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I've talked on LJ before about having synaesthesia. My particular tweak is colour/other sense. For example, if you've ever smelled a lombardy poplar in bloom? That scent to me is sap green. Like the exact colour.
Sounds get colour too - and this is where things got interesting for me writing the Lich King's mental hassling of people in my Warcraft fic. The colour associated with him in the game so NOT RGB blue; it's a lot closer to this, and I had originally intended to use that color, but...the problem was, he doesn't sound that colour. His voice is blue, and specifically that not-found-in-nature #0000FF BLUE blue.
I don't know why. but it is.
Arthas, not possessed, sounds royal blue which is kind of amusing.
Ishandarr's voice is indigo even though his 'image colour' is like this tealy shade.
Teraeis is kind of like this.
Other people's voices are harder to place but. Yeah. Whee? I didn't get the strong colour/tone clash when I put Medivh's speech in deep red or Terenas's in gold, even though those aren't quite exaaaactly the right colours (Terenas's is slightly closer to correct), but the blue issue just up and punched me in the head. XD; i seem to get things going on largely with cool colours (green, blue, violet). I'm not sure why that is, but it's kinda cool.
And it isn't just 'image colour' either. Like, even though there is a violet kind of a sound to Illidan's voice? I could not put Kael'thas's mental speech in bright or dark red because that's not the colour his voice is, even when he's pissed off. Red's got something different behind it and a different tonal quality.
I can see kind of a common thread to how colour/tone works and it seems to be usual for colour/sound people to associate softer or ligher toned sounds with a lighter colour; for me, there's also the 'less saturated colour = slightly softer/rougher voice' thing. Ishan is soft-spoken but he has a very clear tone; he doesn't have the same kind of tone as Teraeis, which is why Ter's a little greyer. If I was going to cast them with Japanese VAs, Ishan is Suwabe Junichi (Archer) and Ter is Sakurai Takahiro (Cloud). XD; that may not be at all close to how Ter actually does sound so I'll chalk it up to weirdmind. They both sound hot at any rate.
AAAANYHOW no one really needed to know or especially cared about that, but I got bored so I wrote about it. Woo.
Sounds get colour too - and this is where things got interesting for me writing the Lich King's mental hassling of people in my Warcraft fic. The colour associated with him in the game so NOT RGB blue; it's a lot closer to this, and I had originally intended to use that color, but...the problem was, he doesn't sound that colour. His voice is blue, and specifically that not-found-in-nature #0000FF BLUE blue.
I don't know why. but it is.
Arthas, not possessed, sounds royal blue which is kind of amusing.
Ishandarr's voice is indigo even though his 'image colour' is like this tealy shade.
Teraeis is kind of like this.
Other people's voices are harder to place but. Yeah. Whee? I didn't get the strong colour/tone clash when I put Medivh's speech in deep red or Terenas's in gold, even though those aren't quite exaaaactly the right colours (Terenas's is slightly closer to correct), but the blue issue just up and punched me in the head. XD; i seem to get things going on largely with cool colours (green, blue, violet). I'm not sure why that is, but it's kinda cool.
And it isn't just 'image colour' either. Like, even though there is a violet kind of a sound to Illidan's voice? I could not put Kael'thas's mental speech in bright or dark red because that's not the colour his voice is, even when he's pissed off. Red's got something different behind it and a different tonal quality.
I can see kind of a common thread to how colour/tone works and it seems to be usual for colour/sound people to associate softer or ligher toned sounds with a lighter colour; for me, there's also the 'less saturated colour = slightly softer/rougher voice' thing. Ishan is soft-spoken but he has a very clear tone; he doesn't have the same kind of tone as Teraeis, which is why Ter's a little greyer. If I was going to cast them with Japanese VAs, Ishan is Suwabe Junichi (Archer) and Ter is Sakurai Takahiro (Cloud). XD; that may not be at all close to how Ter actually does sound so I'll chalk it up to weirdmind. They both sound hot at any rate.
AAAANYHOW no one really needed to know or especially cared about that, but I got bored so I wrote about it. Woo.