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I find that my characters personalities actually influence very much how I write them. I know it's cliche to say they write themselves, but I don't pick their person or tense or style, so if they aren't picking for themselves I don't know who is. :P
Prometheus, for example, is in first person present and reads like a madman. The first person is very simply because he is self absorbed, present because he is very much a fluid and ever changing being. His sentences are run on and the grammar is warped because he is insane. When he speaks of Pyr, it is in second person, because nothing matters to him in the world except for Pyr. And so posts carry out like a conversation between the two, all from Theus' point of you. But at the same time Pyr never speaks and his thoughts are very rarely central in the post because not only is he selfless and quietly respectful/fearful/loyal, Prometheus Loves Pyr but does not pay attention to his companion's feelings. As a result, Prometheus is always the center of attention.
Birch is third person present. Third person because he is very philosophical and has trouble with connecting with his own self, present because he fears and hopes to ignore his past.
Knox is 50% of the time conveyed through Manhattan. He is third person present too. Third person (With a self proclaimed title that changes as he ages, going from 'strange little colt' to 'young murderer' to where he's settled now as 'the hunter') because he thinks of himself without emotion, as sort of a walking character that is a representative of a mold he is meant to fit into. Present has a lot to do with his father- Roanne was the past, Knox is the present, so the tense follows naturally. As for Manhattan, she is the best judge of his character and the closest to him. She knows him better than anyone else, and is a very emotional character, which balances his emotionless one. She is able to explain the parts of him to the reader that no one else, even himself, understand.
And so, after all that, my characters really write themselves, is what I'm trying to say. When I don't know the character at first I switch around tenses and persons, but once I do they naturally settle into one way of writing because it just makes sense for them.
/weird probably useless ramble over
Prometheus, for example, is in first person present and reads like a madman. The first person is very simply because he is self absorbed, present because he is very much a fluid and ever changing being. His sentences are run on and the grammar is warped because he is insane. When he speaks of Pyr, it is in second person, because nothing matters to him in the world except for Pyr. And so posts carry out like a conversation between the two, all from Theus' point of you. But at the same time Pyr never speaks and his thoughts are very rarely central in the post because not only is he selfless and quietly respectful/fearful/loyal, Prometheus Loves Pyr but does not pay attention to his companion's feelings. As a result, Prometheus is always the center of attention.
Birch is third person present. Third person because he is very philosophical and has trouble with connecting with his own self, present because he fears and hopes to ignore his past.
Knox is 50% of the time conveyed through Manhattan. He is third person present too. Third person (With a self proclaimed title that changes as he ages, going from 'strange little colt' to 'young murderer' to where he's settled now as 'the hunter') because he thinks of himself without emotion, as sort of a walking character that is a representative of a mold he is meant to fit into. Present has a lot to do with his father- Roanne was the past, Knox is the present, so the tense follows naturally. As for Manhattan, she is the best judge of his character and the closest to him. She knows him better than anyone else, and is a very emotional character, which balances his emotionless one. She is able to explain the parts of him to the reader that no one else, even himself, understand.
And so, after all that, my characters really write themselves, is what I'm trying to say. When I don't know the character at first I switch around tenses and persons, but once I do they naturally settle into one way of writing because it just makes sense for them.
/weird probably useless ramble over
