Is it possible to have non-cliché dwarfs?

[Naruzeldamaster]

Absolutely. There's a world of great dwarf stuff if one is looking to work harder. We, however, did not go there. Our dwarves don't have accents that I try to implicitly spell out. I don't even do that with characters who have accents, like Cian and Etienne, two of our sidhe princes. It's a taste thing. I think put-on accents are annoying. So, we've got dwarves and they ride bears. Really awesome, massive forges. It's very cool. lol

Two of my rabbit folk have a 'southern drawl' but one of them speaks it more openly than the other, they don't force the accent in their dialogue except using words like ain't etc. The Older sibling of the two likes to think she's a 'city slicker' and speaks more "civilized"

I don't believe it's ever stated that they HAVE a southern drawl to begin with, but they do occasionally 'break character' and use 'country folk' dialect/phrasing. Especially the one who prefers to 'keep it vanilla'

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I just do this. lol
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Etienne held it open for her. She smiled at his courtesy and stepped inside. “So… rumor mill has it we’re having a major expansion. What have you heard?” she asked in that quick fashion as he followed her into a hallway, dark after the bright sunshine, and she looked back at him with curiosity. English only being one of Etienne’s languages, he heard several terms he did not understand and so replied with a shrug. She waved negligently in his direction, turning away again. “Well, I guess Grounds Management wouldn’t hear too much, huh?” she said with very mild disappointment.

Etienne gave her back an apologetic smile. “Sorry, I guess not.”

She turned back, plucked brows lifted. “Oh, wow… great accent. Where are you from?”

Etienne fell back on his usual explanation. “Ireland, but my father was French.” There, no one could complain about how muddy his accent was to humans. Besides, it was basically true. His birth language was Faerie Gaelic, and his father had been a medieval French troubadour.