Homestuck voice headcanons

bro/ult dirk would sound like ltg

That old old recording Grey Delisle did of Vriska is still burned into my brain as how she sounds.

i always liked karkat as that game theory guy https://youtu.be/F9B8BypXCK4

i really like rose as jane from daria and nepeta as this girl [ https://www.tiktok.com/@garfieldsgallbladder/video/7495920173061262635 ]

also i know this is homestuck but zhen and abby sound like nicole and jecka from class of 09 to me,,

caliborn sounds like zim. #mytruth

i've always thought it's been funny to headcanon post-scratch dave strider as reigen arataka in the english dub. (and yes, i am aware that voice actor used to be a homestuck.) in reality this isn't how he actually behaves but i think its fucking hilarious. #mytruth https://youtu.be/YGkt5APTqP4

I HAVE SO MANY. ive been compiling them for months now, im still not sure of quite a few of them though so ill just share the ones im mostly happy with

roxy: kesha. probably. i think

john: bo burnham but only from look whos inside again (https://youtu.be/J3FnqD1UqwM)

aradia: egg (https://youtu.be/dase_3KcQFs)

karkat: either the beginning of *equips sunglasses* by hot mulligan (https://youtu.be/MdWqzel-5fU) or jack kays from sleep when im dead (https://youtu.be/4YtQBWdRwN8) i cannot decide which i prefer

nepeta: chica from fnaf the musical

kanaya: julia wolf specifically from in my room (https://youtu.be/fPMsAIld9Ss)

terezi: spinel from steven universe but especially from other friends (https://youtu.be/OpUD3kNKhBc)

gamzee: aint no rest for the wicked, but a specific part from a cover by chonny jash (https://youtu.be/XOGqwChH2Cw from 2:36-3:03) also this is PROBABLy just sober gamzee

eridan: wizard cookie from cookie run kingdom (https://youtu.be/NQlvowmsYJ4)

feferi: nami.wav (https://youtu.be/1culEdJdqqk) the more like. human sounding girl. the one who says peace loops and ascension

damara: the girl in the beginning of party poison by mcr (https://youtu.be/iw_-pACvP-A)

latula: rainbow dash.

caliborn: papyrus from to the bone (https://youtu.be/cWSvI3F5kdQ)

i can't NOT read rose's dialogue in the voice she has in the baby is you. it's a curse i think

I have a few of these, not least because I actually read all of Homestuck out loud to my sister a few years ago (she is disabled and cannot read complex sentences). It becomes a lot easier to nail how you think a character should sound when you're trying to voice them yourself.

Karkat: Richard Horvitz. Obviously this is a popular one he has in common with Caliborn, but it WORKS, dammit! My one stipulation is that I actually don't want him screaming all the time like in Zim, I'd much prefer a more ornery take on Raz from Psychonauts. Calm, but nonetheless filled with distain.

Jack: Steve Blum! Yeah, I guess I'm on kind of a Psychonauts kick, but what do you want, he's good at voicing deadly men in suits.

Droog: Tom Kenny. That might sound confusing, but I actually really like him when he's doing lower-key stoic or intimidating roles. He's really a man you can throw at almost any production and get a great performance.

Eridan: Trey Parker doing Jimmy on South Park, without the stammering. The "wwavvy accent" is really hard to interpret as an actual voice, and I think turning it into kind of a young Elmer Fudd voice is the right call. I wish I had a better example of this than fucking South Park, but that's what I got.

Cronus: Ben Schwartz, in his usual "piece of shit guy on a sitcom" shtick.

Doc Scratch: Keith David, specifically the kind of performance he does as Flame King on Adventure Time. Comedy with some menace behind it. I know a lot of fans imagine Scratch as having a higher, more condescending tone, but I think about stuff like the "lies of omission" speech and the little growl Keith would put on "No one can have all the facts. Only I can." and get chills.

Caliborn: Not Richard Horvitz, but Justin Roiland! Or, well, it used to be him, before we all learned he was kind of a shithead. I'm on as much of an Adventure Time kick as Psychonauts, but I always felt that Lemongrab's stilted "having to consider each word that comes out of my mouth for a second before I say it" performance fit well for Caliborn, who obviously isn't all there.

Jade: Lauren Tom. Between Amy on Futurama and Connie on King of the Hill, I think you can imagine how her voice and that dialogue goes together.

GAMZEE AND KURLOZ: Obviously, in the TV adaptation, you would simply get Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope to voice these two. I don't even really know what they sound like. You just, you gotta do it. It's right there.

Dave: Uh...me, doing a shitty Critikal impression, I guess? I don't even watch critikal that often. But I feel like my mediocre version of his voice really nailed Dave better than any other character I voiced during that readthrough. You need an affect of a dude trying to sound cool but coming off a little bit dorky.

I'm pretty sure I had more, but I can't remember them all right now, and I'm not gonna just make up new ones to fill out a post.

i don't really have a ton of voice claims for normal speech but there are absolutely vocalists i think of

vriska - norah jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiKuW3xXwmA

jane - april hartman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EISsqOF1FQg

damara - backxwash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBV14xBb2yI

dave - lupe fiasco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33sclePNcic

yiffy - missy dabice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvgYIXc4JDA

i always imagined the condesce and meenah sounding like princess loko (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQrnkC2ZzM).

i think it would be really funny if caliborn sounded like bjorn andresen(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amWimwdNnJM), lord english to me however sounds like akio otsuka's voice for yujiro hanma (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxZ4fGxfOEA)

i've always imagined Roxy to sound like a higher-pitched Snooki when she was on Jersey Shore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpiC9BRsG7w

also, whoever voiced Jake in The Baby Is You 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBy1d9DvabQ

what our wisest homestuck scholars have dug up:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kpW5dH/

re: kevin thank you for sharing this those tiktoks are nothing but truthful

personally ive found the podfeels (yes its godfeels but narrated) voice casting much better than the apparently very popular lets read homestuck series