![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_rose17 - We can tell a great deal about a character by how they talk and who they talk to. Are you aware of any changes you make from character to character in either narration or dialog? Show us an example. Is this something you choose, or do without fully realizing it? Do you do this at all? Why?
I hope I do this; it's an essential part of characterisation. Here are some dialogue examples, fanfic and original fic, male and female charcters, that I've written that I hope illustrate this.
"I can't hear the soul of All That Is," she said. "I know it's not normal to hear it. Thoughts and feelings and the heartbeat of creation…I don't think I'm explaining it right. The words aren't right. I lack the vocabulary and you lack the understanding. But I heard these things and I'd adapted…Now I'm lost. Alone."
"When you're a mercenary, it pays to know whether your employer is telling his men to 'give him the money' or 'shoot him in the head'."
"Dearest stepmother, I wish to make amends for my behaviour," she lied.
“Curse-smurse,” he said. "You're not cursed and we both know it. I'm a dragon. We have a nose for that kind of thing."
“Look, all that lovely blood going to waste, feeding the ground instead of us. The ungrateful soil doesn’t want it, and the moon laughs at us!”
"I have no idea. But you should pray it isn't. A serial killer is bothersome enough. One of us displaying such a disturbed personality...that would be bad. Very bad indeed."
“What’s wrong with menstruating? It’s a perfectly acceptable term.” She gave an evil grin. “Or would you prefer fertile?”
"If you cannot scry the location of this one simple thing, you are of no use to me...And I do not allow useless people to remain as my guests."
"I think I'm your bodyguard," he returned, "and if something did come over those fields, I'd be remiss in my duty if I was asleep upstairs while you were being attacked."
I hope I do this; it's an essential part of characterisation. Here are some dialogue examples, fanfic and original fic, male and female charcters, that I've written that I hope illustrate this.
"I can't hear the soul of All That Is," she said. "I know it's not normal to hear it. Thoughts and feelings and the heartbeat of creation…I don't think I'm explaining it right. The words aren't right. I lack the vocabulary and you lack the understanding. But I heard these things and I'd adapted…Now I'm lost. Alone."
"When you're a mercenary, it pays to know whether your employer is telling his men to 'give him the money' or 'shoot him in the head'."
"Dearest stepmother, I wish to make amends for my behaviour," she lied.
“Curse-smurse,” he said. "You're not cursed and we both know it. I'm a dragon. We have a nose for that kind of thing."
“Look, all that lovely blood going to waste, feeding the ground instead of us. The ungrateful soil doesn’t want it, and the moon laughs at us!”
"I have no idea. But you should pray it isn't. A serial killer is bothersome enough. One of us displaying such a disturbed personality...that would be bad. Very bad indeed."
“What’s wrong with menstruating? It’s a perfectly acceptable term.” She gave an evil grin. “Or would you prefer fertile?”
"If you cannot scry the location of this one simple thing, you are of no use to me...And I do not allow useless people to remain as my guests."
"I think I'm your bodyguard," he returned, "and if something did come over those fields, I'd be remiss in my duty if I was asleep upstairs while you were being attacked."
