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Beige Prose
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Brief descriptions, simple structure, short sentences, plain words, few figures of speech. Effective if it works for a character, bad if it doesn't. Use carefully. Compare Minimalism, Fun with Acronyms, Brevity Is Wit, Laconic Wiki, Understatement, IKEA Erotica. May be Boring, but Practical. Contrast Wall of Text, Purple Prose. Common in Private Eye Monologue or from a Terse Talker. Spock Speak is known for it. Examples |
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Iron Widow: Yang Guang in the prologue has bland, exposition heavy prose to show how emotionally detached he is to the suffering around him, barely noting his copilot's death or the emotions coming from the hunduns he's killing. It's a sharp contrast to the protagonist Wu Zetian, whose prose is both emotional and poetic. | |
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In Violet Evergarden, Violet's stunted emotional intelligence due to her military background means her first several letters qualify as this. She ends up flunking a letter-writing course because her final assignment sounds like a military report, not personal correspondence. However, after connecting with her classmate Luculia, Violet manages to write a successful, but still very beige, letter to Luculia's shell-shocked brother on Luculia's behalf. Despite its incredibly dry wording, it has a powerful effect on the siblings and Violet's teacher decides to pass her instead. | |
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The Gungan Council for some writers. For others... | |
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Used to hilarious effect in Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure. | |
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X-23, an escaped Tyke-Bomb with few social skills, talks like this. For most of her childhood, she was trained to be a mindless slave who never spoke back or questioned orders, and her main occupation was one in which communication wasn't important. Her Beige Prose dialogue is likely the reason we never hear any narration from her perspective. (Before certain Character Development occurred, she didn't speak at all, implying that her ability to express emotions and concepts is gradually evolving.) | |
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Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" summarizes his failed relationships in this style. It's devastating. | |
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The Darker Knight | |
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Cass Cain keeps her speech simple and to the point after learning to talk and read as a teenager since she was raised to be the perfect assassin and being able to talk wasn't one of the skills her father felt she needed. | |
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Tales Series The summon spirit Shadow talks like this throughout the series, with sentences rarely going over three words. The party in Tales of Phantasia have fun imitating his speech style during a skit, while Sheena lampshades it. Ludger of Tales of Xillia 2 is as close to a Heroic Mime as the Tales Series ever gets. He'll usually just call his attacks in battle or give vocal grunts. Whenever Ludger does talk, it's in short bursts of beige prose, like "yes"/"no", "okay", or "got it". |
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Candide, by Voltaire, who manages to fit a 1,000 page epic story into just 75 pages, while still conserving the important details. | |
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A Dark Room combines this trope with the occasional jarringly uncommon or pretty word, to great effect. | |
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Victor Hugo sent a letter to his publisher about Les Misérables sales. The text: "?" The reply: "!" According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the shortest correspondence ever. And it was a telegram, not a letter, which makes more sense since you had to pay by the word. |
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This is part of Ice Bear's charm in We Bare Bears. When he speaks at all, his lines are brief, straight to the point, and completely deadpan no matter how silly. | |
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences and sequels (and pretty much anything else written by squirrelking). The fics don't even bother with describing things and only focuses on the motorcycle and boss fight action. | |
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Sephirothslave's Shinra High SOLDIER. | |
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The SCP Foundation's files are written in a plain, clinical tone. It's very effective. Especially with SCP-4807, an infohazardous thing which can only be described in even-curter-than-normal phrasing and minimal formatting. | |
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The Rotten Tomatoes consensus tries to sum up the general critic opinion in few words. Sometimes, to the extreme: The Emoji Movie was "🚫". | |
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Mannie's minimal narration in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, intended as "Loonie" speech. | |
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Pretty much all of the descriptions in Sherlock Season 4 uses this. For example, this is the first sentence: | |
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The Transformers, both Soundwave and Omega Supreme: Dialogue limited. | |
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The Bunnymen in Don't Starve are prone to this, always uttering single-word exclamations to indicate their thoughts. | |
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Used in The Order of the Stick for sending spells, which have limited word count. This strip is an example (spoilers within beware)note Both the message and the reply are exactly on the limit - at 25 words. Words such as "we'll" and any ending with "apostrophe-s" count as one for the purpose of being a single verbal word. Subverted for laughs with the Power Word spells. Despite being only one word long each, they take up dozens of pages. Also, all spells, when cast, are simply the spell name shouted out. |
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The summon spirit Shadow talks like this throughout the series, with sentences rarely going over three words. The party in Tales of Phantasia have fun imitating his speech style during a skit, while Sheena lampshades it. | |
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Just about any game penned by the screenwriter Tadashi Satomi, known for the early Persona games and the Caligula titles, typically tend to be written in a very utilitarian manner with dialogue and text that is very to the point and only gives the player whatever info they actually need with finer details having to be discerned from context as well as generally only stating things once. This makes him very unusual in the space as he primarily works with JRPG's, games that often tend to be very verbose and at times repetitive. | |
