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VA Meme: Legend of the Goddesses 1/2

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Meme by :iconsukanar: and can be found here.

RFE Part 1
RFE Part 2
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For Romance and the Fate of Equestria, I tried to be at least a little bit plausible... less and less as time goes on, but still somewhat grounded. For Legend of the Goddesses, I went ABSOLUTELY CRAZY and picked whoever the heck I wanted. There are no real MLP voice actors in this bunch, no actor plays more than one character, it's just my absolute wildest fantasy. And there were so many characters in this prequel thingy that I split the the meme in two. Soooo, here we go.

- THE OLD GODS -

Brent Spiner as Fork
Fork was largely inspired by Puck, so there was no doubt in my mind that he would be Puck. Playing against type for Mr. Spiner, for certain, but so was Puck; he's shockingly good.

Whoopi Goldberg as Stellaris
Stellaris is the queen of the universe, and Whoopi Goldberg was the first person I could think of who has the kind of confidence such a person would have. She wouldn't play the queen of the gods, she would be the queen of the gods.

Linda Hunt as Carto
Heh, I'd originally had all Disney characters on the first five characters on the meme, but I had to swap out Linda's, because Grandmother Willow just doesn't capture what I was going for. It was Gaia, the narrator of the God of War series, that really inspired this grave and serious character.

Steve Buscemi as Hukwurm
Sarah Silverman as Shifter
Buscemi, because you else do you know who sounds like a swarm of bugs? And for Shifter... there had to be something to ground her, since she never wears the same body for more than three seconds, and I figured if that was a crazy, giggly, girly personality, and Sarah Silverman proved a revelation when she played Vanellope, nailing not only the emotional moments but also the overall presence of an excitable little girl, so there's my shout-out to that whole thing.

Maurice LaMarche as Kane
John DiMaggio as Boll
I came up with this after visualizing the characters. Like many voice actors, as I aspire to be myself, I formulated their voices based on what they look like; the sharp beak would probably be something nasal and raspy, like any number of irritable cartoon birds we know, and a guy with a lamprey mouth would probably be pretty garbled... and when I realized the voices in my head sounded like a pair of Futurama robots, I knew I'd a-nailed them down as characters.

Frank Welker as The Beast
We get a brief glimpse of the Beast in Legend of the Goddesses, and I assume he'll emerge eventually as the ultimate evil of the main story, and I feel safe saying that here because even assuming anybody reads my story, which nobody does, I can safely say nobody's ever going to read this, so we're good. I describe the Beast's voice as "rasping and echoing, rumbling like a force of nature older than the earth itself"... so, obviously, Welker! Yeah, baby.

- DISCORD'S STORY -

Jeff Bridges
 as Accord
This was inspired by Bridges' truly awful voice acting in the film The Last Unicorn. I thought that kind of tone represents Accord's complete lack of emotions... then we come to Clu from Tron: Legacy, who starts off pretty low-key but then delivers this ultra-hammy Nazi-esque speech before his army, and that speech served as the inspiration for when Accord begins to develop feelings and become... somebody else.

Tim Curry as Khan
Dennis Haysbert as Dignity Omega
For this duo of great ancient leaders - one of them stupidly evil, the other one stupidly lawful... well, that sums it up. I wonder if Tim Curry still has the voice he used to after his stroke? Doesn't matter, I suppose, it's a fantasy. And Dennis Haysbert... well, the character is a gargoyle, so you think, yeah, Keith David, but I already had a Keith David - and even if I didn't, I'd want to do something a bit different. But only a bit. And in retrospect... Dignity Omega is a really stupid name, what the heck was I thinkin'...

Vic Mignogna as Thunderblast
I guess Thunderblast is a young hotshot, really confident about leading his army, and... I dunno, didn't think very hard about this one. Sorry, Vic.

- SOLEDAD'S STORY -

Gwendoline Yeo
 as Queen Soledad
Soledad is a counterpart to the other goddesses who have their own stories; the only one who's no longer living by the time of the main continuity. So I wanted her actress to be a counterpart of the actresses playing the other goddesses. Gwendoline seemed a good fit for Soledad's overall depression and coldness.

Leonard Nimoy as King Nimo
The very name "Nimo" probably implied who I had in mind... and I tried to make the character's physical appearance imply it too, I don't know if I succeeded. I should mention, he was still alive when I came up with the idea, and the thing about my ideas is that I never let them go. It's my fantasy... and in my fantasy he lives long enough to play Nimo.

Sheena Easton as Jolly
I love Sheena Easton's voice acting. She's only done it a handful of times, but her Scottish brogue (which may or may not be real, I don't know) can be heard in things on the fringes of nerd culture - Gargoyles, Planescape: Torment - and is really fun to listen to. So I wrote the role specifically with Sheena in mind, up to and including making her a musician in tribute to what she's best known for.

James Woods as Dorado
Nicolas Cage as Maol Straume
There comes a time or two in this story - specifically this time or two - where I just threw some famous people into roles for absolutely no reason, like I'm DreamWorks or somethin'. Well, that's not fair, DreamWorks doesn't really do that anymore. As much. So, like I'm any other non-Disney animation studio. It's hard to resist the temptation.

Melissa Disney as Siren
Debi Derryberry as Selkie
Andrea Bowen as Merrow
I believe very strongly in the power of significant double-casting, like when the same actor plays a parent and child, or when someone is cloned and the clone has the same actor, but when it comes to characters who are actually identical, I think it's best to go for different actors. I dunno. I'm quirky.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Apkallu
You know we all wait for that one moment each episode where Ferb speaks, and then the shivers run up our spine, yeah? Pure audio erotica, and so I figured it was that trait that would bring Soledad to fall for him at first sight.

Zachary Levi as Evade
Yeah, I did it again. I can't explain this one. Although, I used Chuck instead of Flynn Rider in the meme as a way to say, I liked Zachary Levi before it was cool.

- CELESTIA AND LUNA'S STORY -

Loreena McKennitt
 as Gaia
Enya as Tempest
I definitely wanted the implication to be that these two are where Celestia and Luna got their elegance and grace from, and so I chose my two favorite singers of Celtic/world music, who've soothed my soul for as long as I can remember. It occurs to me I've never heard Enya speak, maybe she has an unintelligible Irish accent, I dunno. I wouldn't want her to play the role non-Irish, though... and sure, one sister can be Canadian while the other is Irish, why not, it's a cartoon.

Brittney Karbowski as Ragnarok
Maxey Whitehead as Xanadu
Being a couple of wacky teenagers, I decided to go with Funimation actresses; Funimation dubs were my first introduction to anime, and I found it a very fascinating variety of voice acting, different from the original-animation kind, it was something very fun and new. "Something new" was something I'd never really encountered in voice acting; I didn't yet know about the Canadian community, or the second level of LA actors who do more anime than domestic stuff. So, it was a fun discovery. Heck, that might even be where I got these characters' names; they're kind of inspired by Japanese attempts to give characters European-sounding names. (heck, it's not Maxey Whitehead's first time working with a Ragnarok)

Jack Black as Scraggle
Scraggle curses like a sailor, and I think Jack Black is one of the best people in the world at that, what can I say. It would be awesome, though, if he played the dragon-ness completely straight. He's displayed some vocal range in a few roles, so I think it'd be doable...

Jason Marsden as Witchlight
Max Goof? Huh, maybe I should have gone with Haku here. Well, I wouldn't want this guy to be taken too seriously, so Max it is. I see most of Jason Marsden's acting to be the American equivalent of Vincent Tong's performance as Flash Sentry. Not that Flash existed when I came up with Witchlight. No, really, he didn't. I've been at this crap a long time...
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