The Protect ARC

The Protect ARC is where the PROT has built up a life (a store of wealth, power, a tight network), and paid a lot, scrapping and hustling and possibly even making deals with the devil to get what they have today. There is joy in their possessions and accumulated power, but there is also paranoia and fear that it could be all taken away. And then it gets tested. A threat, warning, or incoming, imminent attack, or new enemy looking to dismantle stuff arrives.

The PROG is mostly NTW, where the PROT in power is defending themselves, their family, their power. It can be politics, an actual battle, legal fight, whatever. It’s defending what you own. The EMOTIONAL ARC of a Protect ARC, however, is a genuine test of how far the PROT would go to defend what they own. Would they break laws, sacrifice loved ones, commit murder?

This can be a FLAT or NEGATIVE ARC. Flat in the sense that it just reveals who they really are. NEGATIVE in the sense they could lose it all and they go nuclear, crossing the line.

The Emotional Arc

alt. CMX: Destroyed. Loses everything. Drops masks. Possibly a good thing. Or just devastation and misery.

The Stakes

The Triangle(s)

Media

Film & TV

Novels & Literature

Short Stories

Comic Runs/Arcs

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