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Paws Manga

From Chapter 6 of my friends' manga. Does this strike you as being shocked after finding out a revelation that it wasnt that you are different than everyone else, but rather -- everyone around you is scared of what you might become?

u/Available_Pirate3177 — 19 days ago
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writing a reveal the whole town already knew — how do you do it without making your protagonist look slow?

in my comic the MC learns a piece of his world's history in ch.6 that basically every adult around him has known his whole life. they weren't hiding it maliciously — it just sat too close to him to say out loud.

the risk i keep circling: if everyone knew and he didn't, the reader can start feeling like the protagonist is dense, or like the adults are idiots for never mentioning it. what i tried was making the silence itself characterized — the person who finally tells him has been visibly failing to say it for two chapters before he manages it.

i don't think i have a general rule though. when your audience-surrogate is the last to know something that's mundane in-world, how do you keep it from reading as contrivance? do you seed the not-saying, or just accept the reader will be ahead of the character and play it for dread instead?

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u/Available_Pirate3177 — 20 days ago