I am a British (to be specific English) person. I am sick of seeing badly written British characters so I’m going to help you out.
Regions
Within the UK we then have England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. What you might not realise is that in each of these countries dialogue, traditions and slang can be vastly different.
I’ve seen posts going around with British slang words but it’s practically useless to you if you don’t know which areas say these words. I’m from Yorkshire which is classed as having a ‘broad’ accent. We have words such as 'mardy’ 'Ey up’ 'Nah then’ 'innit’ 'Gennel’. But people from other areas have no idea what I’m saying and don’t understand the slang because it is so region specific. Oh and what causes major arguments with my university friends is whether bread is 'Bread Cakes’ 'Bread rolls’ or 'Bread buns’.
So know the area and the slang.
Geography!!!
There are more places in the UK than London. So think about it and do some research before you decide where you want your character to be from, do something different and have them from 'up north’.
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Accents
Although I touched on this in the region section I think this is really important.We don’t all talk like the bleedin’ Queen. When I was a child this was the most annoying thing about children’s tv shows. Not only was the British character always the bad guy they always had a badly done posh accent and sat around drinking tea.
So watch some videos, you don’t need to write in the accent but it will help you to familiarise yourself with the way people from that area speak.
Stereotypes
These have a warning light above. Avoid at all costs. That snotty upper-class English person with a large chin? AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
I understand how easy it is to fall into stereotypes, but avoid them if you can. It will affect how good your end product is.
How we identify
I am a British person, but if someone was to ask me where I was from I would say English. Keep this mind when writing I don’t know many people who would introduce themselves and say 'Oh I’m from Britain.’ We just don’t. All though we are one country- the UK. We all identify with the country we are born in. Most people are very proud and independent especially the Scottish and Welsh. They will normally identify with 'Wales/Scotland/England/N.Ireland before they identify as British or from the UK.
So please keep this is mind!
Our own Stereotypes
Within the UK we don’t always get on and there is a lot of rivalry between parts of the UK. So for example the English call the Welsh 'Sheep shaggers’ which is just a joke.
The South and North of England are hugely different places with people 'darnnnn south’ thinking people from the north are all farmers and then the people from 'Up Norff’ thinking those in the south are all posh. Off course it’s all nonsense, and we know it is. But we still say it!
A person first
You’ve decided to make a character British, great! But you should do your character development for this character the exact same as you would do any other character. The fact they are British doesn’t affect what their positive and negative traits are going to be. What effects these is their personality, background. Not where in the world they are from.
You’ve got a character in your novel that is British, not a British character.
Think of it that way and your character will be better off.
Research
What this all comes down to, in the end is RESEARCH.
These links might give you an idea where to start, you will of course need to do further research
When writing as if British and when writing a British character
How to write dialogue for British characters with an accent
Regions of Britain
Sounds familiar? Accent and Dialects in the UK
Regional accents of English
Writing British characters
The North/South divide
The best kind of research is to ASK someone. I’m from England and if you want to ask me any questions I will do my best to help, bear in mind though I can only tell you about where I’m from which is Yorkshire.
Hope this has been of help, I had a right laugh making this as I asked my Dad for help and he sat by me and randomly said slang words. (hence the slang post that I’m making)
If you can think of anything I have missed let me know and I’ll add it in. I haven’t included everything you need to think about but hopefully it will just help you get started.
-S
EDIT: Another thing to keep in mind is that Wales especially has it’s own language and while not everyone from Wales speaks welsh in certain areas they do. So make sure you find out whether or not the area your character is from is likely to speak another language.
First step, open IbisPaint and import the pink blinkie base. This is just to keep the aspect ratio the same, so don't worry about preserving the pink blinkie after you import it.
For this tutorial, I'll be making a CFS blinkie with this flag as the background. You can use any color or background. If you're using a horizontal striped flag like I am, be sure to select perspective form so it will automatically resize, and then you can stretch it to fit the blinkie.
Now that your background is done, you can add text, decoration, etc!
Now it's time to add the actual blinkie part. Insert the black and white template on a new layer right on top of the background. It should fit perfectly.
If you want to keep it black and white, ignore this next step. Here I will show you how to color the dots easily. I'll be picking purple and blue for my dots.
Make two layers above the blinkie part and set them both to clipping layers. One will be for recoloring your white dots, the other for you black dots.
Color one of the layers entirely with your first color, then set it to "Lighter Color". This will color only your black dots.
Do the same with your other color on the other layer, and then set it to "Darker Color". This will color only your white dots.
Boom! Now you've got your first frame!
