DDFF Meme: Day 9: Favorite Voice.

[railenthe]

 

…Do I really need to say it? We all know I’ve got a pair of obvious favorites.

…well, I might. ‘Twould be a disservice to be so short with this entry. And so we have our picks, in a countdown, from the top!

 

1) Kain Highwind. His voice has so much damn bass in it that the first time I heard it—on a pair of studio headphones no less!—I had to stop and pop my ears. It rattled the bones in my jaw, it’s so deep. The man could scream at the top of his lungs, and yet he still sounds like something that rose from the depths of the abyss, here to steal your soul through the sheer power of his rich, deep voice.

2) Mateus Palamecia. The fact that his delivery is intentionally Bowie-esque is a bonus, of course. He’s always got this smooth, devious sound going on—and that silky, Bowie-esque delivery lends itself quite well to my head!canon, in which Mateus provides the voice-overs for VOID™ chocolate (not to mention the sexy, smooth-jazz-accented shots of him eating said chocolate).
“Void Chocolate. Give in to the temptation.”

Can’t see it? Consider, briefly, that the original name of his EX Burst was…Seduction. YEAH. Add that to the fact that the delivery emulates Jareth!Bowie, and…well…YEAH.

3) Gabranth. Even now, where the accent is either barely there or not there at all and I have my own Fridge-Logicy theories on this one I still cannot get enough of his voice. The speaking accent nearly had me—but it was “DESTRUCTION! RRRRAAAAGGH!!!” that sold me on his voice. I have a thing for enraged, incomprehensible roars.

 

 

Comments

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Oh I know all about mishearing Kain. "Dragon's flask! WITH ALL MY STRING!" "LAMBS OF THE COVENS!" "Dragoons skip to me!"

The first one definetly has a lot of logical weight to it in terms of theory; we never hear a true Landis accent (because Basch fled to Dalmasca we can't tell if that is a faithful rendition of the accent or if it has adapted overtime) so Gabranth disguising his heritage with an archadian one makes a lot of sense. (I haven't played XII in over a year so I'll have to check that out)

I'm not too sure about the epilectic trees (mostly because they are epilectic trees) but they don't seem to have any evidence to prove they're wrong. It's the same with the Kuja-could've-been-a-Cosmos-warrior theory; because we have snippets of potential and no proper evidence to discredit the notion it could as well be taken that way. But hey, awesome theories are awesome and until S-E decides they don't like it we're free to assume that Gabranth is Basch, Kuja was summoned by Cosmos originally and that Yuna turned into a J-poppy petty thief because she hung out with Zidane for far too long.

But nice reasoning and a very interesting read. :)

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

I wanna know what kind of drink is in a Dragon's Flask.

It's stuff like this that's the reason Dissidia is a crack writer's dream. And a few serious ones, but even the serious in this game is inherently cracky...