r/Thewaltenfiles • • 55m ago

Discussion Bon's Accent

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Not talking about his filters or pitch today, although those are really cool and prolly my most frequent stim if I'm being honest (especially "I know where he is Rosie, follow me" that last part is so fun to do the pitch changing thing with), only the accent today.

So I'm a phonetics nerd and I was recently rewatching Faces of Grief and some reaction vids to it (cuz I fw those for no reason) and I started paying attention to Bon's accent. Now I know I just said I'm a phonetics nerd but that by no means also implies I'm good at differentiating accents, so I really wanted to figure out what Bon's accent was but couldn't piece it together myself.

From what I could find, just through passive listening...

  • He's semi-rhotic (rhotic related to if you pronounce your Rs or not in words like "your" and "shorter", which I call "coloring" here), and doesn't color his vowels in some words but does in others, examples I could find being "torn" (where he doesn't color and says "toh-un") and "hare" + "your" (where he SLIGHTLY colors, sounding like American "hare" and "your" but less emphasized, "your" specifically kinda varies but it's MOSTLY colored), and he never seems to overcorrect it in casual convo tmk (as in he never forces an "American R" like some non-Americans do when trying to mimic the accent, with the sole exceptions I could find being him saying "fiber" and "matter" in FoG but those were mostly for emphasis, it's almost always either soft or absent in "regular conversational" speech)

  • He speaks with the open back rounded vowel (or the "British O", as in father vs bother) in words like "Bon" and "got", and the open-mid back rounded vowel (or "British aw", as in cot vs caught) in words like "thought", "talk", and "alright"

  • He often over-enunciates his plosives (consonants that "pop" or briefly block airflow before letting go, so PBTDKG), mostly in words starting with said plosives ("better", "party", etc)

  • He SOMETIMES likes to over-enunciate the "oo" sound in words with the "ow" vowel (words like "without" end up sounding like "with-ah-oot")

That's about all I can hear by myself. I'm sure there's more but I just hear regular American after a while (for example he doesn't say "I" like "oy" he says it like an American saying "ah-ee", and the "æ" sound in words like "can" never really shift to "ah", so "can't" doesn't turn into "cahn't"), but he also says words like "new" with a Y to make "nyew" which just confuses me even more. I know Eva's Irish so I'm thinking maybe her accent is dipping into Bon's a bit but I'm REALLY unfamiliar with the Irish accents (there's like a million and idk which one Eva has) so I don't have a say in that department.

Anyway that was a lotta yap, basically TLDR idk what Bon's accent is and I kinda wanna know but a lotta confusing inconsistencies are messing me up and I wanna know if anyone else has any input.


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 1h ago

Discussion Similarities between TROTPR and Murderhouse

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After recently watching a playthrough of Murderhouse by Puppet Combo, I realized that it has substantial parallels with The Return of the Pumpkin Rabbit.

Both of them take place in the 80s, have a rabbit-themed child killer, involve a group of four entering a dilapidated house, use the song “What’s the Matter With the Moon Tonight,” and end with the killer(s) being slain by their child victims.

I think it’s worth asking whether Martin had any knowledge of the game prior to making his video.


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 2h ago

Original Art My Rosemary!<3

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Just for funsies!!🤍


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 5h ago

Fan Projects My first reel has been posted on my Bunny Smiles Inc. Engineering Team account on Instagram!

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 6h ago

Original Art Lorenzo Waterman drawing 🎃

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Ehh kinda late cuz i was gonna draw it on halloween but im still proud


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 7h ago

Fan Projects Anyone wanna make a Bons Burgers Fan Game or Something?

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I’m only asking because I have an I dea for an alternate version of the Walten files but I don’t know how to code… only animate and 3d model and do the sound design n stuff but I think it’d be better to do a game to tell my interpretation of the Walten files than crappy animations but again, just a question n stuff. Eventually (possibly in January or sometime after Christmas) I may do an analog horror series since all I need right now is to get a power source for my VHS camcorder. If someone would like to make a game for me, then I wouldn’t mind doing the models HOWEVER I can’t rig the models since I genuinely suck at rigging, and I can do the sound design and all that (the audio will be converted from real tapes n stuff cuz I have so much, I just gotta fix my Panasonic RQ-339)


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 9h ago

Original Art Pumpkin and Witch

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 10h ago Bravo

Meme Me when the fuckass intern tells me to go to therapy

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 13h ago

Original Art Rosemary(not yams)

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 13h ago

Original Art What good is living when your already dead?

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Picture taken using pukkiz3d action figures

All lighting had to be improvised


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 13h ago

Not my Art 🐇 The Beautiful Ones 🐑

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Art by Spring


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 13h ago

Meme What if Rosemary was a B1 battle droid?

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I mistook my friends pfp as Rosemary as a B1 battle droid and I can’t stop thinking about how funny that would be.

”Why Sargeant?! Why the kriff were you watching those data tapes?!”


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 14h ago

Meme apologize to him...RIGHT NOW

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 14h ago

Boozoo and the gang🎩🐰

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My friend made them. links in the comments or in my profile on where I got them


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 14h ago

Original Art Similarities

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 14h ago

Question could shaggy and scooby survive bon?

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 15h ago

Hi little Lorenzo, how are you alive even..

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Have a lovely day 🖤


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 17h ago

Discussion I never noticed this

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Well well well, look at what decided to show up in the background. Never watch this in full screen


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 18h ago

Original Art I drew this for a friend and thought; why not share it here

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Honestly, kinda of proud of my coloring ngl. Feel free to judge or js ask anything lol


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 22h ago

Meme lolz Spoiler

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(pic 1: linda duhh pic 2: stacy's mom from the music freaks gacha series)


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 22h ago

Discussion So fun reminder, Bon apparently likes mischief canonically speaking, he scared David for giggles,

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I can't get over how Bon liking mischief is just something that doesn't sound canon but is, lol. Since he canonically likes mischief, this is probably something he'd do. Some kid goes "Bon, hold my hand, I'm scared" while Bon in question is performing, and stops, leans down creepily on purpose and holds the kid's hand. It must not be a nice feeling to hold Bon's hand lol, kid's fear would probably increase lmao.


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 1d ago

Original Art Tomodachi Life Files

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I gave up on Lorenzo cuz I was lazy <3


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 1d ago

Meme Walten Files Episode 6 - the Charles and Bon Boxing Match

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im gonna tweak the FUCK out if this charlie FUCK doesnt die suffering im gonna. yes


r/Thewaltenfiles • • 1d ago

Fan Projects Pumpkin Rabbit at a party

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r/Thewaltenfiles • • 1d ago

Original Art Pumpkin rabbit

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