thedemonscrawler answered:
Part of the inspiration came from good ol’ Solar Lunacy. I think he’s a little more verbose in the fic itself, but especially in the comics Bam does, he has that direct way of speaking that caught my attention.
In roleplay I’d already worked with a character that I’d given a similar clipped speaking style, so for Moon I dialed it up to 11. It’s been really fun!
And oh absolutely |D it definitely gets tricky sometimes. There’s a couple of rules I more or less follow, though of course I’ll go with exceptions if that’s what flows.
So really what Moon does most of the time is jump straight to the subject of a sentence. For example, this bit from chapter 10:
We’ve cut down the question “do you want to switch?” To just the most important part. He does this a lot when asking or answering questions, usually followed up by a more normal, but still short sentence.
He also tends to drop the pronouns at the start of sentences, or words like ‘that’ or 'have’. This rule probably gets the most exceptions because sometimes a pronoun is needed anyway. This bit also from 10 demonstrates that, as well what was said above.
(Fun fact! The only time Moon uses the word “I” is when he says “I know”. Otherwise he always drops it from the sentence.)
If Moon can condense a thought down to a certain phrase, he does. Hence his use of “rulebreaker”, “intruder”, “Naptime”, etc. It’s really all about efficiency, and how can you communicate an idea in the fewest words. It also depends on who he’s talking to. He gets away with much, much shorter sentences when talking to Sun than when talking to Gregory, since he and Sun share common knowledge (like how you can repeat just a word or two from a meme your friends are familiar with and they immediately get it).
I hope that explained.. anything 8’“D