Yes, this. It's always hard to pinpoint character voice in TV canons, because scads of different writers work on those, and a fair chunk of book and movie canons just have all the characters speak exactly like the writer does. And Homestuck's differentiation of character voices really do force people to think about speech patterns, which is excellent, because basically (well, for me at least) how you speak is how you think.
Translating pesterlog to dialogue is so weird. I see people who mess around with formatting so the colors are the same, or write dialogue in quirk, or just throw in a cursory "SHE SPOKE REALLY DELIBERATELY" in there and write regular dialogue. A Hand in Holding Hands had quirked, colored font as part of like, a weird troll biology hissing voice (if I remember it correctly), which you don't see often.
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Date: 2013-02-09 07:27 am (UTC)Translating pesterlog to dialogue is so weird. I see people who mess around with formatting so the colors are the same, or write dialogue in quirk, or just throw in a cursory "SHE SPOKE REALLY DELIBERATELY" in there and write regular dialogue. A Hand in Holding Hands had quirked, colored font as part of like, a weird troll biology hissing voice (if I remember it correctly), which you don't see often.