Chapter 208: Special Ishaan Powers
The dubbing and voice acting work continued on. Although the recording isn't as straightforward as others would think, the progress that the Dragonball production achieved on its first go was quite alright on its own.
Miss Courteney Cox had her turn in the recording room as well. The Dragonball season 1 story is mostly about the Goku and Bulma tandem after all, so it made sense that Miss Cox and the little boss would work together and record together for the most part.
Co-working technicalities aside, the Bulma voice actress showed everyone in the room why she was chosen to play the part against all the other talents that "auditioned". A 20-year-old play voicing a 16-year-old may seem far apart but Miss Cox did her part well to make it seem natural.
Of course, what people had to take into account was the fact that a super-relaxed and Goku-y VA partner must have spurned her to do her best.
It had to be said that unlike how she had fooled the Animation Director and Creed Owner with her Bulma shock. She wasn't acting that out and was genuinely shocked by a Bulma-less equation.
For the Dragonball radar inventor, she was shocked to see how such monstrously martial capabilities and mountainous innocently ignorance seemed compacted into a little boy's body.
For her, she was shocked by her embarrassing blunders while also in awe at monstrous talent being compacted to a little boy she just met.
Now that she thought much about it, Courteney felt like she was in the same boat as Bulma to be partnered with strange little boys. She just tapped into that, so that she could keep up with whatever realm that the little Alexander Creed has reached in his supposedly first VA act.
She had interacted with the Creed little boss for long enough to tell how unnerving and amazing it must be for people to see a cold kid be relaxed as any normal kid can be.
Anyways, voice acting may come off as a simple and enviable job for others but people in Creed Animations' sound compartment can still note how complex things can be with their little boss involved.
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As for Alexander's realm in voice acting, it may not pertain to progressive levels but a true "realm" in itself. It wasn't magic or anything supernatural, at least, that is what he believes it is.
Perhaps it may just be an artist's enlightenment or an aspect of the creative mind that he has yet to touch upon... until now.
Since it aided him well in this Goku voice acting job, he just had to go with it.
His Ishaan Awasthi-esque ability from 'Every Child is Special' is still ongoing as he can and he had even mind-fully tweaked it to fill his needs.
When Miss Cox was slated to script read together with him, he just had to include her as a materialized person in his animated imagination.
Of course, the commands and sound aids from the dubbing team were still filtered in as they flipped through the pages.
Unlike the others who felt like they were progressing quite nicely on the dubbing factor of the animation project, Alexander saw the entire animation product play out and be tinkered with as long as their voice acting directions needed it to be.
It may not help out a lot for the others or the production itself but Alexander could at least derive entertainment from the weird state he is in.
His conscious mind was still on getting the job done but his specialized subconscious mind seems to play out for some reason.
It was best to find out about this abnormality some more but for now, he just wanted to enjoy what it could offer.
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Eventually, Seasoned Hayao called for a break at some point. They had recorded plenty enough and the recorded ones may even be re-done as long as production complications arise or if production calls for it to be re-done.
Animations were truly complex and cumbersome and there was no denying that.
Of course, by the time that the Dragonball dubbing was called off to take a break, the animated construct from Alexander was gone as well.
Since it was not needed, it naturally had to go. If it stayed, then Alexander had to go to the mental clinic to see if he is schizophrenic or truly creatively dyslexic like Ishaan.
Although he was reluctant to try this gig out, he at least found out something that was noteworthy to ruminate on.
His focus on the job was gone as well and he just wanted to relax to deliberate on some things.
Unbeknownst to him, the spectators ranging from the closer Cox to the appeased Sullivan, noted something else.
The naive Goku aura that he gave off was gone in a flash and changed into the little boss Alex that they were familiar with.
The calm and seemingly rounded expression throughout the entire VA session was gone, only to be reverted to the cold and sharp expression than it had been.
It was the little boss and Alex that they were familiar with but they can't process things to be the same. They now knew that there were many things to unearth from that young and handsome face.
Of course, if some of them looked closer, then they'd note that as soon as he reverted from his Goku-zone, his dark eyes seemed to miasma-tized a darker haze with traces of red-green characters.
It was imperceptible to everyone... but it existed and seem to lay in wait. It was unnoticed by everybody but Alexander owned his eyes and it was an abnormality that was hard to miss!
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Alexander wanted to explore more about the prospects of his discovery but he had to stop as he saw his grandpa was now embodying extreme gratification.
His focus was now gone and he also noted the gaze of others as well. They were all weird and seem much fiercer than how he previously left them off.
He didn't pay them to mind, so he could get rid of their zoo animal staring. Something must have happened when he blocked them off as it seems that they treat him as a much rarer unicorn being displayed.
"Why are these guys staring at me weirdly?" Alexander could only turn to Cocky Cox beside him for answers.
"You don't know?!" Courteney was surprised but then again, she remembered some rumors she heard about method actors. It is said that they split everything to the point that it's hard to distinguish what's what during and after their ultra-performance.
She had to be the big sis and inform the boy though. "It's okay. I am as shocked as them to note you're a natural talent in acting as well."
"Natural talent?" Alexander felt that he had really overdone it with hyperfocusedness and the animation construct.
Aside from the Ishaan powers that he had been inadvertently swept up in, it would seem that it had a side-effect that he inadvertently showcased.
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Fortunately, Big Sis Cox had clued him in on things and the more he listened, the more he felt that things have really blown up to proportions that he didn't want.
How could he be a natural method actor? Wasn't he just reading the script and being as Goku-ish as he can? How come they were super-amazed to see him transform into another person entirely? He hadn't transformed, he just read the script!
Given that Miss Cox and their gazes were real, then nobody was truly joking around. Even his grandfather's expression seemed to be much fired up and there was no doubt that his thoughts were now on having his grandson take on "acting"!
He kept Seasoned Hayao's voice around during the entire endeavor. Why was the man too professional to inform a VA that he was doing more than good? Didn't he make mistakes and had to re-do a lot of parts? How come everyone is reacting like he had done things so perfectly?
Questions hurled Alexander even more but all points lead to the Ishaan power and that Chaos Program outburst he barely glimpsed on.
Schizophrenia, dyslexia, natural method acting, and the chaos monster! Whatever the reasoning behind the Ishaan power was, Alexander now wanted none of it!
Sure, every child is special! So is he but he didn't want to be 'that' special!