On the HD release's vocal makeover.

[foolishwren]

Okay, mun.

Look.

I'm supposed to be the cranky one here. The way you're carrying on, you'd think it was YOUR voice that fell outta the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down. Just chill, all right? Christ.

Just think of it as like... I dunno, me bursting out of my squeaky high-school kid-cocoon and blossoming into a big beautiful Victoria's Secret butterfly or something!

... Okay, actually, never mind, that's bullshit.

I'll be mad with you.

Let's go bust some heads.

--oh wait, sorry. Forgot. Emoting too much there.

<sub>[AHEM.]

[Deepens voice, flutters eyelashes, and purses lips alluringly.]</sub>

Let's go bust some heads~.

Comments

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

Please don't do that again.

[Face palming so much.]

[foolishwren]

What, talk like this?

_{[OVERDRAMATIC SULTRY HEAD-TILT. Complete with the Myspace Duck-Face (tm). Let's see how long she can hold it without cracking the hell up.]}

[haveyouseenalittlegirl]

Yes like that.

[No...just no.]

im paying attention as i tag ughhghghghg.

[brbrevengeance]

Why would anyone think changing our voices to something like that was a good idea?

[foolishwren]

I guess the same reason why hot twenty-somethings are always cast to play high-schoolers on TV.

I mean, look at this. _{[She gestures to self.]} Doesn't this just scream 'I need a hot, mature sexytimes voice to go with this scrawny underage bod'?

[brbrevengeance]

It has to be, either that or they just want to hear the fans groan.

[Rolling her eyes.] Oh you do have a great point there. It's not like we don't have the best voice for who we are. Oh no, it just had to get an "improvement".

... I can only imagine what they're going to do to some of the others.

[goodcop]

Hard to imagine you talking like that.

[foolishwren]

Yeah, I'm havin' a hard time wrapping my head around it, myself.

Improved voice-acting, my ass.

[goodcop]

They aren't really calling it improved, are they? You sounded fine just the way you are.

[A THOUGHTFUL PAUSE]

Now I wonder if they think I need improvement. Guess I should consider myself lucky we weren't considered for this release.

[CYBIL YOU ALREADY HAD A REMAKE.]

[lettertomyfutureself]

... Do I even want to hear it? The mun doesn't own anything to play it on, so I guess I can count myself as blessed.

[foolishwren]

Youuuuuu probably don't.

Trust me on this.

Mine doesn't either, but that didn't stop her from going and hunting down some comparisons between the new and the old.

Because she likes to be in pain, apparently.

[lettertomyfutureself]

What I don't get is that Melissa.... Mary... Whatever who directed it. She was there, right? When we first got our voice and everything was recorded. So she should have known what it was all supposed to sound like, right?

Maybe she just forgot... Kinda makes you loathe the idea of getting older. They say the memory goes first.

-Yep. She just called Melissa Williamson/Mary Elizabeth McGlynn an old lady. So polite.-

[heavyweaponsbot]

At least they did not decide to kill you.

[foolishwren]

Pfft, like that'd matter... I die a bazillion times anyway and that's canon.

An additional death'd be like... WELLP. GUESS I'LL BE DOWN HERE FOR AWHILE. What all'd I miss? Hey Satan, pass me a root beer, wouldja?

[heavyweaponsbot]

...

I was trying to be reassuring.

[closerthanheaven]

My mun unfortunately lacks the means to play these and hasn't heard anything but your new voice...And that detective, but nevermind him. The curiosity about how my voice changed is eating away at me.

...

But please never talk like that again.

[lettertomyfutureself]

Oh my god. Someone take a picture, this is a bonafide kodak moment.

Vincent. Is creeped out.

[closerthanheaven]

I have to draw the line somewhere, don't I?

[foolishwren]

As much as I'd love to traumatize you to hell and back, my mun didn't make it that far. She can't play 'em either and the only video she found just had me and Douglas.

S'for the best, though. Any further and she'd probably be going all green and muscular in rage, so...

_{[The request gets a sort of amused look, and then rolled eyes. As tempting as it is to keep talking like that just to freak him out, she wouldn't be able to do it for long without cracking up. It takes effort to sound that out of character.]}

Don't worry.

Not planning to.

Unless there's a situation where I need to sound like a crappy B-movie heroine. ... Or a situation where freaking you the hell out is necessary.

'sup Kit just adding to the parade of Heathers 8U

[heathermason]

My mun won't even listen to it, guess I should feel lucky. But seriously when do we ever sound like that, right? I mean, we'd be better off with Douglas' voice than something that skanky.

[a pause, and she cracks up imagining herself sounding like Douglas]

Actually no never mind. But pretty much anything else.

JOIN THE HEATHER HORDE, BRO.

[foolishwren]

Yours is smarter than mine, then. Better hope she stays that way because having to sit around while the person responsible for all your tags is too busy being buttdevastated to type anything but anger.

And I anger'd myself all out a few weeks ago so I don't have the energy to keep up with the mun crap.

_{[She cracks a grin at the thought, though.]}

I don't think I'd mind sounding like Douglas if it meant NOT sounding like a Victoria's Secret model.

[meatysoviet]

Ugly tree is right~

[Because sounding like a psycho Japanese child (or a high as fuck Russian Grad student if you go via the dub) is any better.

IT TOTALLY ADDS TO HIS MOE.]

Must say actress tries too hard to give you good 'qualities' in tone.

[foolishwren]

_{[At least it's what he's supposed to sound like!]}

Yeah, I can practically hear the deliberately low-cut shirt in that voice.

AND THEN I COULDN'T RESIST ANYMORE

[savethebullshit]

[there's a long, long silence while she tries to wrap her mind around that ridiculous voice, and then she has to take a moment to facepalm before she really says anything. She takes a good look at Heather's face and listens to that new voice again]

They made you sound like that.

[some epic frowning going on now]

I think I've just lost what faith in humanity I had left.

EMBRACE THE TEMPTATION.

[foolishwren]

_{[SUP NEWBIE. Heather hopes your story got treated better than hers just did.]}

What, you can't see it?

Seventeen is the new twenty-six, you know!

_{[Cue goofy bullshit sexy-pose complete with using her hands to outline nonexistent curves.]}

Aw yeah.