Why does beast talk like he is in a shakespeare play in the comics lol

edited July 2014 in The Wolf Among Us

So i just started reading the comics and the biggest difference I have noticed so far was that beast talks like he is still in the "fairy tail"

I can barley understand what the poor guy is saying half the time

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thank goodness they made it easy to understand him in the game lol

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  • edited July 2014

    I can't tell if this is a sarcastic post or not. He's not talking in Shakespearean English. He is talking with a lisp in this panel because he's half transformed and he has tusks in his mouth.

    Ith noth my faut! Ith that anchunt curth again. = It's not my fault, its that ancient curse again.

  • edited July 2014

    but when he was half transformed in the game his voice was still normal and he did not have a lisp

    Welshy posted: »

    I can't tell if this is a sarcastic post or not. He's not talking in Shakespearean English. He is talking with a lisp in this panel because

  • he is just lisp because transform

  • I doubt a majority of players would want to hear a lispy Kenny in-game.

    TommyW posted: »

    but when he was half transformed in the game his voice was still normal and he did not have a lisp

  • very true lol

    I doubt a majority of players would want to hear a lispy Kenny in-game.

  • it's first few issue, the character setting is not perfect, he didn't have lisp in the followup story too

    TommyW posted: »

    very true lol

  • edited July 2014

    Like others have said, it's a lisp because of his fangs. When he turns back into a human he begins speaking normally again. It would have been funny to hear him do it in the game, but it also would have killed the intense mood during the fight scene in episode 2. Could you imagine?

    "Thtop lying tho me! Theeth my wife, dammith!"

  • Did they lisp a lot in shakespearean plays?

  • Not unless the actor has one. Some quotes:

    "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". - Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II.

    "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done,
    When the battle 's lost and won". - Macbeth, Act I, Scene I.

    There are some extra 'th's at times, otherwise most of it is pronounced how we pronounce it now.

    KCohere posted: »

    Did they lisp a lot in shakespearean plays?

  • edited July 2014

    If you were actually reading the comics, then you wouldn't be so clueless about what's going on in that panel.

  • Yes he does appear to have a lisp but that last line "...buth now ith comth and goeth" sounds like "...but now it cometh and goeth" which definitely does sound like old English even though the more likely translation of that is "...but now it comes and goes" but that's up for interpretation. So why can't he have a lisp and slip some old english in there as well? ;)

  • On the very same page, Beast says (translated):

    "It's this transition period that's the problem. My fangs have grown in but my mouth hasn't grown big enough to fit them yet. So I speak funny."

  • edited July 2014

    im actually surprised at how serious some people are taking my post

    i joked about beast sounding like shakespeare and i get 6 dislikes just for that

    i seen people post way worse and not get that kind of reaction

  • I would've felt the drama.

    Like others have said, it's a lisp because of his fangs. When he turns back into a human he begins speaking normally again. It would have be

  • It only happens when Beauty is angry at him.
    In the game, anger makes him transform, but this is incorrect.
    He gains the ability to transform at will in the comics

    TommyW posted: »

    but when he was half transformed in the game his voice was still normal and he did not have a lisp

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