Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160721222431/@comment-24534644-20160818042612

LucasVerBeek wrote: So I have a question I'm planning on writting my RWBY fic real soon and I need voices for my characters so I was wondering if anyone here who could help me figure out who from RT would fit them the best? How often do you read a fanfiction that outright tells you "oh btw this is the voice actor for this character has to be this guy"? And I mean GOOD ones, ones that don't half-ass their character descriptions and subplots while interrupting the narrative every 2-and-a-half lines to put in one of their 'clever' Author's Notes?

Half the reason books are so popular (and the movie adaptations often less so) is because we the audience and take the information we're given and paint our own picture of the scenery, or imagine voices we believe fit the characters. No one likes to be told "hey, THIS is how he sounds", or "THIS is how it looks", and that whatever they had in mind is completely wrong. Just let people do their own thing.

(Besides, you really want an "original character" to have the same voice as a canon character? Not a smart decision buddy.)