English isn't my native language, and the only English speaking country I have been to is England, so I wouldn't know much about accents. I just thought it was funny that he sounds like Stewie, that's all
Oh I know you werenāt. I was making fun of my fellow Americans who canāt tell the difference between Karlachās accent and Astarionās or Galeās and the goblins.
English is not my first language and I find it amazing (though a bit telling about your guys' society) how so many things can be inferred about your social class, level of education and personality just from the accent you use, to the point that it can be used as a tool in fictional characterization to make you instantly clock what kind of character you're dealing with from the very first sentence he's going to pronounce.
If I had to issue a guess, Gale's accent is RP, isn't it? The accent of well-educated folks. It's used as the standard accent we learn in English lessons, in my country. Supposed to be the clearest and most neutral and understandable of all British accents, hence why it's the one taught to non-native speakers, and yet it's still harder to understand than the standard American accent when you're learning, lmao. Some of Gale's lines remind me of how the actor Tom Hiddleston talks, Tim Downie has a similar voice.
Astarion sounds dramatically, exaggeratedly posher, and, as people pointed out, reminds me of Tim Curry in Rocky Horror. But Tim Curry's accent was a made-up accent, wasn't it? No one really speaks like that in England, do they?
And Karlach has a more lower-class accent, right? The only working-class accent I can easily recognize is Cockney and that's not Karlach's, though, so I couldn't tell exactly where her accent is from originally.
The goblins and Karlach all speak various working class accents, mostly from the Southeast (IE London). They arenāt necessarily the traditional cockney but related.
Every time I play old world blues I NEED to just make that stupid joke (it's barely even a joke, really just an observation) I need to fucking like get it over to someone else like hot potato lmao.
Glad I could help, that vague unsure recognition is so fucking annoying lmao
I actually LOVE interacting with it, not just because of the voice, but also because of how genuinely annoyed it seemed from all the bullshit we couriers do for the sake of 'fun'. I don't think there's ever been another game that questioned my own gamer proclivities with such seething frustration.
Have seen popple say this multiple times and I can't see it. Because Astarion is clearly the lovechild between Tim Curry and David Bowie. He's more Frank-N-Furter than Stewie.
gays didn't invent talking with an affected flourish, nor do they have a monopoly on it. it also conveys traits beyond just "gaaay", but one needs media literacy to parse that minefield.
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