#i would like to go get a nandos with wyll though
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With all love in the world to fic writers, and this isn't a set criticism just a trend, being a British person and seeing what colloquialism people have Wyll use will absolutely take me out of a fic at points. Like this is difficult and I'm not gonna hold it against any writer who does this but I very much do notice it. I don't even have advice because so much of it is a weird feel thing of the type of age of the people who use certain slang.
Wyll talks with pretty archaic British slang. It's not too ancient. It's still like stuff you might hear an older guy say, but it gives a certain feel to him speech of it being kinda old fashioned.
But sometimes people either don't get this or, honestly more common in what I see because most of the fics I read are from people who do understand him, people who, fairly because they aren't from here so wouldn't know, use slang that feels a little too modern and it just reads like Astarion just called someone bro.
But I don't know how to explain that lad singular is a word he does use in canon and makes sense, but lads plural feels so fundamentally wrong.
#bg3#baldurs gate 3#wyll ravengard#wyll saying lads is like... is he gping to nandos?#is my buddy wyll gonna go get pissed with me at spoons?#are we gonna have a greggs after?#it goes from like this carefuky curated mask he has of sounding like a fairy tale hero#but one who isnt above the people#to like “oi wyll mate do you wanna pop out for a fag round the bins”#its so subtle though i get why this is an issue#you can uses lad in a modern context but its gonna be different from how he speaks#like “oh jonny boy is a real lad” would work but thats not wylls speaking style#its not just lads ive seen other examples of this too#and its funny to me every time#i would like to go get a nandos with wyll though#and a spoons. i wanna see him down a pitcher and then we can both get plaster and wind up at someones house 4 hours later#where we can both cry about our daddy issues and dead mothers#wyll would be anti cocktail but he would be pro spoons pitcher#its about the vibes of the drink to me
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