Thread:Wadcroft/@comment-25110963-20160416015624/@comment-27350660-20160417104509

ACWeapons wrote: Well Germany does have some of the best science and technology in the world so I guess that is a similarity there, but still their language is not pronounced the same way in RWBY. There's also Winter Schnee, an English/German name mashup. Well the getup I guess is okay since there was that inkeeper with the skirt. However I would like to know how you decide on speech patterns? For example, Ruby uses simple words, she blurts them out in excitement, angry statements, etc.

On a side note, is there any story about Ren and Nora? Winter is the same word in German as it is in English (and Dutch). But they didn't name Ironwood Eisenwald or Eisenholtz, so there is that. It's just a general feeling. Like Vacuo feels to me like Australia with maybe a bit of Italy or France thrown in. Using the occasional foreign word is an economical way to suggest foreign-ness to the reader.

Getting the character's voices right is probably the hardest part of writing. I channel a bit of Texan Belle into Yang. "Ain't gonna..." and things like that, and keep her words uncomplicated without making them dumb. Weiss is very prim and proper and uses words like "facetious". Blake is very economical with her words. Nora's brain is connected directly to her mouth and goes at ten miles a minute. Nora is fun to write.

If you're talking about "Flirting with death", I had just read a few Neo/Yang stories myself, and they all messed up either Yang, or Neo, or both. Either they had Neo repenting of her wicked ways because she had just fallen deeply in love with Yang, Yang turning to the Dark Side, or being captured and Subjected to a Fate Worse than Death, or something equally horrid. The only way I could imagine this happening while keeping their characters intact was that Neo was ordered to seduce Yang for some tactical reason or other. For Yang, it would be kind of cathartic to tie up her worst enemy and have her way with her. This one is my all-time hit record with over 1300 as we speak, and I am as puzzled by that as anyone else.

There's a few stories out there with Ren/Nora - Just search for it on AO3. The only thing I have written about the two has them not getting into a relationship. They have known each other pretty much forever, and I think that if they were going to jump each other, they would have done it by now.