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[bjornwilde]

 Quoth herr_bookman :

If your pups have voice actors, what do they sound like? Are there a lot of pauses, or "hmm"s? Are they a deadpan snarker or sort of emotional? What do they sound like when they're upset? Or overjoyed? Similarly, if your pup doesn't have a VA, describe what they sound like in your head in so many words--or who voices them in your head.

Bonus points for more than one language (e.g. Autor sounds smug and smooth in Japanese, and like he's going through puberty in English).

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[damncompass]

Joshua: Tyler Hines is... pretty damn close to how Joshua sounds in my head. In my head, he's a bit more flail-y, and definitely swears more, but his cadences and everything fit.

Helena: Jamie Murray is perfection. <3

Fantine: My mental Fantine is closer to the OBC voice of Fantine (Randy Graff) than Anne Hathaway. A bit higher, a bit lighter. Possibly because OBC Fantine is the one who really got her in my head so many years ago.

Valentine: To be completely honest, I haven't thought much about her voice. I know her writing style almost better than I know my own writing style (She's very concice, passionate, clear, and uses just enough big words to get her point across, but not so many as to confuse people.), however, I don't think about her actual voice much.

[orange_lily]

Yugo and Phoenix have a voice actor (Atsumi Kanno) in the sense that he has an actor who also voices him. And voices him when he's a rubber suit monster being played by a stuntman, too, so they're his VA as well as his regular face-person actor. He can be seen here, although I deliberately didn't include any rubber-suit-monster scenes.

In flashbacks to when he was Yugo, he has a slightly different voice, in that it's a little deeper and calmer.


Sherral does not have a voice actor, everything he says is text only, because he has about five lines and Square-Enix is sometimes a little bit cheap like that. I kind of imagine him sounding like a younger Robert Carlyle (although do voices really age after you hit adulthood? Not a rhetorical question, I really don't know but I suspect somebody does), in terms of both voice quality and, you know, accent. So there's that. If he was voiced, he'd have a Japanese voice actor as well, but hell if I know who.

[souffle_girlek]

Most of my pups are from liveaction tv/film. Of the ones that aren't (or have such limited roles in their films they might as well not be):

Katya: Sounds like a bright, carefree twenty-something - bubbly, happy, flirty, smoother in Russian than English (especially if she's trying to talk about something to do with being an Other - she's actively having to think of the concepts in her native Russian and translate them to English as she goes, which sometimes leads to poor word choices). If she's truly pissed and hunting, her accent slips back a few decades, and she gets a lot more succinct and sharp.

Glorfindel: Has a very melodic voice, even when he's stressed, but that's more his heritage than anything else. He speaks perfect Westron (though sometimes he pretends he doesn't, if it suits him). If he does use older languages (Quenyan) he tends to favor a more archaic vocabulary than the norm, and will sometimes forget he's doing it.

[cutting_edgex23]

Some of mine have voice actors -- see Dean and Sam Tyler -- but most of them do not.

Michael the Archangel sounds like her PB, Kate Moennig.

Galadan's voice is -- okay this is hard to describe, but picture Gideon Emery's voice with a lighter timbre.

Nynaeve is often brusque and exasperated, though her vocal timbre is probably reasonably close to Angelina Jolie's. Because I am lazy.

Raven's voice is light but raspy, and definitely playful except when it's not. He probably kind of sounds like Adam Beach, but his accent is not the same.

Wonder Woman sounds a lot like Lynda Carter.

X-23 sounds like Stokely from The Faculty. Yay Clea Duvall! This is largely because X is not a big talker, and she sort of never internalized how to speak with a full, resonant chest voice, or whatever, so. Breathy and scratchy and reasonably flat.

