#i like unreliable narrator in both the intentional way and the uninetional way | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

maruyaaya · 3 months ago

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limited omniscient 3rd person pov my beloved <3 i need my narrator to be so unreliable that you have no idea what any of the other characters are like because you can’t tell when the narrator is telling the truth and when they’re just flat-out making stuff up

#i like unreliable narrator in both the intentional way and the uninetional way #like when the narrator is lying on purpose to save their skin #but also when the narrator is just completely misreading situations #maybe they’re so insecure that they read every other action as having a double meaning even when it doesn’t #(ie jimmy in my ‘only my lover’ fic)#i have a lot of fun writing unreliable narrators bc when writing the scenes that they’re lying about #i always think about what ACTUALLY happened #and i’ll write it down somewhere usually from the other characters pov #then i decide how much of that truth i want the narrator to include when they’re telling the story #for example: in ‘only my lover’ jimmy assumes that joel grian and etho are in a love triangle #he assumes that grian loves joel and joel loves etho and etho has no idea #HOWEVER as we see later in the fic this isn’t true #it’s just jimmy misreading the situation and reporting it as if it’s fact #there’s a lot of little things like this in ‘only my lover’ and they’re so fun to write about #if you write and you don’t often use unreliable narrators ITS SO FUN U SHOULD DEF TRY IT #i don’t write reliable narrators anymore. they’re all a little bit mentally ill #and oh boy guys i could write SEVERAL long posts about all the things neo is lying about in ‘senses’#most of it is unintentional for neo but there’s actually quite a bit that he is intentionally lying about #god it’s just so fun #guys i love writing so much #imeda rambles!!

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