CHARACTERS - DAY ONE: Morrigan
Morrigan began, waaaay back, as a bit of Morgan le Fey (hence the Dark Ritual) mixed with Delirium from Sandman. The Delirium elements subsided into more of a weird cadence of speech as my idea of Morrigan solidified - more cynical, wanting to connect but unable to. 🧵
Morrigan began, waaaay back, as a bit of Morgan le Fey (hence the Dark Ritual) mixed with Delirium from Sandman. The Delirium elements subsided into more of a weird cadence of speech as my idea of Morrigan solidified - more cynical, wanting to connect but unable to. 🧵
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Not throwing any shade on Morrigan/Black. Both are very lovely❤️
Always a treat to read your stuff.
… now I need to replay Origins
Hence why she ended up in ME2. 😁
And let's not forget Claudia herself, I'm old enough to remember her role as Aeryn Sun. Good memories. ❤️
Thanks for sharing a little about how she came to be, and thanks to Claudia for bringing her to life 🩵
I also never knew that Delerium was part of the inspiration for her (atleast in the beginning).
The feedback I got was that she's a bit too LALALULU and I had to agree (and my idea of her was changing anyhow). So that slowly got weeded out.
2. Didn't stop me from being nice to her so by the end, when we become friends, I found myself liking her.
Leliana next!
And it was Claudia doing a slow *beat poet* rendition of Baby Got Back. I kid you not. I was already a fan, so I lost my goddamn mind.
Naturally, we jumped on that immediately. As I recall, this was met with resistance from higher up - they had this image of Morrigan as young, like 18 years old (no idea where this came from) and complained that Claudia sounded "too old".
Higher-up preconception makes sense!
You hired such a great cast for that game.
Nothing like the Morrigan we got in the end.
Me: "That's what I like about her!"
Caroline and I were determined, so we pushed ahead. We had to agree to get Claudia to sound "younger", which I was dubious about. The first two sessions we asked her to pitch her voice up and it was AWFUL.
But Kate Mulgrew absolutely owned it too. I loved her as Flemeth.
And Claudia- she is perfect.
Me: "She grew up in the forest ok."
It make my day and I want to play DAO again !