What's Fourth Person Point of View? (And Other Mind-Bending Narrative Viewpoints) | Abstract Youth

[@WolfyRed]

I've experienced switching from 1st person to 3rd person really quickly. An example is a dream I once had, where I was there in the dream doing things and interacting with stuff, but then I my body just suddenly stopped existing, and I was now a non-physical overseer of everything around me. I couldn't interact with anything, I could only watch.

[@kristech_io]

Second-person limited omniscient sounds like the narrator gives you a task and after every task the next thing you read tells you what you expect to experience. That's a neat way of writing that I hardly ever thought about. Similar to games where you complete an action and get a message about the reaction.

[@rmt3589]

I'm here because I discovered that "chat" is a 4th person pronoun. I think I have an understanding of the 4th person perspective now. Imagine the Stanly Parable, but, you're reading the book through Stanly's eyes, and he is discussing the narrator and the potential players. Or, imagine you and your friends are playing golf. Someones from outside the world you're in asks you about the score, and you answer them(singular&plural ambiguous). Basically, a twitch streamer interacting with a chat of 0-to-infinite people, and the potential viewers of the vod. This came up in a The Click video, as he was reading a reddit post from a teacher whose students randomly talk to "chat" as part of their everyday vocabulary, even though there is no chat. Talking to the possible viewers on the other side of the 4th wall, completely removed from the situation, regardless of if thry actually exist or not.

[@merlenevs]

Great video, love your channel!

[@bluepuppystudios3617]

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[@falsarc7080]

In the second person omniscient examples, I had thought of a Jaguar in Djibouti, and an orange shovel. I think the first example relies on the idea that people will immediately jump to “Denmark” as the nation, and while you were prepared for the idea of people thinking of different “E” animals, you weren’t prepared for different “D” nations. The second, I understand after review was priming me to make associations in order to think of a red hammer, I guess I just didn’t.

[@B1GJ3]

I ain’t gonna lie you caught me with Denmark and elephant kinda freaked me out 🤯… but second I said green wrench

[@mathgeek43]

Which perspective would a player at a D&D table have as the DM explains to them what their character does? I first thought second person limited omniscient, but I'm not sure if we should count their character as another version of themselves. They are more controlling the character in the story which may not be a version of the person sitting at the table.

[@abstractyouth]

@@mathgeek43 So in second person perspective, the narrator directly addresses the reader as a character within the story. So the dungeon master (narrator) might be Second Person Limited Omniscient like you said because they can observe what the player (reader) does, says, feels, etc., but they don’t know the player’s thoughts or choices until the player verbally expresses them. I believe the player wouldn’t have a perspective other than their own (first person) because they are acting as the reader essentially. Similarly, if you read a choose your own adventure book, the book is in second person, not yourself (the reader) - if that makes sense?

[@DragonSageKaimus]

😢 do fifth person please,

[@bluepuppystudios3617]

Wtf does this have to do with anything you troll