An excerpt from one of my notebooks + a few edits. Might post more of these sometime.
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I first knew Ness from Super Smash Bros Brawl, so it came as a kind of shock to me when I found out that his mother and sister were totally blonde-hair-blue-eyes Caucasian. It's kind of funny because for so many years I saw Ness as just some little Asian boy with a baseball bat and psychic powers. And that's something I just can't unsee xD
So I guess when I'm drawing my portrayal of Ness, he's got to be at least half (of EarthBound's equivalent to) Japanese or something, or just vague in general. Honestly, it's a good thing that his dad's very ambiguous, and not much is known about him except for the fact that he works far away enough to not come home on a regular basis.
Because of this, you can make up all kinds of stories about Ness's history and his relationship with his father, if you want to stick close to canon. I remember reading someone's interpretation where Ness spent a lot of time - at least his early childhood - with his father (I'll add: maybe in his father's home-country before moving to Eagleland). Perhaps it could have been because of that, Ness has a bit of an accent (not as strong as his one from Smash, but an accent still).
In another fan-art, someone had the idea that Ness was able to speak in fluent Japanese based from his accent in Smash, too. The fan-art was of him talking to Poo (who is very likely multilingual), while Paula and Jeff have no idea what they're saying. I thought I could draw some inspiration from that, too.
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