ive figured it out. the reason blades and blade-likes in xc2 and xc3 have american accents is because monolith wanted to emotionally prepare western xc1-onlies for xcxde's purely american dubbing. i see takahashi's plan
considering Mysterious Hooded Figure was in the original version i really doubt they're a character introduced in later games but on the other hand it would be extremely funny if they're like. malos or someone equally funny
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