Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171207232020/@comment-25936766-20180129015348

Sinjoh wrote: I have to say, I love this character. My only nitpick, which is minor, is her French accent. Remnant, as far as I'm aware speaks English, and I don't really see how he would've gotten a French accent through English. Technically, they speak "Remnantese", which we hear and read as English for the sake of understanding stuff. Tolkien did the same with Lord of the Rings, IIRC.

Logically, that would involve accents....or should, but no one seems to acknowledge any accents, if they exist. We never hear stuff like "he sounds atlesian".

In fact, there don't even seem to be racial features in Remnant. Hell, Watts shouldn't even have such a dark skin, if he's Atlesian, because dark skin was developed to deal with sunlight and Atlas is in the coldest part of Remnant.

So overall, Monty and co. failed at portraying the different kingdoms's peoples as, well, being from different kingdoms. No accents, no racial features, nothing but clothes and those don't apply to everyone (Pyrrha never wore anything remotely eastern, for example).

The accent part can be explained though. RT doesn't have enough budget to get tons of different VAs that can give good deliveries while speaking with different accents. Bioware did it with Dragon Age, but they had 4 years and tons of budget.

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That said, there shouldn't be a problem if an OC had a french accent. It's quite cosmetic, really, just like Velvet having a british accent (which is not because she does, but because her VA does) and not one acknowledging it (or at least not caring).