big surprise during their live show/protest art crashing the concert. 
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8. Estbalishes the senior and growing spying to uncover his larger plans, to hurt disbaled people in their town and soon on the senate floor in a variety of horrifying ways. ---Causing Icarus to feel he has a stake in their fight. witch for that time being makes his romance and bond with Robbie stronger, as he pleudges his loyalty to him. and their cause.
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10. Time Travel lsd drug trip to gain insportaton. 
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4. Debate [12-25]: The hero is hesitant to take action.
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2. 1. Icarus debates whether or not he should learn to fly/take off his waights for his boyfriend's art -protest  crashing Bangbash--and even to fight/protest Sentor Boar's new bill witch they realize will severely harm disbaled people by (Commiting murder against inamtes and phyc ward patients by "increasing turn over rates/times and profit margins" via spiked medication and mass lethal injections -- Cut to all benifts from social surcity, to welfare (SSI, SSDI) ban all disbaled students from attending university or holding employment in the united states and more.
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4. With extra pressure from Vivain blaming him for Grovers' disability and her own lack of freedom /threatening him if he doesn't wear his weights, making him deeply conflicted and guilty 

            1. Ick is also in love with Robby but starts to question his intentions, when he starts using kicks disblity to make money from his band/art as a selling point disregarding his anxiety and concern on the matter but overlooks this based on all the money their making.(soon to be stolen by Viv/icks consvertership viv puts him under later)

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2. His precicved lack of loyalty brushes up against his boyfriends unmedicated Bipolar disorder and intense love and somewhat obsessive relationship with Ick, who has trauma with abandonment and lack of loyalty from his ex boyfriend -Joydn Boar, as well as Ray -- The trench coat wearing edgy, bruding, intense foil to Robbie's chaotic optimistic artistic fever. 
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4. But Robbie's ex and rival Joydn Boar ends up, getting in Robbies head by threatening prison time and calling, saying Ick only loves him because he doesn't know any better and will fly away when something better comes along, --- and Joydn says robby is to crazy to win (cutting to his insucrties) So as a result, 
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6. Robbie convinces Ick, to start pretending to date Jodyns Girlfriend, Luna Ryneheart, who has a crush on Ick, despite ick saying he doesn't love her and shes the enemy, Robbie convinces him for the cause to saduce her to get information out of her about the Location of the galla at the same time as Beatbash.

            1. Illusions to the curicus, allies in the curics -- thematic repetitions of needing to leave the real world behind to be truly free.

 

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2. Break Into Two [25]: The hero takes up the challenge. 
1. 1. The Day of Bang Bash - Very chaotic, lots of things go wrong.Icarus does the show.(Phoenix Rise)
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3. Ick asks his brother for help from his punk band, for essentially a stage dive while on fire from the sky, and they love it. Come to the show
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5. Icarus finally has sex with Robbie (kinky roleplay of Robin Hood involved) 
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7. 4. After show, before icarus can meet the rest of the group crashing the gala, --- He gest a call from Vivian who has been spying on him, knows he didn't wear his waights thrents to pull him out of school, --- and reveals she's put him in a consvertsership. 

8. Ick has a heartbreaking break up with Robbie/Runs off to join the cuirus. After seeing a life changing curicus show the night of Bangbash/Falling in love with a trapsese artist named Oscar. He wants to be free, needs to escape especially when his sister clamos down with the Consertership.  

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3. B Story [30]: The subplot kicks in, introducing a character who helps the hero in their transformation.
1. 1. Ick Joins the curicus/oscar teaches him the trapse he repalces Oscar's old trapse partner and uses trapases to help teach him to fly.
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3. Subplot: Robbie and the dandy's --suffer legal consequences the aftermath of Bangbash and realize things are getting very bad with the New Bill and sentor boar paying the school to put up more punishments for student protests especially against him. So they have to get creative ---
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5. Robbie comes up with idea for artstock, a massive woodstock like arts and culture music festival that will raise money for disabled people in the united states, if the bill goes through. 

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2. Fun and Games [30-55]: The hero in the throes of their challenge or journey.
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4. icarus has romance with oscar in the cuicis tries to get over his ex robbie and escape his sister and past --Oscar trains him on how to fly through the trappase, teaches him about the curicus life, and expands Icks mind about how he views himselelf and the world, is librated by the cuiscuis wild queer evmeioment, 

Icaursas feels like he cant choose between his present roamnce with oscar and his past romance with Robbie, especially because Robbie has been coming to his shows begging him to come back and take him back more importantly letting Ick know the trouble their in asking him to join him on his quest toraise their own bail moneyby putting on Artstock an overly ambitious art concert and cultural festival rasing money for them and all the other dislabed people who will be effected by their new bill to ban disbalbed pepoel from public life esstinally. 

He quits the ciruis once Viv staloks him there sthreant to have him instuataionized,  ANd takes the money he made with his successful circus act in his converstership 

1. Midpoint [55]: The stakes are raised.
2. Bad Guys Close In [55-75]: Things start going downhill for the hero.
3. All is Lost [75]: Things go from bad to worse. The hero hits rock bottom.
4. Dark Night of the Soul [75-85]: Faced with defeat, the hero must reckon with their loss and how they got there.
5. Break Into Three [85]: The hero realizes a truth that’s been evading them all this time.
6. Finale [85-110]: Putting their new awareness into action, the hero conquers the bad guys.
7. *       *Icarus Kills Viv ---merroring icarus myth
1. Reveal of who icarus Father is: He doesn't matter ---becuase he chose to leave, and Icarus when he realizes that, apreictes the people who are in his life. And he chooses not to leave Robbie, like his father left him.
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8. Final Image [110]: A snapshot that mirrors or contrasts the opening image.