Writing silent protagonists and characters

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That makes sence. Thank you for the info!
The sign language that I will be useing is a bit of an IU one, due to the nature of the primary orgonizations that the MC, and the 2 silent characters will be dealing with in the book. Also, didn’t know about the conversation tags, just been writeing it so far as:
X character says this. Hmmm, least gives me an excuse to run through what I have over again to put in all the quotation marks.
Although, I am not quite sure how I ended up with the previous post in this topic? Thought I had created a new topic, although at least now I know why I didn’t get my reply to topic Email. I will look at the tumbler link, thanks for putting that in the post.

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A mod may have merged your topic with this one in order to keep multiple threads on this subject from cluttering the boards.

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I love having choices where you choose to stay silent, and it’s indeed rare to find games that allow this without the choice being displayed as “broody”.

I think a good way to avoid this is adding a thought blurb in the choice so you know what personality you’re displaying even with silence.

ex)
# You’re not sure what to say, so you stay silent.
# He looks to you for an answer to find you lost in your thoughts.
# He looks to you for an answer to find you distracted by a passing butterfly.

As for mc talking in flavour text though, that’s a bit unavoidable. But if you really want, you could make a “talkative vs silent” variable and use a different flavour text according to that variable.

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I mean. The MC of my current book sort of knows sign language, due to the fact that he communicates with it with a friend?
There’s also another character who is totally silent.
Could be interesting to set it up, so you could technically, choose to basically be nonverbal through the entire book. Especially since the MC is totally blind, whether that’s been for the whole life or not is at this point variable.
Anyway. Yeah.

Especially if I set it up, that the MC isn’t so much broody, just, hyper shy and somewhat cautious. Or, just hyper shy.