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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 74
Message ID: 16
#16, RE: Thicker Than Water Omnibus
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-15-20 at 06:17 PM
In response to message #14
LAST EDITED ON Sep-15-20 AT 06:19 PM (EDT)
 
>>Well, he is partially making the Addams Family reference, I
>>mean, he doesn't literally get uncontrollable shivers from Remi
>>speaking Gallic, but he does enjoy it. He finds her voice very
>>attractive, and everything sounds sexier in Gallic.
>
>Do you have specific inspiration for Remilia's voice (or any of the
>other members of House Scarlet for that matter?) My understanding is
>that the source material doesn't exist in dubbed form and I confess
>I've been having a bear of a time assigning appropriate mental VAs to
>them.

Hmm. Not as in specific actresses by name, but I do have reasonably solid impressions of how they sound.

Remilia's voice is lower-pitched than you would expect, looking at her, and she usually speaks a bit formally (but naturally so, not in a stilted or affected way). She doesn't sound sultry unless she's trying to, but there's always a bit of warmth in it (even when she's trying to sound cold). Maybe sorta Dana Delaney-ish? Seldom laughs except in a low, mellow chuckle, but on the rare occasions when she really lets go, it's high and musical. When she sings in Gallic she sounds like Édith Piaf, albeit usually less operatic, since she rarely sings except in the kitchen.

Flandre sounds more like you'd expect from her appearance, at least now that she speaks in her normal voice—higher-pitched and more casual than her sister, the voice of a cheerful girl in her early adolescence. She can speak formally if the situation requires it, but prefers not to. She has a slightly shrieky laugh, especially when taken off-guard by something that delights her. Her singing voice is very rusty, since she hasn't really used it for 400 years, but it has potential.

Both Remilia and Flandre speak English with a slight Shakespearean accent, since their childhood tutor in that language was from England (albeit about 50 years before Shakespeare's own birth). Something in my head keeps wanting Flan's English-language accent to be vaguely Scottish instead, possibly to facilitate her being voiced by Karen Gillan. ... Actually, I may run with that. They're five years apart, they may have had different tutors. (And, it's just occurred to me, it's not completely out of the question that Flan's was Amy Pond. :)

Sakuya speaks every language she speaks, and there are a lot of them, with no discernible regional accent, which means if the maid thing doesn't work out, she could get a job as a news anchor virtually anywhere. Her diction is precise without being cold (unless she wants it to be), and the timbre of her voice is moderate; she very seldom raises her voice, but when angered, she has the kind of "angry voice" that really doesn't need to be raised. Laughs easily and fluidly, but not energetically. So far we've only heard her humming along with an Ink Spots record, but I assume she sings as well as she does everything else.

Meiling is perhaps not as loud as she looks like she might be, but otherwise pretty much has the central-casting "Clydesdale gal" voice, big and round (but not as deep as you might expect). Has a very slight accent that could be Chinese, which goes along with her aesthetic, but her English diction is mostly neutral. Speaks casually, but not carelessly. Unsurprisingly, she has one of those big ol' HAW HAW HAW kind of laughs, like Mio Sakamoto. Can actually sing quite well, but only seems to know Chinese songs in a very old-fashioned style.

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