ACWAN Premise and Character List

Plot Premise: The story is about a protagonist named Brav who was a child soldier in training with two competing allied factions until one day enemy combatants appear in what should have been a safe training area. In reaction Brav's wanted to fight the enemy, but his efforts were impeded by his anger getting the better of him. Brav feels like the he has to survive the situation no matter what.

List of Characters (That matter)

Brav- Primary Protagonist- In the distant future lives a boy name Victor Bravery who is a child soldier in training and Provius Prospect and lives on a military installation. One day Brav receives orders to go to scout training where he comes face to face with the Red Crusaders. In reaction, Brav wants to kill them, however Brav's efforts are impeded by the instructor, unknown cyborg forces, and the enemy assassin the enemy is trying to get through the forest. Which he feels he needs to overcome.
1: Brav has been training for combat his entire life. All his time has been training his body physically and his mind tactically. He is emotionally stunted as he suffers from repressed grief over the loss of his parents and has issues with authority from growing up in a very strict environment. He does little things to establish his individuality even within the two structures that have made up his entire life.
2: Brav comes the part of me that was torn between my faith and my service. The two structures of my life.
3: I am an idiosyncratic personality that most closely resembles a resilient personality tolerating an artistic personality, while Brav is a loner personality packing a lot of repressed grief.
5: He wants the Uman Crusaders dead. They killed his parents so pretty bad.
6: Emotional control issues his biggest flaw. Essentially he's a ticking time bomb with few ties to humanity anymore. He is not the best shot, and he tends to act before thinking. He doesn't think about the bigger picture.
7: Violence is the force that brings out his anger. Uman's especially, but other people have been on the receiving end of his anger before.

Katie- Secondary Protagonist/ Foil: who was the daughter of the chief. One day Katie got a report that her friend Bravery was getting shipped off to scout training. In reaction she decided get her dad involved, but he is unable to do anything. Which she feels she needs to overcome.
1: She is the friend most of us wish we had. While destined to be the Chief after her father dies she is down to earth, and opposite of Brav's martial prowess and upbringing.
2: She is represents the side of me that pursues what is just. To her there is a justice or fairness that needs to be pursued.
3: She is a woman for starters, but the main difference is that she is political about getting things done where I just put shovel to earth. She is much kinder than I, and where she would hesitate I move.
5: The thing she wants most of all is for Brav to live with her and her dad again like they used to. To complete what she feels is home.
6: She is uncertain, and physically weak. She relies on others to accomplish or accommodate her.
7: Brav the main protagonist could manipulate her the most.
12 point outline:
Beginning: She used to live with Brav and his parents with her Dad in the palace and it was the best days of her life.
The Inciting Incident: Uman Shock Troopers attacked the palace and killed Brav's parents and she was separated from Brav and her Dad for security reasons.
The First Turning point: Brav is sent away and she wants to get him back with her Dad like they used to.
The Rising Action: She gets immersed in her studies focusing on politics, debate, and political intrigue. Her plan is to shut down EBTAP to get Brav back.
The First Pinch Point: EBTAP send Brav off to train in the woods really far away.
Midpoint: she tries to get her father to stop EBTAP so she doesn't have to
The Disaster: She tries unsuccessfully to order the stopping of EBTAP using her father's seal.
The Second Pinch Point: Brav is injured fighting Umans when he is not even old enough to be in the Army in the first place.
The Second Turning Point: Brav tells her about his injury and it made her realize that the EBTAP kids were dying in there and it motivated her to get the program shut down by other means.
The Stand Up: She started a campaign to raise awareness for the EBTAP child soldiers and since she was doing it outside the government her father was able to lend his support to the cause and legislatures started getting pressured to change the law on EBTAP.
The Climax: The legislature makes new laws concerning the war orphans and it stops placing kids into the program and sent any of the children under a certain age to foster families and adoption agencies.
The Epilogue: Brav stays in the service anyway. He can't abandon those left behind, and she tries to think of new ways to free the others.

Ferro- supporting character/ Foil: who is the friend of Bravery and another child soldier in training and lived on a military installation. One day Ferro receives orders to go to scout training where he comes face to face with enemy combatants and his first glimpse of Provius in action. In reaction, Ferro decides to fight, however he gets captured by cyborgs.

Sgt. Matthews- Specter- Supporting Character: who is the head scouting instructor at Camp Shadow. One day he receives orders to evacuate the area, leaving hundreds of civilians to die from a surprise enemy advance. In reaction he tries to use the adults to fight the majority of the fight, but is impeded by the Provius who out rank him. He feels he needs to follow orders as much as possible.

Sir. Unyielding- supporting characters: who is a senior Provius member who lives on the road. One day he receives  an intelligence report that he thinks shows enemy movement in a less monitored area. In reaction, he requests a unit be sent to plug the gap in the defenses, but is impeded by central command who won't give him what he wants. He feels he needs to fight the enemy anyway.

Sir. Patience- supporting character: who is a Provius member from the Ghost Family who judges Gabriel's Wall and lives on the road. One day she gets a request to gather as many of her fellow Ghosts to meet up with Sir. Unyielding to stop the Red Crusaders in the foothills of Gabriel's Wall. In reaction she answers the call, and is impeded by the enemy combatants. She feels she needs to help stop the Red Crusaders from pushing north.

Initiate Blakely- supporting character/foil: who is a Provius in training with the Bladesmith Family and lives with Sir. Unyielding his mentor. One day his mentor gives him orders to go with him to fight the Red Crusaders. In reaction he does what he is ordered to do, and is impeded by enemy combatants. He feels he needs to fight the enemy.

1st Sgt. Crusher- secondary antagonist: who is a Red Crusader Sgt. and lives on an Forward Operating Base on the DMZ. One day he gets orders to take his company and escort an assassin through enemy lines so he can try to eliminate a high priority target. In reaction he follows orders, and is impeded by the scouts in training and the Provius. He feels he needs to complete his mission or lose face with his men and with the Uman community.

John Smith- secondary antagonist: who is an assassin for the Uman forces. One day he receives orders to try and kill the Chieftain of Prosperity Valley. In reaction he follows his orders, but is impeded by the Provius. He feels the need to kill as many people as possible even if he never gets to his target.

The Queen- secondary antagonist: who is the biomechanical body that acts as the mouthpiece of the collective hive of the unnamed cyborg faction. One day the sensors outside their compound get triggered by a group of humans. In reaction she activates the physical bodies of the cyborgs to capture as many as possible, but is impeded by the humans fighting back. She has no feelings about it one way or the other, but it is advantageous to capture or kill as many as possible.
Provius Narrator
Third Person, Limited Narrator, Head-hopper, Past tense, Non-presence, Trustworthy, 1