RWBY: REMNANTS [Fanmade Illustrated Video Series]
JHQK for Mercury Black
A Vale boy known for causing street fights and being a general disruption to society. Was arrested before given a second chance by a certain Headmaster to reform himself at Beacon Academy. "Beats jail I guess. Let's see how much trouble I can cause over there."
Merc is an asshole. And he swears a lot. Has a competitive rivalry with Yang. He's sarcastic, blunt and doesn't really give a shit about you. His voice should sound like a delinquent, but not too "angry" sounding, more cocky.
EDIT: Auditioners can experiment with giving him an accent in order to accentuate his troublemaking city-boy personality. They would be in the range of either a New Yorker (Brooklyn/Boston) or a Londoner (e.g. Cockney) accent.
[Emerald asks Mercury to move from her seat, which he is leisurely sitting in. He looks indifferent.]
"Mm... nah. Go sit somewhere else, snitch."
[Emerald raises her voice. Mercury acts with mock-fear.]
"Oh no, I'm so scared. Whatever the hell am I gonna do?? Sit harder?" *chuckles to himself*
[Mercury is in a group project with some random students. He grows tired of how tedious it is, thinking their ideas are stupid/unreasonable, and gets up to skip out on his duties.]
"You cannot make me do this shit. I'm outta here."
[Mercury walks away. One of the students calls him names to get him to come back, which stings a bit, but he dismisses them with annoyance and walks off, muttering to himself.]
"Tch. Fuck off."
[Mercury is chilling with Yang. They decided to skip class to go around town, and are drinking on a bridge somewhere. Yang risks getting into trouble since Merc is still technically on parole, but does it anyway. While talking, Yang tells him a funny story about school.]
*laughs loudly* "You serious, they actually make you do that?! This school's a freaking clowncar emporium." [she laughs along, talking some more.] "Psh, yeah, tell me about it."
[Mercury takes a big chug out of his ambiguously alcoholic drink. He exhales loudly with relief, finally able to relax after a while.]
"AAHH! Feels damn good to be out in the open air." [pause. He smirks at Yang.] "Y'know what. You're alright, Blondie."
Great audition! This is a really unique take on the role, and I can tell you had a lot of fun with it. You've conveyed a very nice sense of, for lack of a better term, "shit-eatery" with Merc that's quite entertaining to listen to, and there is a certain volatile quality to the voice too that I like, like he could blow up at any moment. Very nice work.
Thank you! I really did have a lot of fun with this one, glad you liked it.