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[sky_child]

I always thought it was amusing to learn how other people envision my pup's voices. Sometimes they're right on the money, and sometimes they're...off!

So how does your character actually sound? And if you've played with a character whose voice is linked to here, how close was your idea of that character's voice to the real thing? Or were you waay off?

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[sky_child]

It's kind of hard to envision Link's voice since he doesn't speak his lines, but. This is what he sounds like.

And also there's this.

[gavin62truck]

Redheaded dude gotta calm down, son.

Btw, I used to think of Link as sounding like someone from an '80s cartoon, you know, when only 10 voice actors voiced everyone ever, and maybe a little higher-pitched.

[bbq_platypus]

I can't not think of these.

[fowl_beast]

Huh?

Voice acting is still a very new and special thing in the game Amascut and Evil Chicken come from. Amascut hasn't received a voice yet but if she does I suspect she will come out sounding vaguely one of Britian's middle-eastern former colonies-ish because, well, the game devs are British(their offices are in Cambridge, to be more precise). I still fondly remember the anger of American players when the first voiced quest came out. Ever since then, PCs haven't been voiced, even in voiced quests. :D

Evil Chicken has been voiced. Actually, several Evil Chickens. The voice was unexpected but it made sense.

Umm, but I am guessing you didn't mean this by "heard". Um... I submit Amascut and Evil Chicken to the peanut gallery without commenting on Link, because I haven't played Zelda games enough to have a headvoice, besides his occasional exclamations :P

[sky_child]

Gamers get angry about the darnedest things.

Anyhow, all Link has his is exclamations, pretty much. XD

(By "heard" I mean if you've ever played with a character and gotten a certain idea about their voice in your head--although the rest of what you posted is valid, too, 'cause I wanna hear what the characters actually sound like!)

[bjornwilde]

Ben's voice in my head is pretty close to this (about a minute in) but a little deeper.

For Hank I have Nicholas Hoult's voice but once he changes, I totally hear Kelsey Grammer's.

Beast Boy's is totally the same as the series. And actually this clip reminds me I need to ask if there are any waterfalls within the bounds of Milliways.

Mars is totally Kevin Smith when he's being mortal but it gets much deeper and echoie if he goes immortal.

I don't think any of my other pups have external voices yet but with past pups...
Rincewind was totally Nigel Planner, aka Neil in this clip. I blame the audiobooks.
Jessica Drew totally matches the voice they used for her motion comic. And now I'm missing Jessica. *face palm*

I am kind of nervous for Thalia with the new movie coming but I'll wait until I hear her.

[gavin62truck]

I remember the original Fantastic Four cartoon and always hear Ben like this. (He even says "it's clobberin' time" here.)

[kd7sov]

Felix... sounds a bit like me, except with just a hint of something close to a Russian accent. (Because I have decided that Prox, where he lived for three years after being kidnapped, is sorta-vaguely a Russia analogue.) I have no idea what said accent would actually sound like, but it's not important anyway because almost no one short of Henry Higgins would notice.

My others are all voice-acted in canon, so. This is my go-to cutscene for Kain's voice patterns. Here's Cranky's episode, and I don't feel like isolating a particular moment or episode for Fluttershy.

[boston_bruiser]

Voodoo sounds like this.

Admittedly, it's set a couple years after MoH 2010, so his accent's softened a bit, but.

John sounds like this. Skip to where he finally meets his family.

[waddledoodles]

So I was about to legit ask if Voodoo was the one with the Boston accent.

durrrr

[misslucyjane]

Most of my characters are from movies or TV shows so I hear their voices as their actors', more or less, and I assume other players do as well.

Head!Merlin is more like Colin Morgan's natural Irish accent than the accent he uses on the show; and Head!Dakin sounds more like Dominic Cooper in Mamma Mia! (not the best quality clip, but the only one I could find with some dialog) than he does in The History Boys. It's a lighter tone, somehow.

Someone did a great analysis of Steve's verbal patterns recently, like how not only does he never curse but he rarely uses period slang, either. Trying to keep him from sounding too modern has been the biggest challenge with his voice, but I think it also helps me keep the tone right. (He kind of talks like my grandpa. They were the same generation, give or take five years.) This is an interview with Chris Evans with a few Steve moments.

Gareth David-Lloyd, especially in the first series of Torchwood, had a habit of dropping his Gs and Hs so I like to have Ianto do that sometimes, especially when he's comfortable with whoever he's talking to. And of course I relish those lovely round Welsh vowels. (There are more fanvids than clips of TW on youtube. I find that hilarious.)

Bilbo, I admit, is a mix between Martin Freeman and Orson Bean in my head. (Links to "The Hobbit" animated special in its entirety.) (OMG THIS HAS THE PETER JACKSON DIALOG WITH THE RAKIN-BASS ANIMATION. I LOVE THE INTERNET.)

