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How important is it to stick to the word choices a character makes in canon, especially when they don't seem to match them? More specifically, a character is written as thinking "Maybe I am going to die here," but they're an orphan who's lived most of their lives on the street, so I'd expect them to be thinking something more like "Maybe I'm gonna die here." The writing isn't entirely consistent on their speech patterns either, sometimes using contractions and sometimes not. I'm not sure if this is a case of the author sticking to the idea that dialogue should be written in proper English and dialect inserted by the reader, or if I'm supposed to conclude that the character is secretly more intelligent than they ever act.

If this is about comics I'd just pick whatever seems the most consistent and IC choice to you and stick with it. It's the best you can do.

It's actually a short story, which makes it even stranger since there's only one writer instead of a rotation.

Picking one of the speech patterns that they use and just sticking with it is probably the most reasonable option, yeah.

A character speaking or not speaking in dialect isn't a reflection of their intelligence or lack thereof. If they're consistently written in canon as speaking in fairly neutral dialect (and there aren't tags indicating that they're speaking with a particular regional accent, but like hell is the author going to try reproducing it and risk cocking it up), then that's how they should be written in play - character voice is a huge part of characterization, and deciding to completely alter how a character speaks to better reflect how you think they should speak is writing them OOC.

You're right, I was making assumptions based on other characters in other media. While the canon does have the character use slang that's unique to their world, it doesn't make any comments on dialect or accent, so I'm just making an assumption that I shouldn't have. I'm used to playing from canons that have been translated or subtitled, not all of them professionally, so normally I use whatever style the subtitles use and add in anything I can muddle through from the Japanese that would tell me how formal or informal they're being. Rolling their R's for example. This bias I have is definitely something to keep in mind playing from an English-language canon. Thanks for getting me to realize it's there.

if this is a translated medium, I'd definitely say you have a lot more leeway.

It's natively English, which is what was giving me pause originally. I agree with you in the case of translations, especially unofficial ones.

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