Borrowed DE

[noteful]

I'm not stealing DE . . . I'm just sort of borrowing it.

If you were to write a sort of User's Guide to Interacting with Your Pup, what are two or three things that would be at the top of your list as being helpful for the other mun to know?

It might be especially useful if they're things it may be hard to work into narration. Or if they're things that are unique to your take on the character, because you're pre-canon/post-canon/all this stuff happened in Milliways that changed them from canon/etc.

And because examples are handy things, see my answer for Meg in the comments.

Comments

[ellectrical]

I have to admit, I have a really clear idea in my head of what X's voice sounds like, and I'm pretty sure it's completely wrong. I haven't seen The Faculty, but what I imagine is much deeper than I've ever heard Clea Duvall speak.

[varadia]

As Stokely she's got a very flat delivery that drops her voice in pitch somewhat.

I've never heard her do it in another role! I can't actually remember why I was looking for the sound of X-23, but at one point I was, and the flat delivery is what sold it for me.

*cannot judge* *would like to hear your mental voice for X* *is always curious*

[aberration]

It's sort of hard to describe, as it's not from something in particular I can think of. I watched a clip from The Faculty and I'd say the main differences are:

- Duvall's voice is flat, but she's also sort of mumbling. I tend to imagine that X speaks clearly, even if not in a particularly loud tone of voice. Like, Duvall's words all sort of run together, whereas when I read X's words I tend to think she's saying each word separately from the next. If that makes sense.

- This is a little hard to put into words, but I don't think I imagined X's voice as flat so much as... always the same. The only way I can think to explain it is like hitting middle C on a piano over and over again - she strikes one note and it never changes. Except maybe very occasionally sliding up to D, just to effectively communicate when she's asking a question.

- Duvall's voice is also sort of like... airy? I don't know, it's not very full, it has this quality like it's always sort of scratchy, or she's always on the edge of whispering. And I imagined X's voice as pretty deep (not like, masculine-deep, but still pretty low) and pretty much without that airy quality, though I can see why it would make sense for someone who wasn't brought up to speak.


... in other words, my brain is weird! That is a lot of random thoughts that I am not expressing very well!