whoa i can’t believe i missed that post! i’m convinced! I’m gonna stick with that theory until we know more 
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Perfect kinds if there are more of them like F, obviously.
Though I have always wondered about F’s accent, theres a lot of American accents. I doubt F’s got a Southern drawl or something but if they spent time down in New Orleans that could explain the accent and the last name or whatever the Echo World version of New Orleans is… and what about N’s total lack of an accent? How does someone NOT have any kind of accent??
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Which resulted to Mason being associated with Bucky Barnes aka Winter Soldier. XD
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And then I dragged dragged Adam into it as Captain America and… sigh then I dragged Nate in as Thor with their equal levels of height/understanding of technology, lol
Fun times.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone’s ever actually asked Sera what F’s accent is specifically?
If they have, I’d love the link otherwise.
I’m glad you brought that up, that was suspicious af when I first read the demo, but then I got distracted by the Suavewell™ lol.
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that bothers me too XD
@resuri08 oh that’s why! but tbh, I’ve always pictured Mason as Bucky from the start, even before i knew about this theory. maybe because I’ve been obsessing over Seb for a loooong while now 
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What about A surname - du Mortain, sounds French (de Mortagne??). Any French speakers here?
Also, do you think either A or N could be nobility, and from what country if so?
I have a feeling they are. XD
ahh… I have it in my headcanon, Adam being like Mr. Darcy and Nate being Mr. Henry Tilney. XD
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Now I need to know what’ll be more annoying to A: address as your Highness or your Majesty.
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that could explain why N likes expensive fancy pajamas
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Well, we can probably assume F doesn’t have a Southern accent. They do not say “ya’ll” or call the MC “darlin’” if they romance them or say “Bless their heart” even ONCE.
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excuse you, i’m poor af and I still love my expensive clothing lol
ain’t gotta be nobility to enjoy the finer things, ya feel? 
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There was actually a rather long discussion about this in February in the old WIP thread. I’ll try and dig it up for you.
edit: @anon8836198
Everything including this post and after was the discussion that I remember having.
I’m sure there were more earlier in the thread but…oof, I ain’t got time to check 2,000+ posts, lol.
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well i, on the other hand, likes to be practical (i’m not sure that’s the right word, english is not my first language) because i too am poor af.
but i agree with you, sometimes i do enjoy expensive things XD
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That is a very fitting comparison.
Also, since M’s surname and background is talked about:
While I played the game for the first few times I thought M may have Native American DNA, as in that they come from one of their tribes. The Choctaw tribe par example. I had gotten this impression since f!M was described having a long face, high cheekbones, and a straight nose. They also have an accent that the detective cannot place and their scent, underneath all the cigarette smog, reminds the detective of Sandalwood.
However, since then Sera has told us to think more Mediterranean concerning M’s origin.
And I have also found out that Sandalwood has only been used in Asian medicine for centuries, therefore making it unlikely that Sandalwood trees grow at other places in the world (though mind you, I cannot for the life of me find sources that explicitly agree or deny uses of it).
So knowing these things… M is probably not from Native American origins. Despite this, I still view M like one, it has stuck to me.
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Sandalwood is also a very popular scent in perfumes, cosmetics, and even food flavoring??? 
edit: According to Wikipedia, sandalwood is expensive!
Oh ho ho!!! I guess N isn’t the only one who enjoys the finer things, eh M? 
The Mediterranean accent thing…yeah, I vaguely remembered that but I wasn’t sure if that just me getting fanon and canon mixed up again (like A abusing the Detective’s furniture lol).
It’s also why I mentioned that M could have come from a pre-industrialized town that–while I’m sure they would have had a legal surname–would have been easy to ignore in pre-WWII Mediterranean countrysides.
D’awwww…what if M was a farmer before they got turned? [gasp!] What if they always hated people and preferred the farm animals instead??? 
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I still kind of headcanon M as being Egyptian in the time of the Greek ruling over them. I can’t see him as west Mediterranean, too long faced for that, I’ll say, but I could easily picture him as some kind of mixed race Egyptian/Greek.
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I read this as a fairly natural consequence of both knowing a lot of languages and having lived a long time in quite a few places (I imagine N to be quite well traveled). I think they could put on a pretty big variety of accents, but their own (original) accent has faded over time as a consequence
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Under the cut, because this got long.
Summary
For F’s accent…It’s possible that they do have a southern accent. “Doolally” isn’t American slang at all, but they still say it. Also, I’m technically a southerner, and stuff like “bless your heart” and “darlin’” is more deep south. The South is a huge part of the country.
We don’t really know how long F has been in our world, other than it’s between 10-80 years (though probably less than 80). If they arrived in America from the Echo World, it’s probable that they lived there for some time before being selected as an agent, since only the strongest supernatural are chosen. The accent is likely part of the Agency’s efforts to help them assimilate into our world, and the name possibly as well. If the name was chosen for that purpose, then it doesn’t reflect their heritage at all. And just because it’s French doesn’t mean anything in America, really. I live in WV and I’ve had classmates all my life with French-sounding names, and I promise WV isn’t full of French culture or that of their descendants.
As for M, they might be Turkish from before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Since we know F is ~30 years older than Rebecca, who’s probably in her 40s/50s, that puts F’s birth in the Echo World around the 1930s-40s. We know that M is older than F, but I’m hesitant on making them more than a few decades older, since making centuries also bumps up N and A’s ages. The fall of the Ottoman Empire happened in the 1920s, so M could be from before that. The Ottoman Empire didn’t use surnames, it’s in the Mediterranean, and they had rock crystal.
Rock crystal, really just quartz, held some sort of significance to the Islamic religion (I’m not Islamic, so I’m a little fuzzy on this) because of its translucence. Maybe that’s what M’s crystal is for. Does anyone remember how it was described?
I was going to say something about N’s lack of accent, but @Celtic_Rune beat me to it.
And I don’t speak French, but mort means death. So either A had a real ironic family name or they have a weirdo sense of humor. Since the names tie in with backstory, probably the first.
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I only checked the introduction and the bedroom scene at the agency cause i don’t have a lot of time rn but I think those were the only places it’s mentioned. On both occasions it’s simply described as “A/The crystal”, no further details
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And it dangles from a leather cord
But that will most probable change once it is truly described and its uses are explained (though I think it highly plausible that it has something to do with M’s ‘oversensitivity/hyper senses’; since crystals and gemstones have been used throughout the centuries in medicine and rituals, and are still used in alternative medicine and spiritual happenings, etcetera.
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