At least I seem to be as self-aware as I thought, though.

> The one I learned earliest in trying to use Dream: To capture what I feel is the closest I can get to authentic CSFB dialog, one needs to write his lines as run-on sentences. While it's not as immediately distinctive as Yo-speak or Ausgardian, I've always liked the free-flowing, hyperactive nature it represents.

I've heard from at least two Parodyverse posters that I write online the same way that I speak in real life, apparently.

> And, of course, stylistically your stories often feature two characters debating a concept with a structured, almost-essay like work through of the issue.

Blame it on my primary exposures to serialized storytelling being the afternoon soap operas I grew up with (The Young & The Restless and The Bold & The Beautiful were the two my mom watched, back when she was the stay-at-home parent, so that's what I watched, too) and the "classic" comic books that I sought out, starting in college (old-school Marvel, from Stan Lee to Chris Claremont, could actually combine exposition with characterization in dialogue, a rare feat in their titles today), but I've always felt that a character's dialogue should tell you something, whether it's about them, the world around them, or the ways in which they see that world ... which, in spite of my attempts at a more "conversational" style, probably makes me the anti-Bendis.

Beyond that, I suppose I'm too much of a student of rhetoric to leave any character's socio-political platform unexplored.