Why does Freya have an American instead of British accent?
Setting aside the whole mystery about why the Mikaelsons even have British accents, being that they're 1,000 year-old Vikings who grew up in pre-Columbian America and, from what I can tell, never lived in Great Britain, why does Freya not have the same accent as the rest of them?
Freya's early childhood was spent with her father, Michael, who has a British accent, and her mother, Esther, who has a British accent, being raised along side Finn, who has a British accent. She was then taken from her home and was finished being raised in seclusion by her ever-present, ever-controlling, never-let-her-talk-to-anyone-else Aunt Dahlia, who also has a British accent. It's not like she was sneaking out. For most of the past 1,000 years she'd been asleep. She only woke up for one year every century, which means that, timewise, her only possible exposure to the American accent before her most recent awakening would have been for a year after the turn of the 20th century. Before that, she would have been last awake for a year after the turn of the 19th century, which back then America would have been just barely post-colonial and its English more akin to a British accent, whereas New Orleans and much of the Louisiana Territory, if that's where she was, only spoke French.
I honestly can't figure out where that American accent came from.
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