By His Grave (2-part Audio Drama)
MisterHan2000 for Adult 1
The first character in the show and the adult version of Mason Freemont. He has a lot of complex emotions about the person buried in the grave he's visiting after a high school reunion. He's inquisitive and sensitive, and he frequently has emotional outbursts when he feels people are misunderstanding him. Medium voice. He's finally getting over the awkwardness that he's carried with him for so long, and he should be able to make himself heard without raising his voice.
[After letting negative feelings about someone slip] ADULT 1: You… You- oh my god! I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to talk about you to your face!
[After recounting a story about a girl spreading rumors about her friends at the request of a third party] ADULT 1: Like I said! He was manipulative. Angie was vulnerable, like I was. She felt alienated by everyone. It wasn’t help with schoolwork she was after, it was someone to care about her feelings.
[Trying to rationalize why you've been so confrontational] ADULT 1: I’m just… still so intimidated by you, Thomas. It’s like, in my mind, we’re still in high school, and you’re still what I was scared of. I thought for so long that if I saw any of you again I’d know exactly what I wanted to say, but the truth is that I don’t. I don’t know what to say, and I never have. I can have so many arguments in my head where I get mad at you guys for taking my friend or for ruining high school when it had just started for me, but people aren’t like that. I can’t think of what you’re gonna say before you say it because I still don’t know you. I can sit here and I can get mad and tell you all of my secrets because, in my head, I’ll never see you again. In my head, I’ll just go on with my life, and whether or not I think of you both again, I can’t say. I want to believe that I’m past all of this, but I’m so not. Not even close, because I’m still scared of you, Thomas, and nothing, not even telling you exactly what I think of you, will change that.
