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himejoshiheart ([personal profile] himejoshiheart) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2025-03-12 02:03 pm

thinkin about. hb dialogue/speaking (well, signing) pattern

Author: Chibi
Story: Sealomimi
Color: Color Spray (mage hand)
Styles and Supplies: collage, eraser, + pastels ("Speech Practice" from the writing exercises quest!)
Summary: a look at hibby's speech patterns n stuff
Prompt Reasoning: signing. mage hand.
Wordcount: 417


Hibiscus does not speak, but she signs, and the way she carries herself gives her sign the exact same feelings associated with if she were speaking verbally.
Doesn't use some contractions ("you are" instead of "you're", for example)
He is not too formal to use nicknames, however- he refers to Duskie as 'Duskie', and not 'Duskfall', unlike a certain someone else.
They often refer to their actions rather formally, often understating any novelty to them- they'd refer to both following a recipe from a book and just mixing magical objects inside a pot as 'doing some alchemy'.
- dialogue section: -
"Careful, Duskie."
"I need these for alchemy."
(To another's "What are you doing?!" when seen mixing random herbs and berries into a bowl.) "Alchemy."
"I need these, Lavender." (signed while growling back at them)
"Duskie, what were you thinking? If you got hurt by that explosion, I'd never forgive myself! And are you not supposed to be halfway across Aesine?"
"... Excuse me? Are you hurt?"
"You're... not from this world?"
"I do not know, myself. Regardless, do you need a place to stay?"
"... You know my name already?" (when Duskie instinctively calls them 'Straybow' for the first time)
"These will be useful." (picking up herbs)
(heres some cassette beasts-inspired lines in here too):
"Recording." (signed one-handed)
"Got it."
"Try again."
(end of cb lines.)
"A scholar's work is born of passion. If you do not love what it is you study then why devote yourself to it?"
"So you are the Prophet I've heard of?"
"Duskie... snaked you?" (word 'snaked' is most likely fingerspelled LOL.)
"Of course, of course."
"So this 'gun' is what the leader of the heroes used as his weapon?"
"What is it you are talking about, Duskie? I cannot understand a word you are saying- 'Rock Festival'?"
"Of course I will join you- I am your boyfriend, after all."
"I love you, Duskie." (signed with a smile.)
"You do not understand, do you?! A scholar's work is born of passion! To say that I 'disrespect' magic with my experiments-? A scientist who only takes measurements and dully notes, who cannot see the world's beauty even as they research it for themselves... what kind of scholar can they be if they lack passion!? What is the purpose of seeking to know about a field of study if they do not love it? If you live a life full of banality and claim it is a 'scholar's life', what sort of person does that make you?"