The Dreadful -- Chapter 4

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Originally Posted by MSperoni

I'm having second thoughts about my differing fonts for Erin and Ith... I just feel like I should make the dialog between them clear enough so I don't have to use a different font. I also am worried the new font for Ith is too evil looking, and too different, and so it makes her seem like she is talking in another voice. The idea is her and Erin have the SAME voice, they just say stuff in different character based on who is speaking.

Honestly, I wouldn't really expect them to sound exactly the same at all. After all, they're not the same person, just sharing a body, and a voice is so much more than just wind through a set of vocal chords. I would imagine that if you were sharing someone else's body, you'd still try to talk like you would if you were in your own body. Therefore their accent (especially if Erin is still supposed to be German), enunciation, and tone could and would most likely be completely different from each other.

I mean, just consider how many different speaking voices a real person can manage if they want to. The first time I saw Kyra Sedgwick on a talk show instead of The Closer I couldn't believe how different her voice was. I would never have recognized her just by hearing her. The way someone talks affects far more about how they sound than most people realize, and matters almost as much as the vocal chords they're using to do it. Lacking the vocal cues that would pretty much have to exist if we could really hear them speaking, I would say that using a different font is the way to go.