Hosts

The list of known hosts to the Voices of and the details revealed about them. Text written  are direct quotes from a Voice describing said host.

Description
Hosts are people that have sufficiently solidified their sense of self, unconsciously allowing a Voice to take residence in their mind. All people who reach this mental state are hosts. Though no solid age is given for hosting, a developer noted "My experience of people is they tend to crystallize sometime in late youth, and though they may gain sophisticated methods to lie to themselves, the core of who they are is very, very hard to change from then on". This type of personal development allows a Voice to take full hold on their mind. THEE-I-DARE says for hosts, "ALL BUT ONE [ Voice] FADE". A person can influence which Voice they will one day host through their actions, words, and behaviors, according to THEE-I-DARE. Voices do however use automatic behaviors to nudge the minds of their hosts and potential hosts towards their ideologies. These automatic behaviors would be colloquially known as "zoning out", such as driving an overly familiar route, or time spent scrolling social media.

The Voices are entirely dependent on Hosts to interact with the world at large. THEE-I-DARE is careful to say of the Voices that "WE NEVER EXISTED WITHOUT BODIES." Voices exist only in the minds and bodies of their Hosts, and have no physical forms or ability to manipulate reality beyond those hosts. Their individual views on hosts differs greatly; "whatever they think about their own kind must have a clear, demonstrable contrast with what they think about hosts. It's really the only dimensionality they're allowed, because they're otherwise just an idea, self-replicating." THEE-I-DARE has also shared how Voices "DO NOT LEARN EASILY" and typically require a host or Chosen to implement change in them. When a Host dies, a part of the Voice does too. Hosts are also the only medium through which a Voice can speak in Old Tongue, a language that is a combination of bodily "MOVEMENT. MUSIC. NUMBER. TIME." comprised of "COMPLEX STATEMENTS, MANY HOSTS".

Dual-hosting is a rare occurrence where more than one Voice will take the same host. Rarer still are cases of more than two Voices attempting to share a host. While dual-hosting is possible, it usually quickly drives the host to a state of cognitive decay. Pastor Hoadly is said to have heard multiple Voices, and was likely driven to suicide under the resultant mental strain. Similar mental trauma may occur when someone rejects a Voice, as hosts who resist a Voice often go mad. Because of this, THEE-I-DARE believes it is possible for hosts to break away from SPEAK-AS-ONE, but speculated it would be dangerous to attempt. Hosts are also affected by their Voice suffering. While still very injured, THEE-I-DARE's own hosts were "stricken" by an illness of the mind, an effect of his difficult recovery after shattering CHASE-THE-SUN.

In Redacre, hosts are precious few for the Non-SPEAK-AS-ONE Voices, and their survival depends on those few. DIE-FOR-YOU explained the competition for hosts, "It can be... Fraught, especially at the… Dinner table? (dark chuckling) Limited resources, too many mouths." The actions of non-SPEAK-AS-ONE hosts are largely mysterious. DIE-FOR-YOU had hosts meet with THEE-I-DARE's hosts, prior to the formation of The Pact. Presumably, other allied pact Voices use hosts to communicate with each other. THEE-I-DARE is aware of the curses like No More Shadows through a child because his hosts communicate with each other about the curse.

Lenka Staneck
THEE-I-DARE says Bells had a music teacher named Staneck that helps him. Staneck has become despondent since DFU's demise. Staneck is the one that taught Bells about The Voices. The Blackout Club (HQ) has heard rumors that Staneck is "dangerous at night".

DIE-FOR-YOU Hosts
According to THEE-I-DARE, DIE-FOR-YOU currently has many more hosts compared to him.

Maligras Quiroga
According to Gwen, Maligras Quiroga is a host to DIE-FOR-YOU, being described as “all passion. Not scared of negative attention.”

HUNT-THE-STRONG Hosts
When HUNT-THE-STRONG consumed DANCE-FOR-US, he claimed he obtained all of DANCE-FOR-US's hosts.

LAUGH-LAST Hosts
THEE-I-DARE says that LAUGH-LAST has more hosts than many know.

SPEAK-AS-ONE Hosts
SPEAK-AS-ONE has stated in an interaction that Maligras Quiroga's spouse was a host to to them. Maligras herself, according to SPEAK-AS-ONE,  but the Watcher in the interaction was not allowed to speak of it.

Omar uz-Zaman
The previous mayor, Omar uz-Zaman, was likely a SPEAK-AS-ONE host because SPEAK-AS-ONE held a big memorial after his death.

Livia Perdichi
Livia Perdichi, thought to be the mother of the art teacher Mr. Perdichi, is thought to have been a SPEAK-AS-ONE host in life because she was allowed to come and go freely from Redacre, which is very rare.

Everest Biehl
Everest Biehl, the great-grandfather of Officer J. Biehl, was a lawyer who died around 20 years ago. Everest is assumed to have been a SPEAK-AS-ONE loyalist because he officially made Redacre a town on federal maps.

THEE-I-DARE Hosts
THEE-I-DARE has had many hosts in Redacre but few are still alive. Before the events of, many of his hosts died "FOR THE CAUSE" in the Cull. THEE-I-DARE states his Hosts choose him whereas the other Voices pick their Hosts. Some hosts used THEE-I-DARE and their connection with him in a way akin to drugs in order to escape their problems, and some of these hosts never returned to the "real world". Before his fragmentation, THEE-I-DARE's voice came from a male host.

The few hosts of THEE-I-DARE still alive now meet with the hosts of DIE-FOR-YOU at night after DIE-FOR-YOU joined the Pact. THEE-I-DARE has commented how without the eyes of all of his hosts and the hosts of other Voices, the Pact lacks "SOME WITNESS OR EVIDENCE OF WHAT HAPPENED" the night of Isabela Madi-Shaw's disappearance to the point where "NOWHERE IN REDACRE WILL STAY HIDDEN". Despite gaining more hosts post-Cull, the Harvest still threatens his hosts. The shattering of the Triskellion in 922 Hoadly sickened THEE-I-DARE's hosts.