>>90 Thank you! I guess my Spy is officially "european", with a mixed accent and lots of fluent languages. Maybe he was even an army brat, growing up in so many different places that he has no official language or home. I prefer sticking close to the cannon Valve spy, as I interpret him, where a lot of his lines were in languages other than french (prego, amigo, etc). In this story I'm also using him as a conduit for my obsession with word choice, in that he tries (as much as I am able to write, which isn't much, as an only-English speaker) to use the proper word for the proper expression, and reaches into many languages to do so. "Kochanie" is Polish for "honey", for example. He gasps "oui" when Sniper's got his mouth forced open, because it is a word you can still say with your mouth open (to a certain extent), but says "yes" when he gets his hair pulled, because it trails off into a hiss and that's the kind of sound I wanted him to make just then, the kind of sound I have made when my hair was being pulled. At his core, I see Spy as very much the International Man of Mystery, who speaks everything from Esperanto to Cantonese, capable of sweet nothings in dozens of tongues.