Dumbing of Age Fandub
Project Overview
Dumbing of Age is a webcomic about college freshmen in the girls wing within a co-ed dorm at Indiana University, learning everything about life and themselves usually in the most difficult ways. It stars a Christian homeschooled girl and her atheist best friend, and also a disgraced cheerleader, a misanthrope, a rebel, and a caped vigilante.
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White, medium to medium-high.
Becky and Joyce were connected at the hip back in home school before college abruptly separated them. More audacious and irreverent than her more parent-friendly accomplice-in-crime, Becky was shipped off to a Christian university due to her dad’s fear that a more secular institution would corrupt her.
"Joyce, you used to be so dang boy-crazy. Always about boys and marriage. But ever since I got here, you've said nothing but how boys are awful and terrible. Dude, what happened?" (Beat.) "I ain't complainin'. It's kinda nice hearin' a new song on your playlist."
"You're still good on eight of Ten Commandments. That's like a 'B,' right?"
(After being asked if she was looking up dinosaurs online.) "Yeah, I know, I'm sorry. I was supposed to be lookin' up jobs, but I kinda got distracted, an' I started diggin' into what you were talking about at the party an' I kinda lost myself in it for a while. Haven't really had unfettered internet access before."
Quarter-black, medium to medium-high.
Walky is his parents’ favorite child. He’s smart and he doesn’t get into trouble, but he could be a little more ambitious. He’s here at college because his parents want him to be, but mostly what he wants to do is watch television and goof off. Lucky for him that good grades came easily to him (in high school), so he figures college will be everything he’s ever wanted. No parents, no structure order — just eating McNuggets whenever, wherever.
Walky is Sal’s twin brother, and the two very different siblings haven’t really spoken much in a long while. He’s Mike’s roommate and he’s also somehow Dorothy’s boyfriend. She is way, way above his station.
"Hey, you know we sent her away to Catholic school! I've kept tabs on her as much as you."
(In blatant denial.) "I don't wanna date you. Settling down harshes my dream of a sweet penthouse made outta Lego."
"It sucks watching them alone, y'know? I used to watch them with my sister 'fore she got taken away, and Billie stopped hanging out with me once she got popular. It's become a thing I enjoy by myself. Which is sometimes good, but not always."
Half-Chinese, low to medium.
Billie was hot shit in high school. She was head cheerleader, she was prom queen, and she was the center of everyone’s attention. She’s having trouble realizing the old status quo doesn’t continue automatically into college, especially after she discovered alcohol and how to dangerously abuse it. So a few weeks into college she’s a little heavier both in pounds and in friends who are not social darlings but seem to be kind of dorks.
She’s Sal’s roommate, which is a source of frustration for her as Sal is totally hot and amazingly popular without even trying. She also has this weird thing going on with Ruth, the R.A.
"Holding my cheerleader uniform for ransom? Who the hell does Ruth think she is, some kind of fuckin' supervillian? Focus, Billie! Just track down that stupid redneck roommate of yours, somehow, get her to sign the agreement form, and you'll get your stupid uniform back. (Beat.) I tend to focus better after a shot or two of whiskey."
"You know what's weird? This morning I was completely ready to tear your face off, yet here I am just an hour later with my arms around you."
"I mean, think about it. Sal is unaccounted for during most of the day, has the physical chops, seems to hate real law enforcement... Plus she had that robbery thing a few years ago that got her sent to an out-of-state school. Maybe being a superhero is a way for her to atone."
White, medium-high to medium as Amber, low to medium-low with a slight rasp as Amazi-Girl.
Amber’s home life wasn’t super great. Her father was an abusive asshole and her mom took a while to get rid of him, so she spent her childhood burying herself in computers and comic books. Buried with her is a pretty palpable amount of rage she doesn’t know what to do with. Maybe she could repurpose and redirect that anger into some sort of superheroic alter ego.
Amber grew up with her best friend Ethan, who she dated until he came out of the closet to her on prom night. She also knew Mike, but she tries to forget that. She looks pretty similar to Amazi-Girl, if you put her in a mask and ruffled her hair a bit. Amazi-Girl is dating Danny.
"Don't apologize. You owe me no loyalty. Danny--Danny, I'd just dropped by to say I saw on the internet that Amazi-Girl found those guys who attacked you last week. Maybe she hunted them down or something, and apparently they weren't up to any good again. And she beat them up. That's all."
