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"Cacofonix,
the bard. Opinion is divided as to his musical gifts.
Cacofonix thinks he's a genius. Everyone else thinks
he's unspeakable. But so long as he doesn't speak, let
alone sing, everybody likes him....."
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Cacofonix - a misunderstood genus or a misguided
fool? It seems that there is only a select few who like his
music, and those few don't like it for its musical qaulity.
Cacofonix's singing taught the Normans true fear (and it allowded
them to fly) and his ability for his singing to cause rain,
helped save the Indian Princess Orinjade from beheading. Why
does Cacofonix insist in living in a village where he is misunderstood
and attacked, just because of his persistance to sing?
Cacofonix and Fauliautomatix have a very strange
friendship. Faulioutmatix punches Cacofonix every time he
starts singing, but Faulioutomatix wants him to sing... At
the end of Asterix
and the Magic Carpet, Faulioutomatix was feeling lonely
because Cacofonix wasn't around. How much do the village respect
Cacofonix? As Getafix put it "He's an excellent sort
when he doesn't sing". When Cacofonix announced he
was leaving the village in Asterix
and the Secret Weapon, the whole village gathered to beg
Cacofonix to stay. Faulioutomatix was even willing to let
him sing...
So what is it about Cacofonix's singing voice
that makes it so detestible? Right from the start it was out
of tune and HORRIBLE! What is interesting to note though is
that Cacofonix is a competant muscian, he played the fiddle
with no qualms in Asterix
the Gaul, the lyre in Asterix
and the Normans, and conducted the invited bards in Asterix
and the Actress.
In Asterix
and the Magic Carpet, Cacofonix's fame had reached new
heights - already famous for scaring out the spectators in
Asterix the Gladiator and all the residants in the block of
flats in The Mansions of Gods - now his voice angered the
Gods so much that it started to rain whenever he sang.
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