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Rambling about how my characters talk for whatever reason

Slick and Mochi are from an entirely different continent than Inkadia, so they have a small accent. Whenever I write dialogue for them, I try and portray it and a bit of unique dialect other characters don’t possess. Mochi and Slick are the only characters that say ain’t, dude, or bro, and certain words like doing have a minor alteration by removing the g, making it doin’. I don’t know what their equivalent of an accent would be in English, because they’re funny squid people speaking gargly squid Japanese gibberish, but it’s not a huge deal.

Hachikō sometimes cannot help adding small comments into his speech when he’s thinking. It’d probably be portrayed either with parentheses or dashes to show breaks in his line of speech. Sometimes he’ll trail off and forget he’s supposed to be talking and just think to himself. When he’s responding to conversations, he doesn’t often remember to make vocalizations of acknowledgement, instead silently nodding and squinting his eyes. Sometimes he turns his head to hear people better, he hopes people won’t think he’s trying to ignore them. Sometimes he makes small “heh” noises between sentences when he’s uncomfortable or trying to seem enthused.

Kieren and Kōri are both pretty soft spoken, but speak in different ways. Kieren has a voice smooth like butter, and his words kinda trickle out like a small stream. He doesn’t raise his voice very often at all, when he does, usually something is very wrong. Kōri speaks very fast, he likes to quickly tell information. He’s excitable and will tell you an entire novel if he’s up for it. He actually slows down a bit when speaking to Kieren, not because he thinks he won’t understand, but rather trying to mimic him subconsciously. Unlike Kieren, Kōri can get pretty loud when he’s genuinely happy. (In a weird way, I think he might talk in a similar way to a friend of mine).

Also the proneness-to-cussing for each character to different. Mochi, Slick, and Javier are probably most prone to cuss. Those three are prone to getting enraged enough to swear their hearts out, especially out of frustration for losing or things not going their way. Least likely to cuss? Quincy and Rio, one’s selectively mute and the other is too shy and polite to allow herself to swear (also not wanting to upset her sister). Raina, despite being prone to irrational amounts of anger, does not swear often at all, instead wanting to have sharp, jabbing insults.