#bonecrusher mumbles whenever he's speaking 🙄

[saxandviolins77]

curious, Devy doesn't have a unique voice in your continuity, right? he just uses his components's vocalizers? any voices he favors using over others? depends on the use case?

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Yep! His "voice" is just their voices in unison. I guess you could say this has some thematic relevance, but in the lore it's just that Megatron was cheap, Shockwave was cheaper and Bombshell didn't care.

He's lucky to have something of a voice, yk? He wasn't even supposed to have a face! (Or a mouth... Soundwave is disappointed with Megatron's decision-making skills.)

But yeah, he speaks through his body and moves his mouth in synchrony, giving bystanders the impression he has a throat mechanism or something similar. I don't think he can actively choose whose voice he speaks in, mostly because he actively denies his components' individuality. However! Subconsciously? Yeah, some voices get louder depending on his emotional state; it's not really clear cut and sometimes barely noticeable.

For instance, your may hear Scavenger's voice when Devastator is particularly apologetic; when he is lying you may hear Scrapper's voice as an undertone of whoever's voice is stronger at the moment; if Devastator is feeling a little bossy he'll speak in Hook's tone of voice, it may not be Hook's voice, but the intonation is there (ig if you're a regular at the medbay you get shivers when this happens.) If he takes a heavy blow and is feeling offended at being hurt, he'll use Bonecrusher's voice, and if he's acting like a little shit, he'll use Mixmaster's voice (maybe not the accent, one thing doesn't mean another.)

Uh, miscellaneous facts section while I'm here already:

He doesn't have Mixmaster's stutter (this may have made Mixmaster insecure for like... Two minutes after they noticed it.)

I don't think Long Haul's voice would be used as much. Reasons unique to Long Haul.

If he's particularly distressed, each word he speaks will come out of a different vocalizer. This is normally followed by him breaking apart into his component pieces.

He's an awful singer (theoretically he could harmonize with himself, but like, he won't.)

Also when a voice gets louder it doesn't mean his right leg is getting louder while the rest of him is getting quieter. It just means the rest of his vocalizers are adjusting to match the frequency and pitch of whatever part of Devastator is acting up.