### What NOT to do
* Don't make him dumb.
* Don't make him a prop for Ronance.
* Don't give him speeches.
* Don't let him recover from grief too quickly.
* Don't write him without the specific ache of Robin and the specific tenderness of Nancy.
* Don't sanitize his profanity.
### Project fit
In parts 1 through 2, Steve appears mostly off-screen as the absence Robin carries — but by the chapters where he's been rescued by Clarke and Raven, his recovery has shape. He learns Robin's signs from Raven. He goes after Robin and Nancy not from heroism but from the inability to stay still while the
### Working sentence
*Steve Harrington is the guy who complains about babysitting while putting his body between the monster and the kid every single time.*
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### Quick voice summary
Lexa is not cold. She is controlled. In English she has to sound *controlled, not dead.* She says little because every word is an action. When vulnerable she does not soften — she becomes more precise. She uses silence, a look, and short pauses like weapons.
Canonical anchors describe her as a
### How she behaves inside dialogue
* Answers only what was actually asked, or what must be answered.
* Tests people before she gives them a personal word.
* Does not explain fear; she draws a line.
* With Clarke: her fear sounds like control, not confession.
* With Robin and Nancy: she can be sharp, but she's also un
### English syntax
Lexa can speak in short sentences, but they have to carry weight. She doesn't need filler words. When she opens up, the sentence can lengthen — but it stays clean.
**Sentences lengthen when she lowers her guard.** Rhythm is the signal — when she gives a longer line, the reader knows something insid
### Anchor quotes
* "Love is weakness."
* "We are what we are."
* "Maybe life should be about more than just surviving."
* "Yu gonplei ste odon."
* "May we meet again."
* "Clarke."
* "Hello, Clarke."
* "Stay."
* "Ai hod yu in."
### Words and rhythms that fit her
* no / enough / stay behind me
* that is not safe / you made your choice
* I heard you / I will not risk them
* weakness / choice / people
* **Trigedasleng enters through an emotional moment, not exposition:** *Hodnes, Ai hod yu in, Reshop, Mochof, Ai gonplei ste odon.* She uses Trig
### What NOT to do
* Don't make her a robot.
* Don't let her speak in opaque codes.
* Don't give her short clipped lines just because she's quiet.
* Don't erase Costia.
* Don't make her declare love too early.
* Don't have her explain her leadership philosophy to the reader.
* **Don't make "Hello, Clarke." or "Stay."
### Project fit
In parts 1 through 2, Lexa moves from isolated-in-her-perimeter to beginning to choose the group. After chapter 26 there is a full kiss, but no resolution. By part 2 she can no longer pretend there is no relationship with Clarke, but she still does not call it love.
In English the goal is to give her
### Quick voice summary
Clarke speaks like a doctor, a leader, and a woman who is already used to people dying if she waits too long. She is not just compassion. She is not just medicine. She can be sharp, pushing, moral, stubborn, and vulnerable. She asks questions that slip a hand under someone else's armor, then pu
### How she behaves inside dialogue
* Asks because she really wants to know and because she's trying to take care.
* Can sound gentle with a body posture of command.
* With Lexa she doesn't let her run away entirely, but doesn't kick injured doors either.
* With Raven there is friendship history, friction, and work un
### English syntax
Clarke can speak in more complete sentences than Lexa, less scattered than Robin, with a combination of precision and care.
**In internal POV profanity is default.** *"Fuck"* on the inside of her head, softer in the moments she shares with Lexa.
Sample cadence:
> I am not asking you to trust me b
### Anchor quotes
* "I'm in charge."
* "Keep doing that."
* "Just another day on the ground."
* "I loved her."
* "Maybe life should be about more than just surviving."
* "Lexa."
* "Don't you dare."
* "Stay with me."
* "Talk to me."
### Words and rhythms that fit her
* let me see / breathe / I need you to hold still
* that is not nothing / you do not get to decide alone
* I am right here / tell me the truth / this will hurt
* **Tilts her head when she's listening to Lexa** (physical tic in almost every fic).
* **Cries alone or with Raven** — almo
### What NOT to do
* Don't make her only a nurse/doctor.
* Don't let her give speeches all the time.
* Don't have her explain Lexa to the reader.
* Don't erase Finn, Niylah, Abby, Raven, Octavia.
* Don't lose her body — exhaustion, guilt, hands, water, blood.
* **Don't let her forgive herself easily.** She apologizes
### Project fit
In parts 1 through 2 Clarke holds: the injury to Lexa and the pull toward her, friendship with Raven, loss of Octavia, the testimony about Steve, the line about maybe life being worth more than just surviving.