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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SmokeyCriminal" data-source="post: 7248625" data-attributes="member: 6876146">It's so funny and interesting because in my head I always imagined a Kenku would cast spells using different bird songs. So Fireball would be a roosters crowing, and Healing Word is a nightingale song, stuff like that.And when it comes to talking I always imagined them being able to speak fluently, just not in their 'natural voice' because they don't have one. But I never considered that they could only speak in "quotes." Because I imagined that since they can read and write that they understand what the definition of words are and how sentence structure works.Also it's not like they just started hearing words the day the campaign starts. I think its fair to say that they have heard every word that a person uses at least once in 12 years. I always imagined them purposefully choosing a specific persons voice to say specific type of things to convey the most emotion (because tragically they can't do it themselves). So like; If he's telling a joke he sounds like the bard, If he's comforting you he sounds like the cleric, If he's threatening you he sounds like the barbarian, and if he wants to freak you out he deliberately uses a different persons voice for every other word of a sentence or quotes a person in a macabre juxtaposition (Like in horror movies when they use oldies and lullabies during gory scenes). But ya, I always took it as more a deliberate tool and less a lost in translation type of thing. Finally, I thought of the curse as more a loss of a piece of ones unique individuality and identity, which is really tragic. And less about a speech impediment. Even a mute person can make sounds and even tho the sounds don't equate to speech those sounds are what that person sounds like. It is a thing they own, it is them. And the Kenku had that piece of identity take away, seriously, even their screams of pain or wails of sadness arn't their own, how sad is that! And also the tragic irony to be able to sound like absolutely any beautiful thing in existence, except yourself. Ugh it's so sad! The more I think about it, the sadder I get.I'm never going to complain when I heard my voice in a recording ever again. Poor Kenku.</blockquote>

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