Funny headvoice is funny

[bjornwilde]

So new headvoice is making me think about gender and how Cybertronians don't really have that function. So why then is Arcee female? Okay step back and look at the question/assumption, what makes Arcee read as female? Arcee's G1 form definitely had female curves but not her latest. Slender and spiky is not the providence of the female form alone. Her voice? Okay that reads as female. What say you Arcee? Why does your voice sound female?

A voice with a higher pitch carries farther on a battlefield with less volume.

Well, alrighty then.

BTW, in case you were wondering, Arcee will be next month if anything.

Comments

[camwyn]

Heh. In the Milliways 2007 Bayverse, I had Arcee as female pretty much entirely because the 'bots were choosing human voices to replicate in conversation rather than purely electronically modulated ones. Arcee happened to decide that she liked the voice of Ofra Haza, an Israeli singer. That... was pretty much it.

[bjornwilde]

Oh I like that idea too! I wouldn't be able to use Ofra Haza (Love her!) but I could see what other work Arcee's voice talent has done. Would you mind if I stole that idea?

So Arcee's voice talent is Sumalee Montano who has a pretty impressive career. Wait, she voiced Mystique in a video game and did work for Diablo 3...I see interesting times acomin'.

Love this image of her.

[camwyn]

Go right ahead. That reminds me, I need to get back to the Rise of the Fallen AU fic- I had Ratchet explain to an anthropologist at one point that Cybertronians don't treat gender the same way and that as far as social roles relating to the reproductive process went, they had roughly sixteen or seventeen different 'genders' by human standards, and it was a case of humans not having the language to reflect this accurately that made most of them refer to each other as 'he' and 'him' in Earth words.

[bjornwilde]

I'd be interested in reading that as right now I keep trying to train myself to write Arcee instead of she to remind myself Arcee is not what we would call female. And I think I started to write she twice. = ]