Before Crisis Episode 2
Project Overview
This is the casting call for episode 2 of the Before Crisis series I am running. I am casting episode for episode so there aren’t hundreds of actors with nothing to do!
Before Crisis is part of the large franchise of Final Fantasy, namely Final Fantasy VII. It is actually the start of the story! This project is Final Fantasy VII Before Crisis, which for those of you who are fans of the series like i am know this is what comes before and during The Last Order and Crisis Core, “A story of the six years leading up to FINAL FANTASY VII”. These six years are filled with many sad events so be prepared for some feels! This story follows the character of Samantha, a rookie Turk (this is what Reno is) and their fight against AVALANCHE when they were still “evil” (before Barrett became the leader). ShinRa is seen as the good side in this story, which may seem a little strange for those who know the story, but everything is seen through the eyes of Samatha, who is compassionate and caring as well as loyal and hardworking.
The events of Last Order and Crisis Core overlap the story, and depending on the workload and how the cast feels we may dub them simultaneously~ but that is still up for discussion.
Rules:
* there are many characters that have no official voice actor so i am looking for good acting and creativity for those characters. I will give guidance on what I think the character should sound like, but I am open to something different as well!
* I would prefer good mic quality since I would like to produce a high quality dub, but i may be lenient on this matter if the acting is of high quality.
* I am very pro multicasting since it’s easier to work with a smaller cast than a larger one, so feel free to try for as many characters as you like, you just have to state if you are willing to be multicast (I realize a lot of people don’t have the time to do more than one character, and ‘mainer’ characters will have a large amount of lines as it is, so if you do not tell me you want to be multicast you will only be cast once) also, please tell me if you’re willing to be an extra! I put auditions up early in the server so even as an extra you’ll be considered first for the next episode’s characters. For extras my only requirement is a decent mic since a role as an extra is great practice if you’re knew to all this!
Characters:
(A few things before i get onto the characters, I have decided for all the Turks, to use their names found on Gunshot Romance instead of their weapon name since that doesn’t seem right to me. Also, characters are placed in order of line quantity, so higher on the list means more lines and lower on the list means less lines. Every character is important, so don’t assume because the character doesn’t have a proper name that it is an extra, though there are always a few extras available)
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President Shinra (President of the Shinra Electric Power Company)
President Shinra is, as his name implies, President of the Shinra Electric Power Company in Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-, Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, and Final Fantasy VII.
President Shinra plays a minor role and is not seen at all in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, only mentioned in emails and some dialogue. President Shinra has three known sons; Lazard Deusericus and Evan Townshend, his illegitimate sons, and the legitimate Rufus Shinra, heir to Shinra's fortune. Lazard and Rufus are made high-ranking executives in Shinra.
President Shinra is a short stout man with thinning blond hair and mustache, wearing a burgundy suit, white shirt and red tie. He is always seen with a cigar. His age is never disclosed, but is generally thought to be somewhere in the sixties. It is implied he has a wife, but she has not been seen in any installments of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. President Shinra is callous and ruthless, stopping at nothing to gain more money and power.
His lifelong dream is to build Neo Midgar in the Promised Land, a land he believes is fertile with Mako energy. President Shinra is unfazed at disposing anyone who might oppose him and his company and has effectively become the de facto ruler of the world. His only soft spot appears to be his son, Rufus, shown by the fact President Shinra forgives Rufus's traitorous behavior, and that his passkey at the Shinra Building is his son's birthday.
Voice: Middle-aged man, pompous
(Questioning, possibly suspicious) Veld sent you, did he?
(Relieved) That’s good thinking on his part.
(Worried about being assassinated?) What was that?!
(Questioning) Are these the renegades from Midgar?
(Angry and slightly disgusted by the idea) How dare they…
Rufus Shinra (Vice President of Shinra Electric Power Company)
Rufus Shinra is the vice president of the Shinra Electric Power Company through Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-, Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- and Final Fantasy VII, and the president through most of Final Fantasy VII. He most likely gained the title for being President Shinra's son. Rufus is stated as being twenty-five years old during the events of Final Fantasy VII in the novella On the Way to a Smile: Case of Shinra.
Rufus seems to have no love for his father, and schemes to overthrow him on the seat of power. He is initially portrayed as an enigma. Like his father, Rufus's main goals are to control the world through the Shinra Company, and increase the company's power. Unlike his father, however, Rufus uses fear to control people, playing on their suspicions of AVALANCHE and Sephiroth to manipulate them.
In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-, Rufus appears to atone for his crimes, and is hinted to be the one funding the World Regenesis Organization. However, he still wishes for Shinra to have a dominant hand in the world's affairs. When the city of Edge is being built, it is done using Shinra resources, and Rufus has a monument to Meteor placed in the city center to claim the city as Shinra's and secure their ownership of it in the minds of the citizens.
Voice: https://youtu.be/KR-t1UyQ2e0 (his voice from the movie Advent Children)
(Cocky, chiding) It looks like you’re having some trouble there, doesn’t it, old man.
I’ve been watching from a closed circuit feed.
You’re all right?
(Impressed) I’ve been watching your new Turk in action.
She’s not bad.
What’s her name?
AVALANCHE members and Guards:
Voice Type: These are young men with the dream of getting famous as soldiers or doing big things, so their voices can be relatively young sounding but fulled with conviction and passion! So low voices to medium would be best!
There are two kinds of members being cast here, namely AVALANCHE and Guards.
AVALANCHE are the “bad guys” that our hero has to face throughout the story. They tend to be very arrogant and angry characters and always think they are better than whoever they are fighting. These characters have no proper names but they have a lot of lines and appear in practically every episode, so see them as nameless characters and not extras!
Guards are on ShinRa’s side (or AVALANCHE in disguise at times in this specific episode) and tend to be very protective of the company. They tend to be less angry than the AVALANCHE members but not by much.
Both these characters tend to have a little bit of shouting when defeated so if you enjoy that kind of thing then you will love this role!
These characters are “new to voice acting” friendly!
(Catch phrase) DOWN WITH SHIN-RA!
(Giving instructions to subordinates) All right. We’re splitting into two groups from here. You two stay here and wait until the main body arrive.
(Instructions, ready to kill) President Shin-Ra is in this hotel somewhere.
Find him and kill him.
(Cocky) A Turk!
Tell me where the President is and I’ll spare your life.
