Casting call for VALENCE fiction podcast
Drakeel_Rouger for Liam Alden
NOTE: YOU MUST SUBMIT AUDITION VIA THIS GOOGLE FORM, NOT VIA CASTING CALL CLUB PLATFORM. AUDITIONS SUBMITTED VIA CASTING CALL CLUB WILL NOT BE CHECKED.
Note: Actors playing Liam will be asked to perform intense lines related to depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, alcoholism, PTSD, and abuse. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Canon Age: 24
Ethnicity: Was written as white, but actors of all ethnicities are more than welcome to audition, and Liam’s race can easily be changed if need be
Gender: Was written as a cis man, but trans men and nonbinary actors are more than welcome to audition as long as they are comfortable with he/him pronouns
Orientation: Biromantic, bisexual
Character Description: Liam Alden doesn’t talk to people. Not if he can help it, at least. He isn’t good at it--he was never given the opportunity to become good at it--and he always has so much swirling around in his brain that it’s hard to concentrate on any external words anyway.
Liam is a misanthrope (read: secret humanist) who has a shocking lack of empathy (read: perhaps too much empathy when you win him over) and virtually no sense of self-preservation (that one is true). He’s proper and refined, but only as much as he’s been trained to be. He has a tendency of cowardice, both because he’s been so sheltered and because he’s terrified of accidentally hurting the people he cares about.
“What a dreadful thing to think of me, given my naturally sunny and effervescent demeanor. I’m wounded, truly.”
“I do trust him. I have not . . . allowed myself much trust, regardless of how much others may have deserved it--but at much as I wish I couldn’t, I--I do trust him.”