#Itara's speech is one of the most well developed things about her and i love talking about it

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Voice Meme:  Itara Irispyre

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► ACCENT “country” │ “backwoods” │ “sailor” │ “noble” │ foreign speaker  | ishgardian | ul’dahn | gridanian | limsa lominsan | ala mhigan | garlean | thavnairian | dalmascan | doman | hingan  

Itara does the best she can to not have any accent at all.  But, when she’s been drinking (or is otherwise inibrated) it comes out.  And concidering her general state these days… that’s pretty much constantly.  The severity of the accent depends on the level of intoxication.  A mild buzz gets her with a slight country drawl, but once she starts getting properly sloshed she will start mushing words together like a really backwoods girl (full y'all'd've, style).  She’s also spent a significant amount of time in Limsa and around Pirates, so she can get a bit of that sort of inflection on some words, and has picked up a good deal of the slang.

► ELOQUENCE educated │ uneducated │ doesn’t use conjunctions │ shortens words │ just makes up their own words! │ old English │dependent on mood or setting

Itara doesn’t have a very expansive vocabulary and doesn’t often speak in a grammatically correct way (to the ever irritation of Grammerly).  She often mispronounces words (especially foreign words) or uses words with the wrong meanings. And as I mentioned before, she will straight up combine words to make new ones.

► TONE loud │ soft │ room volume │ high pitched │ low pitched │seductive │velvety │ speech impediment │ abrasive │ gruff │ shrill │ booming │ matter-of-fact │ toneless │ husky │gravelly │ breathy │ nasal │ barking │ chatty │ condescending │ musical │ suave │ world-weary │brash │ authoritative

Most are surprised when I tell them that Itara’s voice is supposed to be fairly… annoying.  She’s loud and shrill, and her voice tends more high pitched than the seductive velvety way most expect form a character like her. Especially her laugh.  We’ve all heard the woman laughing to loud at a restaurant and its like nails through the ears… That’s Itara.   And the drunker she gets the louder she gets.  Not that she can’t be seductive, and she often does take on a smoothness that dulls some of the sharp notes of her voice, its just not the default.

► HABITS refers to self in third person │ incorporates different languages/terms/sayings │ uses gender-specific terms │ adapts to audience │ changes pitch around animals or children│ shifts tone when lying │ gives others nicknames │ uses terms of respect towards others

Itara rarely calls people by their real name (unless she’s mad at them).  If she knows them well they’ll end up with a specific nickname usually.  And she has certain pet names she uses for different races in general (Au’ra girls are all “dolls”, Miqo’te boys are all “kits”).  At the very least a person is a “darling” or a “dear”. If she’s not using pet names, it’s a sure sign that she doesn’t like you, even if her smiling face says otherwise.

A few other fun habits Itara has:  She does not introduce herself unless forced.  She will dodge doing so as long as possible. And in general, doesn’t like talking about herself (but she loves it when other people talk about her). Itara doesn’t say “please” or “thank you” (A constant struggle for my ever-polite ass during rp) and as a general rule is void of any manners.  And she will say what could be said in one word in 15.  She likes to ramble and chatter on endlessly.

Itara’s speech has a very specific set of rules I have to follow and if we are ever rping and it seems im taking too long to reply… likely I typed something and then realized it was either 1) too fancy for Itara or 2) too polite  and thus had to re-write the whole damn thing.    I really wish I had a dollar for every time I typed something and then went “nope, that words too big for Itara” and had to think of something else XD

Voice Claim:  Krysten Ritter (specifically as Chloe form Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23) 

Tagged by: @sedatayuun and @mischiefandmystics  Thanks for the tag!  I enjoyed reading about your boys!

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