#Loki voice: je suis non binaire!

[scarlet--wiccan]

(Sorry if you've been asked this before, couldn't find any asks through a search.) Do you have specific voices you imagine any of your fav. comic characters talking with? Either real life people's voices and/or certain cadences, lilts, pitches, etc? I feel like everyone I know who reads comics either doesn't "hear" voice when they read or has a distinct sound for diff. charas

Sorta kinda. I'm sure there's a word for this, but I'm definitely one of those people who "hears" what they're reading or writing. It's the same with my own thoughts-- it's very much a verbal internal monologue. Anyways, I don't really do character voices, but, depending on the script, I certainly pick up on tone and stuff.

I have a general sense of what I think Wanda and Pietro's accents sound like, but I don't necessarily, like, do it in my head when I'm reading. Just because I know what it sounds like doesn't mean I can put it on, myself-- I'm from a different vitsa, and a very different part of Europe-- and if I'm just reading to myself, I don't see any point in turning it into a dialect exercise. I guess I read Billy's dialogue in a really, you know, gay voice? But that's because that's how I talk, and I just filter that through any character who seems even remotely limp-wristed.

I grew up speaking French-- although I'm wildly out of practice-- so I do slip into that very easily whenever I'm reading a character that's French, Canadian, Cajun, Haitian, etc. Obviously, I know that those are not all the same thing, and they don't actually sound the same, but my brain just clicks back into that rhythm on its own. And this might surprise some people but I actually read Loki with a French accent-- "Kid Loki" was reincarnated in France, so when I read Journey into Mystery and Young Avengers I had it in my head that they sounded like my younger cousins. Now I kind of think they sound like this.