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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13451229/1/Silence-is-Golden Silence is Golden]]'' the entire Greengrass family is like this, to the point where Daphne and Harry's daughter doesn't make any noises after her ''birth''. Even Harry eventually stops speaking, except for when he's teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts.



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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Donquixote Rocinante, the second Corazon, returned to his brother Doflamingo without saying any word, so Doflamingo wrongly assumed that his little brother became mute due to their shared childhood trauma. Corazon remained mute around the Donquixote Family, which helped him out maintaining his cover. When the Family learned about his fake muteness, he revealed to them it's because he didn't want to exchange words with any of them.

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Donquixote Rocinante, the second Corazon, returned to his brother Doflamingo without saying any word, so Doflamingo wrongly assumed that his little brother became mute due to their shared childhood trauma. Corazon remained mute around the Donquixote Family, which helped him out of maintaining his cover. When the Family learned about his fake muteness, he revealed to them it's because he didn't want to exchange words with any of them.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Donquixote Rocinante, the second Corazon, returned to his brother Doflamingo without saying any word, so Doflamingo wrongly assumed that his little brother became mute due to their shared childhood trauma. Corazon remained mute around the Donquixote Family, which helped him out maintaining his cover. When the Family learned about his fake muteness, he revealed to them it's because he didn't want to exchange words with any of them.
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* ''Manga/AfterGod'': Akio has his mouth taped off for personal reasons of hiding his snake mouth and can only speak in gestures in public.
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* Ben from the book ''Literature/TheWhiteGiraffe'' is less selective, but still only speaks to his parents, and his new friend Martine. The other students don't believe he can talk at all. In the second book, he opens up a bit more, and everyone is shocked that he ''talks''.

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* Ben from the ''Literature/LegendOfTheAnimalHealer'' book ''Literature/TheWhiteGiraffe'' ''The White Giraffe'' is less selective, but still only speaks to his parents, and his new friend Martine. The other students don't believe he can talk at all. In the second book, he opens up a bit more, and everyone is shocked that he ''talks''.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Couturiere}}'': Lila opts to never speak again [[spoiler:after being traumatized by Couturiere (an akumatized Marinette) sewing her mouth shut.]]

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* ''Fanfic/{{Couturiere}}'': Lila opts to never speak again [[spoiler:after being after [[spoiler:being traumatized by Couturiere (an akumatized Marinette) the titular akuma sewing her mouth shut.]]shut]].
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* ''Fanfic/{{Couturiere}}'': Lila opts to never speak again [[spoiler:after being traumatized by Couturiere (an akumatized Marinette) sewing her mouth shut.]]
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Compare TheQuietOne; some examples may overlap between these two. Also compare SilentBob, CannotTalkToWomen, ElectiveUnintelligible and ElectiveBrokenLanguage. Contrast TheVoiceless, who presumably does speak, but we never hear their voice onscreen, and DumbStruck, which is for when a character is traumatized into mutism.

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Compare TheQuietOne; some examples may overlap between these two. Also compare SilentBob, TheSilentBob, CannotTalkToWomen, ElectiveUnintelligible and ElectiveBrokenLanguage. Contrast TheVoiceless, who presumably does speak, but we never hear their voice onscreen, and DumbStruck, which is for when a character is traumatized into mutism.

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