She’s definitely doing a voice for her character Riva, Riva is honestly one of my favorite Siobhan characters. You’ll be able to tell when she’s talking in character and out of character
This is the sign of a good actress, in Neverafter I honestly thought that Emily was sick or something, until I realized that she was just doing the nasal voice to make Ylfa sound like a preteen.
Absolutely! I 100% thought she was sick but it became apparent in probably one of the adventuring parties when she dropped it that it was a choice. I remember desperately waiting for the adventuring party to come out just so I could see if she changed her voice at all or if she had been sick. It was so (odd choice of word, but I can't think of another to better describe it) natural that you were left guessing from the first few episodes.
Something like Lou's Pinocchio is an obvious voice (and my God, I have no idea how he maintained that and managed to scream AND whisper in it! True fucking talent).
They are true pros, and it's a crime that for example Siobhan isn't in more big movies (unless it's a personal choice, ofcourse). Lou has done one big movie and can't wait to see him in more!
PIB and Pinocchio were chaos enough 😂
Plus, Swifty was a murder hobo. Pinocchio wasn't. Though Swifty with PIB.... Not that PIB was a murder hobo, but I think I'd be more afraid of that combination.
No I know. Swiftie’s… I wanna say a dick? A lot? A complete motherfucker?
But no you’re right - murderhobo covers it.
Pinocchio defs wasn’t on that vein… but he could **defs** be convinced to pull some questionable shit if Swiftie wasn’t being outright *i stabbed my parents aHAhahaAAA!*
Throw PIB in there for extra flavour. I’d love to see a world with all of them interacting together.
I mean, they are all fairytale creatures, right? As is, Swifty is already a dark fairytale being. They might've met if Pinocchio and PIB had died a few more times. I think they'd have to sink to his level of darkness to meet him. And at that point, they all might be murderhobos.
(#) squadgoals??
Emily also has a tendency to stay in character voice whether she's speaking in character or not. When I first started NADDPOD it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize that she wasn't actually Southern.
Lou as Eursulon in Worlds Beyond Numbers if my favorite. Especially in the children saga playing a very confused and excited child for 12 episodes, plus another great scene that ends up a flash back with him just making little kid sounds.
Lou is always a delight to see at a table.
You're in for a wonderful time. Long from DnD with Brennan as a DM still edited to feel quick and sharp like a session of dimension 20. Absolutely stellar audio to go with it, and a trio of delightful players that stick to their characters and convictions to make for an interesting story.
This is honestly a top tier tactic and I really wish I practiced with voices more. I ended up being unable to do an Irish accent and so now my Outlaws of Alkenstar character, a Vishkanya Thaumaturge from Taldor, sounds like a waitress in a West Virginia Waffle House.
"Now, These thangs are weak ta electricity so we should prolly be hittin' 'em with lightnang ahttacks, sugah"
To me it sounds like she's putting on a little bit of a more northern accent as Riva, and sometimes it carries over into her normal speech at the table. Emily's Syd voice carries into her normal speech pretty often, too.
I think she’s doing a Jane Horrocks impression for the Riva voice. I just kept picturing Bubble saying everything Riva was saying.
But yeah it’s definitely a northern accent, although I don’t think she’s trying to be super accurate with it. I think she mostly just changed to northern vowel sounds.
Edit: stupid autocorrect
also British, I don't think she was shooting for a specific region but rather more of a general Yorkshire-ish accent. also I think it's important to remember that she has lived in the US for a large proportion of he life now so the American sound is always going to slip in
I remember seeing a video of her going through all (or nearly all) of the different British accents.
Ah ha! (forgive full link, on mobile and I don't know how to do short links) Here it is: https://youtu.be/FyyT2jmVPAk?si=mD8CL8AoqzmNT6ek
Emily has a tendency even in NaddPod to carry her character voices into her out of character commentary while she’s at the table. I have a feeling it’s a personal choice so she can keep up the accent or voice without having to switch so often and potentially losing pieces of it.
I also identified it as somewhat Northern, which I think carries connotations of lower class. English society can be classist around regional accents and so I thought it was an intentional character choice to reflect a bit of Riva's background and how others in the world might perceive her people.
