Close Your Eyes
Richard Gibson for Douglas
A voice mostly heard only on tapes. Douglas was a scientist researching into a strange alien material that began to change his way of thinking and seeing the world, until he became both consumed and afraid of the very thing he was researching, seeing it everywhere. He's suspects he's mad, and keeps trying to prove it to himself, but ends up dragging himself down a rabbit hole of conspiracy in the process. He talks in a fashion similar to old movies or early radio, his story playing out like a dramatized radio play, though with his sense of self slowly coming off its hinges .
The role has roughly 1000 words of dialogue, he monologues as he records these cassettes mainly for himself, but a part of him hoping someone else will hear them if he shall perish. Later in there's some dialogue he says more to someone than just to himself so he get a bit more reactive.
He has no sexually suggestive dialogue.
- english
- animation/character
- videogame
- male adult
- video game
- mid atlantic
"I speak now not as a man of science, but as someone who has spent far too much of his life thinking there was a way to rationalize it all." ((Said to his audio recording device, in a frank but dramatic way to express how he has been humbled.))
"And I'm going to prove it to myself! But I can't, I can't! But I must!" ((Struggling, trying to keep it together, anguishing while forcing his way forward.))
"But that's just the thing. What if I'm not crazy? That I'm absolutely right, and all those clown comics who throw their shit and scorn me as if I'd personally wronged them were the crazy ones, and I be as sanest I've ever been! Would that not be the scariest option of them all?" ((Starting off as if coming to a realization, letting out a bit of anger and frustration, before winding down on the discomfort that if he's right that'd be the worst thing.))))
