Hehe, I thought I would throw in a little original spin on Sephy turning up to everything. Plus I honestly think Zack would screw up on his portal device. As for him being mad-scientist’ish, hells yes. His original interest in sciences was inspired by Dr Stephen Maturin of the “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” (I pretty much declared Zack’s interest in sciences in the RP we had the evening I saw the film in the cinemas. I still love that chara and only watch the film because of him) and figured his interest in technology would also be rather prominent. It could also have been inherited through Sephy from Hojo, possibly….
Then as he grew up, the similar naivety of Sephy was kinda fun to throw in, with mild male-dopeyness too. So yeah, that’s pretty much where all his characterization points came from. Hehe…
As for Zack learning other languages, I would say he knows a little bit. I can always read up and try playing with translators online and so on… as for them burbling back absolute grammatically bad crap… blame it on Zack’s hopelessness.
Zack flinched as the rock hit him square in the middle of his back, right between his shoulderblades. He frowned and reached behind himself to rub the spot, turning around as he heard the woman’s voice. She had a strange accent and had spoken with words that weren’t english… Zack didn’t have any time to ponder that however, as he was taken aback as he noticed that the woman looked very similar, almost identical to Jenna.
“Is this mom?” He wondered to himself. “I am in the past afterall… and it looks like her… it most probably is…”
Zack cleared his throat and addressed the woman. “Uh, hi there.” He grinned. “Is that you, mom? Ah, I mean, Jenna?” The grin faded from his face as the thought returned to him that she did not speak english. He decided to try another approach.
“Hola. Mi nombre es Zack, comprende?” He frowned as he racked his brains for what little he knew. “Um… muy caliente?” Feeling rather hopeless at this point, he glanced down at the corn in his hands, then attempted to hand it back to her. “Sorry about breaking this off. I didn’t know it was yours.”