Viscous' strange writing direction.

[u/Trashy-Guy]

Has anybody else noticed that Viscous seems overtly childish in the new voice lines?

I'm not sure if it's the direction that the voice actor has been given, the lack of sound edits that the older lines had (from what I've heard, the current lines aren't yet finished edit-wise), the writing or all of it as a whole.

Viscous's writing direction has shifted from the friendly yet determined emissary of The Deep, willing to put the goal of defeating The Adversary before everything else. (e. g. him saying that The Djinn's problems are less serious than The Deep's.)... To a second grader. It's a fun line, one of many the update added, but it often feels like an outlier in an otherwise solid character.

Viscous is an emissary, a political figure of the Deep with a message and ambition first, and a goo ball that studies the customs of the surface, second, not a baby.

[u/graviphantalia]

Kind of terrible that REM, a kid who’s still learning his letters, knows more about the world than Viscous 

[u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS → u/graviphantalia]

Rems new voice and lines also irritate me, hes always been childish but they've infantilized his speaking voice even more with googoogaga shit and I hate it.

[u/PresenceOld1754 → u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS]

Rem should be naive because he's in another unfamiliar dimension, not a literal child.

[u/Thamilkymilk → u/PresenceOld1754]

He’s both

[u/Cadd9 → u/Thamilkymilk]

Right? He started crying cause Silver wouldn't receive hugs as payment.

[u/_Sate → u/Cadd9]

And got mad that she wouldn't give him her jacket

[u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS → u/_Sate]

The issue is not him acting childish, its the voice actors direction to make him literally garble and mix his words to sound like an infant. A 8 year old is just as naive and stupid and would also cry but can form sentences and not regurgitate word-salad.

Remember this is a character who can easily pronounce words like Aspirations, or ask questions like how do you find the area of a triangle, and then suddenly he forgets how to speak and decides he'd rather sound like Tommy Pickles instead of the established voice the majority of his lines are in? Nah bro. It's bad direction.

[u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS → u/Thamilkymilk]

The issue is not him acting childish, its the voice actors direction to make him literally garble and mix his words to sound like an infant. A 8 year old is just as naive and stupid and would also cry but can form sentences and not regurgitate word-salad.

Remember this is a character who can easily pronounce words like Aspirations, or ask questions like how do you find the area of a triangle, and then suddenly he forgets how to speak properly and decides he'd rather sound like Tommy Pickles instead of the established voice the majority of his lines are in? Nah bro. It's bad direction.