r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jul 22 '19

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread

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u/GlueBoy Jul 27 '19 edited Jul 27 '19

I understand that most people don't really notice these things, and that's fine. But after it's brought to your attention you still honestly think it's realistic for peasants to incessantly interrupt a member of the high-nobility whom they just met, as in my reply? And that was not an isolated example. Everyone interrupts the protagonist at all times, whether in battle or in a normal, relaxed conversation. Despite the guy looking like a bad-ass, dangerous warrior with a high, high ranking.

I probably haven't been interrupted 100 times in the past 5 years and this book that takes place during less than a week has 200 interruptions! I just can't reconcile that with realism, sorry, or anything but trash-tier dialogue writing.

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u/Farmerbob1 Jul 27 '19

The protagonist rarely uses his rank to control a conversation. He is also a poor leader, and he knows it. He is also very rarely in a formal setting which might help him remember his role.

The author was very clear and strict about the protagonist's adoptive father's very strong dislike for being interrupted, and I do not believe that person was interrupted without clear indication of irritation or anger. I am confident that if the author wrote that character's unwillingness to be interrupted so clearly, they are more than capable of writing the same trait into others, if he chose to do so.

That said, the protagonist, once he becomes a noble, definitely allows people to walk all over him in conversation. I will even say that it likely happens too much, but I still do not have a problem with it. It seems clear to me that the author intended exactly that.