#the split

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Anthony Stewart Head🤍

The actual answer, at least in my head, is the first objects Volt probably met, just because of proximity's sake and their jobs were probably Dorian and Tony. And I imagine that when Volt first formed, he sounded exactly like Eddie and it freaked him the fuck out—I mean, he was already freaked out and exhausted and trying to hold it together for both his and Volt's sake, but the voice thing was really the straw that broke the camel's back so Eddie told him to cut it the fuck out. And Volt is nothing if not adaptable to Eddie's needs.

Tony was out of the question—he annoyed Eddie greatly, and Volt didn't want to be another annoyance to Eddie, so he started listening to Dorian more. He started practicing his syllables, but of course while Dorian is a helpful and friendly guy and he at that point had no reason to be distrustful of Volt, he and Eddie still weren't on the greatest terms, and it was a little weird for this new friend of Eddie's to be copying him all of the sudden. So he told Volt, much politer than Eddie had, "Look mate, I appreciate you takin' an interest and tryin' to make Eddie comfortable during the adjustment period, but don't try to be like everyone else. Your voice is an important tool. Make it your own."

And Volt was still so new at that point, he hadn't really explored being anything other than helpful to Eddie, and he was already in deep with recreating Dorian's accent, but he took Dorian's advice to heart and made his voice his own because it was the first time someone other than Eddie had genuinely reached out to him.