Having your character talk during cutscenes

[Shougun]

the direct quote was "Silence is a characteristic and If I wouldn't do it at that time then it isn't "my" character." you also go on to use "silence" as an example for a dialogue choice.

based on that, everything I've said stands- and it seems like you actually don't understand. to put it into context- just because the silent protagonist doesn't say anything at that time doesn't mean they're not actually saying anything at that time. whatever you think or feel is the response, which you project onto them. if you're projecting silence onto them as a result of not seeing or hearing lines of dialogue, well... that's on you.

the point is, silent protagonists aren't your preference and that's fine. but your perception of them being silent and associating it with being a characteristic and therefore 'not you' doesn't, in fact, mean they possess a silent characteristic.

the default response of the silent protagonist isn't "silence"- it's whatever you imagine them to say. so it's only a characteristic if you yourself perceive it that way.

If they don't say anything at that time they don't say anything. I'm not going to mentally -force- extra scenes into the scene. Sometimes they do things like "explain the situation "yes/no"" and then you start talking and it fades out and fades in - that is something you can add imagination to I suppose.

But if not, that's not on me. You are being extremely unreasonable to defend some point like "If you don't see the purple dragon in the back ground well that's on you!" ... Except there was no purple dragon in the background and you are making stuff up to satisfy the point (imagining things your character says to say that's how he is, except he never spoke during the scene for you to be able to say he said anything).

Please don't make things up to make points... those aren't points - its just nonsense to argue fact with (saying you imagined extra scenes or something, if there are fade in fade outs for every talk then there are "in-between" scenes that you can say are designed for imagination but otherwise there were no scenes to explain the extra imagining scenes at that moment).

Assuming the point we are making is that silence makes or does not make a character easier to personalize - which I say it doesn't (for myself).


Edit: explained everything more / removed some unnecessary comments.