Ronin with a hyper verbal reader? Reader yapping about drama with co-workers or friends, or just general interests of theirs that they're passionate about. :3
Rambling reverie.
PARING! -> GN!Hyper-verbal!Reader x Ronin Beaufort
a/n : thank yew for the request, lovely anon <33 Hope you enjoy! i really couldnt think of a title for this lol....
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Due to Ronin's obsession with toying with his victims mental before slaughtering them, he considers himself well-versed in listening to people.
You especially.
He truly does not understand how you link your sentences together. You could be pointing out a bird you saw earlier in the day, then somehow transitioning to rant about medieval torture devices. It's effortless, and Ronin does not understand how you do it.
Ronin often listens to you while multitasking. Fixing cars, working on his computer, sharpening knives; all with you either on call or rambling on his bedsheets. You're like a physical podcast, and he appreciates that.
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"He told me he was vegan, but.. not for pizza? And I felt like that was fair... Did you know that pizza-" You spare a glance over to Ronin, who was rocking on his chair while seemingly contemplating what to type.
The air thickens in proportion to the pangs of silence that follow.
Ronin eventually twirls around to give you an incredulous stare.
"Cat got your tongue?"
"Sorry, you probably need to focus."
He quirks a brow, spinning his chair back to the screen. It paints his face in a blue hue.
"If I really needed to focus, you wouldn't be here."
You gawk at him. "Was that an attempt at comfort?"
"That depends." He rocks his head back to glance at you. "Did it work?"
You flop back into his bed, melting into the pillows with a grumble. "You're impossible."
"Maybe a little." He hums; you can hear the smug grin in his words.
"Keep talking. I focus better with your voice. What was that fact about pizza?"
You'll rant to anyone who'll listen, but Ronin would much prefer it to be him.
He's an extremely active-listener. While you're prattling on about any subject, Ronin replies very curtly, but he very well can reciete back to you every single word that left your lips in the last half an hour.
Ronin makes you take vocal breaks; you seem to forget your voice box does not come in infinite supply. Whenever he notices the slight raspy tinge in your tone after speaking for a particuarly long time, he presses a finger against your lips. "Breathe."
It's weird, and he'd never admit it aloud but your speech is like a lullaby to him. He sleeps better with your facts, your stories, your experiences lolling him into unconsciousness...Regardless of how ridculous whatever you're saying is.
It helps that Ronin thinks your voice is adorable; it's the only element of grounding he has to root himself to the world once the chaos of the day finally settles.
So we all know the stereotype of autistic people is that we're either nonverbal or really bad at convos, but I wish there were more representation for those of us that are hyperverbal! Don't get me wrong, this isn't all the time, but if you
-can go on for hours and hours about your special interest
-the one that makes the most effort in conversations despite being the one seen as "socially awkward"
-the comedic relief of the friend group
-don't process anything before speaking, always honest, always speaking your mind
you r so valid n i love you <3
i wish people talked more about how (especially non stuttering) speech impediments are infantilized
like not even just in how people treat you the woobification of speech impediments (the way people use uwu speak as like a teehee funny thing its so adorable when people cant say "l"s and "r"s) people saying your voice sounds "cute" or assuming your speech problems imply developmental/intellectual disabilities
god forbid you do also have developmental or intellectual disabilities because then youre much more likely to have difficulties finding ways to express yourself around legitimate articulation difficulties
and if your speech impediment isnt the result of a developmental or intellectual disability the way people will instantly assume your actual mouth is lazy and slow
but even from the perspective of being in speech therapy in your teens and adults every single resource app flashcard or speech activities given to us all the way until 12th grade were geared towards actual children
i was talking to fucking talking tom less than a week away from graduation and reading from bright colorful flashcards with cartoon pictures in them
and the best representation non stutterers have in media are literal cartoon animals like looney toons or mickey mouse and friends
best case scenario is that randos on the street assume its an accent i definitely think aside from the autism part of why i overexplain everything and am very hyperverbal is also to compensate for my speech issues
the way that so much of participation in society hinges on peoples ability to clearly articulate themselves
the way your arguments are so often discounted and thrown aside if you cant perfectly articulate it
people genuinely take you less seriously if you have difficulty speaking
the implication that the way you speak naturally fundamentally needs to be trained out of you because its wrong and broken
