What Is Backstory

A backstory is one of the essential parts of a character. It dictates the character’s mindset, place in the world and their subsequent arc throughout a story. A character’s backstory is the key for opening the vault of character options, ideas and journeys. The reason for this principle is due to cause and effect. It is the answer for why your characters act and think a certain way. For example, Bruce Wayne doesn’t become Batman just because he wants to. He becomes Batman because of his parents death. He wants to make sure that no other child in Gotham will suffer the same traumatic event he did, so he then becomes Batman. This character is an excellent example of using backstory in writing since it uses the cause and effect method.

What is Backstory

As I said before, backstory should be about explaining how your character got into their specific state at the beginning of the story. It is merely answering the subconscious questions in a reader’s mind. Why are they acting like this? Why do they want this goal? How did they get to that specific mindset? It is a device to give a character history, so it is not like they appear out of nowhere for this particular story, but rather, they were a person all along. This principle makes a character a real person with depth and breadth.

Why is Backstory Important

Backstory is one of the key features of any character, and it should not be ignored. Backstory does not need to complicated but rather a simple explanation. A character might be struggling with parenthood. Their backstory is that they had a rough childhood that damaged the way they seek familial relationships. There. Done. All backstory needs to do is show how a character’s past has shaped their present. Not only this but backstory paves the road for character development. Backstory can provide the lie your character believes or the moral belief that holds them back from being the best that they can be. It will give you the foundations and beginnings of character development.

How to Communicate Backstory

Since backstory is events that take place in the past and not directly in the narrative, it is sometimes hard to tell your audience about it without having lengthy exposition. It is crucial to make sure that backstory isn’t revealed without context. It would make no sense for a character to start monologuing about how his parents died, and how he must avenge them when he is eating breakfast. Moreover, by pacing the release of your character’s backstory, it gives them more mystery and suspense. There are several different ways to communicate backstory while keeping suspense. You can use diary entries to communicate backstory. This concept usually has a story in a story principal and shows readers a deeper, more raw version of a character. Another way you can communicate backstory is through flashbacks or dream sequences. It is important that these sequences don’t come out of anywhere but have a believable trigger. For example, if a character is in a situation which has a similarity in their backstory, you would explore that.

Extra Notes

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clamofbeans2

5 years ago

Fic Masterlist

One shots:

Young at Heart - Seven times Peter reminded Tony that age is just a number and one time someone else reminded the both of them.

You’ll find I’m living right (when your hand’s living in mine) - Five times Tony had a helping hand and one time he had many.

And if you need a friend then please just say the word - featuring a dopey Peter, a worried Tony and a pair of Hello Kitty pyjama pants.

Five times Gerald the alpaca was a menace... - and one time he was just plain adorable.

Back Up - In the final battle against Mysterio, a familiar face comes to Peter’s aid.

Until We Let Go - Even in death, Tony can’t help but want to fix things.

This Sorrowful Life - In which everything looks the same, and yet…

Multiple chapters:

Of Snapshots and Memories - There’s been plenty of videos and pictures taken of Tony over the years that show nothing but an egotistical, arrogant man with too much money and too much greed. After the snap, the images portray a reformed hero in a formidable suit of iron with the power to topple a titan.The photographs and recordings that Peter gathers together paint an entirely different picture.

All That and a Side of Pop Culture - Five times Peter’s love of pop culture made Tony rolls his eyes, and one time it simply made him smile.

Fall On Me With All Your Light (ongoing) - In the wake of a devastating tragedy, Tony can only hold on for dear life as the walls come tumbling down.

Keep reading

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clamofbeans2

4 years ago

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants.

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5 years ago

I...

😭😭😭😭

I am honored-

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cam speaks i was told to reblog by a lovely human so i have reblogged good day all

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clamofbeans2

5 years ago

If You Need Me, I’ll Be Over Here In That MCU Fandom Space Where Several Of The Movies Didn’t Happen

If you need me, I’ll be over here in that MCU fandom space where several of the movies didn’t happen and instead all the Avengers are friends, go on random missions together, hang out in Avengers Tower, and co-parent Peter. Bonus points for the team mistakenly thinking at first that Peter is Tony’s biokid from an old dalliance.

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clamofbeans2

5 years ago

How to deliver a baby:

Catch

Swaddle

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clamofbeans2

5 years ago

i wish there was a name for a kind of song that’s catchy, upbeat, and worth dancing to, but also bittersweet and tinged with an unexplainable sadness.

the best i can describe it is ‘songs you would put in an amv when a long series is over and you’re reminiscing on the journey while holding back sobs’

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clamofbeans2

5 years ago

Spider..who?

by Iron_Daddy

Tony wakes up one morning to find nobody knows who Peter is, nobody remembers Spiderman, nobody recalls the vigilante who helped stop Thanos- Nobody recalls the energetic avenger-in-training at all, except Tony.

What the fuck is happening??

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AKA. Sony and Disney being assholes and taking Spiderman from his home: The MCU and me writing about everyone in MCU forgetting Spidey bc that’s our reality now.

Words: 1421, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Pepper Potts, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Clint Barton, May Parker (Spider-Man), Ben Parker, Friday (Marvel)

Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Hurt Tony Stark, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Tony Stark Has Issues, Angst, Light Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending, me trying to get my head around the fact spidey isnt in mcu anymore, Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Tony Stark Lives, forgot how to tag tbh, Amnesia, but like everyone?, Time issues, probs stone shit, idek, never cleared up, #BoycottSony, #SaveSpiderman

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clamofbeans2

4 years ago

Okay fucking ow

thinking about how many air nomads that died refusing to leave their injured sky bisons and defending them to their last breath while trying not to harm fire nation soldiers that came their way ... i love causing my own sadness

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