The trials of being mute go beyond slight annoyance. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Review our privacy policy for details or change your cookies preferences. (Most telepathy is used as an inherent trait, a gift easily snatched from the air once the character in question makes the slightest effort. Why make such a big deal of this? Max the Silent is one tough boy.

What happens when he’s trapped? A speaking character who gets caught in a dungeon or a cave-in still has the ability to yell for help until she’s hoarse, unless she was gagged first—and then all she’d have to do is remove the gag. The cookies point. This is an unofficial mirror of the famous Limyaael / Lightning on the Wave / Arin i Asolde literary rants. Seems a bit scary right? Phew. Check out our books, serials, and author profiles.

Fish never disappoint. I’ve read a very few stories like that. Perhaps, if her muteness is linked to another trait, such as magic or a blessing from the gods, she’s taken from a speaking society into one that, once she masters its context, will make her a lot happier. …Yeah, now I think I understand a little more about why so many authors turn to telepathy. The people who love him most quickly learn to understand him. In fact, he’s so infamous that one time over in night court when he was being arraigned for attempted murder, nobody even laughed when the judge told him that he had the right to remain silent. How does he become anything other than a walking testimonial for OMGEVIL? One of the most affecting scenes for me in Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels is a minor character who did indeed have his tongue cut out deciding to speak again, after he’s spent years in silence. Intelligent but non-speaking animals are around in many fantasies. Or a character who has no literate acquaintances can read and write, and, moreover, has tons and tons of books in a world where the printing press hasn’t been invented. Of course, most of them are also telepathic, and the ones that aren’t have no trouble conveying quite complex messages, such as, “There is a mage with one broken arm who needs your help trapped under this wall.” Perhaps, since they’re usually wolves, they all interbred with Lassie. "Neural Basis of language and motor behavior: Perspectives from American Sign Language," an article from Aphasiology, vol. Come on. Some resources: "Sign language acquisition following left hemisphere damage and aphasia," an article from the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, volume 12, issue number 1. Check on your technology level and your societal development when you’re trying to decide how many problems your mute character will have adapting. Catalog of Properties & Subsidiary Rights. “I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. Born-mute main characters are extremely rare. But I guess I'm grateful for all the noise and chaos. One of the most famous women on Earth, Helen Keller was not born deaf or blind. Most mute characters will need to communicate at one point or another.

If you can come up with them, by all means, I think it would be interesting to use them. Be very careful with mute characters, or you’re going to wind up treating them as exotica, in the way that disabled characters are often portrayed when they’re not the heroes. Not only will many of his thoughts and insights never be shared—it’s tiring to write down every single thought you have—not only will he be unable to leap casually into a conversation to add his own point of view or correct a mistake or share a joke, not only will he not be able to join in songs and chants and cheers, not only will he probably have to cope with uneasy fascination from people who look sideways at silence, but he’ll rely on both his body and the world around him in a way that most people never have to. It's considered politically incorrect and I think the correct term is "deaf and non-verbal." If the mute character knows a sign language that’s native to her village, developed because she was born or became mute and needed a way to communicate with people, what happens when she has to talk to strangers? By Continuing to browse this site you permit us and our partners to place identification cookies in your browser and agree to use of cookies to identify you for marketing. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating.”.

Normally, that’s not a problem, because the Wise Old Mentor speaks the same language as the Dunderheaded Young Hero, and the Young Hero can talk (and talk, and talk, and talk). And that stands for the good and evil twin. Once again, there’s no reason it has to be).

I’m not greatly worried about them.

And when you’re bound with ropes, or caught beneath a ton of stones, it’s either hard, a really bad idea, or both to move. Most of the time, if a fantasy heroine goes into a new culture, she masters the language quickly and is making herself understood in a few months. My main reason for including it is that so many fantasies with mute characters seem to assume a centralization that doesn’t exist.

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