and a lot of speech impediments are literally due to congenital mouth shape/nasal differences deafness or being hoh and are literally uncontrollable but will still be forced into taking years of speech therapy anyway or are the result of difficulties with esl and speech impediments are frequently given pretty insulting names
aside from the obvious ones like tongue tie or lazy tongue theyre often words that are specifically difficult for the person with the speech impediment to pronounce
even "stutter" is often difficult for people with stutters bc of the st sound the multiple t sounds close together followed closely by the er
rhotacism is the inability to say /r/ sounds and it LITERALLY starts with a hard /r/ sound
lisps often describe difficulties with /l/s and /s/s
slurred speech is difficulties with /s/s /l/s and /r/s and the r sound in slur is LITERALLY and /er/ sound one of the more difficult ones for people with speech impediments to pronounce
lambdacism is difficulty saying /l/ and it LITERALLY starts with an /l/
the way speech therapy is designed feels structurally cruel to the people it seeks to help and yet every speech pathologist ive ever met acts like theyre doing these poor dumb disabled kids a huge service and doing the lords work
the way in which i immediately dont trust anyone who says they want to go into speech pathology to not be condescending and ableist af
the way in which i legitimately do not think people with abled speech patterns and behavior actually care about what people with speech differences are going through unless they know someone who personally has to go through it
This whole thing of going: āomg holy yap!/yap alert!ā Or āI aināt reading all thatā etc, in response to seeing a post or message that is exceeds the character limit of a twitter post is an attitude that seriously needs to hurry up and just die. Same with people mocking others for verbally āspeaking too muchā. Itās ridiculous.
Iāve officially hit my boiling point with this bullshit, I am so truly sick of it. Itās unbelievably rude and disrespectful to do this, and quite frankly itās just fucking cruel. Itās so deeply unnecessary! When someone does this they are simply just telling someone to shut up, trying to shame them into being silent because they personally cannot endure a mild annoyance, or even bring themselves to be polite about voicing this. All the while having the fucking gall to frame the āyapperā as being the rude one who is violating an unspoken social rule!
I also believe this is honestly indicative of how wide-spread and prevalent anti-intellectualism is becoming. That now anything longer than 1-2 paragraphs of no more than 3 simply worded, short and sweet sentences is now the threshold for a post or message to be seen as an insufferable āwall of textā or an āessayā apparently. How the fuck is anyone supposed to effectively communicate and explain anything like this? All it does is stifle and entirely shut down open discussions! I fucking hate this, itās miserable!
It frames open and precise communication that values detail as being shameful. It conveys that being caring, passionate, and just emotionally genuine, as all being negative traits that must be corrected, and thus are ādeserving ofā social ridicule. It makes the world a less interesting, inquisitive, curious and thoughtful place and I justā¦ despise it so much!
And this isnāt even me getting into the ableism aspect of it! I personally know the lasting damage this shit can do to oneās confidence, self-perception, self-worth and ability to communicate in a way that is justā¦ sustainable, because thatās the impact that years and years of being told Iām annoying and I need to shut up or ācalm downā, be less of myself, has had on me! As someone who is autistic with adhd, and that comes with being hyper verbal. Over, and over, and over again, ridiculed and mocked for a behaviour I simply cannot mask without destroying myself. It makes me never, ever want to speak!
All because itās apparently just too much to ask that people simply just give āannoyingā and āyappyā people like me the benefit of the doubt! Just a tiny bit of fucking grace! No, they need to wound me, itās not enough for them to just ignore me, and Iām not allowed to be upset about it or even defend myself, lest I be scolded for ātaking the baitā or ātaking it too seriouslyā or not being the āmore matureā person. Itās not fucking fair!
I just want to be genuine, friendly, passionate and talkative without being mocked for it! Iām so sick and tired of being forced to justify how I think and exist.
[ID: userboxes with black on white text, and their respective flag placed at the far left.
in order, they say "this user is semiverbal," "this user is nonverbal," "this user is nonverbal" (alt flag), "this user is semiverbal," "this user is verbalflux," "this user is hyperverbal," and "this user is AAC-punk!" /end ID]
[ID: more userboxes, with the AAC user flag! in order, they say "this user needs AAC to communicate," "this user uses AAC to communicate," "this user uses AAC for speech loss episodes," and "this user uses AAC for verbal shutdowns." /end ID]
[ID: blank versions of the previous userboxes. in order, they're the semiverbal, nonverbal, demiverbal, verbal flux, AAC punk, nonverbal (alt), AAC user, and hyperverbal flags /end ID]
flag credits!!!
ā - diagonal verbal flags
ā - four striped nonverbal flag (post by @/your-fave-is-nonverbal)
