Insert clever "Child's Play" joke here
Alright, guys, let's talk bitties.
For those of you who have no idea what that term means, it's the KH characters as young children. We get a healthy dose of them in BBS, and oh man are they cute as anything. Seeing bitty!Sora and bitty!Riku is a nice little break from the trauma, yes? Yes.
In those cut scenes, we also get to see how those two speak. Five year old Riku, for one, sounds like he's already trying to Be An Adult. Sora is obviously still enjoying being a kid, but he's still pretty solid in his grip on the English language. In fact, both of them are incredibly articulate for young children.
And so, dear RPers, I have to ask why oh why you apply the Stereotypical Cutesy Kid Accents to their dialogue. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Replacing r's with w's. Words like "otay." Leaving letters off the ends of words, only to replace them with the dreaded apostrophe. Now, I know that last one dabbles a bit into Your Mileage May Vary territory; however, when I can barely read the dialogue behind the forest of unnecessary apostrophes that's sprung up around it, I sincerely doubt the problem is with my reading comprehension skills.
Riku doesn't try to be cute. Sora doesn't have to try. Please, please don't force it on them.
For those of you who have no idea what that term means, it's the KH characters as young children. We get a healthy dose of them in BBS, and oh man are they cute as anything. Seeing bitty!Sora and bitty!Riku is a nice little break from the trauma, yes? Yes.
In those cut scenes, we also get to see how those two speak. Five year old Riku, for one, sounds like he's already trying to Be An Adult. Sora is obviously still enjoying being a kid, but he's still pretty solid in his grip on the English language. In fact, both of them are incredibly articulate for young children.
And so, dear RPers, I have to ask why oh why you apply the Stereotypical Cutesy Kid Accents to their dialogue. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Replacing r's with w's. Words like "otay." Leaving letters off the ends of words, only to replace them with the dreaded apostrophe. Now, I know that last one dabbles a bit into Your Mileage May Vary territory; however, when I can barely read the dialogue behind the forest of unnecessary apostrophes that's sprung up around it, I sincerely doubt the problem is with my reading comprehension skills.
Riku doesn't try to be cute. Sora doesn't have to try. Please, please don't force it on them.