The Green Man, though, I don't really hear as David Wenham, or even Billy Boyd or Bernard Hill when I use them as avatars. In my headcanon he's been in the US long enough to lose any British accent he may have gained over the years (though, according to one theory I've read recently, what we think of as "the American accent" was the British accent in 1700s; and then what we consider the British accent became the fashionable accent around the time of the Revolution, so maybe he still sounds British to himself? IDK. It gets to "oh dear my eyes have crossed" territory.) When he's being particularly treeish, yes, he does sound like an Ent :D.

Now I have to wonder what kind of accent someone who speaks Old English would have when speaking modern English. Hmm.

[spiralmovements]

Tenzin, Mal, Kit and April all have speaking canons, so their voices are the actors'.

Sallie I think sounds like Kathy Bates.

Iris...I don't know. I think she has two voices - one for when she is in the bar/talking to mortals, and another when she is on a Job or talking to one of the Twelve. I kind of see her sounding like Christina Hendricks or Deborah Ann Woll.

[ceitfianna]

A good number of mine are from movies and sound like them in my head.

Charles, William, Jane and Tumnus all come from movies and the way they sound is how I hear them. The Pirate King of course is Kevin Kline.

Will to me sounds more like James McAvoy's true accent here just a little rougher to make sense of the fact he's from an older time. So even though three of my pups have James McAvoy for a face, they all sound completely different. Charles is rather more polite and careful of his words, Tumnus is formal and Will is rougher.

Moist sounds like Jude Law when he's using his English accent, I don't have a clear mental voice for Uberwaldian accent.

Demeter, I actually don't have a clear voice for her. I see her as someone who has an accent that's not easy to place and a warm voice.

Sameth, I don't have as much of a mental voice for either, I can see how he moves but there isn't a voice.

Its odd how with some of my pups, I need that mental voice, with Will and William that's part of them. Since they have accents that define their time and story but not all of them need to have that in my head.

[waddledoodles]

OH MAN GATTACA I loved that movie ;_;

[antivan_rogue]

Zevran sounds an awful lot like Puss in Boots from Shrek. (This clip also features the fabulous Claudia Black, in case Morrigan sounds familiar to you.)

[sky_child]

...holy cow that clip, did lol

[camwyn]

Ray, Arcade, Medic, Varric, and Mordin all have voiced canons.

Gordon is notorious for being a silent protagonist, but I have generally gone with the idea that he sounds like Jamie Hyneman, from Mythbusters.

Adrian's speech patterns and voice resemble those of several guys I met in Preston County, West Virginia. Despite the PB, he doesn't actually sound like John Cusack with an accent. He sings baritone, if that helps at all.

Belar, on the other hand, sounds like Owen Wilson. It's easier for me that way.

I have no idea what Ellen's voice actually sounds like. When I write her parts, I think in text. Same deal with Thalestris.

[misslucyjane]

Gordon want big boom?

Couldn't resist.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy Gavin and Kenny Shea sound like their actors, Denis Leary and John Scurti. Here's a clip from "Rescue Me" that demonstrates how they sound together in harmonious discord. (No show spoilers, a little bit NSFW.)

[sky_child]

.........this is amazing

*___*

[babyduckie484]

I think Ginny sounds like her actress.

Mozzie, Sam, Steve, Rod, and Jameson (even though he is from the book) all also sounds like their actors.

Emmett may sounds like Kellan Lutz, but honestly I think he has a southern accent, because in the books If Edward only being 17 still talked like his time period, I think Emmett would sound like he's from Tennessee.

[the_gene_genie]

Gene sounds like this.

Also, best insult in the world, ever.

ETA: I should also state that Gene sounds nothing at all like his PB, the lovely Philip Glenister, who is actually from London and rather delightfully posh*. That threw a few people back in the day, who assumed he was really from Manchester.


*He's actually quite middle-class, but being brought up in Harrow, sounds posh to the most of the rest of the country.

[cameoflage]

I mentioned this in crackchat, but I may as well bring it up again, especially since I don't think you were present.

I like to follow Gene's threads, but I don't actually watch Life on Mars or Ashes to Ashes. (Yet, anyway.) I do, however, watch a lot of Top Gear. As a result, in my head Gene has the voice of Jeremy Clarkson.

[mnt_mike]

Mike started out sounding like Robbie Rist (his VA from the live action movies), but as time goes on he sounds more and more like Breckin Meyer (he who's face I have stolen for his icons)

Splinter sounds like he does in the 2007 CGI movie, or...like Uncle Iroh.

Raph sounds like a cross between his Nolan North and Josh Pais, both men who voice him in respective movies.