To get your 2nd frame, simply click the invert button on the blinkie frame.
Now you've got both your frames!
Now just pop these frames into EzGif's Gif Maker (or any other gif maker), and you're done!
hi gang. so someone in the wrong organ discord server ripped all the Mouthwashing models into vrchat, and after some community digging, we found the best refs possible for them!
credits to brokenvideotape on discord for posting the originals. im simply putting them online in order for people to have the best refs possible! :-)
The Price of Flesh Walkthrough: [Celia] ; [Mason] ; [Derek] ; [Fox]
I just want to start with saying that this is how I, myself, got these endings. I’m sure there are other ways to get them, so don’t worry if our play throughs were different! feel free to send me a message if you're struggling!
Marked spoilers for…obvious reasons
ENJOY
*MISSING A CG?? Don’t dismantle the snare and then return to it!
Ending #1: You Visited The Cabin
Beginning choices don't matter;
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [climb the tree by clicking the action button]
4. [you can leave and Mason will shoot you]
5. [Hide]
6. [walk back to the clearing]
7. [walk towards the cabin]
8. [go inside the cabin]
9. [Keep searching the area until Mason shows up]
You can also get this same ending by trying to enter the cabin at night.
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Ending #2: your flame is out
this is a fun ending! once again, beginning choices don't matter
1. [Keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [climb the tree by clicking the action button]
4. [you can leave and Mason will shoot you]
5. [Hide]
6. [You need to lower to sanity until it's 50 or below, getting too cold can lower your sanity by 20! just be careful not to get too cold and don't worry, warming yourself with the fire wont raise your sanity]
7. [walk towards the cabin]
8. [click on your flint and steel]
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Ending #3: your smoke gave you away
this is a fairly simple one, beginning choices don't matter
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [use your flint and steel]
4. [stay by the fire until Mason shows up]
FYI, if you chose to have sexual content on, this ending will also have sexaul assault
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Ending #4: You Got Caught In His Trap
1. [keep moving]
2. [go deeper into the woods]
3. [stay once to avoid mason]
4. [ walk back to the woods]
5. [stay once to avoid mason]
6. [walk back to the clearing]
7. [walk towards the rocks]
8. [light a fire and stay until 6am, sleep if your energy is low enough and then put out your fire]
9. [stay until mason shows up and hide]
10. [light a fire and stay twice, sleep if your energy is low enough]
11. [head back to the clearing]
12. [your leg will get caught in a bear trap and Mason will show up]
****
Ending #5: You Smelled Delicious
another easy one, however the bear can get annoying if you keep a fish on you! from my understanding, the bear will only fuck with you if you have a fish in your inventory.
1. [keep moving]
2. [go back to the clearing]
3. [walk towards the rocks]
4. [fish by pressing the action tab and search area]
5. [try to catch a fish]
6. [Don't eat the fish!!]
7. [hang out by the rocks and light a fire so you dont get the wrong ending]
8. [go to sleep once your energy is low enough]
9. [you will be woken up by a bear!]
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Ending #6: The Water is Still
this one is one of the harder ones, it took me a couple of hours along with some of the others and once again, beginning choices do not matter.
so, for this one, you need to lower your sanity and visit the swamp BEFORE you have the nightmare.
getting to the swamp is easy, you just have to make sure you draw all the locations on your map!
1. [keep moving]
2. [ walk deeper into the woods]
3. [climb the tree to get the cabin and tree on your map]
4. [stay by the tree once to avoid being shot by Mason]
5. [walk back to the woods]
6. [click on your map to sketch the area]
7. [search the area and obtain the red berries]
8. [light a fire and stay until it gets dark]
9. [now that it's dark, Mason isn't hunting you until 7am!]
10. [walk back to the clearing and sketch the area]
11. [walk towards the rocks and sketch the area]
12. [light a fire and stay twice]
13. [walk back to the clearing]
14. [walk into the tree]
15. [fight through the bush and go north]
16. [eat the red berries at the swamp]
****
Ending #7: Now You are The Hunter
another one that took me fucking hours to get! beginning choices don't matter!
1.[keep moving]
2. [go deeper into the woods and climb the tree]
3. [stay there to avoid mason]
4. [ walk back to the woods]
5. [stay there to avoid mason]
6. [walk back to the clearing]
7. [walk towards the rocks]
8. [light a fire and stay until 6am, sleep if your energy is low enough and then put out your fire]
9. [stay until mason shows up and hide]
10. [light a fire and stay twice, sleep if your energy is low enough]
11. [search area and find the bear trap]
12. [take the bear trap]
13. [try setting it up but you cant seem to figure it out...oh well.]
