I've been struggling with something in my character for a couple of days, and I've decided that the accent just doesn't fit him. It's fun to try to write, but in my mind, swashbucklers have always been a little more urbane and well spoken. Not necessarily "educated" or "wealthy" in speach, but a cut above the average thick accent... so, I'm going back and repairing the accented dialogue and will be dropping the accent. If he was a common deck hand without the training to be a "light" fighter, the accent would make sense to me... but... anyway. just an FYI.