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In Gold, a bunch of frustrated film writers desperately try to cobble together a screen adaptation of an Asimov story (The Gods Themselves), cursing Asimov's dialogue-laden, non-descriptive, and beige prose the entire way. | |
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An ad for A Death in the Family: "Robin is dead, murdered by the Joker." | |
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The majority of Ojamajo Doremi: Rise of the Shadows and its sequel is written with little, if any, description. The author does try to turn it purple during action scenes and whatever other scene is important. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: In-story; "Newspeak". | |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, being narrated by a simple zek. | |
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Simple English Wikipedia. xkcd demonstrates. | |
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American Dad!: Stan Smith lapsed into a similar pattern when he tried to get back into the dating scene. | |
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legolas by laura: "and then one of the orcs striped her and then he raped her and then laura said 'go away you bastard'." | |
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Sten in Dragon Age: Origins, to the point of annoying the player who wants more information. | |
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Jon Lajoie's "I Kill People" rap is written this way to lay bare common rap subjects. Sample lyrics: | |
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Subject Abathur. Advisor to Kerrigan. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Talks like this. Other modes, inefficient. Also in Heroes of the Storm. Playable and announcer. | |
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soulless shell (Redwall) | |
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The Dungeon Master's guide for Dungeons & Dragons includes the advice "Sometimes, it's unavoidable to say, 'You miss. He hits. You take 7 damage.'" It's meta-commentary that not every action needs an elaborate set piece or Purple Prose; sometimes, you need to use beige prose to keep things moving at a decent pace. | |
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Beetleborgs villain's description of last time they tried this plan: "Been there. Done that. Got beat." | |
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Dead Ringers: The main characters of Normal People speak in, as they put it, "infuriatingly spare dialogue". Usually in-between bouts of lots of sex. They do wonder if the show's writers get paid by the line or not. | |
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George Orwell in general prefers to write in this fashion; his five writing rules include "never use a long word where a short one will do", "if it's possible to cut out a word, then do so" and "don't write in jargon." Of course, when he does decide to expand himself, i.e Clover's internal monologue in Animal Farm, it's quite magnificent. Burmese Days, Orwell's first novel, was also a bit of an exception, as it had quite a few Purple Prose sections in it, mainly descriptions of the Burmese landscape, local culture and various goods sold. |
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The X-Wing Series: Michael A. Stackpole. Great ideas. Plain description. Aaron Allston, from the same series, is completely different. The shift is a bit shocking, moreso when it switches back. |
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Citadel of the Heart is this unintentionally; the author is actually intending for Purple Prose a majority of the time since he doesn't like being too simplistic, but what he ends up with instead is a bastard Fusion Dance of Beige and Purple Prose; too complicated to be beige prose, and too simplistic to be purple prose. | |
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Cash's sections in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. First section is a list of what to do to properly construct Addie's casket. Next two sections, the third being 1½ sentences long, are about the casket's imbalance. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Darkest Timeline: Most of the fic isn't like this, but the fight scenes specifically have very little detail put into them other than just very generally describing that they happened. | |
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Fledglings, or: Everything's Better With Penguins: The prose making up Tawaki Penguin's missions has minimal descriptions of things and a lack of narrative connecting the plot points. This has the side-effect of the setting appearing incredibly generic to the agents due to being underdescribed and the stories occurring at a rapid pace due to lack of additional prose to create more downtime between events. | |
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Formula 1: The fact that Kimi Räikkönen will never answer a reporter with two words when he can get away with one, and masterfully avoids any answer requiring more than three words at almost all times is pointed out in their "unofficial rules" video, where he gets his own rule: Never expect a long answer from Kimi. This "rule" applies to fellow Finn Mika Häkkinen as well. | |
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Horde Champion: Continuing from the trend of Orchard's work, there's little description and most narration is fixated on the characters' thoughts and feelings rather than the environment. | |
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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Dialogue is brief, with occasional abbrevs & odd syntax. Necessity of translation.note Zelda II's dialogue was programmed for katakana, the American translation had to convey the same information in the same amount of characters, and katakana provides more information per character than written English. | |
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The Minutemen's "Take 5, D.": Lyrics taken straight from a landlady's note about a leaky bathtub. D. Boon thought Mike Watt's old lyrics for the song were "too spacey". He changed them to something mundane. |
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The Book of Lies (1986) novel trilogy (The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie). More commonly known by the title of its first novel, The Notebook, not to be confused with any other novel of the same name. | |
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The Dick and Jane series of beginning reader books, justified as they were sticking to a purposely limited vocabulary for young children. | |
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Parts of The Bible, especially Leviticus. Major stories and incidents, including Sodom & Gomorrah and the Tower of Babel, are dispensed and dismissed in 3-4 verses. The creation of man is summed up in a page. One time in the Bible, someone saves all the Israelites, equaling what Moses did earlier. This is told in two paragraphs. | |