14. [walk back to the clearing]
15. [light a fire and stay twice, then sleep when your energy is low enough]
16.[put out fire a 5am and stay twice until it's light out]
17. [walk towards the cabin]
18. [try placing the bear trap inside of the cabin]
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Ending #8: You Changed
alright gamers, this one was the last ending I got and frankly, this one may be the hardest.
you need to survive 3 or 4 in game nights without dying!
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [stay 5 times until it gets dark and light a fire]
4. [stay then put out fire at 5am]
5. [search the area to find the snare and dismantle it]
6. [walk back into the woods]
7. [light a fire and sleep]
8. [walk back to the clearing and stay once]
9. [walk towards the rocks]
10. [ light a fire]
11. [stay until it gets dark, sleep]
12. [ put your fire out at 5am]
13. [search area and find bear trap, leave it behind]
14. [walk back to the clearing]
15. [sleep]
16. [stay in the clearing and light a fire, stay twice]
17. [walk into the trees]
18. [stay 4 times and light a fire, eat any and all food in your inventory and sleep if your energy is low enough]
19. [put the fire out at 5am]
20. [walk back to the clearing]
21. [walk towards the rocks]
22. [light a fire and stay twice]
23. [put out fire]
24. [stay by the river, hide when mason shows up and light another fire]
25. [stay until it gets dark, sleep if your energy is low enough]
26. [soon your fire will go out and your character will notice that it started snowing]
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Ending #9: Your Hunt is Over
for this one, your health needs to be 20 or lower!
1. [stay in the clearing]
2. [hide when mason shoots you]
3. [stay until mason shoots you again]
4. [choose anything to say to him]
5. [make a tourniquet by clicking on your knife]
6. [light a fire and stay until 3 or 4am, then put it out]
7. [go to sleep]
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Ending #10: You Lost Your Head
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [climb the tree]
4. [stay once to avoid mason]
5. [walk back into the woods]
6. [stay once to avoid mason]
7. [walk back to the clearing]
8. [light a fire and wait until morning, sleep when your energy is low]
9. [walk towards the cabin at 7am]
10. [enter the cabin]
11. [search the cabin until your energy gets too low and you fall asleep]
12. [you will wake up in Mason's arms]
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Ending #11: The Cold Took You
this one is fairly easy, just don't use the fire at night!
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [keep staying until you get too cold and die]
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Ending #12: You Were Caught and Cleaned
another fairly easy one!
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods]
3. [stay until it gets dark and light a fire, sleep when your energy is low enough]
4. [put out fire at 6am]
5. [without searching the area, walk back into the woods]
6. [cutting the wire or untying it as the same results]
7. [mason then will show up and cut your throat]
FYI: if your sanity is 50 or below and you have sexual content on, you will get the option to 'distract him', which is just him mouthing fucking you LMAO
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Ending #13: You Bled Out
super easy one!
1. [stay in the clearing]
2. [hide when mason shoots you]
3. [stay until mason shoots you again]
4. [choose anything to say to him]
5. [this time, don't stop the bleeding]
6. [light a fire and stay until you bleed out]
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Ending #14: You Denied Him The Pleasure
Okaaay, for this one, you will need your sanity to be zero!
1. [keep moving]
2. [walk deeper into the woods and stay once, to avoid mason]
3. [walk back into the woods]
4. [search the area and obtain the red berries]
5. [eat them]
6. [stay but don't light a fire until you lose 20 sanity points]
7. [light a fire and stay enough so you wont die]
8. [put out the fire and stay again until you lose 20 sanity points]
9. [open your inventory and click on your knife; there will be a glitchy looking button that says 'end this']
10. [click on it]
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Ending #15: You Made A Friend
This one took me forever to do as well, simply because i kept dying lol
1. [keep moving]
2. [ walk deeper into the woods]
3. [climb the tree to get the cabin and tree on your map]
4. [stay by the tree once to avoid being shot by Mason]
5. [walk back to the woods]
6. [click on your map to sketch the area]
7. [search the area and obtain the red berries]
8. [light a fire, the time should be 1800
9. [eat the berries so your sanity drops]
10. [stay three time, then go to sleep when your energy gets low enough and you'll have a dream about the swamp]
11. [put out the fire and walk back to the clearing and sketch the area]
12. [walk towards the rocks and sketch the area]
13. [walk back to the clearing and search the area to obtain the bones, the time should be 6am]
14. [walk into the trees and go north]
15. [offer the bones to the swamp]
16. [walk back to the woods]
17. [light a fire, stay twice and put it out]
18. [stay until mason shows up and hide]
19. [stay in the trees and light another fire, go to sleep]
20. [when you wake up, stay by the fire 4 times and go to sleep again]
21. [when you walk up, stay by the fire until 6am then walk back to the clearing]
22. [walk towards the cabin]
23. [go inside]
24. [search the area and find the gun the swamp creature told you about]
It was wonderful to get to attack so many people and also fun, it sucked that I got a bit unmotivated but gladly I was able to do some more few attacks!
