: Re: How to get a character that knows he's the main character to follow the authors agenda? I'm writing a story where at some point the main character is going to realize he is the main character

@Sarah872

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For me to be interested in this, I'd want the world to have the feel of some reality to it, even if it's metafiction with no fourth wall. The key is that this is "real life" to the character, even if he knows, intellectually, that it's fiction. His death is a real death to him. His relationships are real relationships, relative to his reality. With that in mind, you have great control over him, especially if you don't exercise it directly, but through the structures of his world.
I think the early webcomic 1/0 is the best exploration I've ever seen of this concept: popculturephilosopher.com/reconstructivist-art-1-0/ . It succeeds because the characters feel real, even in a cartoonish reality with no consistent fourth wall.

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