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Generally, the answer to a "can I do this" question is usually, "yes, it just introduces extra challenges." In this case, you won't have the typical advantages of a story with an unmasked antagoni...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T05:33:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Chris Sunami
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2019-12-08T05:33:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
Generally, the answer to a "can I do this" question is usually, "yes, it just introduces extra challenges." In this case, you won't have the typical advantages of a story with an unmasked antagonist. So what are those? It builds audience engagement, by personifying the opposition, and it grants closure, when the antagonist is defeated. If you can find other ways to build audience engagement, and to provide satisfying audience closure at the end, then yes, you can definitely do this. Of these two, the harder one will be providing closure. How can the characters and the audience be sure the threat is over? So you'll either need to build a story where closure doesn't require seeing the antagonist OR where closure is not an expectation.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-01-07T20:42:07Z (almost 6 years ago)
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