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llobucervallince
Nov '23

Foreshadowing: also known as the narrative element to indicate future events in the story through subtle ways and clues.

Do you use them? How?
I'm not sure if this counts, but in my first cover I showed objects and libms from the secondary characters of almost all chapters.


How about you?

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BoomerZ
Nov '23

Constantly. I write in circles where things said in a episode will have effect at a later episode.

sleepykuya
Nov '23

I do use a lot of foreshadowing, even though a lot of the payoff isn't until much later in my case. I just hope that I have left a big enough impression for readers to realize that "Oh! Something that happened in chapter 10 matters in chapter 42"

llobucervallince
Nov '23
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oh yeah, if I do another comic base on other OC of mine I was planning on doing something like that.

something like this basically. but like, her constantly going "hey! it's me!" up to the last episode which would be "is- is that me?"

AmysGames
Nov '23

Oh yeah, I'm constantly leaving hints for stuff that happens later in the story, some of them more subtle than others. For example, there's quire a lot of stuff hidden in my comic's prologue that I suspect most readers would gloss over, haha.

allenT
Nov '23

I use them but sparcely.
Most nessasary foreshadowing I will use is-- to hint readers that 'there will be bloodshed'. I started the foreshadowing very early, and in some future chapter I'll hint it again.

vapidink
Nov '23

Love me some foreshadowing. Use it constantly on my covers, in little throw-away illustrations I do for special occasions and holidays, in scenes where you won't even think twice about a tiny detail. I've done some foreshadowing in my current WIP that won't pay off until the end of the second book/start of the third.

2DLenzy
Nov '23

Always...
It's on the cover...
It's in the "sacred scriptures"...
You get a sneak peek in a tour...

It is not a question of what will happen, or how, but when...

Until then, however, it's just fun and drama until everything's exhausted.

UrMom
Nov '23

I believe I've used foreshadowing a few times, but can only think of a couple off the top of my head:

  • The MC being told by a drunk rando that blue eyes will get him in trouble one day. The person meant a blue-eyed friend of his who came in, and was encouraging him to drink on the job, but in foreshadowing it means associating with the other MC (Who also has blue eyes.) will get him in some deep shit in the future.

  • There is one scene that has a double foreshadowing thing where the MC is riding the bus across a bridge, with his coworker and boss talking over the scene, alluding to his job kinda being on the line due to his behavior. The bridge comes full circle as the setting of an important scene, as well as the conversation will eventually lead to another event.

I really like showing mundane thing/conversations that come up later on, it's fun to see if readers remember, or can pick up on something right away.

morganicfoods
Nov '23

Everything. I put a lot of tiny and silly pieces of foreshadowing/hints. Most of it is kinda reverse(?) foreshadowing? Like, this thing that happened in the past you don't know about/know very little, and I'm just dropping tiny hints before the reveal.

The damn way I set up the chairs in a scene is symbolism/foreshadowing in a way.

irresponsiblepics
Nov '23

There is quite a bit in my comic. I hope my readers continue to be unaware so when it gets to the last volume some will go "aaaaah!" XD

JadeFang
Nov '23

There is some foreshadowing in my comic but most of the cool ones i put on the promotional banners i use. THere are quite a few different ones.

Vermuth
Nov '23

I use them aswell. It´s a good way to recall older chapters and solve mysterys whithin the story. I´m just at chapter 5 of my Manga and try to build some of them in. I hope my readers will notice them when it´s time to solve them.

Innocynce
Nov '23

As I breathe, so I have to make a conscious effort not to for things I want to be COMPLETELY surprising to readers...
(Not in s BS way, there's always a hint, but I ensure none if the future scenes follow the main cast to take attention away/already set up the event to happen)

VersusVII
Nov '23

At the beginning of each volume Noah has nightmares with a child. She tells him infos that he will understand during the story and her identity will be explained at the end of the story.

MarvinDziamski
Nov '23

I often used Foreshadowing, in many different ways.
Examples:
Comic, captain pigeon

  • Graffity on walls
  • Parts of robots shown later in the story, lying on the scientists desk.
    Or: Episode 150

    and episode 29

And in THE WORLD OF LEGENDS Alises Story:

  • Characters say things that make sense later.