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Q&A How to handle a character when she is lying about her name

A few possibilities: Tag Nicene with an utterly distinctive physical feature. When Shadow observes that physical feature, readers will know that it is Nicene. Give Nicene some tag phrase, and hav...

posted 11y ago by Dale Hartley Emery‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:11:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Dale Hartley Emery‭ · 2019-12-08T03:11:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
A few possibilities:

- Tag Nicene with an utterly distinctive physical feature. When Shadow observes that physical feature, readers will know that it is Nicene.
- Give Nicene some tag phrase, and have Cherry use the phrase.
- Write an earlier scene in Nicene's POV, where she introduces herself to someone as Cherry.
- In the scenes from Shadow's POV, introduce a character who knows Cherry as Nicene. Or maybe who vaguely remembers meeting her before, and can't remember her name, but knows it is not Cherry.
- Make it clear that Cherry knows that her name is not really Cherry. That may be enough of a hint to carry the reader across the transition.
#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2013-11-14T00:00:55Z (almost 11 years ago)
Original score: 8