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Do you guys have accidental themes that were COMPLETLEY unintentional? The reason I'm asking this was because I was looking over my comic and I realized that "Being Two-Face" was one of them. What with all the espionage, characters pretending to be one thing, but being another, characters doing stuff behind others backs, characters having personal agendas.

Everyone is a snake. SPEAKING OF WHICH. Another thing I noticed is a lot of the Bible Imagery is from Genesis (the Garden of Eden, Cain committing the first kill). Those two were intentional. One that was completely unintentional and ended-up working to my benefit was the pillar of salt bit. I wanted to turn Nikado into fish, but I went with salt for some... reason... but then I realized that it was probably for the best since it fits Nikado's arc about him not listening to authority.

I think I might want to double down on this on Season 2 where I just outright make that Exodus. I know the final book (without giving away spoilers) is going to be Revelations which that itself was unintentional.

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mine is generational change-- how young folks have a different understanding of the world than previous generations, and are fighting to shape the world to fit their needs. I didn't think about it, but it came about because most of my main characters are younger, and the story is about revolution.
I'm gonna expand on it, including narratives about how previous knowledge can also be useful to guide the younger generations, but they also must learn what knowledge is good and what's harmful.

Oooh I love that theme so much. My Name is Nobody is a movie that also does this and it's like my favorite movie of all time lmao. Basically two cowboy hotshots from different eras.

Hm, when it comes to "intentional themes", my stuff has always been related to duality (peace-chaos, fate-choice, truth-lies, life-death, you name it) and there having a "middle path" in said duality, to show not everything has to be about picking only one side.

Now when it comes to accidental themes, some people I've explained my story and characters to, said that there was an overarching theme of all characters having an issue in their lives (parental abandonment, losing someone important, being outcasts, etc) and having a choice: close themselves off to the real world and live in a world of fantasy to avoid all pain, or leave that fantasy behind and face said problems head-on; results varying for each character.

And also realized a general theme of "curiosity leading to a major change"; the full phrase goes "curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back", after all a character finding something off about the world they live in thanks to curiosity, is what may lead the status quo to turn on its head eventually, for good or for bad.

That's what's explored in my comic "Heroes of Paradise" -- the main characters got into another world by accident, and are completely blind to the underlying conflict they're getting themselves into (which is, two entities trying to have a final say on the reawakening of all magic; one wants it to remain asleep to keep the Worlds safe, the other wants to hasten its awakening to bring chaos)
And the MCs being found out could be a turning point to the conflict, either to maintain the status quo or break it completely, if you know what I mean

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