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Ohh, itewesting.

1. I think it definitely makes the characters more unique, and unique helps make characters deeper. It’s the 2D, cardboard-ish characters we forget easily, that seem shallow. Deep characters have strong motivations and desires, intense passion for their goal, etc., but if this is all cookie-cutter, it’ll fall flat. The depth has to have a unique twist to be believable. If the reader suspends disbelief and fully enters into the experience with the character, it will be a deeper character to them. So, whether it actually deepens character objectively or not, the subjective experience of the reader is a deeper character than one that is less unique. Uh, that made sense. Right?

2. I did make a funny-speaker, actually, and that character has been mentioned to me multiple times by beta readers. My goal was to endear the character to the reader, as she was the cute/comic relief. She also wasn’t human (more chimpmunky–come on, that’s totally a word), so having a unique pattern of speech seemed a must.

3. This is more a recently-experienced character than a favorite, but in the animated movie Atlantis, The Lost Empire, the character Mole had a very unique voice. Naturally, the vocal is much easier in a movie, but he never said his R’s correctly. They always came out as a W sound. Anyway, it stuck in my head. And…there’s nothing else there. In my head. About funny-sounding characters. Because I should be sleeping.

@rosemarylouise – I’ve read some Redwall! He does have a lot of fun characters. It’s been quite a while, but I do recall the piratey (also a word) lingo the rats and friends had. 🙂

What about you, @daeus-lamb ?