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@tornvoid inquired: Sally Whitemane 6’0"

Send me ‘height comparison’ with you character(s) and I’ll compare it to mine ⤷ Accepting!!

“Well, you are a force to reckon with.”

Sylvanas, narrowing her eyes: Whatever delusions you have heard, think nothing of them.

Dark Ranger: Uh-huh. Hey, what do bees produce?

Sylvanas: ...Honey?

Jaina, from across the room: Yeah?

@tornvoid​ inquired: random Headcanon question: what type oif voice do you think Miranda has? 

(( In a gesture that will surprise absolutely no one: I don’t consider Miranda’s canon VA to be what my Miranda sounds like. I suppose it does work for canon Miranda and her design, but when it comes to the redesign... Well, it just doesn’t work.

Namely, because Miranda doesn’t exactly have the same vocal setup as a human. I still need to more fully decide on how exactly it works in all of the fine details, but her vocal cords include a large, complex organ in her chest that partially extends up her throat, the existence of which partially explains why Miranda’s chest and neck both are so much larger than that of a human’s. Merfolk are pretty big, even if Miranda’s still short and small by merfolk standards — and they’re especially good at long-distance conversation through a liquid medium. They have a wider range of sound than a human, including sounds that are too high for human ears to hear, as well as sounds that are too low for human ears to hear, but most of their sounds do occupy the lower range, for the reasons discussed above.

So I like to imagine my Miranda actually has a fairly deep voice? Hers is more smooth than growl-y, and speaks with a lot of confidence to her words, which is a rather far departure from the more canon-typical voice! I wouldn’t really know how to find a VA to match her, not without mixing something up for her in specific, just because it’s really not a human-sounding voice at all, more like what you might imagine a crocodile and a tiger would sound like in combination, with a little bit of whale sprinkled in for flavor, if any could speak.

There’s also the matter of Miranda’s accent. She does try to hide hers, to more closely match how the people around her sound and how they pronounce words, but you’ll notice that if she ever gets really excited or really upset, she’ll start to gain her accent back again, as she’s not putting in as much effort to hide it. This is another one that’s complicated to explain, just due to us not having anything else to compare it to, but I always liken it to music? As in, she’ll pull out some syllables into sounds that almost sound like musical notes, or she’ll add in little trills and chirrs to make the sounds “dance”, or she’ll switch up how she stresses her words to make them form patterns, like she’s forcing everything she says to take on iambic pentameter. There’s also quite often a lot of growls to her words - where, how they’re normally pronounced, you can feel them vibrate in the throat, but she’ll go a step further and actually growl in her chest, producing a deeper and richer sound. Miranda actually tends to speak a lot more “from her chest” than the others around her, which is partially explained by just how she’s making those words, but also by force of habit and how she’s used to speaking.

Continued from X @tornvoid