: Re: How to make the reader think that the *character's* logic is flawed instead of the author's? Following up on my previous question, "How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic

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Show subtle inconsistencies from outside sources. If the character's logic was based on some historical fact, have some minor, easy to miss, detail or conversation piece that refutes that fact.

Character believes his wife died at the hospital. A week later when he got home there is a hospital bill. Still in grief, only glances at it and notices a couple of lines but while the reader sees those lines, the character largely ignores it. "They charged me for two days stay but she was only there for one before the doctor killed her. How cruel is it that they are trying to stiff me now?" he said. That sort of thing.

Though my first thought to answer this question was the TV/movie trope, 'no one is dead until we see the body.' Yet the characters in universe assume that body goes over cliff equals dead the end.

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