By the way, Van's accent is so (intentionally?!) strange, that I won't always spell it out in text. It would get a little hard to read. For what it's worth, he pronounces his name with a short "a" sound, like a "van", the vehicle. Which makes his utter destruction of other words all the more hilarious. "New pants", by the way, is "nyu-pahnts".
It is a little annoying, slightly grating, and a somewhat hard-to-understand kind of accent. He softens it considerably around women and people he knows and likes. Heck, he actually pronounces more words properly when in that situation.
He pretty much drops the entire accent occasionally, which makes the usual strength of his accent really mind-boggling. And he ramps it up to annoy people.
I might capitalize on this bizarre habit when he finally meets Mar. You guys can probably expect a lot of difficult-to-understand mispronunciations of words spelled out, and a lot of teasing Mar once he realizes this isn't the Mar he knows. Ha... hahahahah. Yes.
Oh! Van's never heard this Mar's particular accent before, either! Insanity and shenanigans shall ensue?