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Mordin Solus in Mass Effect 2. Rapid delivery tends to mask. | |
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Historical fiction author Ron Hansen's writing is a hybrid of this and Purple Prose. | |
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My Immortal. Except when discussing Enoby Ebory Ebola Ebony's appearance. Then it turns purple. | |
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Gurren Jesus, a crossover fic. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and The Bible. Makes it better. | |
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Some of POV chapters in the Gensokyo 20XX series can be more or less written like this, depending on who is narrating and how much they have to say. In 20XXV, this is noted, when Reimu narrates chapter 87. She isn't very descriptive and neither are the sentences very long, although it is to show how detached from world that she is, as such a worldview doesn't give her much of an understanding, along with the fact that she doesn't talk much. However, Reimu will only narrate like that if a chapter demands. | |
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Screenwipe once did an hour special on writers. One of them was famed for writing realistic dialogue on EastEnders, his method was to write the sentence and then cut down any unnecessary words. So "See you later, we must do this again some time" would after a series of cuts simply become "Later". | |
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Blackadder the Third: The Duke of Wellington's report on the Penninsular War simply reads "We won. Signed Wellington." | |
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In Bonfire, the description for all Failure enemies is simply, "A failure." This is a striking contrast to other enemy descriptions which, while not terribly lengthy, are much more jocular and tongue-in-cheek. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The poetic stylings of Maud Pie: | |
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The Beast of Yucca Flats features a narrator who speaks almost entirely in Beige Prose, and is a pretty good example of how this can be done badly. “Flag on the moon. How did it get there?� | |
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Twitter has a character limit, forcing people to be brief, but they'll often squeeze more words in with arcane abbreviations. Or they'll just do tweet threads to bypass this. | |
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Sunless Sea is normally full of flowery, Victorian-style Purple Prose, but will delve into beige to punctuate certain events. | |
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Much of The Hunger Games series (the last two books in particular) are written with this. This is probably where the joke about the books being written entirely in sentence fragments comes from. It's used to demonstrate Katniss's emotional withdrawal, what with her living in Panem. | |
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In Trials of Mana, Kevin often speaks informally, but sometimes he instead omits words without also omitting context. In the case of the latter speaking style, when one of the villains, Malocchio, announces the plans to revive his leader, Dark Majesty, at the end of the Seaside Cavern, Kevin responds by saying "Who is 'Dark Majesty'? Why stop us?" instead of "Why do you want to stop us?" or "Why does he want to stop us?" | |
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Some poetry by Yoko Ono: | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Agent Superball talks like this, Mr. President. Short sentences. No emotion. | |
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South Park: Butters's writing style in his book The Poop that Took a Pee. | |
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Midbus's dialogue gimmick in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. | |
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How NOT to Write a Novel has a few sections on this, showing how this can be done badly. | |
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Burmese Days, Orwell's first novel, was also a bit of an exception, as it had quite a few Purple Prose sections in it, mainly descriptions of the Burmese landscape, local culture and various goods sold. | |
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In the Myst series, this trope is the main reason why Gehn's Descriptive Books are regarded as a Shoddy Knockoff Product in-universe, as Gehn treats the Art as a science instead of an art, relying too much on "formulas" and copied phrases to preserve his supplies of ink. As a result, his Ages tend to be unstable - the Age in which Riven is set is a prime example of this, with Atrus barely being able to keep Riven going just long enough for the Stranger to accomplish their mission and to save Riven's native population. | |
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Dear Mr. Henshaw: In the sequel Strider, Leigh Botts writes an assignment for his English class (based on his experience on the track) that runs on this, including sentences like "Sun shines." and "I rejoice." | |
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This is the entire shtick of "Blac-U" Weather forecaster Ollie Williams, from Family Guy. The man gets his weather forecasting across with this, and a combination of No Indoor Voice. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII. Monster datalog. Inversion of Final Fantasy XII's Purple Prose bestiaries. Most monsters described as "Unremarkable". | |
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Zero Punctuation for one episode. "Undertale is a good game." Yahtzee's review of the game in its entirety. | |
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Calvin at Camp | |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, in virtually every sentence. You'd be hard pressed to find more than ten sentences with multiple clauses. | |
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The Doctor Who New Adventures novel The Pit is written entirely in this. A good example comes early on, when a police officer goes from looking over the horribly mutilated corpse of a teenage boy to wondering what his wife's going to cook for dinner, with no change at all in the writing style. What might have come across as a nice bit of black humour in the hands of another writer instead just seems like a bizarre tonal shift. | |
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Plain old Wikipedia, when not talking about academic or scientific topics anyway, counts as well. The website aims to deliver information in a very straightforward and plain manner and heavily discourages editors engaging in Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness or writing Word Cruft. | |
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Ludger of Tales of Xillia 2 is as close to a Heroic Mime as the Tales Series ever gets. He'll usually just call his attacks in battle or give vocal grunts. Whenever Ludger does talk, it's in short bursts of beige prose, like "yes"/"no", "okay", or "got it". | |
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