Sorry for the thread hijack, I just saw this when I posted my comment.

re: Blaise's accent -- Having read femmequixotic's HD Holidays fic, We Are Young (caution: angst hurts so good) my headcannon Blaise is totally out of whack, so I hear gallons of profanity in the background of everything he says in everything now. (Malcolm Tucker was the inspiration if that means anything to you.. it didn't to me but I don't watch television. But it's still broken me forever, and caused some pretty inappropriate giggling in this.)