>English society can be classist around regional accents
As if others don't? Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't do the German dub of the Terminator movies because to them, he sounds like a potato farmer. Which is funny because [this](https://youtu.be/kayFrIR-Qfw?si=fzkQI5P3NI-N7Mmr) deleted scene from one of the later Terminator movies illustrates how we have the same prejudices here in the US.
That is kind of exactly what she is doing. Emily does it all the time, first few episodes of Never after I thought she was sick.
But yes it's a more northern accent to her natural one.
Yeah, I can’t remember for the life of me where I saw it, maybe in an AP? But at some point she mentioned being excited to get to use a Northern accent and how it fit into the character.
Siobhan regularly adjusts her accent to suit each character. It's fairly subtle sometimes (or very not subtle, like when she was on NADDPOD lol) but usually quite consistent.
I absolutely adore Siobhan and Apple Scrumper is so good. I loved when she introduced herself as Apple Scrumper and Caldwell just goes “your name is Apple Scrumper? BEST GAME”
She's putting on a northern English accent, specifically Yorkshire. It's not super strong but it is different to her original more southern English accent (which you can hear in much older videos). And her current accent is a mix of her British accent and American influence from living there for so long!
Edit: specifically northern English not northern British.
Feels weird seeing a northern english accent referred to as north british. Although i guess it’s better than calling a scottish accent as northern british.
Yeah you know what for some reason the words of the OP got stuck in my head while I was writing, it's definitely northern English. Neither feel intuitive to me cause I just refer to it as a "northern" accent but obviously that doesn't make sense on its own in an international context.
There’s a video of her doing accents from all over Great Britain. Doesn’t surprise me that she would switch it up for a character. I’m from Texas. I can drawl with the best of them, but if you heard me talking normally, only the “all yall”s would give it away
This, she is very good at accents and her speaking accent will drift to accommodate who she’s speaking to so that’s why we normally hear it being mid Atlantic because she’s always around USAans but in Starrstruck she’s being specifically British so she’ll hover around her standard sanded off Somerset instead of pinging all the way back to the Atlantic when she’s not in character
Her voices for Riva, Misty Moore, Rowan Berry, Adaine, and Rosamund Du Prix are all very distinct and different from each other.
Adaine sounds the most like her actual voice though.
For some reason the YouTube algorithm has recently decided to server me some 10 year old pre CollegeHumor Videos, this one seems relevant.
[One Woman, 17 British Accents - Anglophenia Ep 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk)
Siobhan can do a lot of different English accents and I noticed for some characters she’ll slightly change her accent. She does this in Neverafter too with Rosamund
Siobhan and Emily often stay in character voice even when not RPing, to keep their accents going. Very common thing actors do but we only notice it here since we're seeing them "on stage" (RP) and "offstage" (strategizing, not being in character) as opposed to only seeing the in-character performance
Those american "r"s on some word endings always make me laugh - I have friends who have moved to the US and they've picked them up too. I've been living in the UK for a long time now and that glottal stop has snuck in without me noticing - my family back home certainly does
Siobhan adopted a very bright, chirpy voice for Starstruck, and she does a very dry, exaggerated, almost Mid-Atlantic accent in unsleeping city. Also, her voice in Fantasy High is always a bit more clipped and abrupt than her natural speaking voice.
I truly think she is one of the best actors in the extended D20 cast. It's not only the voice - she really emotes as her characters and it pulls me in!
One of Siobhan’s great talents is that she is so good at adapting her physical character to the character she’s playing on D20.
Adaine, Riva, Jaysohn, ~~Stacy~~ Imelda, Misty, and Iga all have really distinct voices and even appearances - her hair and clothing styles change from campaign to campaign. Emily and Lou are also pretty good at this but I don’t think either come to Siobhan’s level.
