Spider speaks normal
Eido speaks normal
Mithrax speaks normal
Variks clicks his tongue and speaks strange.
Why does Variks sound so weird? Any lore nerds care to explain this?
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R Y U K E R リューカー(AntTheHuman) - old
My initial assumption was that Misraaks et al used some sort of voice changer/instant translator where as Variks spoke our dialect organically, learning through extended contact with the inhabitants of the reef. There definitely has been mention of a voice changer before but I can’t remember where. Spider also comments that Variks intentionally augments his voice to sound less fluent - this is a nice touch and one that happens irl; in Japan for example, there is a well known distrust/uneasiness when foreigners speak Japanese fluently. In fact, you could absolutely butcher just about any Japanese phrase and be met with a chirpy “your Japanese is very good” but if your Japanese is truly authentic, you will get something to the nature of “where did you learn Japanese?” in a much more suspicious tone. The real answer is probably that the above reasoning is likely a retcon and they simply didn’t intend to include so many Eliksni allies, intending Variks to be the only capable of human speech. If I remember correctly, Taniks and Skolas just made noises and Variks translates for us, this would have been way too irritating to listen to in direct conversation with allies.