ChewableMorphine Posted February 23, 2015 Share #1 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Aya Posted February 23, 2015 Share #2 Posted February 23, 2015 Aya's Scandanavian by origin, and French by adoption! Link to comment
Edvyn Posted February 23, 2015 Share #3 Posted February 23, 2015 south african no really Link to comment
ChewableMorphine Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted February 23, 2015 south african no really AYY DICKUS Mq4i8XlWilQ Link to comment
QueenFrejyalen Posted February 23, 2015 Share #5 Posted February 23, 2015 Frejyalen is a sort of Norse/Polish/Turkish blend? Link to comment
Erik Mynhier Posted February 23, 2015 Share #6 Posted February 23, 2015 He moved to the UAE to make that guard money, but he was from Holland, though his mom is Icelandic. Link to comment
ChewableMorphine Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted February 23, 2015 Frejyalen is a sort of Norse/Polish/Turkish blend? [align=center]REMOVE[/align] [align=center]ocW3fBqPQkU [/align] Link to comment
Gegenji Posted February 23, 2015 Share #8 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
LiveVoltage Posted February 23, 2015 Share #9 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Aaron Posted February 23, 2015 Share #10 Posted February 23, 2015 An Albino. If you seen Aaron you'd know why. Only difference is Aaron is a pretty boy lol Link to comment
TheLastCandle Posted February 23, 2015 Share #11 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Zyrusticae Posted February 23, 2015 Share #12 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
chaoticsleepy Posted February 23, 2015 Share #13 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
C'kayah Polaali Posted February 23, 2015 Share #14 Posted February 23, 2015 C'kayah would be Algerian, but he'd claim his mother was French. Link to comment
Klynzahr Posted February 23, 2015 Share #15 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Caspar Posted February 23, 2015 Share #16 Posted February 23, 2015 I suppose the archetypical Kumamoto Japanese. http://kumanago.jp/en/abouts/personality.html Link to comment
Gaspard Posted February 23, 2015 Share #17 Posted February 23, 2015 Romanian / Russian for Constantine Link to comment
Val Posted February 23, 2015 Share #18 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Darien Cadell Posted February 23, 2015 Share #19 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Devereau Posted February 23, 2015 Share #20 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Cliodhna Eoghan Posted February 23, 2015 Share #21 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
DeletedUser Posted February 23, 2015 Share #22 Posted February 23, 2015 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: Link to comment
Tali Posted February 23, 2015 Share #23 Posted February 23, 2015 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 Link to comment
SM Nick Posted February 23, 2015 Share #24 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
Dravus Posted February 23, 2015 Share #25 Posted February 23, 2015 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. Link to comment
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