raphie's third person speech feature
i dont know enough psychology to speak on it past linguistics and lang development, but i think a lot about raph often using illeism(referencing himself in 3rd person-well raph didnt wanna hurt his brothers feelings) in his speech my theories are: yoshi may have started teaching him japanese (sometimes u refer to urself by name socially, typically kids do this) or used a lot of baby talk, and maybe raphs mutation age had him at a strange spot for language development that he kept saying his name in speech Ionger than typically developing english speakers "hello red, daddy wants u to do this"→"ok lil bro, raph wants u to do this"
AND bc he seems to hvae dissociative personalities (mind raph, the amnesic left alone raph(that i believe is a younger alter)) and has stress related to often being in charge of his bros, and probably trauma related to being left alone in the sewers (likely when they were alI Very Young), and he seems ro get into disagreements with his alters, so illeism might be both a subconscious personal separation (there is a bit of research on the benefits of this particular effect in moderation) from emotional events and a distinction bw alters
im tryna find any speech lang pathology research on this, but im curious what anyone else in the fandom may think!
