I would think it is by the onset of said emergency -- that is, whether or not the reader is consciously trying to analyze the characters, the execution of the emergency feels right.
I don't think it's even all about emergencies, but they're probably the best examples because they make you pay attention.
It makes me smile when I come up with some bit of obscure meta, and then I realize it lines up perfectly with FE canon. For example, Soren did not learn to speak until age six, which suggests that almost the entirety of his magical tutelage was done silently. And so one day I came to the conclusion that he probably lipped or at most whispered incantations. I realized that in the cutscene in RD, he had no voice acting whatsoever as he was casting magic, as opposed to Micaiah. I was thrilled.
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Date: 2011-08-05 12:46 am (UTC)I don't think it's even all about emergencies, but they're probably the best examples because they make you pay attention.
It makes me smile when I come up with some bit of obscure meta, and then I realize it lines up perfectly with FE canon. For example, Soren did not learn to speak until age six, which suggests that almost the entirety of his magical tutelage was done silently. And so one day I came to the conclusion that he probably lipped or at most whispered incantations. I realized that in the cutscene in RD, he had no voice acting whatsoever as he was casting magic, as opposed to Micaiah. I was thrilled.