Think of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, but with a horror and fantasy twist, if you will.
Alan Richter and Emil Rorschach are both legendary heroes in the daily life of once-esteemed scholar and scientist Theo Bulloch, until she was discovered to be a woman at the university she worked for and dismissed soon afterwards.
Looking for new purpose in life, and at the behest of her good friend Fanny Normann, Theo attempts to search for the team of Richter & Rorschach in hopes that they can provide answers to the disappearance of Fanny’s husband, Friedrich, who just so happens to have played a nefarious role in the silent film, Nosferatu.
The trio, determined to reunite Friedrich and Fanny, embark on a journey that proves to be more phantasmagoric than Theo could have ever imagined, and they enter a world of mysteries and horrors, with an exuberance of questions and cases spiraling in their direction as they unfold Friedrich’s life...
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This casting call is for the introduction of the first part in the compendium, called, "To Sea," where the story is established.
Right now, I’d love to cast a choice number of talented voice actors for the roles of Alan Richter, Emil Rorschach and Theo Bulloch along with several other minor characters, and, as the story progresses, I hope I will be able to enlist your talent to make this work come alive! While I cannot reimburse your hard work monetarily, I will credit your contributions to the project, and provide a means for others to check your works if you have links for that.
If you're simply interested in the story itself or would like to do a little background research on the characters, please check out this link where The Strange Compendium of Richter & Rorschach will be posted:
https://www.wattpad.com/story/74879214-the-strange-compendium-of-richter-rorschach [CURRENTLY UNDERGOING REVISIONS]
*This role WILL be reprised in later installments of The Strange Compendium, so please keep this in mind when you audition!*
A wily gentleman who acts more like a kind fool/pushover/peacekeeper to divert suspicion; however, he is a worldly individual with a vast knowledge of everything-- his obsession with the supernatural and being victim to Alan’s kleptomania is what leads him to an unlikely friendship with the man. Emil’s desire to know everything about everything leads him to becoming a very good analyst, and he can get himself and Alan out of sticky situations...should they ever arise. He also has a tendency in coining goofy phrases.
(Note: You may choose to voice him with or without an accent, it is of no consequence to me, I welcome your interpretations!)
“I suppose it would seem that way, Alan, if our attacker knew how to put his finger on the trigger instead of holding the gun like he would a bumbershoot.” |
“No, my dearest, you are too slow with your re-alignment. If this were a real brawl, you’d have a couple of rounds in your sweet noggin already.” |
“Out with it already, woman! Dilly-dally no further!” |
*This role WILL be reprised in later installments of The Strange Compendium, so please keep this in mind when you audition!*
A cool-headed, eloquent and polite man with a habit of collecting mystical paraphernalia...because he’s a skilled kleptomaniac and picks people’s pockets out of impulse. He is often silent in the company of a crowd, but that’s because he instinctively scopes out his prey for pickpocketing. He is the more courteous and well-mannered out of the duo, but may have, undoubtedly, the more questionable morale of the two men.
He is a man “accustomed to being cryptic with his words.”
(Note: You may choose to voice him with or without an accent, it is of no consequence to me, I welcome your interpretations!)
“It would seem my horrible habit of crime has caught up to me, Emil.” |
“Richter, but you may call me Alan…I do hope you’ll forgive my companion. Territorial segregation has always been quite the predicament in academia.” |
“I’ll have you know, Miss Bulloch, that Nosferatu is very well known in the United States…Particularly because a certain someone propagated the film all over the world before all of the copies could be burned.” |
A German actress in search of her missing husband, Fanny Normann is a loving, faithful and devoted wife, who, desperate for answers, seeks out Richter & Rorschach to find any trace of her husband, Friedrich.
(Note: It is preferred that she is voiced with a German accent!)
“My Friedrich is a strange man, but he is good-natured. He tends to the elderly, and is as capable around the home as I am. He never waits to help those in need…” |
“I do suppose...that these Richter and Rorschach fellows might be able to find Friedrich, Theona?” |
“A bird can be a loon or a lark, a shrike or an albatross, just as humans can have an immeasurable number of differences to their natures. Friedrich is odd, by society’s conformities, but I do not presume his quirks to be symptoms of madness than I would presume myself to be mad for believing him. Do you think me mad?” |
*This role WILL be reprised in later installments of The Strange Compendium, so please keep this in mind when you audition!*
A discredited scholar who was dismissed from a prominent university because of her gender, she seeks to investigate a series of mysteries occurring all over the world, with a personal motive of her own. Once dressed and disguised as a man in order to further her education, she is a resourceful woman who has extensive knowledge in number theory, chemistry and theoretical physics. Her unfortunate shortcomings, after the incident at her university is that she is hot-headed when her gender is put into question and is a little scatterbrained at times due to the number of thoughts that roam her mind.
(Note: You may choose to voice her with or without an accent! I would prefer that you are able to safely use a deeper, more masculine tone of voice, while also providing a more feminine voice as well for Theo's character!)
“Oh!” (then with a deeper, more masculine voice) “It’s Bulloch, Mister Bulloch to the outside world, if you could please.” |
“Don’t call my noggin sweet!” |
“Then you are the Richter and Rorschach? The same ones who dove into the whirlpool from the incident in the Li River to search for the king within a rock? The very men who restored a woman who was eaten by a dragon-fish in the Ganges?” |
