I'm bad at this

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[(Anonymous)]

It's less about pronoun usage and more about the flow of the prose. (Using "he" or "she" is almost always fine as long as its clear who he or she is.) If your sentences start out with he/she or the character's name every time (or a lot of the time) then that's when things can get noticeably clunky and repetitive. No simple sentence is clunky on its own. If you use a good variety of sentences and other words, no one is going to notice how many times you use "he" or "she."

Like, imagine when you're really into a book. You're not sitting their nitpicking the word choice, you're engaged with the story and the characters. That's the effect you're trying to create for your RP partner: fun and engaging.

Honestly, so much of this stuff is subjective, anyway. Read some Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy if you want some examples of dudes who made a killing sticking to simple, fairly repetitive styles. ("Economical" and "understated" styles if you're a lit douchebag.)