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=== Human Interaction === {{For|information on how players can interact with the Voices of {{TBCgame}}|How To Play: Interacting With The Voices}} The Voices have the ability to manipulate human perception and memory. The glowing [[Halo|Halos]], galaxy cosmetics granted in [[The Place Between]], and the [[Voice Masks]] are all examples of Voices altering perception, as the shifting colors of each mentioned do not actually exist outside of our minds. Specific examples include SPEAK-AS-ONE using this on Redacre's residents to shield the ever present [[Red Door|Red Doors]] from being noticed, [[LAUGH-LAST]] selectively erasing the memories of his hosts, and any time players have visited [[The Moon]].{{Citation needed}} [[THEE-I-DARE]] says when your mind is taken by sleep, or the waking dreams, like the [[Moon]], [[The Voices]] see us as tiny shadows of who we are, or will become. While we are awake, they see through our eyes, and they learn through our senses. They are simple and bound to the flesh, as we are. In dreams, they aren't bound by the same rules. When we are awake, they can only watch, but when we sleep, they take over. THEE-I-DARE says some of his siblings use your bodies, but [[THEE-I-DARE]] respects our choice.{{CiteInteraction|d=21|m=November|y=2019|title=How Voices perceive the world}} Voices used to only interact through dreams to manipulate the mind below, not to change what a person thinks they believe, but rather their true nature and how they act without thinking. They preferred action over discussion. The few Voices that cared about a person's choice began to surface to ask and discuss.{{CiteInteraction|d=5|m=September|y=2020|title=An Explanation of Watchers}} When a Voice changes, their hosts' behavior changes as well.{{CiteInteraction|d=4|m=December|y=2019|title=This harvest will not be the last of this entity’s deeds}} Voices in Redacre are outspoken, but Voices in the outside world must remain covert, only taking full control of a host during a [[Blackouts|Blackout]] in dire circumstances. Because blackouts often cause hosts to be institutionalized or heavily medicated, they are a last resort. {{CiteDiscord|user=Nullspeak|m=April|d=9|y=2020|url=https://discordapp.com/channels/442027980244647947/494555004250619911/698039908010295328|image=Null_-_Blackouts.png}} These situations are misdiagnoses, as Voices are not the cause of mental illness. {{CiteDiscord|user=Nullspeak|m=August|d=1|y=2020|url=https://discord.com/channels/442027980244647947/494555004250619911/739320780818743368|image=Null_-_Asked_Re_Schizophrenia.png}} In Redacre, the Voices openly grow in power through [[How To Play: Rituals|prayer]] and [[How To Play: Sacrificing|sacrifice]]. Some members of The Blackout Club have started making sacrifices and performing rituals to the Voices. The Voices receive many rituals and prayers, but what the Voices choose to respond to is a way of defining themselves.{{CiteInteraction|d=7|m=May|y=2019|title=TID Speaks About Cody}} According to a developer, people can pray to a Voice prior to actually hosting it: <i>"During that phase,"</i> the developer explains, <i>"the Voice cannot see or feel the body in question, or see through its eyes. Once it has been called, a process begins that puts the Voice in competition with others, and eventually lets them steal glimpses, active control for a period, etc."</i>{{CiteDiscord|user=Nullspeak|d=8|m=July|y=2019|url=https://discordapp.com/channels/442027980244647947/494555004250619911/597856328064434187|image=VoiceCompetition.png}} It was also confirmed that the would-be-host is not the only one who can initiate this as the individual Voice could as well. After experiencing a Blackout in Redacre, the Voices are often able to use context clues to tell which other Voice was in control, though they cannot tell directly. {{Citation needed}} Because of this, Voices have made comments to players about the Voice the player follows, despite never being directly told. Several people have been been chosen by their Voice before choosing or even knowing the Voice existed; some have been chosen as early as "the moment of conception."{{CiteInteraction|m=September|d=14|y=2019|title=My First TMC Interaction, Visiting the Moon}} Children are able to hear multiple Voices, but as they come of hosting age all but the Voice they host fades.{{CiteInteraction|m=April|d=25|y=2019|title=Chosen of DFU}} According to THEE-I-DARE, those who resist a Voice often go mad.{{CiteInteraction|d=25|m=April|y=2019|title=Chosen of DFU}} Children are able to renounce the Voices, making it harder for them to listen in on them, as long as they meant their renouncement and swear the Voices off entirely.{{CiteInteraction|d=11|m=July|y=2020|title=A Project}} However, this effect is only temporary.{{Citation needed}} Voices however, are not able to read the minds of their hosts or other humans. In the [[Prologue]], [[Isabela Madi-Shaw]] realizes this and says "''Okay Mr. Voice in my head. We need to talk. I'm guessing that super fun, not-at-all-traumatizing blackout dream means you're still here... listening. And you need me to think aloud, right? I hope whispering counts. ''" She was correct in realizing that Voices are sensory passengers. Their communication with humans hinges on ways that the person they are within can outwardly perceive. For example, a Voice would not be able to tell what someone wrote with their eyes closed, but upon opening your eyes would read the message just fine. Using the in-game text chat is a valid way to speak to Voices, and they refer to it as "signing".{{Citation needed}} When Voices wish to speak to each other they must take control of host bodies to do so, or in very rare cases, speak via [[Recalled Dreams|dreams]]. THEE-I-DARE has explained that Voices also may use dreams to communicate with hosts and prospective hosts, as [[The Word]] is limiting compared to what the experience of a dream can communicate. When a person wakes from a dream into another dream, two Voices were speaking in their dreams.{{CiteInteraction|m=May|d=2|y=2020|title=A_Blackout_within_a_Blackout}} This happened to [[Colm Ryan]], when [[HUNT-THE-STRONG]] and THEE-I-DARE spoke in his dreams. A rare audible recording of the two speaking was extracted from Ryan's sleeptalking that night.{{CiteArticle|title=The_Hideout/Broadcasts#Sculptor_Sleeptalk_Translation}} It has been clarified as well that in the recording, "''the Voice you hear is being constructed in the listener's head, as you listen. The sleeptalker is just uttering subverbal musical cries, that have been slowed way down for this recording.''".{{CiteDiscord|user=Nullspeak|m=October|d=19|y=2019|url=https://discordapp.com/channels/442027980244647947/494555004250619911/635145503348228102|image=Null_-_Colm_Sleeptalking_1.png}} No other way of recording a Voice's presence is known, as they speak directly into the mind; recordings of Voice activity are said to be exceptionally rare.{{CiteDiscord|user=Nullspeak|m=October|d=19|y=2019|url=https://discordapp.com/channels/442027980244647947/494555004250619911/635145694352637962|image=Null_-_Colm_Sleeptalking_2.png}}{{CiteDiscord|user=Nullspeak|m=September|d=15|y=2019|url=https://discordapp.com/channels/442027980244647947/494555004250619911/622992832151683082|image=Null_-_Voice_Recordings.png}}
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