#like honestly just practice a whole lot writing dialogue n go thru what u write n if something sounds off just fix it

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i am curious!!!! i have a Hard Time fully getting characters speech patterns down but ur??? rly good at that!!! (w the posts that uve made/rbed around talking abt whod say what that ive read and gone 'OHH' at bc it Explained A Pattern In A Way I Could Get) n i was curious if there were any specific thing abt the diff characters speech patterns that ud picked up on!!!

ok so this is probs the least useful response i could give and im Sory but its legit just bc of my autism. like i cant exactly remember what the doc said but she essentially said like. my verbal comprehension skill just rly high to th point that it makes me weird (whch is why i got diagnosed w Weird Disorder HDJDHD) and my ability to kinda Absorb how ppl speak is like adjacent to that according 2 her? bc how i mask is literally by just adopting ppls speech patterns On Purpose bc legit i have no fuckn clue how to talk otherwise LOL

ANYWAY thats why dialogue makes a whole lotta sense to me. im able to easily catch on to how ppl n characters speak and little patterns and stuff, ESP w hlvai characters..! although benrey is a pain in the ASS ive been trying to figure him out for the last little bit but he kinda wavers a lot. i also just practice writing dialogue a whole lot which helps.

i guess the best way to figure out dialogue is find those speech patterns, like uh. when and how long they pause between words, how they annunciate certain words, tone of voice, how speech patterns change depending on who the character is talking to, etc!

its pretty easy to accidentally fall into like... like bubby swearing every sentence even though he actually doesnt swear a whole lot (just a lot compared to the rest of the group, and often only towards gordon or after something scares him). or benrey being constantly antagonistic but in a way that makes sense (calling gordon cringe or havin gamer moments or w/e) when hes actually antagonistic in a way that involves him like, doing a comedic bit that specifically holds gordon back his current goal (passport/foot scanner hd/the drive thru bit). hes like the long lost 4th warner sibling in that regard. but yEAH its good to catch on if you're falling too far into almost a stereotypical version of their charactr!!! (i accidentally still do ths so yEah it can be tough, esp when hlvai characters have very distinct personalities.)

like you find those consistencies and you should be able to branch out from there and see how theyd talk in Other situations. like honestly the best way to practice writing preexisting characters in regards to diakogue is place them in wildly different scenarios and try to imagine how theyd react.

with hlvai, bc of the source material being v restrictive to, well, half life video game funny show, its natural that the characters r gonna be a little ooc in like. domestic settings. esp ones with potential emotional moments. but its moreso how u work around it ig!!!

idk tho like im jus winging it w dialogue you'll probs find better clearer anwers frm like idk Dialogue People™ HFJDDJ uhhh i could potentially write a more coherent post abt how i kinda work around ths but idk i lazy