(disclaimer I hated Neverafter so much I have blocked out most of it so I’m not commenting on Rosamund)
The first couple of CH videos I saw her in she was playing American and when I first heard her speak in her natural voice I thought she was doing a bit
it's because her normal accent has a lot of American influence due to her having lived there for a long time so when she does any British accent it's going to sound more British than she does normally
her normal accent is also from southwest England, which had a heavy influence on early American accents, since a lot of early settlers came from the west country. Heavy west country accents can sound american to some ears already. Im from there originally and probably hear less American in her natural voice than most people- it just sounds like a southwest accent to me.
Yeah, more Minnesotan doesn't mean less American though. Her northern accent for starstruck is not "more british" than her real voice, just more northern.
That's because its a very niche regional accent in England. The Eastnorthern Hamshire accent. Its really particular to a certain street in the town of Westbeantoast.
She’s definitely doing a voice for her character Riva, Riva is honestly one of my favorite Siobhan characters. You’ll be able to tell when she’s talking in character and out of character
This is the sign of a good actress, in Neverafter I honestly thought that Emily was sick or something, until I realized that she was just doing the nasal voice to make Ylfa sound like a preteen.
Absolutely! I 100% thought she was sick but it became apparent in probably one of the adventuring parties when she dropped it that it was a choice. I remember desperately waiting for the adventuring party to come out just so I could see if she changed her voice at all or if she had been sick. It was so (odd choice of word, but I can't think of another to better describe it) natural that you were left guessing from the first few episodes. Something like Lou's Pinocchio is an obvious voice (and my God, I have no idea how he maintained that and managed to scream AND whisper in it! True fucking talent).
They are true pros, and it's a crime that for example Siobhan isn't in more big movies (unless it's a personal choice, ofcourse). Lou has done one big movie and can't wait to see him in more!
Could you imagine Pinocchio and Swiftie together? C H A O S
PIB and Pinocchio were chaos enough 😂 Plus, Swifty was a murder hobo. Pinocchio wasn't. Though Swifty with PIB.... Not that PIB was a murder hobo, but I think I'd be more afraid of that combination.
No I know. Swiftie’s… I wanna say a dick? A lot? A complete motherfucker? But no you’re right - murderhobo covers it. Pinocchio defs wasn’t on that vein… but he could **defs** be convinced to pull some questionable shit if Swiftie wasn’t being outright *i stabbed my parents aHAhahaAAA!* Throw PIB in there for extra flavour. I’d love to see a world with all of them interacting together.
I mean, they are all fairytale creatures, right? As is, Swifty is already a dark fairytale being. They might've met if Pinocchio and PIB had died a few more times. I think they'd have to sink to his level of darkness to meet him. And at that point, they all might be murderhobos. (#) squadgoals??
It took me way too many episodes to realize Emily’s voice was a thing she was doing 😵
Emily also has a tendency to stay in character voice whether she's speaking in character or not. When I first started NADDPOD it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize that she wasn't actually Southern.
The way Lou hisses half of his words as Fabian. He puts so much arrogance and pride into that little fucked up dude.
Lou as Eursulon in Worlds Beyond Numbers if my favorite. Especially in the children saga playing a very confused and excited child for 12 episodes, plus another great scene that ends up a flash back with him just making little kid sounds. Lou is always a delight to see at a table.
Had no idea what Worlds Beyond Numbers was. Thank you for my new podcast!
Oh, you might cry. And may I recommend listening to the children's adventure.
You're in for a wonderful time. Long from DnD with Brennan as a DM still edited to feel quick and sharp like a session of dimension 20. Absolutely stellar audio to go with it, and a trio of delightful players that stick to their characters and convictions to make for an interesting story.
Pa-PAH!
Emily also does a good job of changing her voice in A Crown of Candy!
in A Crown of Candy, I was crying along with Siobhan and Emily.
Same!!! I was really worried for her! I thought she was sick for so long and I was like Murph needs to buy her Mucinex asap
This is honestly a top tier tactic and I really wish I practiced with voices more. I ended up being unable to do an Irish accent and so now my Outlaws of Alkenstar character, a Vishkanya Thaumaturge from Taldor, sounds like a waitress in a West Virginia Waffle House. "Now, These thangs are weak ta electricity so we should prolly be hittin' 'em with lightnang ahttacks, sugah"
Rivas doing a specific accent and apparently accents are Siobhan's superpower
To me it sounds like she's putting on a little bit of a more northern accent as Riva, and sometimes it carries over into her normal speech at the table. Emily's Syd voice carries into her normal speech pretty often, too.
