Timeline for How to introduce a nameless, mysterious character in limited third person?
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| Aug 18, 2017 at 7:17 | comment | added | Acss | Great ideas, thank you! I might actually apply this in one of my parallel books, if there will be any :) | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 19:18 | comment | added | Keeta - reinstate Monica | Other third person character ideas: An ancestral ghost following their actions - this character can place feelings about what the person is doing into the reader. The "all seeing eye" of justice (or injustice if there is no justice in the end), where a nebulous Blind Liberty follows the character and judges them as they go. The person's own conscience - portrayed as though the actions are weighing on the main characters mind - they are seeing themselves out of body or split personality. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 14:26 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | With third limited, you could also describe the actions of the mystery character without going inside his head. Even the narrator character could do this, if you preface his narrative with something like "some of this I learned much later." Many authors have done exactly this, and it works well when done well. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 13:46 | comment | added | Acss | Thanks for replying! I thought of that too, but some of the actions the character takes (and which are important to plot) are done while being alone, so no other character can observe his actions. Introducing the unknown character through a minor observer and then leaving the observer to hop inside the unknown character's mind doesn't seem to be the right way of showing his part in the story. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 13:33 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |