No, no- I get you. Just interested in how you see the connection (or lack of) between language and characterization. Thanks for the clarification.

I love beautiful language, I love it a lot, but only when it's used right, not when it's done for its own sake alone.

Sometimes it's like having a new toy, or discovering a new sweet; the writer gets so into it, they can't be objective- realize that language can be distracting. I once read some writerly advice: If you write a sentence for the sake of the sentence- cut it.

Alas, fic ain't poetry.