[gavin62truck]

I suppose I could try to describe Tommy's voice to someone who has never heard Denis Leary before. (But everyone's seen Ice Age and all those Ford F-150 truck commercials, right?) He has a rough, gravelly voice, due to decades of drinking, smoking, and breathing in smoke. He speaks quickly and his usual tone is sharp and clipped, becoming even more so when he's irritated or angry. When he's happy, it...really doesn't change all that much. He stutters and trips over his words when he's flustered, and has several verbal tics, such as using "like" and "y'know" a lot. His sarcasm isn't deadpan; it drips. The only thing that differs from his actual voice is that in my head, his accent is more of an old-school Noo Yawker rather than a transplanted Bostonian.

[camwyn]

Neither Gordon nor Shephard have official voice actors. I don't recall them even having voiced grunts of pain (probably just as well, considering how much hurting they wind up taking over the course of canon). I've mentally designated Jamie Hyneman as Gordon's VA.

I've never encountered anyone I thought of as a suitable voice for Shephard, though. Probably because there aren't that many people from his part of the country who go into acting. Most people who've heard a West Virginia accent have probably heard Chuck Yeager's; he's been on TV plenty of times for interviews and the like, and thanks to his career as a test pilot and fighter pilot, his calm-under-pressure drawl has been widely imitated by American airline pilots to sound competent and reassuring to their passengers. That is not what Shephard sounds like. General Yeager is from a different part of West Virginia entirely. Shephard tends to drop a lot more terminating consonants, swallow a lot more of the sounds in his words, and in general speak much faster than General Yeager ever did. He tends to leave out a lot more connecting words, too, but I put them back in when I type out his dialog, along with clarifying commas. Stuff that can be understood when spoken doesn't always work very well when directly transcribed.... and it's always worth noting that when he goes out of the way to make his speech clear, comprehensible, and grammatically perfect, it is a very bad sign. He only does that when he's mad. (He slows down his speech and talks clearly for young children, but doesn't bother fixing his grammar. He figures they'll understand anyway. Generally they do.)

I have no idea what Ellen sounds like. The Lone Wanderer isn't a voiced character in-game other than grunts-o-pain voicing, and I've never actually heard her speak. In my head she speaks in text. I know she has a more American accent than her father did. That's about it.

This is part of Santo's canon. His first dialogue is a little after the one-minute mark.

Medic's voice actor is Robin Atkin Downes, who sounds like several dozen video game and movie characters of the past fifteen years because he is. His accent in-game is basically Comical German, although he's supposed to specifically be from Stuttgart.

Mordin has two voice actors, because they changed VAs for him between games two and three. I prefer Michael Beattie's voice for him, but the other guy's not bad either. This clip gets his voice across better than I ever could.

Stacker Pentecost sounds like Idris Goddamn Awesome Elba putting on a carefully practiced but not always flawless upper-class British accent, because Stacker was born to working-class immigrant parents and raised in Tottenham and learned that sounding like someone born to working-class immigrant parents who was raised in Tottenham is not always good for one's career. As Stacker is not an actor, the accent occasionally slips or cracks; it's more likely to do so when he's mad (example: the 'Don't ever touch me' scene).

And Varric can be heard here; his dialogue starts around the one-minute mark. He's generally pretty mellow mood-wise; we only hear him get angry once or twice, and he tends to be either calm or snarky, or at least that's the tone he presents to the world. Image is kind of important to him.

[gavin62truck]

So, Martians are burly, slightly sweaty shirtless wrestlers. Okay!

[camwyn]

Yeah, pretty much. You should see what El Vampiro, Franquestain, and the Cyclops look like.

I love my cinematic cheese.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark was voiced by Patrick Cavanaugh in a motion comic of Invincible done a few years back, but I can't find any clips from it. This is Patrick giving a testimony about a diet and generally is how Mark should sound. Pretty stereotypical American young man, with some California thrown in.

[not_my_sandbox]

Only Amascut has gotten a voice actor so far. She has an accent that always sounds more overblown in my head, so I have to occasionally rewatch a playthrough of the quest were she is voiced to convince myself that her portrayal isn't as much a racist parody as I remember. But, beside her middle-easternish accent... hmmm... she doesn't have a girly voice, she sounds like a bit of a smoker, infact. Her speech is slow and deliberate, has hmmms, ahs, and well well wells, has a slight seductive tinge to it and you almost expect her to purr at some points. She is also prone to use innuendo :D . When she is overjoyed, she sounds more like she's relieved that something in her crapsack life is going right. When she is angry she is either foreboding and threating or foaming-at-the-mouth mad. She also does this scary multiple voices all speaking at the same time thing when she wants to use her goddess voice.

