Voice Shift

[StephXZed]

So yesterday night I was sitting in our Independant movie theater watching "Downfall". It's about the fall of Hitler and Nazi Germany, and it's rated R. Being extremely interested in movies like this, I got my parents to let me go. They came and sat in the back, and I moved nearer to the front, with my little sister (13).

It was not rated R for no reason. I don't know how many of you have seen "Downfall", but it is violent, bloody, gory, and an all-together downer. Needless to say I enjoyed it, but that's not the point.

In one point in the movie, someone in the theater started coughing. After a while I realized that it sounded like a kid's coughing, like a ten year old kid. Because I was flinching every five seconds, and I consiter myself to be extremely non-squemish, I was shocked, and almost angry. I kept thinking, "WTF were those parents thinking?! This isn't a movie for a kid! What is the MATTER with them?!"

And then, really suddenly, Zedith said, "Steph, what are you?!" He sounded angry, and- more shockingly- very different. I have always thought that his voice seemed roughly seventeen, but when he spoke in the theater it sounded as if he was forty. It was the clearest I've ever really 'heard' his voice, as opposed to just 'feeling' it.

When I asked him about it later, his voice was normal. He said that it was because I was... feeling older, or was emotionally more aware and compassionate when I was watching this movie on suffering. He said that it made me grow up a bit while I was watching it, and it made him sound older as well.

Has anyone else had these odd kinds of voice shifts? Why did they do it? I'm still a little confused.

[|3200k1]

Naturally, when I've had too much coffee and am hyper liek a kid, his vocie sounds more girlish, though I suppose it could jsut be his voice shifting down to an 11 or 12 year old boys.......*shrug* Sounds interesting though, and I haven't seen it, but I can't imagine a 10 year old seeing a movie liek that. O.o

[Annie]

Rho does that all the time. When he feels like he needs to be like a parent or more of a guardian type thing, his voice gets older seeming. When I'm feeling hyper and immature, he sounds like a young boy whose voice hasn't changed yet. When I'm thinking deeply about something, his voice sounds richer. I just took it as a emotion-type dealymabob. =/

[Zoe 'n' Calosta]

Yeah Cal does this too. If I act like an idiot he sounds about....in his mid-30's but when I get hyper he sounds about 12. But then, doesn't everyone do that to an extent? I mean, doesn't your voice change ever-so-slightly with your moods? I just assumed that this was exactly what happens with you, but exaggerated. *Shrugs*

[Tatl & Valian]

Well, heis voice is REALLY weird. Most of the time it's...I can't really describe it, I think it's past puberty, but high for that. And yet sometimes <mostly when I actually think abou his voice> it'll be really deep. I don't think it has anything to do with maturity thoug. Oh, and sometimes it changes if hei's a creature with a very distinct voice.

[StephXZed]

It just... didn't sound like him at all. And yet it's the clearest I've ever heard his voice. It was... kind of shocking.

[Cat]

Pocket's voice is pretty consistent. He doesn't usually sound older or younger than he is. His voice does shift, though, when he sings, but only when he changes forms ... like, if he's singing to, say, a Linkin Park song, he'll still sound like Billy Talent's Ben Kowalewicz unless he turns into a raven. Yes, a raven, his Chester-singing-form. And the list goes on ...

[Zen]

Hm. Falel sometimes speaks in accents, especially if I've just watched a foreign film or something. Come to think of it, though, when he's human - the form he takes to comfort me - his voice always sounds different.

Pocket, you stole my singing voice. ><

[Cat]

Zen said:

Pocket, you stole my singing voice. ><

MUAHAHAA!! ::snatches it and runs away::

[Zen]

Cat said:

MUAHAHAA!! ::snatches it and runs away::

::tackles:: FIEND! You were aptly named, thief.

[rave & phair]

You bloody theif, you stole mine too!
Chester has such a raven's voice, though. All hoarse and *frisson* yay.

The other day we had a really long, odd talk about philosophical things, and his voice was really loud and harsh and.. apocalyptic.

[Annie]

Rho has been talking in a accent like Zazu's from TLK when he says matter-of-fact things. It's........well, it's different.