Fourth Wall
The thin line that exists between a story and reality. When a character in a story tells the reader in some way that they know that they are a character in a story, that is called 'breaking the fourth wall'.
Character 1: The author is a jackass who can't write me properly.
Crashing noise
Character 2: Well, there goes the fourth wall.
Crashing noise
Character 2: Well, there goes the fourth wall.
Fourth Wall by Kyo Kusanagi July 7, 2003
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