lu made a post about rating your oc laughs from prettiest to ugliest and i got Really Inspired to describe their laughs instead so under cut how me ocs laugh :0 !
Saori’s laugh is, obviously, really soft. Like actually?? I’d say she doesn’t even make a sound when she laughs. With a genuine, genuine laugh, you wouldn’t even be able to hear her, safe for the small intakes of air. She’ll cover her mouth and lower her head, and if it weren’t for the way her eyes light up, you might actually think she’s crying. Like? Even if she were in some stomach-clutching fit of laughter and she couldn’t actually cover her mouth, you’d only be able to hear her gasp for air, not the actual laugh itself. Maybe, maybe, if she were just laughing briefly the breath she exhales might sound like a laugh BUT AGAIN IT’S... there’s no voice it’s just the way she breaths when she laughs!
When I describe Rover’s laugh I tend to lean towards the word giggle instead of laughter, just because they’re more.. silly? Silly and quick! The word giggle matches it more than laughter, so I use that to try to.. help the person hear it easier? Like say you were tickling a little kid and they start giggling, but if they see something funny they’ll laugh at it? I’d say Rover’s normal laugh is literally identical to how he’d laugh if he were tickled. His laugh is... like a bunch of bubbles! They’re quick and small and they’re pretty much like this little flood that he can’t control at all. Which is!! nice! He’ll double over or need to hold a wall to keep himself upright when he laughs, because it’s just so young and genuine and raw that he can’t even stop it if he tried, and it makes it nice to hear because if you make him laugh then it’s like? this really sure way of knowing that you made him happy! There’s no way he can fake that laugh. And that kind of laugh tends to be contagious, ye? You start laughing with him, and not because you’re laughing at him, but because it’s just really nice to hear.
Arachnida’s laugh is very... there is very little chance you’d hear it. Not because it’s impossible to get her to find something funny enough to laugh at, but because she finds genuine laughing, laughing like Rover’s, really embarrassing. Even a slip of a real laugh would make her cheeks burn, a full out laugh and she’d probably have to leave the room and never face the people that saw her ever again. And it’s off topic as to why she thinks like that, but BRIEFLY GOING INTO IT it’s because she makes herself up to be this perfect, flawless woman who will take nONE OF YOUR SHIT who’s composed and strong and in control, and laughing is anything but in control. If she were laugh, though, it’d actually be pretty loud! Not BOOMING or anything, but normal and kinda breathy? So it would interchange between quiet/breaths to actually hearing her voice! She’d be a lot like Saori and cover her mouth, probably go even further and turn herself around completely so there’s absolutely no chance they’ll see her face when she’s cracking up.











