(no 2.4 spoilers until it says so promise)
everybody say thanks to lem in the upp server for making me develop this headcanon probably entirely on accident but. just. southern william.
will who grew up in the south until he was like four and they moved to deadwood. will whose parents decided to change their accents when moving to a more northern state, and will as a child ofc followed suit. will who in elementary school had this awful mishmash of their northern/midwestern accent and his southern one until he finally sorted out all the right ways to speak in one or the other
will who defaults to his southern accent when really stressed because he doesnt think about it. will whose family is super southern behind closed doors.
will who, as he got older, lowk hates his original accent because it does NOT match the vibe he's created for himself. would ruin his aesthetic. he has a reputation and that reputation is NOT being southern bro.
see a will who doesnt bother to focus on not sounding southern when at home and usually has some mishmash of the accents again, and sometimes forgets his friends can hear him/are right there. see also will who gets super southern when half asleep. see also all his friends teasing him playfully for it
see norah and isaac complimenting the accent, and lui just being confused as to why he'd want to change his accent (see the silliness of him saying that and then william going FULL southern. whatever he was doing before was not full southern. he is barely understandable in full southern that boy has a THICK fucking accent)
(OK 2.4 SPOILERS BELOW 2.4 SPOILERS BELOW)