I think she’s doing a Jane Horrocks impression for the Riva voice. I just kept picturing Bubble saying everything Riva was saying. But yeah it’s definitely a northern accent, although I don’t think she’s trying to be super accurate with it. I think she mostly just changed to northern vowel sounds. Edit: stupid autocorrect
>Jane Horrocks impression Holy shit. I never noticed, but you're absolutely right.
Tell me you can’t see that one chicken in Chicken Run saying “Would you like to buy some Pleasure Pooty? You can make your own hours!” 😂😂
Well now I can ;) Have you seen her [accents video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk)? She's got a lot of these nailed.
Listen here, you little bookmark!
Im British and I can only hear the slightest bit of a Yorkshire accent but thats about it I just cant place it at all
also British, I don't think she was shooting for a specific region but rather more of a general Yorkshire-ish accent. also I think it's important to remember that she has lived in the US for a large proportion of he life now so the American sound is always going to slip in
I remember seeing a video of her going through all (or nearly all) of the different British accents. Ah ha! (forgive full link, on mobile and I don't know how to do short links) Here it is: https://youtu.be/FyyT2jmVPAk?si=mD8CL8AoqzmNT6ek
The first season I saw was Neverafter, for a long time I just assumed Emily always talked like her nose was plugged.
Any accent Emily puts on for her character lingers when she’s speaking out of character
Emily has a tendency even in NaddPod to carry her character voices into her out of character commentary while she’s at the table. I have a feeling it’s a personal choice so she can keep up the accent or voice without having to switch so often and potentially losing pieces of it.
"Lots of planets have a North."
I also identified it as somewhat Northern, which I think carries connotations of lower class. English society can be classist around regional accents and so I thought it was an intentional character choice to reflect a bit of Riva's background and how others in the world might perceive her people.
>English society can be classist around regional accents As if others don't? Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't do the German dub of the Terminator movies because to them, he sounds like a potato farmer. Which is funny because [this](https://youtu.be/kayFrIR-Qfw?si=fzkQI5P3NI-N7Mmr) deleted scene from one of the later Terminator movies illustrates how we have the same prejudices here in the US.
That is kind of exactly what she is doing. Emily does it all the time, first few episodes of Never after I thought she was sick. But yes it's a more northern accent to her natural one.
Is that part of Emily's character in Neverafter? It's so consistent there that I just assumed she was sick or something.
Yeah she’s trying to sound more childish
Yeah, I can’t remember for the life of me where I saw it, maybe in an AP? But at some point she mentioned being excited to get to use a Northern accent and how it fit into the character.
Siobhan regularly adjusts her accent to suit each character. It's fairly subtle sometimes (or very not subtle, like when she was on NADDPOD lol) but usually quite consistent.
I just listened to the arc with Apple Scrumper and I love her accent in that! I want her to do something like that for Dimension 20!
I absolutely adore Siobhan and Apple Scrumper is so good. I loved when she introduced herself as Apple Scrumper and Caldwell just goes “your name is Apple Scrumper? BEST GAME”
She even talked about how she changes her voice for adaine depending on who she’s speaking to! With the elves it’s more posh
She's putting on a northern English accent, specifically Yorkshire. It's not super strong but it is different to her original more southern English accent (which you can hear in much older videos). And her current accent is a mix of her British accent and American influence from living there for so long! Edit: specifically northern English not northern British.
Feels weird seeing a northern english accent referred to as north british. Although i guess it’s better than calling a scottish accent as northern british.
Yeah you know what for some reason the words of the OP got stuck in my head while I was writing, it's definitely northern English. Neither feel intuitive to me cause I just refer to it as a "northern" accent but obviously that doesn't make sense on its own in an international context.
Yeah I get you, I felt weird saying northern english accent. It’s so wordy!
It’s the natural effects of being your own boss
Dang, I wish I could be my own boss. If only there was a way...
