Hints on posting for other peoples characters.

[Taeg]

Taeg:

First, Taeg will do something, then sometimes even seconds later forget he has done it, or that he was interacting with you. (not always, but the less significant it is, the more likely he is to forget it.)

Taeg also has no concept of danger. nothing scares him, it just doesn't register in his mind. This allows him to be very helpful to any one in danger.

He also will spout out random metaphors or common phrases, that are usually slightly off somehow, or don't fit in the current context of the conversation. Also, if he hears something that reminds him of something else, he will usually spout out the thing he is reminded of.
IE: So if he hears something about begging, or being an orphan, he might say something from like Oliver twist.

Along the same lines, he doesn't swear. he makes up his own curses. IE Boley Martin

and if you didn't notice, he talks to himself. a lot. usually to the point where he has a conversation with himself.

and finally, and the LEAST important one, when he speaks, if there are two short words right next to each other. IE is, a. he would say, isa. same goes for three letter words followed by a one letter word.


*Anyway, hope this helps a bit. I think everyone should make one of these, just to help out*

[Aye]

A guide to Aye's Dialogue:

This is seriously going to sound like an English lecture but that's because there is a definite structure to why Aye speaks the way he speaks. Of coarse you can tell that his english is broken, mainly due to the fact that the only amount of English he's ever heard is in passing. Aye himself has no native language and because of that, Aye thinks visually and this is a huge influence on how he speaks.

Before Aye ever speaks, he always visualizes what he is about to say and then verbalizes what he sees in the order that he sees it based on it's importance. Take, for example the sentence, "I am going to go for a run."

When Aye visualizes this sentence, the first thing he sees is himself, the one who is going to run which then becomes the first word in the sentence. Then he visualizes the act of running which becomes the second word in the sentence. After that, he thinks of how to string the two words together so people know that he is going to go and isn't already running. What our end result is this: "Aye run going to."

However, this is also context based. Take, for example, we had the same sentence but the running became much more urgent, like they were running away from an immediate danger. In this case, the act of running is the first thing that comes to Aye's mind since that is what is most important, followed by who is going to run. And to him, it's a mute point to say when he is going to run since he is going to do it immediately, so the sentence transforms into: "Run Aye."

Another example of a context based sentence would be, "I am going to the store to shop for food." The structure of this sentence now becomes based entirely on what Aye is most interested in and thusly visualizes first. If Aye is more excited about the experience of going to the store and shopping for food is not the important thing, the sentence becomes, "Store Aye going to shop food." First is the store which is what Aye is excited about, followed by who is going there and then, what they are going to do there and for what. However, if Aye is more excited about the food, it becomes, "Aye food going to store shop." The most important thing is that Aye gets the food so Aye and food come first, and then he plots out how that is going to happen which would be going to the store to shop for it.

Here are a few more examples of sentences and how Aye would say them:

"Have you met my friend?"
"My friend meet you?"

"I don't want this. You take it."
"Want this no. Take you."

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains."
"Rain plains stays in Spain."

"Where is my haberdasher? I do believe I lost my hat."
"Hat no. Haberdasher where?"

"Turn the page, wash your hands. Turn the page, wash your hands. And then you turn the page, and then you wash your hands."
"Page turn, wash hands. Page turn, wash hands. Page turn then, wash hands then."

[Taeg]

For fun, and from time to time, I will post the inner working of Taeg, so you can see what is going through his mind. The voices in Taeg's head are represented by the color LimeGreen.

As for everyone posting for Taeg though, just keep doing what your doing. don't worry about posting for his inner voices.

[Rink]

Rink is usually pragmatic and straight to the point. He makes observations and reacts depending on the situation. He was a trained detective, so you can compare him to detectives from cop shows (like Law and Order, etc.)

More to the point, you may have noticed that in his last few posts, things have gone strange for him. He's started seeing weird visions. There's a reason for this that will be revealed in time, but let's just say I'm correcting a mistake I made when I created his character. So for a little while, Rink will be just a wee bit unhinged. Not a raving lunatic per se, but more like disoriented.