#Sorry I'm just glad to be back to posting code lav stuff again

[princescar]

This was my biggest issue with the first case in code-lav. I didn't lay out everything I wanted to set it up properly and it's my least favorite bc of that (also I was trying to replicate the actual case from Raincode, but I'm also doing that with Mikan's case and it's my favorite in the fic, so that's probably not it)

i'm putting this in a separate post because it's important.

when writing something that involves a mystery, it is important that the detective not pull on information that the reader has not seen in the project you are writing.

what this means is that in a multi-project series, you can build on what the reader knows from previous entries provided that the detective (or other characters) have been seen thinking about that clue in the current installment.

dr2's climax fumbles this in that yes, multiple characters have questioned hajime's existence throughout the installment - from the ??? about his ultimate talent to nagito's insistence that he's from the reserve course - the mystery of hajime is a big deal!

but the reveal that he is human experiment izuru kamukura in the climax does not hit because, even though izuru kamukura and the mystery of who/what he is was brought up in a previous danganronpa installment (dr0), it is not mentioned anywhere in dr2 prior to the final chapter where suddenly it is a big deal. (and even as someone who read dr0 and knew about the reveal prior to playing dr2, it still didn't hit, but that's a different thing.)

unfortunate as it may be, the mystery of your current installment must also be accessible to people who haven't engaged with all of the earlier installments.

...usually this means, in a longer series, that you have a previously on segment to catch a new reader up on what's happened if they pick up book twenty-three without having read the other books.

and this is why in my current second write chapter, despite the fact that based on a singular line in a previous chapter it can be inferred that my amnesiac character has remembered a thing, i can't use that to bear major weight in the fic proper. the reader did not see that. they know the thing that was mentioned in the comment (and some of them might understand the implication of what she remembers), but unless i have shown you the exact etc. of what is being remembered, i can't suddenly say later oh, actually, she remembers all the implications of this now.

i can use some of it.

but not all of it.