I generally watch LPs of horror games bc I'm too anxious to actually play them but a lot of them have FANTASTIC stories, so sometimes I just binge-watch KrinxTV for background noise. Been watching a lot of playthroughs of Still Wakes The Deep because it's such a delight to hear Scottish voice actors get work and I thought I'd address some questions I keep seeing Let's Players ask:
--Adair is a member of the National Front as you can find out from posters in his cabin, a Neo-Fascist British political party that’s been going since the sixties. While it often preaches British ethnic unity, in practice that often means “everybody in the UK should be exactly like East End Londerners” and features plentiful disdain for Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk, alongside those perceived as “not British”. No wonder the wanker eats alone in the canteen.
--Neeps and Tatties=turnips and potatoes, mashed, drenched in butter or sauce. Fills your belly, keeps you warm, probably makes you sink like a stone because it’s so heavy.
--Cranachan=a dessert made of raspberries, honey, cream and oats, absolutely delicious
--Rennick calls Caz a “wee ned prick”. Ned is apocryphally said to stand for “non-educated delinquent” and is basically just a way of calling someone an uneducated, lower-class criminal
--A lot of things said by and about Roy indicate that he’s a teetotaller who went through AA and specifically became Catholic and is making an effort at converting Caz.
--I think it’s entertaining how Scottish nicknames often follow a pattern of shortening/rejiggering that I also see a lot with Australian nicknames—Cameron becomes Caz, Rafferty becomes Raffs, etc. Trots is an unusual one but is almost certainly a reference to him being a communist, presumably a Trotskyist. Gibbo is also an unusual one in that it’s just very silly. There’s a kind of indignity implied in being killed by a guy called Gibbo.
--A few times on the radio you hear the Shipping Forecast, a type of weather report aimed at specifically reporting weather conditions out on the ocean, and is also famous for the report being read in such a calm, soothing tone that some folk use it as a sleep aid.
--All the yellow paint for interactable things is very video gamey, yes, but is also in line with old British health and safety standards, and yellow paint on things like emergency ladders or on the edges of stairs that are trip hazards is a thing ou can still see in some older buildings.
--Caz keeps saying he’s “good with the leccy”; leccy=electricity. Caz is implied to be quite a wee guy who can get through a lot of tight spaces, and my uncle swears blind that electricians used to refuse to take on apprentices over a certain size because they only wanted to train wee guys who could get up into the tight spaces that a lot of older buildings are full of. On that note, “wee man” is a term of endearment, generally, and isn’t exclusively applied to short guys.
--Finlay saying of Gibbo that “he’s no right” is INCREDIBLY OMINOUS. It sounds mild but “he’s no right, that boy” is what older folk say about a child who’s been found disembowelling cats for fun or someone they strongly suspect is a pedophile. It’s not something you’d say about a friend who’s just acting a bit unusually.
– “Great minds united over a Buckie”--Buckfast, or Buckie, is a caffienated tonic wine that’s cheap, widely accessible, and is a bit like rocket fuel for bad decisions.
– “Ya roaster” tbh I don’t really know where it comes from, calling someone a roaster, but I’ve always felt like it has a vibe of telling them they’re huffing their own farts.
– “You’re the jammiest bastart on this rig” Someone who is jammy is someone who has incredible luck that is implied to be related to their sheer confidence or willingness to engage in risky behaviour. Walking along the street and finding a pound coin isn’t jammy; crossing the road confident that the cars won’t hit you and stopping in the middle to pick up a pound coin before making it unscathed to the other side is jammy as all hell.
--Barlinnie is the biggest prison in Scotland, and largely hosts violent offenders—it’s where Caz would definitely go for hospitalizing a man.
--Weans are children (contraction of wee yins/wee ones). I thought this one was contextually obvious but apparently not.
SPOILERS BELOW
--”One spark and the whole thing’ll go up”—this is referring to the wee spark of flame in the lighter used to blow up the rig, but is also kind of a pun because electricians are often called sparks or sparkies, and in the end it’s Caz who blows up the rig.
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