#ive written rekmid the most

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what the narrative is like in any drabbles of our dnd characters:

rekmid: second person present 100% of the time, shorter sentences, short paragraphs, more simple words, flows naturally, even if that natural flow is the seemingly sudden hops to a different subject, different train of thought, and unless she’s thinking about something important concerning others the narrative focuses almost entirely the people and places around her rather than her own internal process, you know shit’s important to her when the narrative actually switches to focus on her thoughts especially if it focuses on her thoughts so much that her surroundings are hardly mentioned, ‘yeah’ is used a lot, makes a lot of puns and jokes, her dialogue is used just for straightforward communication, nothing fancy, no disguises or hidden motives (typically), she just wants to share a thing or emotion or have a thing/emotion shared with her

thea: the opposite, narrative is almost completely focused on her and her thoughts and her responses, she’s always hyperaware of herself, even as she’s studying her environment intently, longer paragraphs, more complex words, more metaphors and similies and the like, especially when compared to rekmid’s narration, uses a lot more figurative language in general, also has a nautral flow but more like music, one thing obviously leading to another, none of the disjointedness of some of rekmid’s narration, her shorter sentences/paragraphs are almost exclusively used to contrast her typically longer sentences, used to convey a sense of urgency or panic, her dialogue also stands out a good deal more, since the ratio of narration to dialogue is so skewed, she rarely talks anyway, but when she does, she either wields her words like a shield or a scapel, uses her words expertly to protect and distract from her actual self as much as possible by using a disguise a different mindset pretending to have a different personality, or if she’s forced to expose her actual self or drop a disguise, all that expertise just drops and she’s stuck using ‘um’ and ‘uh’ and repeating words and stuttering and it artifically expands the amount of space that the dialogue takes up on the page and draws even more attention to it, just like her obvious nerves and anxiety draw attention from those actually with her