Praise Be Evangeline
Project Overview
A dark fairytale horror visual novel | Spooktober 8th Annual VN Jam 2026 : https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2026
Hey! We're casting for a Halloween jam visual novel. It's a gothic / psychological horror story about a "saintess" who's convinced herself that stripping people of pain and free will is the same thing as love, and the knight slowly realizing he's living inside her fairy tale. Yandere X Yandere.
Project: Visual novel, Ren'Py engine, planned 20k words of script total
Jam: Spooktober 8th Annual Visual Novel Jam.
Submissions run September 1 to October 1, 2026. There's a Best Voice Actor category with a $100 prize on the line.
Pay: Unpaid jam project. Full credit in the game.
Prize / if won : If you win the best VA, money will be sent to you fully ($100), if we win 1/2/3 prizes : money will be divided between team members.
Recording window: All lines must be recorded in September 2026. And must be done by 23rd of september so I can trim the lines and put it in the game.
Auditions: Record the sample lines below for the roles you want!
Psychological manipulation and abuse
Loss of autonomy and free will (mind control themes)
Graphic violence and body horror, described in detail
On-screen character death
Possessive, controlling relationship dynamics (yandere themes)
Torture, implied and described
Screaming and intense vocal distress
Brief child endangerment in flashback content
Religious institutional abuse
No sexual content.
No slurs.
If any of the above is a hard limit for you, totally understand.
Voice Actor
Soft, warm tone, proper, posh and princess-like. The Saintess of the kingdom, and the story's narrator. She genuinely believes she's saving everyone around her, including the knight she's slowly turning into a puppet. Needs to stay sweet and sincere even while the character says increasingly unhinged things. No trace of menace in the delivery, ever, that's what makes her scary. Secretly a yandere but it's revealed halfway in. (British accent)
- english
- female young adult
- Soft-spoken
- british
- Yandere
Soft: "Thank you, Sir Therion. Are you quite alright?"
Yandere: "You are MINE! Mine, and ONLY mine!"
Screaming: "PAPA! PAPA, HELP!"
Voice Actor
Bit raspy, mid-to-low range, mercenary energy. Evangeline's sworn knight, and secretly the only person who can see what she really is. Polite and formal to her face, always "my lady" and "Saintess," while he's actually kinda unhinged under it. Needs range from clipped and controlled to full obsessive breakdown. (Also Yandere, any accent)
- english
- raspy
- male young adult
- Rough
- all american accents
Normal: "Ain't going nowhere without you in my sight, Saintess."
Yandere: "If you're wrong about that, I'll burn this whole temple and everyone in it."
Broken: "My light, my light, where's my light--"
Voice Actor
Stern, heavy, low bass, booming when he commands a room. Evangeline's father and the Archbishop. Two modes : in public a stern father, in private a father who enabled his daughter's impulses because he feels guilty. (British accent)
- british
- bass
- male adult
- Deep Voice
- Commanding
Freaking out: "What have you done. Eva! EVA! What have you done to him!?"
Commanding: "This is the holy grounds. You shall call me Archbishop, Saintess"
Voice Actor
Soft-spoken at first, escalates fast and hard once pushed. A visiting bishop who starts out as a mildly suspicious outsider and ends up finding the truth. Needs to go from composed and diplomatic to full-throated screaming without sounding like a different character. Androgynous-looking.
- male adult
- Soft
- british
- calm
- middle tone
- androgynous
Normal: "I heard a great deal about your work, Saintess. Curious, indeed."
Shouting: "You raised a MONSTER, Archbishop!"
Voice Actor
- british
- female child
"It is all right. Give me your hand."
Voice Actor
A kid who just lost everything in a fire and doesn't understand why he can't feel any of it. Scared voice, then turns to flat once he lost his feelings.
- male child
"Momma, Momma, where are you!?"
"...Nice wings." (Flat)
Voice Actor
A younger female nun
British accent
- british
- female adult
"Oh! Oh, S-Saintess! Good afternoon!"
Voice Actor
A slightly older female nun
- british
- female adult
"And his mouth was sewn open, Saintess! It's horrible!"
Voice Actor
The guard. All/any accent
- male adult
- all accents
"G-Good morning to you, Saintess!"
Voice Actor
Announcer voice, for the trial by combat scene. NPC.
Any accent
- live announcer / inshow narration
- male adult
- all accents
"Victor of the trial - Sir Therion of Aelazath!"
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