Your character's OOC nationality.

[ChewableMorphine]

Here's the thread where you can have some fun, yeah you're restricted to the confines of the FFXIV lore, but your character was no doubt based on some real life culture in which their traits are derived from. Here's where you can shill about it.

 

Flynt Reddard, a painfully French-Canadian name, is germanic by racial standards, pale skin, bright eyes, fair hair. His accent is plain North American with welsh/thick Canadian undertones. Through most of his pronunciation of words, his tone is fast-spoken and contracts words like 'y'all' into his vocabulary. He's no stranger to the odd 'eh' either. All in all, he's certainly a West Coast Backwoods Canadian who let the glitz and glamour of the city turn him into a hick in a suit.

[Aya]

Aya's Scandanavian by origin, and French by adoption!

[Edvyn]

south african

no really

[ChewableMorphine]

south african

no really

 

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[QueenFrejyalen]

Frejyalen is a sort of Norse/Polish/Turkish blend?

[Erik Mynhier]

He moved to the UAE to make that guard money, but he was from Holland, though his mom is Icelandic.

[ChewableMorphine]

Frejyalen is a sort of Norse/Polish/Turkish blend?

 

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[Gegenji]

Chachan's Doman and the son of a long line of smiths that would probably make many, many katanas if such things existed in game. So his Japanese nationality is pretty obvious. :lol:

 

Judge I'm more nebulous about. Possibly German or Russian? Hrm.

[LiveVoltage]

Inessa Hara is Russian/Japanese blend, lol.

 

Although Inessa is ICly conceived in the far west but born in Ul'dah, her mother abandoned their old name to adopt a new name that was more easy to pick up on in Eorzea.

 

Also the reason why Inessa's mom doesn't have a name from where she is from is because there are no naming standards for the far west out yet.

[Aaron]

An Albino.

 

If you seen Aaron you'd know why. Only difference is Aaron is a pretty boy lol

[TheLastCandle]

Hibito Yarato's closest nationality would be Irish, really. When I play him, what I "hear" in my head is something like a Belfast accent both in pace and in rhoticity.

 

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Yvelont Navarre would be French in the real world. His efforts to hide what I figure is closer to the standard "Metropolitan" French when first having left Ishgard, though, has led to an almost total loss of any sort of Ishgardian accent that may exist. In other words, he sounds Gridanian, in general, which in my headcanon probably sounds something like Belgian French. But the Parisian Ishgardian shows itself every now and again when the facade slips.

[Zyrusticae]

T'rahnu is generically southeast Asian. I'm being vague here because she's really got an odd hodgepodge of features such that I don't feel comfortable being any more specific than that. Culturally? Hmmm, I guess she'd resemble an immigrant to one of the more civilized English-speaking nations. Not FOB, however, as she moved in when she was a kid. At this point she's pretty well-traveled, so it would be difficult to pin her down in that regard. Her accent is likely difficult to place as well. She'd probably be able to mimick a lot of different accents at-will.

 

IRL I'm Vietnamese, so her being like this is really no accident. "Write what you know", and all that jazz.

[chaoticsleepy]

Meiko is pretty easy, to the point where I don't even have to justify it. Japanese-English.

 

Moving on.

 

Xheja is harder. Based on appearance and physical features, I get a vague Pacific Islander feel from her. Thinking a bit back to the vague notions I have of her tribal life, I suppose that sort of kind of fits, too. But if we're talking the influence of her appropriated city culture? English, all the way.

 

N'hadiya is just such a mutt, I can't even begin to put her in one nationality / ethnicity.

[C'kayah Polaali]

C'kayah would be Algerian, but he'd claim his mother was French.

[Klynzahr]

Who knew? I'm not the only one with Canadian inspirations! 8-)

 

My Sea Wolves take a fair bit of inspiration from both Newfoundland and the maritime provinces, but primarily the Cape Breton areas of Nova Scotia.

 

I have gone so far as make poor attempts to type out a Newfie accent for Iyrnahct, and slightly better attempts to type a watered down version for Klynzahr. For those of you who meet Iyrnahct on one of his rare RP outings and wonder why you can't understand a thing that he says, don't worry... it's mostly intentional.

[Caspar]

I suppose the archetypical Kumamoto Japanese. http://kumanago.jp/en/abouts/personality.html

[Gaspard]

Romanian / Russian for Constantine

[Val]

I'm.. .. I honestly don't know what Val's nationality is. I've honestly never considered it x_x

 

I've had people tell me they hear Irish whenever I type out his accent, but I've also heard people hear a few other things >_o so I can't really say.

[Darien Cadell]

I'd say probably nomadic Bedouin by father and North African maybe Egyptian by mother, but she'd refuse to claim either, and if pressed would just shrug and say she doesn't really know where she comes from.

[Devereau]

Who knew? I'm not the only one with Canadian inspirations! 8-)

 

My Sea Wolves take a fair bit of inspiration from both Newfoundland and the maritime provinces, but primarily the Cape Breton areas of Nova Scotia.

 

I have gone so far as make poor attempts to type out a Newfie accent for Iyrnahct, and slightly better attempts to type a watered down version for Klynzahr. For those of you who meet Iyrnahct on one of his rare RP outings and wonder why you can't understand a thing that he says, don't worry... it's mostly intentional.

 

I want to translate your Newfie accent. CAN YOU NOT SAY THE LETTER H?!

 

If you try to make me kiss a cod or drink garbage rum out of a boot, I'm out.

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

given her family; clio would be a 2nd or 3rd gen moved over from holland family but completely absorbed in american culture. needless to say her job would run along the lines of being in the army crawling around the guts of tanks or jets.

[DeletedUser]

I'm not really sure. From her accent alone, she's northern English, because...well, it's where I live so it's pretty easy to get into the swing of typing. So much so that sometimes I start typing that way OOC too. :blush:

[Tali]

I'm not really sure. From her accent alone, she's northern English, because...well, it's where I live so it's pretty easy to get into the swing of typing. So much so that sometimes I start typing that way OOC too. :blush:

 

Kilid's from the same tribe, and so sounds almost exactly the same.

 

Although I don't have the OOC issue

[SM Nick]

Solis would be American-English, with no accent actually.

 

Sakura's would obviously be Japanese.

 

Niklas is English of French descent, English accent.

 

Rena is Japanese-English with an Osaka accent.

[Dravus]

It's not really something I've thought about. I suppose he does have a few British, Spanish and French influences. Nothing beyond a few quirks here and there though. He's very well spoken, fond of art and history and there's a slight exotic flair to him.