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Rise Characterizations Pt. 3!!!

Now that Leo and Raph are done, it's Donnie's turn for character analysis as a writing reference. So without further ado,

Donnie Character Notes

Language Habits:

Straight up talks like a redditor who hasn't touched enough grass (affectionate)

Oscillates between very scientific paper polished, sometimes adding a dazzle of shakespearean for dramatics, or abbreviations/a shorter version of a word with a more fun connotation (i.e. "brekkie" instead of breakfast)

Uses food as surprised exclamations or curses, "oh my peaches and cream", "banana pancakes!"

Emphasizes each syllable of a long word when he's excited or trying to make a point. Conquered becomes con-qu-ered

Either exaggerates his speech or speaks in deadpan

The science terms he uses as battle cries aren't chosen at random, but rather are related to the action/subject at hand, i.e. yelling "fibonacci" when throwing his spinning tech-bo

Will overly describe an item or a situation, and often gets caught up in these observations before processing what just happened

Will repeatedly yell "help!" when he's distressed and/or outnumbered

Refers to Mikey as "Michael"

Refers to his brothers as "brethren" or "gentlemen"

Refers to splinter as either "father", "papa", or "dad" depending on the weight of the situation

Refers to his tech as his "babies"

Answers the phone with, "You're conversing with Donatello"

Uses "gesundheit" instead of bless you

Personality:

The fixer, he supplies the family with tech and resources. He always has a trinket made for the situation at hand and/or offers his knowledge/data collected. He's always prepared to help. Even with outside resources, he likes to feel useful in solving their problems (i.e., building Todd that dog park)

The theater kid, in a similar vein to leo, Donnie has his own style of dramatics. He often uses shakespeare-like language, is mentioned to regularly recite the jupiter jim musical soundtrack, and has a music mode for his battle shell. He belongs on a stage, or at least thinks he does

Not good at lying, despite the glamour he can put on in the spotlight. This may be due to the side of himself that over explains his thoughts

An over-thinker, who really tends to over-complicate things. His first theory or idea will always be the most extreme buck-wild concept. After some filtering, he still word vomits

A dreamer/big idea guy. He does have big ideas and goals. A lot of these he's able to put into place, although some go a little haywire (see Albearto). He doesn't do things in halves, and puts everything into a project

Meticulous, someone who's very detail oriented. As mentioned before he tends to over-complicates things. This may be impacted by his love for data and collecting information (he does record Everything for a reason)

Always on the edge of violence, which is surprising. Donnie's not known as being the angry archetype of tmnt, but he can get a little violent in his fighting style and does often cite his desire to use lethal force

Low empathy, which is mainly due to his issues processing and recognizing emotions. He's been pegged as unemotional, but in canon he's rather emotional and expressionate, just lacking the skills to process such emotion (he's just like me fr)

Praise motivated, as seen with his interactions with Splinter. Also desires the praise of his brothers, who he doesn't feel understand him with all the teasing that's sent towards his direction. This also pushes him to seek validation and acceptance in other groups (i.e. the purple dragons), to feel a sense of security or belonging

Ignores his own mistakes, and will often pretend like they didn't exist or ever happen. This most likely has to do with his desire for praise, so he feels bad when he fails. If he never made a mistake, he never has to feel bad

Miscellaneous:

Fourth to unlock mystic powers

Uses "Bootyyyshaker9000" as most of his usernames and passwords, with his alt. username being "Alpha-Bootyyyshaker9000"

Has a fear of bees, spiders, and of course beach balls

Breaks the fourth wall the most

Loves the smell of pineapple, hates the texture

Has a hobby of rooting around in the junkyard and dumpster diving

Uses cheat codes in video games

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Exploring Clone Dialogue and Speech Patterns

This might be useful to writers in the Star Wars fandom! I’ve noticed these little nuances when watching TCW and TBB, and they’ve helped me when writing dialogue my fic and one-shot drafts. These are just my observations, so feel free to add some of your own wisdom, tips, and tricks to accurately writing the clones!

Brevity: the clones speak in short, punchy sentences. They are direct in getting their point across. I feel like there’s a narrative effect to this as well (and this is just my own theory. Because they speak so little and so concisely, it makes the audience hold onto their words more and feel excited whenever they speak). When it comes to romance fics, I don’t see them having these long, drawn-out declarations of love because it just doesn’t match their collective speech patterns (that’s just me though). As a viewer, you pay attention to when the clones speak because they say what they mean, they only say it once, and there's a ton of emotion embedded in their words.

