final fantasy...loves...scotland?

[trick-star]

ok im scottish lol so i obviously noticed this...well obviously cait sith talks scottish..."right u lass...shut ur gob" "a cannae handle tis!" lol i've heard that said on an everyday lol

and on FFIX...when the team is in the invincible and are attacked by white dragons and they get help from cid...there is a scottish flag on the ship...check it out at 0.43-0.45secs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi4hHWhRKEY&feature=related


and also on FFIX...the dwards in Conde Petie...all talk scottish too...

"rally-ho's oor sacred greetin'!"

"if ye dinnae say rally-ho then ya cannae enter conde petie hametoon o' the dwarves!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGFj7vPMQo&feature=related
just thought it was pretty cool

 

[Tennyo]

lol I knew about Cait Sith but I never realized there were Scottish things in IX as well!

And isn't Cait Sitth based on an actual Scottish myth?

 

[ForceStealer]

Yeah, a cat sith or cat sidhe(ket shee) is a cat-like demon from Scottish mythology. I remember reading its supposed to be based on some kind of hybrid cat indigenous to Scotland but I can't remember.

As for Conde Petie...dwarves always seem to speak Scottish, lol.

 

[yuzuk1]

woah thank you for pointing this out, I never knew about it lol

 

[Suzaku]

Cait Sith's accent is pretty great to me. In the Japanese version, he speaks kansai-ben, which is basically a strange, rural Japanese dialect that you could basically equate with hicks and bumpkins, so it's usually translated in English with some sort of Southern accent. But, considering the Gaelic origins of Cait Sith, they gave him an accent that suited his character.

Final Fantasy, and fantasy in general, does draw a lot from Scotland, or rather, from Celtic/Gaelic mythology and traditions in general. Even way back when, FFIV got its "Celtic Moon" soundtrack with traditional Celtic folk instruments.

Of course, that's not to say that it doesn't also draw from many, many other cultures and religions.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

Cait Sith's accent is pretty great to me. In the Japanese version, he speaks kansai-ben, which is basically a strange, rural Japanese dialect that you could basically equate with hicks and bumpkins, so it's usually translated in English with some sort of Southern accent. But, considering the Gaelic origins of Cait Sith, they gave him an accent that suited his character.

Which dialect of Kansai-ben? I know Gin from Bleach speaks specifically with a Kyoto-ben, and this makes him sound weirdly polite and very creepy. Osaka speaks Osaka-ben (no duh) and so she has a Houstin based accent.

 

[Masamune]

While we're on the subject: Did Rosso have a Kansai accent? I've heard some people use this to explain her daft Transylvanian one in the English vers.

 

[ForceStealer]

I thought it was Russian.

So does Cid speak Kansai-ben? I've been wondering that for awhile.