#youll never pry the feral from my claws

[grim-faux]

I always ALWAYS go rabid, wanna talk about Mono and the other children and their speek mechanic in the stories.

I can't help myself, its so much fun to work on and figure out - especially given that in the au I work in the children have lost much or all the capacity for speech. One of the reasons for that, is the atrophy of their jaw, larynx, and other tissues that would be reserved for speech. I mentioned that due to strains of their environment for nourishment and certain calories, fats, and proteins get prioritized to tissue repair or maintenance-

I.e., kids don't talk a lot so why would their bodies see a need to supply essential nutrients to those muscles and fat. All of the calories and nutrients go for their bones, skin- especially in the case of injuries. Children can still bite, since they do use that area of muscles pretty regularly for routine chewing, and also fighting. Healthier kids have a better bite force, like crocodiles

The capacity for speech is also lost in the regard they just don't articulate enough to refine speek. Slurring, mixing words, whatever else kids come up with is a product of inability and loss of muscles prowess to formulate complex sounds. Which is why speek is reduced to the most basic of sounds a child could produce - clicking, growls, whistles, trills, grunts, hisses.

Some children maintain the capacity for old speek - or the language from wherever they were once native too. Though it is rare, since they typically adapt to the other childrens way of speek when they are integrated to pack.

Kids do have a concept of grammar. For Mono, his grammar is hinged on self identity and an idea of physical placement, or a spatial occupation.

Due to his relation to the Tower and other trauma that sort of is integrated to the loops. It's just a weird residue he inherits.

For English speakers, it's kinda jarring how Mono makes speek. Especially since Mr. Tol Man and the syntax of the Books follows english grammar.

This Mono-grammar also correlates to how he visualizes himself and other children- how he makes pictures spee of them. For Six, she is a girl in a raincoat. No matter what hat Mono favors for a time, or if he's misplaced his paper bag, he is always a child in a paper bag and a coat.