Reverse, Reverse!

[CinnaSloth]

I had a random thought. What would your story be like if it was read backwards? Not literally, just plot-wise, like what would happen to your MC if they went in reverse? Would it be kind of funny, or incredibly sad/ tragic? Especially for Isekai style novels where they first die to go into the story of them becoming amazing in a new world.

(Spoilers!! ((sort of)) for anyone reading my story)
My Mc starts off a normal girl, and ends up as a sort of deity in her story. So, reading it backwards. She'd start off as a deity, with other deity friends, and will slowly start pulling away from those friendships, losing her abilities, forgetting family, then losing her memories in a deserted land where she sets off alone, and collapses. She wakes up moments later, with another family, a normal girl, in a suburban Oregon home, throwing a birthday party for a lewd, little sister she just met. lol

Share your own backward stories.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

Completely random and unrelated, but when I saw the title, I immediately, for some reason, assumed you were quoting the cha-cha slide song. But then I remembered that there are probably only a few people here from the USA who are as old as I am who know this.

As for the actual topic;

It'd be depressing as fuck, really. My character's backward story would be terrible. Being in a neat new world with her new family, children, etc, only to go backwards and lose all of that, get sucked back into your own world and be plopped right back in a cemetery after your sibling died. I don't like thinking about that at all. lmao

 

[R.L.Zeck-Writer]

Taking it to it's extreme, here (so cover your ears and look away now if you're squeamish or easily offended ;-D)
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...all characters would end up in their mother's womb.
Or in a factory, if they are mechanoids.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Henry yells at a fat guy in the hospital before going to sleep and waking up in the Grand Lark, stabbed and beaten to a bloody pulp. Her grandpa puts a mind control talisman on her forehead, and her friends proceed to heal all her injuries with a series of magical time reversing attacks. Henry then leaves the Grand Lark, causes two klaons to defy physics by rolling uphill, and walks backwards to McGus' house where she performs the magic un-injuring fight on him before warping to an underground laboratory where the thing that's been possessing her (because of her grandpa) helpfully removes the mind control talisman and sends her on her way. She and Ethan then have a series of adventures where they gradually stop being friends, until the ending when Henry hates Ethan so much that she abandons him in a house with a maiam and his dead uncle, slides backwards up his roof, levitates up into the air, and vanishes.

 

[CountVanBadger]

Henry yells at a fat guy in the hospital before going to sleep and waking up in the Grand Lark, stabbed and beaten to a bloody pulp. Her grandpa puts a mind control talisman on her forehead, and her friends proceed to heal all her injuries with a series of magical time reversing attacks. Henry then leaves the Grand Lark, causes two klaons to defy physics by rolling uphill, and walks backwards to McGus' house where she performs the magic un-injuring fight on him before warping to an underground laboratory where the thing that's been possessing her (because of her grandpa) helpfully removes the mind control talisman and sends her on her way. She and Ethan then have a series of adventures where they gradually stop being friends, until the ending when Henry hates Ethan so much that she abandons him in a house with a maiam and his dead uncle, slides backwards up his roof, levitates up into the air, and vanishes.

 

[FRWriter]

Some stories have already done this. Not a full story, of course, but I remember MC's recounting their memories and experiences at the very start of the story.

Personally, I think it's really lame.

Doing the extreme and writing the entire story from the end to the beginning would be really stupid and needlessly complex, I imagine.

Why don't you give it a shot? Maybe focus on a short story with only 10 chapters or so and see how it works out.

 

[Worthy39]

Thinking about it, it actually would be pretty tragic if mine goes backwards.

Spoilers (not that many people read my story anyway)
The protagonist would come back from a battle to decide the fate of the world having lost several close friends, with full understanding of how dangerous he could be, he travels the world alone, brings back someone he lost just to lose them again at the end, end up with nobody who cares about him, and lose all faith in his humanity and go completely insane, and probably destroy the world or something.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

If I wrote one of mine backwards...

MC found a bunch of people from various video games, and his quest would be to return them all back to their own worlds. He would wake up after the last one was home, with a wheel from an aircraft in his apartment that landed next to him, startling him from that lucid dream.

The other one.

Old man having lucid dreams of worlds he doesnt know while his real body is in the hospital after saving two kids from being killed by a truck... maybe

 

[CinnaSloth]

Completely random and unrelated, but when I saw the title, I immediately, for some reason, assumed you were quoting the cha-cha slide song. But then I remembered that there are probably only a few people here from the USA who are as old as I am who know this.

What if I was to tell you, that was exactly my thought process?
Hook, line, and stinker.

Cha cha real smooth now

Henry yells at a fat guy in the hospital before going to sleep and waking up in the Grand Lark, stabbed and beaten to a bloody pulp. Her grandpa puts a mind control talisman on her forehead, and her friends proceed to heal all her injuries with a series of magical time reversing attacks. Henry then leaves the Grand Lark, causes two klaons to defy physics by rolling uphill, and walks backwards to McGus' house where she performs the magic un-injuring fight on him before warping to an underground laboratory where the thing that's been possessing her (because of her grandpa) helpfully removes the mind control talisman and sends her on her way. She and Ethan then have a series of adventures where they gradually stop being friends, until the ending when Henry hates Ethan so much that she abandons him in a house with a maiam and his dead uncle, slides backwards up his roof, levitates up into the air, and vanishes.

