Why "K" instead of "C"?

[DarkClaymore]

I was wondering, why Ultimecia uses "k" instead of "c"?
For example "Kurse" instead of "Curse".

Was she dropout from elementary school or something?
And what is the difference anyway?

When you say "Curse", "C" sounds like "K" anyway.
So what is the real difference?

 

[King Sean]

I think that maybe, that was done on purpose to give her some uniqueness or something Maybe, because of the time she exists in, there was no school for her to go to. Maybe the developers did that just to make her sound wierd

 

[Rorolina Frixell]

I always tied it in with German for some reason

But on topic. I think it is to help the plyer understand her speech, least I always read it with emphasis on the 'K', perhaps that was her way of speaking to set the mood?

 

[Apolyonn]

I always tied it in with German for some reason

Unless the game's designers are complete idiots, I'd have to second this. The Germans do have a tendency to use K's in place of C's (Afrika, for example). It's not like the final scene of the game doesn't have that sort of archetypal gothic Germanic feel.

 

[Sir Kenneth]

My best bet would be that maybe they tried to emulate some sort specific Japanese dialect her dialogue might have been written in in the original Japanese version of the game. I haven't found anything to support that though.

 

[Bambi]

But on topic. I think it is to help the plyer understand her speech, least I always read it with emphasis on the 'K', perhaps that was her way of speaking to set the mood?

I did that too, I think it was just to make her sound abit different? I know I made her sound different in my head than all the other guys, like Fujin and all the shouting...

 

[PreZ]

When I first saw it I thought it was just an accent of some sort. Just a way to make the character sound different without voice-overs. Like Raijin's ya know and Fujin's CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.

 

[squall0258]

I think they did that because she has an accent, maybe russian or vampirish

 

[Donald Trump]

I think they did that because she has an accent, maybe russian or vampirish

Yeah, I think they did it to give her a futuristic accent, incase the whole time compression hadn't set in. Because she's in the future it would be odd if she spoke normally. Also they may have done it to emphasize that she was an outcast.

 

[Vladislak]

You really want my opinion on this?

Well, I think it was done simply because she had nothing going for her character other than that. She had no character depth and no development, no real motive to do what she did. Aside from the whole 'K' thing she was just the generic final boss bent on destroying everything.

 

[L]

Really can't imagine any other reason than trying to convey to the player that she had a unique accent, not that there were really any voiceovers or attempts at accents besides with Doctor Odine....

 

[Serah]

Doctor Odine amused me with his written accent. But yeah, I'm agreeing with everybody else here. Pretty much Ultimecia just has a unique accent. Considering she's from the future and such I'm certainly not surprised. Though it'd be interesting to hear, if they ever remade this game and did voice overs, how her accent would sound. I wonder if she'll have an accent in Dissidia?

 

[GanjaKat]

took this from finalfantasy.wikia

Ultimecia's speech patterns while she is in her normal sorceress form seems to put a emphasis on the letter 'c', pronouncing it as a harder sound than normal. This is shown through the game text as replacing this letter with instead the letter 'k', as seen in the line, "Kurse all SeeDs. Swarming like lokust akross generations." as well in how she pronounces "Time Kompression." Later on when she evolves into her final form she loses this emphasis and returns to calling the spell 'Time Compression. It is interesting to note, the only time Ultimecia pronounces her c's as k's is before the final battle, yet she does not show this speech pattern while possessing Edea, or even herself after she is about to pass her powers to Edea, saying the phrase "I...can't...disappear yet." pronouncing it as 'can't' instead of 'kan't' as her previous speech pattern would suggest. This may imply that she was using an affected voice instead of a true accent. However this may just be an oversight.

 

[L]

Doctor Odine amused me with his written accent.

he reminds me of barkeep from FFX-2

But yeah, it truly is a mind boggling hubbub of a mystery.

I'm somewhat surprised it's never come up in an interview with the developers / executive designers of Dissidia, to be honest.