An AU in which they are 1860's working men on a job together

The reason I think this is because I grew up with a mama from South Carolina. And while her accent has sorta gone away after leaving the south in her early teens, it does occasionally come back during these three instances:

She's talkin' about her childhood home in South Carolina.

She's talkin' to her kinfolk from South Carolina.

She's nervous about somethin'. This often happens when she has to speak in front of a large crowd, like at church.

WHEN SHE IS ANGRY AS ALL HELL AND THERE AINT NOBODY SAVIN' YA!

I kid you not, anytime I heard my mom's southern accent as a kid, I knew to tread carefully; because there was a 50/50 chance she was probably angry lol. It's even gotten to a point where I myself will occasionally, and unintentionally, speak with a Southern accent whenever I'm agitated or upset. As well as when I speak about the south in general. (I like to call this my "inherited accent" lol).

But yeah. Can you imagine our boy Alfred getting super fed up and steamed during a meeting and shouting everyone down in the thickest, most furious-sounding southern accent you've ever heard?

Because I can. And it looks, and sounds, positively beautiful.