Astro Boy: The Abridged Series
Nikko Abanilla for Atlas
Making his debut in Episode 9 (and imperatively recurring onwards), Atlas presents himself as Astro's ex-gaming-buddy. Atlas acts defiant, independent, and secure, but is self-loathing, despicable, irresponsible, and childlike. He has no real-life skills or perspective and relies on his parent's money to inflate himself with plastic reconstruction to appear adultlike. His goal is to capitalize on whatever gaming skills he possesses and bloom into an influential Twitch streamer.
After a mishap involving nuclear lightsabers, Atlas and his babysitter, Lucenie, have been left segmented and disfigured. Atlas pimps himself out with synthetic upgrades, forcing Lucenie into similar procedure against her will (he needs a female to act his "trophy wife" so he could feign legal adult status).
Upon reuniting, Atlas invites Astro to help him expand his Twitch following, which Astro declines. Atlas dubs him a nemesis and seeks to ruin his life.
I am seeking a cool-headed, confident, and motivational male voice with an ominous, serious tone. Deeper voices are preferred, as the character takes on a Darth-Vader-esque role (though... not THAT deep!) Atlas takes his childish motives incredibly seriously. I am seeking an actor with a knack for irony.
ASTRO: But if he wasn’t Jacob Sartorius, then he was a robot. And robots don’t age. So if that was you, then how could you have grown up??
ATLAS: Well, Astro, I decided to become a Twitch streamer. I wanted to start an Only Fans, too, y’know, to rustle up that coin, but they said I was “too young.” So I mustered my measly Twitch earnings and invested in some MAJOR plastic surgery.
NOW, I look like an adult, and I have access to every bar, club, and R-rated movie. I have ALL the benefits of adulthood with NONE of the work or tax-paying drawbacks!!
ASTRO: *intimidated* Oh--!
But, Atlas, why would you force plastic surgery on your caretaker? Did SHE want to do that, too?
ATLAS: Here, we’re gonna cut to my sword for a minute. Just stare at it.
ATLAS: Lucenie [LOO-suh-nee] resisted, but I needed a trophy wife to seem like a more authentic, average adult.
ASTRO: Right. Because NOTHING screams “authentic” like steroids and rhinoplasty.
ATLAS: ...And a sword. I needed a good sword to get that 18+ image going, too.
ATLAS: And now, Astro, you are going to PAY for dumping me. We could have been AMAZING gamers together. You could have helped me rack up SO many more views and donations on my streams, but NO. You just HAD to give Selena her PINK BANDANNA.
ATLAS: NOW look what you’ve done. You’ve pushed me into a world of expensive touch-ups with none of the health benefits offered by most medical procedures.
All of the resources I unnecessarily sucked up getting skin-grafts and bone-restructuring COULD have gone to a cyst-reduction patient, or an ill child with a rare skin disease, or a burn victim undergoing pain worse than childbirth.
ATLAS: But NO. YOU pushed me to get these ridiculous body mods. And now there’s no undoing the past.
ATLAS: Look here, Astro. My crystal meth ship. A scintillating tower of euphoric dreams. I flashed a handsome smile at Pablo Escobar, using my new jawline, and he gave it to me free. Said it was “on the crack house.”
ASTRO: You rotten scoundrel. Crystal meth is for sexy AND ugly people to enjoy and ruin their familial relationships over. You can’t just HOG it all.
ATLAS: You’re too late, Astro. I already have…
