DE: Curse like a pirate

[yakalskovich]

I think I badly scared an innocent archivist by cursing like a pirate when I stepped outside and everything was covered in snow.

So, what's your charrie's and your canon's attitude to cursing? Do they have any specific swearwords, do they use a lot of rude language or not, are there any replacement curses along the lines of kriff or frak?

Comments

[likeroaringlions]

I'm realizing most of my guys are pretty clean in terms of vocabulary. And then there's William fucking Douglas.

[hecu_marine]

[likeroaringlions]

((<3 <3 <3 I always love his conversation))

[hecu_marine]

((Glad to hear it!))

Seriously, though, Shephard has no lines in his canon. I don't think he even has a voice actor to provide pain noises. The other Marines around him use fairly standard late twentieth century/early twenty-first century American vulgarity. I've met a number of active duty Marines and I've read written stuff by guys who've been in the Corps, so I used that as my baseline- they can be very civilized when they want to be, but when their guard is down they use profanity more or less like a comma, or in a few cases like the spaces between words. For Shephard I took that and ran with it, adding an element of the slightly nonsensical approach to stringing cuss words together that you see in some of the Questionable Content webcomic strips, mostly because I thought it was funny. I also had him pick up foreign languages' cuss words, and gave him a range of different modes of cussing based on how angry he gets. (The high end is 'perfectly civilized, virtually no modification of letter sounds, possibly quoting the works of John Milton', for reference.)

Like most of my military characters, if he addresses someone as 'friend', it is a very bad sign.

[bjornwilde]

Star Wars canon is pretty vague with swearing and just makes up words. I don't think any of the visual mediums even include those words, unless they're Huttese, but the books use a fair bit. Star Wars Rebels is the outlier. They use the Lasat word karabast a lot, though it's never clear exactly what it means.

I do feel like Sabine would/should be using Mando'a curses as well as karabast, but the writers seem to forget Mando'a is a thing. I also feel like she would pick up curses from other languages and use them as needed.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford swears so much, I don't think he even realises he's doing it. My own headcanon is that swearing is some of the only Korean he knows, so he's got that covered on both fronts.

Dodger, on the other hand, is from a super-PG canon. If it's not allowed to be said on the Disney channel, she doesn't say it.

[arcane_mixologist]

Given the adult themes of his canon, I find it interesting that I can't remember all that much cursing in the show. It seems to be reserved for labeling people, rather than commenting on a given situation. I think Eliot tends to avoid using it as it could make him seem less polished.

[have_no_mercy]

Smallville didn't have any swearing in it so Tess doesn't swear very much, either.

Star Wars doesn't seem to have any form of it.

Farscape has "frell", as in "You frelling idiot" and "dren", as in "Same dren, different day." Sikozu used them sparingly.

[feminine_menace]

Abe no Seimei rarely uses anything stronger than a "damn," and that very rarely.

That's okay, though, because YT cusses more than enough for the both of them.