Sarcasm: this goes for any clone, not just the usual suspects (e.g., Wolffe and Crosshair). After a large chunk of time on the front lines during the Clone Wars, the clones are jaded soldiers. Their humorous use of sarcasm cuts the tension in hostile situations. (Examples of sarcasm, other than Wolffe and Crosshair: [Wolfpack trooper to C-3PO] "Really, quite the adventure, huh? Get a load of this one." / [Commander Mayday after meeting Lieutenant Nolan] "I feel safer already." / [Jesse to Tup on Umbara] "That's why they're called the 'Shadow People,' Tup!")

Questions: they usually ask questions of clarification/curiosity to their superiors, fellow troopers, and civilians, or rhetorical questions to add weight to their sarcastic quips. (Examples of rhetorical questions: [Fives responding to Rex, in reference to Pong Krell's treatment of the 501st] "By raising everyone's ire?" / [Wrecker complaining to Echo when he doesn't get to go 'sightseeing' with Hunter and Omega on Pantora because he 'sticks out too much'] "Oh, and you don't?" / [Tech on the inhibitor chips in Cut and Suu's house on Saleucami] "How else did you think it worked?" / [Commander Mayday when Crosshair and Lieutenant Nolan arrive] "Did you get lost?")

They don’t always say everything they want to say: there are instances when the clones speak that they can elaborate on exactly what they mean, but they choose not to because of the context of the situation. I've noticed that they tend to suppress things out of necessity. (Examples: [Echo's apprehension of rescuing Muchi from the Zygerrian slavers, after Tech mentions they're getting paid] "Yeah, that too." / [Rex to Echo when CF99 are getting their inhibitor chips removed on how he got his own inhibitor chip removed] "I had help.")

Elimination of some words (pronouns, conjunctions, etc.): there are countless instances of this in clone dialogue. This is more of a nit-picky grammatical observation, but I've noticed that the clones drop pronouns that refer to themselves or another person as the subject of a sentence, and then they just say the verb and the rest of the sentence as the full sentence. They also drop conjunctions ("and," "but," "or") in sentences too. (Example: [Echo to CF99 after landing on Ord Mantell and going to Cid's parlor] "I couldn't tell ya. I only heard about Cid. Never actually met him.") In this example, Echo could have said "I never actually met him," but he dropped the "I" for brevity's sake. This doesn't happen for every sentence the clones speak, but it definitely happens often.

Calling any child in existence “kid” (affectionately): I feel like this is self-explanatory lol

Common phrases: “is that so/right?” / beginning responses with “well” / using “easy” to calm someone down / “figure it out” to each other / "that's what I thought" / "all right" as an affirmation (drop some more common phrases if you have them! I can't remember any more at the moment 😅)

There is so much complexity to sibling/brotherly relationships: something I see a lot in the dynamics between the clones in fanfic is that they are loving toward each other almost all the time. As someone with two younger brothers, that is absolutely not the case 😅 familial relationships are tough to navigate because there are so many emotions present in interactions: one minute you hate each other after a petty fight, but the next you're defending your sibling from getting into trouble. Of course you will have your moments where you're loving toward each other and feel like best friends against the world, but that is definitely not the case all the time. Siblings annoy each other by nature; they get on each other's nerves and they're competitive. That's 100% normal. But, at the end of the day, you'll always have your siblings to rely on if you're in a bind and they'll have your back. That's what I see in brotherly relationships with the clones, at least. Three examples of this are CF99, Domino Squad, and the 501st on Umbara. Crosshair separated from CF99 because he had a difference in ideology, Echo didn't always agreeing with the Batch's plans of working for Cid as mercenaries, and Wrecker always wanted to blow stuff up even on stealth/covert missions. Those are disagreements. Domino Squad didn't always work together during their training exams on Kamino; each member was independent of one another until they were able to work together as a unit. More disagreements. Dogma wanted to follow Krell's plans to a T where the majority of Torrent Company did not want to. Even more disagreements. It's not realistic for siblings to agree on everything all the time.

Greetings and farewells by using only names: I've noticed that clones greet each other and say goodbye to each other by just saying their name, dropping the "hi" or "hello" or "goodbye" in the beginning.

Verbs ending in "-ing": when speaking informally, the clones drop the "-g" in verbs ending in "-ing." This doesn't happen when they speak to superiors, such as Jedi generals and senators, but it happens when talking among themselves. (Example: [Tup to Jesse on Umbara] "Are you sure those bombers are comin'?")