I love going to other servers to see if they've got weird regional accents for places like they do on WrA (you have to understand that for 6 years prior I never seriously RPed as Alliance, these new traditions and things are a strange new world for me). Like, inexplicably, Duskwood's accent is Irish or Scottish, and ... I think Redridge is either an outright twangy sort of south America/Texas, or a more quaint-countrified English like a Cornwall or Geordie mish-mash. (Depending on who you're RPing with at the time.)
But what I really want to goddamn know is why we all seem to assume that the humans sound ENGLISH. Boggles my mind. For every one guy you've got not speaking in some sort of pseudo-English accent you've got a dozen mush mouthed Welsh and Liverpudlian "oi there, guv"s flopping about. Personally I think it'd be hilarious if somebody or somepersons developed an Azerothian version of Londoner rhyming slang.
I blame the Gilneans for all of this, really. Not the Gilnean RPers, the actual goddamn Gilneans as written by Blizzard Entertainment. Apparently the only way to make a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat funnier is to make him a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat that sounds like goddamn Dick Van Dyke mauling the Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
...oh god I'm leaking my anglophile all over the place.
Personally I think it'd be hilarious if somebody or somepersons developed an Azerothian version of Londoner rhyming slang.
Lieutenant "Foxy" Topper.
Apparently the only way to make a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat funnier is to make him a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat that sounds like goddamn Dick Van Dyke mauling the Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
And funnier yet would be two gothic Victorian werewolves in frock coats and top hats, one sounding like the aforementioned Dick Van Dyke and the other lecturing him like Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
Apparently you get the Cockney accent if you've been imprisoned in the Stockades.
but only if you're a blood elf.
You also get heavy-duty prison tats a la the Russians and a lifetime of sexual abuse because blood elves are obviously everyone's prison bitches.
...I don't talk to this player anymore so there you go.
(But seriously we have half a dozen blood elves that're supposed to sound like young Jason Strathams running around on WrA, and they're all part of the same in-group of rogues. One of whom is the aforementioned ex-con from the Stocks, who got his accent from there. Mysteriously.)
This character is supposed to have a similar range and lack-of-affect as Vin Diesel doing Riddick, only plus the regional accent that blood elves have. have fun with that
But what I really want to goddamn know is why we all seem to assume that the humans sound ENGLISH. Boggles my mind. For every one guy you've got not speaking in some sort of pseudo-English accent you've got a dozen mush mouthed Welsh and Liverpudlian "oi there, guv"s flopping about. Personally I think it'd be hilarious if somebody or somepersons developed an Azerothian version of Londoner rhyming slang.
I blame the Gilneans for all of this, really. Not the Gilnean RPers, the actual goddamn Gilneans as written by Blizzard Entertainment. Apparently the only way to make a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat funnier is to make him a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat that sounds like goddamn Dick Van Dyke mauling the Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
...oh god I'm leaking my anglophile all over the place.
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Lieutenant "Foxy" Topper.
Apparently the only way to make a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat funnier is to make him a gothic Victorian werewolf in a frock coat and top hat that sounds like goddamn Dick Van Dyke mauling the Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
And funnier yet would be two gothic Victorian werewolves in frock coats and top hats, one sounding like the aforementioned Dick Van Dyke and the other lecturing him like Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
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but only if you're a blood elf.
You also get heavy-duty prison tats a la the Russians and a lifetime of sexual abuse because blood elves are obviously everyone's prison bitches.
...I don't talk to this player anymore so there you go.
(But seriously we have half a dozen blood elves that're supposed to sound like young Jason Strathams running around on WrA, and they're all part of the same in-group of rogues. One of whom is the aforementioned ex-con from the Stocks, who got his accent from there. Mysteriously.)
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This character is supposed to have a similar range and lack-of-affect as Vin Diesel doing Riddick, only plus the regional accent that blood elves have. have fun with that
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THE CHARACTER IS SO HARDCORE
AND HE'S GOT THE RIGHT ACCENT
also i can't spell that late at night
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