# Relationship throughline

**URL:** <https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/relationship-throughline/2931>\
**Category:** Dramatica Theory\
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/relationship-throughline/2931 "2020-06-19T18:02:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnDusenberry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/johndusenberry/32/863_2.png) [@JohnDusenberry](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/JohnDusenberry)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/relationship-throughline/2931/21 "2020-06-22T18:53:48Z")

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> [@Greg](#):
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> If you have that info, you can build it into every relationship as it’s created. If you have characters and relationships before you know what you want to say, a lot of the work you’ve done may not fit.

Exactly, yes. Forming meaning without encoding characters.

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/relationship-throughline/2931/22 "2020-06-26T22:23:39Z")

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Nice, yeah BTTF is definitely a ‘who is your true father’ story. He has to pass through one father to get to another.

I had a chat with Roy Thinnes once about how he was one of my TV fathers growing up. Made him teary eyed and he sent me a Big Little book I’d mentioned loving as a kid, featuring The Invaders.

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