I only started thinking her accent was overdone after her brother, Icthlarin, received a voiced quest. I have seen his voice described as Optimus Prime with a light, tasteful Egyptian accent, a sentiment I very much agree with. Other players were complaining that his accent wasn't thick enough but were still happy about this epic doggod and his epic grumbly voice.

I am not sure whether to count Evil Chicken as voiced. There is a minigame where one can fight several Evil Chickens, and they sound like a bunch of roosters crowing out what sounds like words and maniacal laughter. My headcanon is that those chickens are recruits to Evil Chicken's Glorious Revolutionary Army and not Evil Chicken itself.

[sdelmonte]

Pretty much every pup I have is from TV or movies. The one partial current exception is CharlieQuestion. Who has appeared on TV in Justice League Unlimited and Brave and Bold. But while Jeffrey Combs is a fine actor, he's not quite what I imagine for Charlie's voice. Not sure who I would, though. There is probably a hint of Brian Williams in there, a leftover from his days as a local news reporter trying to shake his midwestern accent.

[minkhollow]

Claudia, Red and Woolly all have canon voice actors, and I see no reason to contradict any of them. Claudia swears a little more, but that's about it.

Sam's voice is a little deeper than NPH's, I think, but probably similar enough to use that as a baseline. I'm also not at all sure what the baseline accents in the Six Lands would even be like.

Imp has a strong not!Welsh accent (so... probably doesn't sound much like Orlando Bloom at all, though I picked the PB for the added layer to 'are you sure you're not elvish?' waaaaaaay back in 2003).

Regulus, it's safe to say, doesn't sound like Robert Sean Leonard at all. XD He's upper-crust British, and grew up in a secretive pocket of London, so while he has a definite London accent it's also a bit different from a Muggle Londoner's.

I haven't given much thought to Cata, and Apollo DOES WHAT HE WANTS.

[ceitfianna]

Mine that do have actors they all pretty much fit with how I picture them sounding which includes Charles, William, Jane, Tumnus and the Pirate King.

Charles has an accent that's more British than American and in my mind its just Patrick Stewart though done by James McAvoy. My headcanon to explain that is that his mother was English, I imagine him as being raised by an English nanny and various servants so he sounds like them.

I imagine that Sameth has a little bit of Scottish to his accent, his voice is lower than the actor who is his PB.

Will's accent is a tough one, which is one reason I write it out because he's from so far in the past, he doesn't sound the same. In my mind his accent is a mixture of Scottish and Northern English with an added something due to being from the past and his education.

Moist sounds rather like Jude Law, who to me has this wonderfully smooth voice that can shift so easily. When his accent comes out such as when he's speaking Uberwaldian, its very light, more vaguely Eastern-European than of any specific place.

Demeter to me sounds like many women I've met over the years in Europe, she has a low voice, it warms you with an accent that you can't quite place. When she wants to, she can focus and sound Greek or French but she normally doesn't.

[jjprobert]

Well, two of mine are live action pups, so, they tend to sound much like their actors.
Alfred speaks the crisp English of Michael Caine when an impression needs to be made, but is more than capable of piling on the sarcasm and layers of implied meaning when appropriate. When he's really happy, he tends to drift into a London accent, which I therefore deduce (yes, I'm coming to this realisation now) that Alfred is from the London area (I'm not sufficiently familiar with the way accent changes as you move around the capital to be confident of saying where in London).

Erik is (like his actor) from Sweden, and his accent shows it. Skarsgard's acting is brilliant, and his vocal inflections are wonderful throughout the films as Erik's emotions change, you can tell, almost without needing to look at him.

