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What would you say is the most important part of each character's "voice"?

Oh, that's a great question!

Kendal communicates his thoughts simply and honestly. He doesn't lie, but he will avoid stating certain things around certain people if he has reason to believe it'll produce an undesirable outcome. This straightforwardness is vital to his tone. He won't even indulge in metaphor or non-questions like "don't you understand?" because those don't serve the purpose of communicating his thoughts as clearly as possible. He already has enough trouble connecting with people - he won't exacerbate that by adding unnecessary complications to his words.

Alinua is one of my only characters who stutters! I think it's very important to her tone that she'll pause, "uh-" and repeat herself sometimes. She gets caught up in her thoughts and sometimes outruns her mouth.

Erin is suave and cool and finds communication very easy. Even when it's coming from a genuine case, it has the practiced fluidity of a memorized script. He also typically finds ways to frame everything that are either self-aggrandizing or self-deprecating - he'll seek new information because he made a fool of himself with his ignorance, or he'll have experience with something because of his extensive repertoire of skills and allies. Erin will say what needs to be said to shape a situation the way he wants it to go, and is the only one of the main cast readily willing to lie - which is good, considering the kind of secrets he's lugging around.

Falst is defensive and lashes out easily. Anything he perceives as a vulnerability in himself is strictly off-limits and will never be willingly volunteered. He also doesn't generally lie, but he'll respond to probing questions or desperate circumstances with rage rather than silence. He's the only character I have to keep track of the breaking point for - there are some scenes I've played out with him where I have to stop scripting because I realize he's hit the point where he just starts swinging, or if he doesn't consider the person strictly an enemy, starts threatening. It's like he's playing a game of keepaway with his own emotional vulnerabilities.

Tess is very focused on whatever she's doing at any given time, but that focus can jump easily, and she doesn't tend to consider the context of her situation very much. Trespassing on a prison mountain in the dead of night is a great time to be making new friends! She's not dumb by any metric, and she has a very unique plethora of life experiences to draw from that makes her very easy to get along with and gives her a lot of ways to relate to the people she meets, but that social and emotional intelligence doesn't directly translate into really… being on anyone else's wavelength. She's a creature of sensation, and typically couches her actions in terms of how they make her feel - she won't fight city guards because they're "squishier than her" and that makes her feel bad, but she'll gleefully fight Tynan regardless of his dramatics or evil scheming because it looks like a blast. Erin is probably the only person in the group who really understands how she works, and that's fine by her - she touches a lot of lives, but she doesn't tie herself to any of them too strongly.

Dainix is gentle and emotionally open, but he's not superhuman. In trying circumstances he'll lock up, and while he's not quick to lash out, he will shut people down, and he'll sometimes use his insights into their emotional state to do it. Of the group, Dainix has the most experience relating to people on a personal level, which means he's pretty good at reading relationships and navigating emotionally complex people, but isn't a total doormat about it - he's got boundaries he'll enforce for his own well-being, and as we've seen, he has a breaking point where all his compassion and careful navigation burns away. Dainix is prone to anger, and carefully manages himself to keep his temperature as low as possible to avoid problems and breakdowns. Basically, voice-wise, Dainix is generally polite and empathic and will try to get a feel for whoever he's dealing with to avoid unnecessary conflicts with them, but he will stand his ground if something hurts him - and his one blind spot is that sometimes he'll realize something about the person he's dealing with and drop an insightful nugget of wisdom about them that they'll get very angry about. Not everyone likes being casually psychoanalyzed.