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I've already explained that they do not. Second generation immigrants, 9 times out of 10, will have no accent. The Terrans now are on their twentieth generation.
It isn't possible to retain an accent this long. It just isn't. 1. What are the chances that all the Russian speakers got into the same ship, as opposed to being spread out over the 4? 2. What are the chances they're all going to meet up and find each other after the crash? 3. What are the chances there's enough of them that still know Russian, and still want to speak it, that they CAN retain it even IF they wanted to? 4. What are the chances that they're going to decide to keep these languages around, when the community for speaking it is maybe 1/10000th the size of the community speaking English? 5. What are the chances that the kids will even LISTEN to their parents' attempts to teach them, when they have absolutely no reason to learn this language that nobody else speaks?
42,000 political prisoners as well as just...normal violent prisoners. Are you telling me that people don't self segregate? That everyone justs works toghether and makes equal and ethnically balanced society? Human nature proves otherwise. Even in prisons people group up in ethnicity.
Accents die when you grow up completely immersed in a culture. What I'm saying is that when you take political prisoners from all around the world, russians hang with other russians. People just work that way. And 42,000 people from all around the world is enough for different ethnic groups to form their own cultures within the whole. Their could have easily been 4000 if not more russians. Even 1000 Russians per-ship would have been enough. I would bet that even on the ships, these ethnic self segregation would have begun.
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People don't follow some mythical sort of familial calling. I learned a secret language from my father and he from his father before him. People don't do that. Kids don't give a shit. If there's no reason to learn a language -- that is, everyone around them is speaking English -- it's going to be VERY difficult to convince them to keep going.
For the accent to be retained it has to have passed every single probability check above, and the chain not be broken for a SINGLE generation out of the 20. The odds of any of this being possible are SO astronomically low that they are beyong unrealistic. It would take an act of God for this to happen.
...thats not what I'm saying.
Look at the colony of agria, as I explained. This isn't about following some family heritage. Nearly everyone their is hispanic/pacific islander. So, logically, they would have a pacific/hispanic islander accent, if not their own language.
Not to sound racist, but uneducated poor black people talk very differently then uneducated poor white people. Even after 300 years, theirs still this kind of "accent". I don't see why this couldnt exist in koprulu.
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Heroes aren't there to subvert expectations. They're there to be characters in a story. If that means going with the flow, like Raynor the rebel Vulture or Duran the sneaky Ghost, so be it. If it means subverting it like Kerrigan the needy, uncertain Ghost, so be it.
Likewise, unit portraits aren't there to go along with expectations. They're there to be memorable and interesting. If that means going along with expectations, like the gung-ho Marine, so be it. If that means giving us a military unit who perpetually swears at his commander, like the Vulture, so be it. It isn't expected, because there's no way it would fly in a real military, but it creates a memorable profile.
So would this.
Good hero design is meant to be memorable, and distinguished. A good hero isnt suppose to look and behave exactly like a marine. Raynor is smart and sincere, unlike marines or vulture pilots. Kerrigan has memories and loyalty instead of psi-inhibitors.
And even if in your world, unit portraits are meant to create distinguished characters (which is...not true), they would fail miserably at it. When any starcraft player thinks of an "average marine", they think of the portrait. In fact, in lore, most marines do kind of act like that. When they think of vulture pilot, they think of his portrait. They assume most vulture pilots are like him. Basic unit portraits as distinguished characters, if it is true, would probably be the most poorly implemented and failed thing blizzard tried to do, along with wow voicechat and "the blademaster" Because anyone could see it obviously has the opposite effect.
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This is kind of interesting. It's obviously new, and I don't get the comics so I'm unfamiliar with it... but, again, the thing is we're going to see Agria in SC2 -- we already have -- and there's absolutely no hints to it being ethnically homogeneous. Dr. Ariel Hanson isn't Hispanic, the civilians we meet along the way don't seem to be Hispanic... so... I don't know just how much of this is really canon, and how much comes from Blizzard or just the author who wanted to tell that one story.
So just because theirs only one marine portait means every single marine looks the same? Of course not lol. Dr. Ariel probably comes from offworld. I mean, where do you get the kind of knowledge to operate a bio-chem lab able to splice alien dna? Not from a backwater colony.
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Believe me, Rosey O'Donnel is the last thing I want. But what are the themes we associate with the Marauder? No lore exists for the unit, so it's completely up for grabs. Say they're super aggressive. Well, Starbuck is as aggressive a character as you'll ever find, male or female, and she's still hot. Obviously it's possible for a female to be both.
But see, I find it thematically weird to see half my army, if not more comprised of hot, strong, and otherwise awesome chicks. It reminds me of wow where every other warrior, guard, pirate w/e is a female. Which is completely unreasonable.
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Just because the best Christie Golden can give us is a bunch of Mary Sues, female or otherwise, is no reason to suspect the entire world functions this way. In fact, Liberty's Crusade has at least one very notable very mundane female Marine. Absolutely nothing special about her, and Danny Liberty doesn't find her interesting, either.
Completely off topic but it kind of bugs me how many people like to call every bad character design a mary sue. Mary Sue is a super likeable character...that is NOT the main/main supporting character. Hence, making a irrelevent character super-likeable detracts from the plot.
Rosemary is like the main supporting character of the story. And isnt that likeable anyway lol.
Really to sum it up, SC portraits are designed to be thematically consistent with the unit. Their can't be argument here, because even if blizzard intents your idea, to present a exception, or the most different kind of guy who has that job, it is irrelevant because most people view it as the norm anyway. So regardless of intent (which is arguable), the result is that most people see it as the norm.
Now, their are three kinds of female body builds. Lithe and traditional lyfeminine (with varying amounts of muscle, from none to a lot...even muscular women would fall here), and A more butch body build..and fat. Its established nobody wants O'donnel or a fat chick as a marauder, so I see a thematic discrepancy between lithe body build and shock trooper advanced armor and duel weild grenade launchers. Nothing to do with sexism, if they made a "lithe" guy, like the ghost or the scv pilot in it, I would be like wtf too.
(edit: I gotta get some work done before work tom so dont expect a response :P)
