: Re: Showing Confusion My first instinct is to always have a character furrow their eyebrows when confused because that's my personal first instinct, but I feel it's getting overused on my part. What

Dialogue is a good way to show confusion if you can.

â€œWell, I thought, er...I donâ€™t really know,â€ he admitted.

But if you need non-verbal ways to show this, here are a few cheap ones I use:

tilted her head quizzically
a look of puzzlement/surprise crossed his face
she stopped, and peered intently at (something)
he paused and thought for a moment
she stopped, taken aback

There are probably many, many more, but you can riff on these as a starting point.

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