Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24302293-20140108184201/@comment-16059609-20140313224834

Ruth Joyce wrote: Ruaraidh.tamkin wrote: A few things I'm not sure about that I could use help with...

1. I want to make the Vikings in my fic realistic to the same extent that the Scots are realistic in Brave so though they still speak English they have Swedish accents and the name of Vikings are not the same as greater Norse civilisation. (but of course they're still besieged by dragons)

2. Corona either becomes England or England becomes nonexistent.

3. If Rapunzel is raised by an English woman she has an English accent.

4. Gothel is a witch that can enslave dark spirits e.g. Pitch (who of course has nefarious plans of his own) via black oaths and assorted unpleasant sacrifices.

5. Rapunzel, thanks to magic flower power will live a much longer life than the other two mortals in the team... she also has superhuman strength and durability making her frying pan seriously deadly. (I really wanted to see her punch Gothel in the face when I first watched tangled).  For 2 and 3 my official response: Corona can be an island off the coast of England, like an English territory or something, and Rapunzel would have an awesome British accent!

Fangirl response: EEEEEEEKKK!!!! YES YES YES!!! I LOVE THAT IDEA SO MUCH!!!!! I went to England 4 years ago and fell in love with the country!!! I love Scottish and British accents the best out of all cool accents, and Merida has a Scottish accent, so WHY DID I NOT THINK OF MAKING RAPUNZEL BRITISH BEFORE NOW!!!!!!???!!!!??? WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Ok, I'm done now. :) 1. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about this one, because the Vikings in HTTYD... well, they were way more accurate in the movies than they were in the books. Not that anybody cares about the books. But it's your fanfiction.

2. I would agree with what Ruth Joyce said; Corona becomes an island off the coast of England. Another thing to take into consideration is that the name is Latin; the Latin word "corona" litterally means "crown." Not sure how this would affect anything.

3. Yeah I've stopped questioning accents in movies. Rapunzel has an American accent because DISNEY MAGIC! Hiccup has an American accent because JAY BARUCHEL! The owls in the Guardians of Ga'hoole movie had British accents because NOBODYCARESBECAUSEHTHEY'REOWLSANDCANHAVEWHATEVERBLOODYACCENTTHEYWANTTO! I wouldn't worry too much about this, but, again, it's your FF. You can be OCD about whatever you want.

4. Well she was a witch in the original story, so this makes sense. And she can apparate in the movie, I guess, or whatever you call that cape.. disappearing... thing. I have a feeling Pitch would not be very happy with her though,and she would come to a bad end out of her own crummy choices.

5. That makes sense.