Season 1

Heiroe has been told his whole live by his father, king of the light zone, that he's the chosen one destined to either defeat the dark lord or die trying. But years later he has yet to manifest the powers of a chosen one and the world is falling apart without a chosen one to save them, so he is left with a strained relationship with his sister and a deep guilt where he feels responsible for ever bad thing that happens and refuses to accept help.

He finds real chosen one, an apathetic runaway soldier named Nobody, and is upset, but helps him escape the sorcerer sent to bring him back. He rejects the premise that he is not the real chosen one so he leaves to figure out what to do about this, but then a whole army is sent looking for said soldier and trashes the city. They fight them off, but it leaves the city in ruins, so Heiroe tries and fails to heal the people in question with chosen one powers, but only Nobody can do that. Then Heiroe realizes that he has to bring Nobody with him to the Dark Zone in secret.

The dark lord is warned that Nobody is going to come to the Dark zone, so he sends a dark magic monster after them. Heiroe tries to fight it, but he can't, so someone has to come to his rescue that he doesn't see. He agrees to help this city deal with the dark magic infestation so the people don't lose their homes. Heiroe asks nobody how it's done and he doesn't know how, and doesn't actually want to do it, admitting he's only a part of this because the prophecy says he's going to do it.

A mysterious figure shows up and says she can help them, revealing that she knows about the chosen one because she was there watching them amidst the chaos and was also the one to save Heiroe, and then demonstrated her tech skills and how she could make it look like Heiroe is the one with the powers when he's not, but Heiroe rejects it. Instead he tries to take Nobody's powers using a crudely mashed together series of magic spells, but it fails so badly that it reawakens the darkness monster. Meanwhile Electra creates her machine to transfer the powers in question, and makes it work. Then the monster bursts in and Heiroe tries to fight it, but in the end it nearly kills his sister so he reluctantly accepts Electra's machine, meanwhile Nobody uses his powers on the machine while pretending he doesn't care.

Heiroe establishes his loyalty to his father as his king, and we see how he was raised.

Melancholia comes in.

Red's issues are established.

Electra's past and her issues are established.

Nobody starts to open up.

Heiroe grows to kind of like Nobody.

Heiroe starts to accept help from others.

We learn about the story of Nobody and scratch.

The king finds out about Nobody and offers to help them make Heiroe the chosen one.

It involves killing Nobody.

He turns on the king and rejects the option for chosen one status.

We learn about the rebellion and Electra's connection to it.

Electra confronts her past trauma.

They make it to the dark zone border and there's a dome around it with a mysterious incorporeal figure involved.

There is a major battle atop the dome until Electra uses a portal machine to get everyone through barrier and then tries to close it, but then the figure widens the portal, causing everyone to fall through.

They go to the dark zone and find out the dark lord is chosen ones childhood friend, named scratch.

Season 2

They go looking for safety, and then find out about the world of the dark zone, before discovering the Dark Zone ACS

They prepare for war against him.

Greysea ends up accepted a part of the group.

The light king shows up and they form a tentative truce.

The light king is using Heiroe as a chosen one to rile up the people.

The witches try to form an alliance with the Dark lord but he tries to kill them all, and instead he decides to force them to act in his interests.

The light king reveals that Nobody can't become pure light at will because his dark magic muffles it, and he has to get rid of it. He offers a method through which it can be purged and Nobody considers it but doesn't trust the king.

The dark lord discovers that the light king is on his side of the conflict and mobilizes to invade the light zone.

Nobody bonds with other freed soldiers from the fortunemakers, including his brother.

Red starts to hone her own unique skills.

Otaka tries to work to show more emotions,

Scratch tries to kidnap Nobody, but he agrees to go willingly.

Scratch demonstrates the way his dome negates the need for a prophecy. and it goes horrifically wrong, and it results in the mysterious force breaking in and fusing ten men into a horrific abomination in permanent agony before being banished again.

Scratch's tragic backstory is revealed.

Heiroe and Red confront the death of their mother together.

Nobody has a nightmare about how he couldn't save Scratch, and his guilt around it.

Heiroe considers revealing his big secret but his father fakes an apology and convinces him to go along with his scheme this way.

Nobody tries to convince Scratch to change his mind. Their time together causes the mysterious force to irreparably crack the dome, letting in the mysterious force.

Scratch decides to purge the world just to get rid of the mysterious force. The force field will let in anyone who is "pure" as in lacking in dark magic or in bad deeds.

Nobody accepts the kings offer to purify him, but in the end rejects it and dives into the primordial pool of dark magic. He fights through it and lifts himself up from the dome.

Otaka helps as many people get through the barrier as possible because the mysterious force is trying to prevent them from entering.

The light king takes the opportunity to invade the dark lords fortress, purging an entire town with his light energy, using Heiroe's image as the chosen one to unite the people under him regardless of how they feel about him.

Heiroe confesses to not really being the chosen one and this makes the light king try to kill him.

Red fights Melancholia to keep the barrier together so that it doesn't collapse.

It turns out that the mysterious force it destiny itself, and it is the force that Scratch wants to kill destiny itself because he is destined to kill half the world and doesn't want to, and the light king is also a chosen one but lied about it to preserve his power.