Ida sounds like her actress.

The Loompas sound like whoever they're ripping off when they sing.

Aang sounds like Aang.

As for Bumi...I don't actually know what Bumi sounds like. But I'd know him if I heard him.

[ihavemyflaws]

Kara sounds like Katee Sackhoff?

But if you'd like canon clips, I can provide! And cover a few of my canonmates. (Apparently Hulu will complain that you're blocking its ads, but it still plays the clips once they're done loading.)

Kara in a race to kill a badass Cylon Raider called Scar. No real spoilers.

Kara confronts Gaeta. (Sorry, Gaeta! The pony's on us.) Spoilers for early season three.

Kara tells Sam about life with her mom. From season three, but more backstorytastic than spoilierific. Mentions child abuse.

[sky_child]

...wait is BSG up in its entirety on Hulu???

[1nv1nc1ble]

Patrick Cavanaugh did Mark's voice for a motion comic, so I've grabbed him as the voice. You can see and hear him here, at about 2:30 in.

[lunamystic]

You can hear Grace pretty well in this promo. She sounds like you'd expect someone who smokes a pack a day to sound, though I'm not sure that's an Oklahoma City accent. Holly Hunter grew up in Conyers, GA though, so I don't think it's too terrible?

Elizabeth sounds like... well, like Keira Knightley playing a Governor's daughter who becomes a Pirate King.

Jim has an Australian accent and a warm, earnest voice. I can't find any clips on YouTube, but I did find this. Jim in my head is now scarred for life.

Wait! I lied. Here. That's Jim.

I like to think Alanna sounds like Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth.

Thayet has a deep, clear voice according to canon, but now she sounds like Aishwarya Rai in my head.

Doctor Evil just sounds ridiculous. XD

[bbq_platypus]

Most of my pups are voiced in canon. Jim sounds like...well, Gene Wilder, McCabe's an undereducated cowboy type, Leela is basically modern RP with a bit of deliberate, pulpish, "warrior woman" type dialogue thrown in now and there, Kane veers between "quiet hamminess" and "devouring the scenery" and Atrus's voice is vaguely mid-Atlantic.

Borgel is my only unvoiced pup. He has a very clear voice in my head that I find difficult to describe. It's loud, boisterous, and tinged with a small trace of an accent. There's a touch of Brian Blessed to it.

[not_my_sandbox]

A touch of Brain Blessed... Are you sure that is a thing that is possible?

[leeshajoy]

All of my current pups come from voiced canons... but the cat is a bit of an exception. In my head he sounds not like Keith David (who played him in the 2009 film), but like Neil Gaiman's portrayal of the cat in the Coraline audiobook. Unfortunately there's no clip from said audiobook that I can easily link to.

[cameoflage]

I haven't really settled on a voice for Aradia as yet, although I saw a suggestion that she sounds like Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Regular Rei when she's dead, and AU Genki Girl Rei when she's alive. It's not a bad idea, but I haven't seen enough Evangelion to back it up.

Now for the OCs. I tend to completely disregard their PBs' voices and pick voice actors who played a similar character (usually somewhat similar-looking as well as similar-acting) somewhere else.
Lavinia (rearranged_sane), who I don't think has ever appeared in the sandboxes (although her clone-sister Ophelia (loonyonthepath) has), sounds like Summer Glau.
Gareth (sorts_cheese) sounds like Tom Baker, but he's supposed to be American so I end up trying to mentally superimpose an American accent on that voice and occasionally shouting "He's not supposed to sound British!" at my brain. Clone Gareth (clonecalledgary), on the other hand, sounds like Jack Skellington, so his voice is a mishmash of Chris Sarandon (I can't seem to find any non-song clips of The Nightmare Before Christmas for reference) and Danny Elfman.
A couple of them -- Joss (trollscience) and Tamsyn (frankenspikey) -- just sort of sound like me, at least by default. I read their lines out loud a lot.

[sky_child]

I always imagined Aradia having kind of a high-pitched, dreamy sort of voice. Which is very specific and I'm sure you're imagining exactly what I'm talking about! /o\

[alexiscartwheel]

Mary sounds like... Michelle Dockery. Posh, basically.

I wanted a good Mary-being-haughty clip from the show, but apparently ITV likes to protect there intelectual property.

[inlovewithwords]

Handily, Lois comes from a live-action series. I could go on a YouTube search for a quintessential Lois moment, but I am lazy.

Tavi... canonically has a baritone speaking voice, fairly compelling given the ridiculous CHA rolls he has to make. I haven't made any associations yet to real voices, though--which is weird for me.

[tesla_bot]

Mostly there are actors or voice actors or I don't have one.

But Robo sounds a lot like this.