Bean tends to articulate himself very well in crisp IF Common (read: English), when he speaks (well, now that he's getting taught IF common properly, anyway). He does sometimes take his time to think before speaking, but as a rule he thinks so fast and so far ahead, (whether that's conscious or unconscious thought is neither here nor there), that no one really notices. And as a rule he doesn't emote at all.

[12goingon113]

Aang is Zach Tyler Eisen, unless he's D.B. Sweeney.

Bumi is Richard Riehle...who I never would have thought to use, but the more I hear of him in the role, the more I love. He's growing on me, not unlike a fungus.

Michaelangelo Is a mix of Robbie Rist (aka: Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.) and Breckin Meyer...who I believe really is not-so-secretly Michaelangelo in real life.

Raphael has had SO MANY voice actors over the years that I just adore, that my own mental image of his voice is now completely nebulous.

In my head he's a mix of Dominick Lombardozzi (link nsfw), Nolan North, Sean Astin, and Josh Pais. I tried to get the "What the heck was that?!" line from him, because the voice actor for Raph in the live action movie is the guy in the cab that Raph flips over, but...youtube was no help to me.

The angrier Raph gets, the stronger his accent gets. Yes, even in spite of the fact that he's lived in Tortall for a decade. You can't take the Bronx from him...

Splinter sounds like Mako to me, even if he looks like George Takei.

Ida is Mary Pat Gleason.

The Loompas sound just like what ever music it is they're supposed to be emulating, though they have a fondness for Korn (Mostly because of 0:37)

[a1enzo]

Enzo's voice actor, now that he's all growed up, is Paul Dobson. I have to keep reminding my brain of that, though. It still keeps going back to his little-kid voice (which has been played by, variously, Jesse Moss, Matthew Sinclair, Christopher Gray, and Giacomo Baessato).

[bjornwilde]

Late to my own party but I have been thinking about this all day.

Jess speaks with a proper British accent and tends to sound vaguely annoyed or exasperated with the word when she speaks. I loved her VA from the Agent of SWORD motion comic and so that is the voice I hear. When she speaks other languages, she tends to sound experienced tourist, unless she aiming for something else.

Hank McCoy's voice is Nicholas Holt in my head and I can't complain.I do think he tends to speak quickly and not with his whole vocabulary. Once he grows up he'll sound like Kelsey Grammer, enunciating every word as if he were on stage, though whether that stage is on the floor of Congress or Broadway is up in the air.

Andrea Nash has a narrator but it is the same voice that does the Kate Danials books so I associate her as Kate. To me, Andrea sounds like Reese Witherspoon, especially from Legally Blonde. Though she has more of a Texian accent.

I loved Thalia's actress in Sea of Monsters and if I had more icons to work with, would be tempted to switch. Her voice is deeper than one might expect and tends to sound like it is challenging the word. It's also the sort of voice that with the right training, could even make Gny. Sgt. Hartman follow any order without question.

Brimstone, thanks to his canon's audiobook, sounds like Christopher Judge as Teal'c. This is due to the narrations chosen accent for Brimstone, Christopher Judge did not do the narration; though that would have been awesome.

Quinlan was voiced by Al Rodringo for Clone Wars but I also kind of hear Jason Momoa (likely thanks to my use of him as a PB).

(Though I'm retiring him, I can't resist) Ben has had several voice actors but while Michael Chiklis did a great job in the movies, I love Brian Dobson from Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, the most recent animated show.

[cameoflage]

Well, I had Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor audio dramas in mind when thinking of how Thurlow would sound, but they don't really have his voice (too masculine), just his accent. Their voice is based vaguely on mine, since I'm their PB. Thurlow's an alto; their voice is the most perceptibly feminine physical thing about them, although there's also room to interpret it as 'teenage boy'.

Aradia's described as having a pr0n0unced h0ll0wness t0 her w0rds, and she sings in an official song. Her voice in that song doesn't really fit my tastes though; it's higher than I pictured, mainly. (Not that I have alternative suggestions.)