Heiroe beats light king and destroys his chosen one powers, and Nobody convinces scratch to give up his powers and redeem himself.

They banish destiny together.

Season 3

Due to king and dark lord being beaten, there is a power vacuum, leading to a war between the witches and the rebellion.

The rebellion leader is established.

Scratch is doing everything he can to atone for his behavior.

The power is getting to the rebellion leaders head.

The Chosen wads eventually accept Scratch into the group.

Scratch starts to manifest more dark energy.

The rebellion leader turns to destiny to help them, bring him back to power, and see seeks out the oracle melancholia.

She betrays him quickly in the interest of destiny.

Electra takes away her numbing ability, and she becomes aggressive.

Melancholia is convinced to reject destiny and she rejects the next prophecy.

Destiny gets angry and decides to end the world in 3 weeks.

Eventually the world is almost done.

They kill destiny at the last minute and save the world.

How does Dan Harmons story structure even work on most stories? When does Luke Skywalker get what he wants and pay for it? When does Harry potter get that? Or Frodo? Or Avatar Aang?

I couldn't even begin to ask where I'd fit that concept into my own story. Like there's no real reason why the main characters would get what they want and suffer for it. It's just that... they can't get it, and their arcs are about learning to live with that fact. Having these characters get what they want and get to keep it would literally ruin the entire plot.

Like imagine if Mirabel got a gift, or Emmet got to be the special, only for those things to turn out to have been bad things, and then they have to reject them again. It would make no sense, and my story would be in the same place.

I was just confused because a lot of people just show me the wheel with no context and then i’m like, “How is my protagonist supposed to pay a hefty price for bringing his boyfriend to a party?”

Thanks for clearing it up.

The thing is the main character has had this story in his head since before the dark lord was around, and in the present the dark lord is just a part of his life now.

I think the issue was counting the brief prologue backstory as a plot point. Like the stories real start is when he’s fighting the shadow creature, and his internal and external conflicts are established. So… how do I make the day in the life sequence fit together into the cause and effect plot stuff? In my experience the day in the life part of the story is mostly just things happening, things that don’t directly lead to each other.

Emmet in the lego movie gets up, then reads the instructions, then watches propaganda, then goes to work, then gets separated from the group. The first moment of “so” is that he meets wyldstyle but she leaves so he follows her. Before that it’s all “then” and “and” connectors.

Is it acceptable plotting? Or did I seriously miss something about the lego movie?

Sorry, this was actually an outline for only me to read and I didn’t realize it was incomprehensible to someone without the ideas in their head.

He doesn’t realize it until some point in season two, spending half the series in denial. But he’s kind of known it for years ever since it became clear that his inability to use the chosen one’s powers was going to continue to be a problem in his life.

Because he thinks being important and of royal blood means his son is 100 percent going to be the magical savior of society.

It’s what has been impressed on him his whole life as who he is supposed to be.

Because his dad, who is a king and also kind of perceived as a Diety, told him he was his entire life, to the point that it largely defines who he is.

Because his whole life he’s been made to feel guilty for every bad thing that happens. Every new death to the war was one he could have prevented but didn’t. And he is encouraged by the rest of the world to see it that way.

She’s also saving the world, and is a spy for the rebellion against her dad the king. And their dynamic is a big part of his character development.

He tries because he genuinely thinks that Nobody having chosen one powers is a mistake.

Electra helps him fake his powers because she wants to put an end to the Dark Zone and the Chosen Wads is her way of doing it, so she’s helping him keep up the farce that he is the chosen one.

So the way it’s described it feels like this moment isn’t even something you make happen, it’s just something that probably will happen to your story anyway. Like how specifically do I use it to improve my story? It doesn’t seem like any of this stuff was stuff I even had to add because it seems to be all there somewhere.

Which parts of the story I described are the cliche parts?

I know that, and I don't see how it connects to what I said.

I am aware of that fact. The structure here is tied heavily to the growth of the characters, and their roles in this story. The first two chapters minimize the other characters roles just to make it so you understand the protagonist from the very beginning, and each chapter exists to in some way develop the characters and their problems and their relationships.

I don't know. It just happened. I'm actually laughing as I type this for some reason. Something about this whole situation is just really funny to me.

Yes. I just started drawing this right now. Why did my comment about laughing indicate I was needy? What's the connection?

I also outlined like 10 chapters of Penelope Dreadful and finished a 2000 word draft, and posted it to the forum. I'm surprised you didn't see it.

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"Suspiciously" is very vague. Like I wouldn't suspect myself of being a troll if I met me. What about my behavior is suspicious and how should I change it?

So, to be clear… the issue in the case of the hobie brown thing is with the fact that I started a new thread specifically, the hobie brown one, instead of showing that I’d learned something about character design. It’s not something else i’m not getting, it is that exact thing.

Am I correct?

Also I looked back on the cliche one and I was normal. I didn’t dismiss anyone’s input, I just explained my choices and also changed them to adjust to their advice. The one real piece of advice I got to do anything different was not to use the terms “dark lord” and “Heiroe” so I changed them.