I think I just had a stroke. WHAT?! lmao
That sounds insane! xD

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Completely random and unrelated, but when I saw the title, I immediately, for some reason, assumed you were quoting the cha-cha slide song. But then I remembered that there are probably only a few people here from the USA who are as old as I am who know this.

This is only a year old. What you talking about?

OHHH... Time slip. Got it.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Thinking about it, it actually would be pretty tragic if mine goes backwards.

Spoilers (not that many people read my story anyway)
The protagonist would come back from a battle to decide the fate of the world having lost several close friends, with full understanding of how dangerous he could be, he travels the world alone, brings back someone he lost just to lose them again at the end, end up with nobody who cares about him, and lose all faith in his humanity and go completely insane, and probably destroy the world or something.

Sounds intense. That'd be a real good story to read. ngl, Kind of Poetic.

If I wrote one of mine backwards...

MC found a bunch of people from various video games, and his quest would be to return them all back to their own worlds. He would wake up after the last one was home, with a wheel from an aircraft in his apartment that landed next to him, startling him from that lucid dream.

The other one.

Old man having lucid dreams of worlds he doesnt know while his real body is in the hospital after saving two kids from being killed by a truck... maybe

Like Reverse pokemon. Gotta catch em all! ...then release them because it's the right thing to do. lol except with anime husbandos and waifus.
Although, finding an aircraft's wheel in someone's apartment would be wild.

Side note: Do lucid dreams fascinate you? Cause I see a pattern lol. I think they're intriguing as hell. I just wish I understood them.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Jack gets hired as a detective, watches a demon get summoned before turning over his childhood sweetheart back to her husband, investigates a murder and ends up at the restaurant owned the childhood sweetheart's family, where he recognizes a brutally murdered woman as her sister.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Side note: Do lucid dreams fascinate you? Cause I see a pattern lol. I think they're intriguing as hell. I just wish I understood them.

Not overly... terrify me more than anything but thats personal experiences and PTSD.

How else do you explain being Transmigrated/isekai'd in reverse other than a lucid dream though?

 

[CinnaSloth]

This is only a year old. What you talking about?

OHHH... Time slip. Got it.

that was nuts

 

[AliceMoonvale]

This is only a year old. What you talking about?

OHHH... Time slip. Got it.

No. Lmao
Cha-Cha slide from the early 2000s. during school dances, it was a popular fav for kids to dance to.
It was the only reason my anti-social ass ever went to those

 

[Wenlock]

Like your isekai, my MC dies and goes to hell, but before that he's a scholar in the royal court so I guess he goes back to his old life?

Not overly... terrify me more than anything but thats personal experiences and PTSD.

How else do you explain being Transmigrated/isekai'd in reverse other than a lucid dream though?

exactly. but you can say that the time has reversed? like those reborn stories so they make different decisions based on what they know of their future

 

[AnEmberOfSundown]

Reading Shadow's Call backwards you would get:

Spoiler

A girl gets really drunk with her friends, puts a Greater Demon together by hand, gets drunk again, sells six people into slavery, gets drunk by herself, and heals a slaver. Then her friends abandon her for a life of adventure, she gets depressed, goes home to mama, and leaves again to fight in a war.

Yeah, I wouldn't read it backward either.

 

[Our_Lady_in_Twilight]

Erm, Lady Lucienne is the prisoner of a dark Fae lord, cursed to dance a Faerie waltz for all eternity. Then she leaves and goes home.

 

[Eldoria]

My FMC is a young mother who is gentle and loving to her little daughter. She is a former executor of justice against the dead law (read: tyrant killer). She cannot harm innocent people (the limitations of her unique power do not allow it). Well, the prologue of volume 1 explains why she can be a young mother and give birth to a little daughter without a man (read: virgin mother).

If the events were reversed, then she would still be a cold, cruel, but just executor of justice with the ideology of the law of blood, "blood for blood". This story would be dark, brutal and tragic - the judgment of sinners. To be clear, I have written the prequel, but the prequel status is still on hiatus because the theme is very heavy, sensitive and traumatic (read: writing dark chapters is also mentally burdening the author).

So, to answer your question, what happens if my FMC is reversed? In short, it will only follow the prequel story before the main series (sequel). If you want to know how dark this story is, please click the link below (not a promotion, trigger warning is clear):

Blood Rose Princess: Her Last Mercy was Death

The world is alive. It hears. It remembers. And now… it is wounded deeply. In a world filled with greedy and sinful humans, where power replaces justice, and the people are cheap meat for the machines of tyranny, their screams are no longer heard by kings, nobles, or blood merchants....

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[CinnaSloth]

Reading Shadow's Call backwards you would get:

Spoiler

A girl gets really drunk with her friends, puts a Greater Demon together by hand, gets drunk again, sells six people into slavery, gets drunk by herself, and heals a slaver. Then her friends abandon her for a life of adventure, she gets depressed, goes home to mama, and leaves again to fight in a war.

Yeah, I wouldn't read it backward either.

I'd probably read it. that sounds incredibly dark. It'd make me think why she'd do such things, but then turn around to go fight in a war. super intense, but dark. Very, very dark.

Erm, Lady Lucienne is the prisoner of a dark Fae lord, cursed to dance a Faerie waltz for all eternity. Then she leaves and goes home.

"Then she leaves and goes home."

Fae Lord: "YOU ARE MINE FOR ETERNITY!"
MC: "Nah, bruh, I'm good."

The perfect book doesn't exi-
Hold up. Found it. lol