#wish i could answer questiosn straight wihtout rambling LMFAO

[sundaeserenade]

hi minnie!/!:'d

i have a fanfic question. well, it's more of a red-specific question. what makes you write red selectively mute or mute? i've always been curious what facilitates that change... does it have to do with the tone of a piece or does it fit an intended goal?

oh!! 🧍‍♀️heleowo (sorry im kinda tipsy LMFAO)

i can absolutely explain this completely though.

I mostly write red completely mute because that's just what I prefer. In some of my older fics (debut/encore) i wrote him selectively mute because I couldn't decide what I wanted. And I wanted Red to vocally speak in those.

Anything pokemon masters, he's selectively mute to reflect the canon of that game. Unless it's the first pokemas fic i wrote, because, again, I didn't know what I wanted.

Now that i've got things down to a science LMFAO I can confidently tell you that it's down to preference. I like to write characters as close to their canon portrayals as possible (for characterization) so most of the time, Red's mute. I also like him to use sign language, which he can also do while selectively mute, of course. But 🤷‍♀️

What facilitates the change...yeah, I guess it is feeling. I default to Red being mute. If the concept dictates that he needs to speak something specific or it flows better or it feels better, I'll make him selectively mute. I usually do this when Red needs to say something specific because his words carry weight when he's selectively mute (not saying that sign language doesn't, just that when he chooses to speak vocally, it's to say important that can't be communicated through body language/expression)

basically -- i feel like i'm not answering your question, sorry -- basically, it's tone/verse. If I get a feeling during the conceptual stage of a fic that Red needs to be selectively mute, I'll follow that instinct. If I don't get that feeling, he's mute. So yeah, I guess it is both the tone/verse/goal of it. 🤔

but the cool thing is that people can write/interpret red however they wish! i just want him to shut up because I like that about his canon character. I like that he's mute A LOT. it's one of the things that got me into this pairing in the first place. It's fun to write mute characters because it helps with body language descriptions? and expressions. And it helps with dialogue. How do people communicate with his person VERSUS how they communicate with other people? that type of thing. Plus, I sometimes feel like my dialogue gets very "samey" sometimes or repetitive, so relying on behavior is a bit easier sometimes.

sorry for writing an essay in response to your cool question, thank you!!!

#ask #wish i could answer questiosn straight wihtout rambling LMFAO #oh wait im drunk right #riiiight right im sorry #if i didn't answer this correctly please send another ask i was just worried #that i'd be like 'oh ill get to that in th e morning' and then not do that #so i wanted to answer it now LMFAO