Quiet character

A quiet character is the main character of a history when this one does not interact verbally with the other protagonists. Often, this interaction exists in the facts but is implicit in the narration: the words of the characters are simply not reported.

In literature

Some book-plays, of which those of the collection a book of which you are the hero , introduce a quiet character. The reader assuming the identity of the character, his words are thus implicit.
In the novel Mister the Child and the circle of the chatterers (2006) of Frédérick Tristan, the child is dumb and judges the behavior of the chatterers.

In the video games

The quiet characters prevail in the field of the Video game, more particularly in the old plays where the technological restrictions limited the possibilities of wide dialogs.

Nevertheless, certain modern video games continue to make use of a quiet character. Among these characters, one counts in particular:

Claude Speed of Large Theft Car III
Crono of Stopwatch Trigger
Link of the series The Legend off Zelda
Gordon Freeman of Half-Life
the main character of the two first Wing To order (officially named Christopher Blair and played by Mark Hamill in Wing To order III )
main characters of the series Suikoden (except suikoden III and suikoden tactics)

With the cinema

There exist quiet characters with the Cinéma, although they are rare there. One needs nevertheless distinguished these films from films of Silent film, where it is the together characters who are quiet and not only the main character.

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