Some ddlc voice headcanons
Warning: this explanation is gonna sUCK sHIT cuz I have no idea how to describe voices
Monika
-has quite a monotone voice that expresses only small amounts of emotion most of the time. Unless she's very emotional, will mostly stay the same neutral tone with little bits feeling punctuating her lines
-As she got older during her debate club days, and some other social activities she learned to sound much more polite and friendly and inflect more. But when she was a kid it was even more monotone.
-she also learned how to project her voice around that time too. She always makes sure she projects quite loudly when socializing but when relaxed she sounds naturally much quieter
-Anyway, her voice hasn't been on to show much emotion from a young age, it's something she adopted very early on to conceal some emotions and now she doesn't know how to unlearn it
-It makes it harder for her to express her feelings and make people think she's genuine. She hates it because she feels like it doesn't match up with how she feels on the inside, on the inside she feels so much. She also wished she was better at expressing emotion for when she's singing, the songs she writes are always more emotional than she can sound on command
-as for pitch, her voice isn't too high or too low, somewhere in the middle. But her voice definitely sounds very much like her age in contrast to the rest of her demeanour which tries to seem older than she is. She hates that about her voice too.
-she definitely tries to make her voice sound a certain way and sound very clear when she's around people most of the time, to sound very confident
-the other girls are jealous of the fact that she never stutters on her words. Truth is she had a stutter when she was young, and when she's really emotional it comes out again
-she tends to let out a lot of little sound effects, like little whines or hums, it's a good way of expressing more emotion, but usually only when she's alone or around ppl she trusts cuz she finds it very embarrassing when it's pointed out. The habit got worse after spending time with Sayori, Sayori thinks it's so cute.
Sayori
-also around the middle of high and low. But when she's pretending to be happy her voice sounds a little bit higher, as for when she's being genuine it's sounds a little deeper
-has a slightly raspy voice. In the morning it especially sounds super husky. It's kinda nasaly too.
-doesn't really know how to control how loud or quiet she is very well, just whatever she instinctively feels like expressing is probably what will come out. Sometimes just accidentally yells way to loud out of nowhere. Then some days when she feels bad she can only lift her voice just above a whisper
-thinks her voice sounds ugly, but everyone else thinks it's sounds very cute and/or reassuring
-has such a comfy friendly tone, not the most expressive voice in the club but enough so that she always sounds very genuine no matter what she's saying, even if she doesn't feel totally genuine
-her tone gets a lot more stagnant on the days where she's low energy
-also tends to make a lot of sound effects, more so just a lot of verbal stims, like fixating on one word or sound for a week and using it like a coma, but in general just makes a lot of sounds
-stutters but not in a stuttering on her words nervous type of way but backtracking and switching her wordings around a lot when talking, often trial by fire figures out the right way to say something
Yuri
-has the most smooth soothing pretty voice you ever did hear, the type of voice you would want to read you a bedtime story, and she hates it for no reason other than pure self deprecation. The others let her know fairly regularly and she denies it every time.
-her voice is either quite devoid of emotion or hella emotional no in-between. She can switch between those two modes very suddenly, giving whiplash
-hates it when that happens, she always feels really embarrassed when some intense harshness or rushing excitement suddenly pops out from nowhere, she feels like she makes the conversation awkward when she does so
-talks very quiet normally just out of habit but can get really loud if the time calls for it, she can't get loud on command tho it has to happen naturally
-hates both of these things, hates not being able to speak up loud enough and not being heard but also wants to sink into the floor from shame after she gets loud
-stutters on her words so much as soon as she gets a little nervous, it makes her so frustrated because she wants to be as articulate as she is in her head. Loves it when she feels confident because she sounds so clear and smooth when she does
-Only makes little sound effects like little hums when she's in the middle of talking, if she's not talking she is completely and utterly silent, not a word, voice and sound she doesn't know them
Natsuki
-Higher pitched voice, but not in the super high pitched way in the nasaly type of way. Sounds kinda gremliny in a cute way, her voice is adorable
-Extremely expressive voice, even when she thinks she's hiding her emotions she never really can, there's almost always some kind of feeling there, it annoying to her. But the good thing about it is that it's so varied and unique it makes it very easy to always tell what she's feeling
-Naturally very loud, doesn't really know how to talk quietly, or ever sound quiet. She's so skilled at yelling
-even when she's alone she tends to make a lot of little remarks to herself out loud or at least just a grunt or scoff littered through her day to day life. Has tried really hard to squash that habit but it hasn't worked
-tends to put a lot of emphasis on certain words here and there by stressing or adding an extra vowel at the end of she wants to highlight it
-when she's very emotional, in a positive or negative way there tends to be a bit of a squeakiness to her voice or little voice cracks
-stutters a lot, but not necessarily in a nervous way she tends to just stutter on her words fairly often in general. Her toxic friends would make fun of her for it all the time and now she gets super defensive whenever anyone brings it up, she cringes a little every time she hears it
Okay that's all I got for now