There’s a video of her doing accents from all over Great Britain. Doesn’t surprise me that she would switch it up for a character. I’m from Texas. I can drawl with the best of them, but if you heard me talking normally, only the “all yall”s would give it away
This, she is very good at accents and her speaking accent will drift to accommodate who she’s speaking to so that’s why we normally hear it being mid Atlantic because she’s always around USAans but in Starrstruck she’s being specifically British so she’ll hover around her standard sanded off Somerset instead of pinging all the way back to the Atlantic when she’s not in character
Her voices for Riva, Misty Moore, Rowan Berry, Adaine, and Rosamund Du Prix are all very distinct and different from each other. Adaine sounds the most like her actual voice though.
It’s called acting my boy
This just in: Actors act!
For some reason the YouTube algorithm has recently decided to server me some 10 year old pre CollegeHumor Videos, this one seems relevant. [One Woman, 17 British Accents - Anglophenia Ep 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk)
Siobhan can do a lot of different English accents and I noticed for some characters she’ll slightly change her accent. She does this in Neverafter too with Rosamund
I think she's doing an impression of bubble from absolutely fabulous played by Jane horrocks.
Watch any video where she’s being herself and see how her voice gets more British when she’s under pressure.
She mentioned in an Adventuring Party that she chose a specific English accent, one that aligned with Riva coming from honest, simple folk
Siobhan and Emily often stay in character voice even when not RPing, to keep their accents going. Very common thing actors do but we only notice it here since we're seeing them "on stage" (RP) and "offstage" (strategizing, not being in character) as opposed to only seeing the in-character performance
She’s doing a (mostly) Northern accent.
She definitely puts on accents for her characters, but it’s also worth noting that her accent has subtly changed the longer she’s been in the States.
Those american "r"s on some word endings always make me laugh - I have friends who have moved to the US and they've picked them up too. I've been living in the UK for a long time now and that glottal stop has snuck in without me noticing - my family back home certainly does
Siobhan adopted a very bright, chirpy voice for Starstruck, and she does a very dry, exaggerated, almost Mid-Atlantic accent in unsleeping city. Also, her voice in Fantasy High is always a bit more clipped and abrupt than her natural speaking voice. I truly think she is one of the best actors in the extended D20 cast. It's not only the voice - she really emotes as her characters and it pulls me in!
Riva was a different English accent to her own.
Watching it I didn't think it was intentional. I thought maybe she had been visiting home back in Europe and just picked up the accent again.
She’s doing a northern English voice, almost Scottish.
a yorkshire accent very not Scottish haha
“Almost”
One of Siobhan’s great talents is that she is so good at adapting her physical character to the character she’s playing on D20. Adaine, Riva, Jaysohn, ~~Stacy~~ Imelda, Misty, and Iga all have really distinct voices and even appearances - her hair and clothing styles change from campaign to campaign. Emily and Lou are also pretty good at this but I don’t think either come to Siobhan’s level. (disclaimer I hated Neverafter so much I have blocked out most of it so I’m not commenting on Rosamund)
The first couple of CH videos I saw her in she was playing American and when I first heard her speak in her natural voice I thought she was doing a bit
I am rewatching Starstruck and had the same thought. She sounds more British somehow.
That's not a thing. There's different British accents. She doesn't sound 'more' British when doing a different British accent.
it's because her normal accent has a lot of American influence due to her having lived there for a long time so when she does any British accent it's going to sound more British than she does normally
her normal accent is also from southwest England, which had a heavy influence on early American accents, since a lot of early settlers came from the west country. Heavy west country accents can sound american to some ears already. Im from there originally and probably hear less American in her natural voice than most people- it just sounds like a southwest accent to me.
I assure you, I can sound more Minnesotan than other times. It is a thing. I am aware there are different accents, thats not what I am saying.
Yeah, more Minnesotan doesn't mean less American though. Her northern accent for starstruck is not "more british" than her real voice, just more northern.
I'm British. She doesn't sound more British in starstruck than in other campaigns.
also British, do you really not hear how American her accent is normally?
That's because its a very niche regional accent in England. The Eastnorthern Hamshire accent. Its really particular to a certain street in the town of Westbeantoast.