Sob their friendship is wonderful even when it's also absolutely terrible and I love it. Fred pushes her and Ariadne pushes right back and they're both so unwilling to give an inch, it's great.

I am just forever going to worry about speech patterns and I have no idea when it started becoming a Thing that I constantly worry about but it did, bluh. Still, I'm glad she sounds right to you and I'm glad I'm getting her stubborn, bull-headed, straight-forward, poke-and-prod thing across since to me it's such a huge part of who she is. She's the curious, stubborn architect who wants to get to the bottom of things, even if you're going to yell at her for it. Maybe someday she'll even be better at being subtle about it, lmfao.