Okay, question for you because I made a post about this on my lego blog.
Do you think Rex can talk to his raptors?
LIke I know your fanfic has the translators and such, but I want to think that those are more for other people than Rex.
That’s a great question!
I do, in fact, believe that Rex can talk and interact with the raptors without the need for the translators.
So, thanks to Rex, Jurassic Park happens to be relevant (imo). In Jurassic Park, it is mentioned the raptors are so intelligent that they can learn to mimic sounds and actions. And that they are constantly learning.
Rex took that knowledge and utilized it to teach himself and his raptors a sort of language to communicate with each other. A mixture of clicks and whistles and calls that only the crew would know the meaning to.
Otherwise the raptors would just talk in their normal calls and growls and clicks to themselves and to strangers, since the translators are tuned to their normal animal sounds. So, yes, even Rex has a translator.
They utilize the specific language between each other face to face. Rex wanted to make sure that only he and his crew would understand the specific language between them.