Yapping about MC's language HC
I firmly believe that MC (2019) has a very strong Russian accent. Considering Zero's accent in Re:Rise (at least in the English dub), you can't convince me that MC has a 'neutral' accent.
It's like, come on, are you telling me that someone who grew up in the middle of nowhere in Siberia, probably living with Russian people (except maybe Herzog and some other foreign children the doctor took in kidnapped at the orphanage), doesn't have an obvious accent?
At the beginning of the MMORPG's main story, Renata mentioned that whoever won the exam or was it a competition? Whatever, idk, idc rn tbh would go to study in the capital, it's not hard to assume they meant Moscow. (There was a map of Russia in our cabin, actually!) And the USSR was still standing (it was like… a year away from everything going to hell when Black Swan Bay was destroyed… but yeah) although English language instruction existed, it was more technical, not conversational at all (in fact, German was more popular, so, I also think MC and Renata know German, even if only a little 🤓☝️). So yes, it makes sense that MC knows English, considering everyone speaks English in the game (I've never heard anyone mention that Mai, a Japanese woman, has a British accent although I get it, that accent makes her sound super sexy-)
Getting back to the point, then, MC is someone who spent a good part of their life in Russia, living with Russians, only knowing how to read and write in English, and when they arrived in a place whose main language is English, like god-damn Chicago, USA (that fact always makes me laugh, idkw, don't ask) they had been in a huge ice cube for like 20 years or sm. I genuinely like to think that MC's first conversations with the rest of Cassell College were… complicated, to say the least.
This is getting hella long, so to sum it up… MC has a ridiculously thick Russian accent, comically pronounced, and I plan to die on this hill.
Someday I'll continue explaining this headcanon better… probably. This is just a rant before I go to sleep.
English isn't my native language either, btw.