(As Amazi-Girl, deadly serious.) "You're a cute guy. I'm sure there's some non-caped girl you know who would be glad to date you."
"You gotta stop thinking of her as just a superhero. She's a woman, too. Think of her as a human being. For example, I bet she'd really appreciate a new phone charger cord."
White, medium-high to high.
Danny is a trusting, idealist romantic, and that gets him into trouble. He just wants a girlfriend to dote on forever and follow wherever, is that so wrong? But stupid life is more complicated than that, it seems, and it keeps throwing curveballs at poor Danny.
Danny’s best friends with Joe, forever, and now they room together in college. His high school girlfriend, Dorothy, dumped him on the first day, and now he’s in a strange sort of weird love triangle with Amber and Amazi-Girl. Yikes.
(Desperately.) "That's ridiculous! I didn't come here just because of you! Joe's also here!"
"Thanks a lot, you guys! Do you two have it out for me? You're my ex-girlfriend! What are you doing in my room freaking out potential new girlfriends? And you! With all that 'clone' stuff! You are the worst wingman ever."
"Look, I don't know who put you up to this, or if this is some freshman hazing thing, but I'm not buying it. Dorothy may have broken up with me, but I trust her--if she says she can't have a boyfriend because she's going to be moving to another school, then... Well, then she wouldn't do that, okay?" (Losing all confidence as Dorothy approaches.) "She wouldn't do that... to me..."
Black, medium-low to low.
Sarah and people just don’t get along. She’s a self-described misanthropist who just wants to be left alone so she can keep her head down and study. This kind of backfired on her in freshman year, when she had a popular, outgoing friend who had a meltdown that ultimately threatened Sarah’s grade point average (and thus her scholarships). Sarah ratted out her roommate for her drug use and became a social pariah. Which is something she should be fine with, you’d think.
Sarah is roommates with Joyce, the friendly idealist. Sorry, Sarah. Also, Sarah wants to go to town on Jacob, but who doesn’t, really.
"I don't like her. She's just another high school prima donna here only to get drunk and have a good time. She smells like a frathouse party."
"But I DO understand people. That's why I hate them."
"Joyce, I don't care if it dissolves the thirteenth amendment..." (Suddenly very intense.) "If a boy looks like that, you fuckin' introduce me."
White, medium-high to high.
Joyce was homeschooled but now she’s going to college. You’d think she’d be completely out of her depth, but you’d only be half right. Though Joyce doesn’t have the pop culture savvy and familiarity with diversity that most of her new peers do, she more than makes up for it with a sunny outgoingness and an infectious cheerfulness. She persists in believing everyone around her is perfect and darling, even though she was taught they’re all horrible sinners.
Dorothy, the atheist, is somehow her best friend, and Sarah, the misanthropist, is her ever-suffering roommate.
"I think I know how you feel. I was afraid to go to high school when I learned that the student paper was called 'The Hi-Times.' I thought that Satan would use its evil influence to make me a hippie or a drifter."
"I made a list of potential conversation topics for our first date. First: why don't you believe that Jesus is the messiah?"
"I'm not saying I'm superior! I'm warning about the consequences of your actions."
White, medium to medium-low
Dorothy is all work and no play, because she has extremely lofty goals set for herself. She’s going to be President some day, even if it means she has to be the first female and/or openly atheist person to accomplish such. Don’t tell her the odds — she already knows and she’s kind of tired of hearing it. Dorothy doesn’t plan to be here long, because sooner or later, she’ll catch the attention of Yale and be whisked away.
Dorothy is unlikely bros with Joyce, and even more unlikely girlfriend to that manchild Walky, who helps her tap into her inner child even while she desperately tries to smother it.
"Okay, Dorothy. Accept this with maturity. You're an adult." (Beat. Quietly.) "Adulthood sure is anticlimactic and boring."
(Emotionally distressed.) "Good. You're still up. You have Dexter and Monkey Master on DVD, right? I need to watch the hell out of some cartoons."
(Reciting lines from a cartoon.) "'Dexter, you'd better watch out. I think your stupid clone just might take over the world before you do.' 'Pfffft, silly monkey, stopping him will be easy! His weakness is obviously his hypermassive over-confidence!'"
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