Role: News Anchor (Recurring VO / Gender-Neutral – 30s-60s)
Voice Type: Authoritative, composed, emotionally restrained — classic broadcast tone
Accent: Standard American (Network Neutral)

Description:
This is the city’s voice of order in a world spiraling into chaos. Heard throughout the story, the News Anchor delivers breaking developments with polished professionalism, even as the events themselves become increasingly grim. They’re calm in tone, but each update they read is another chisel mark in the crumbling façade of control.

Think of them as the Greek Chorus of modern tragedy — a mouthpiece for the public narrative, but not immune to the mounting dread. There's no melodrama in their voice, but there's weight. When they say a DA was executed or a church exploded, it lands like a blow precisely because they don’t flinch.

Character Vibe:
Imagine NPR meets CNN at the end of the world. Like Keith David narrating the apocalypse or Carrie Coon doing hard news with a war reporter’s fatigue.

Scenes:

• Delivers breaking news throughout the series: a bombing, a courthouse assassination, a public political murder.

• Returns in key moments to update the audience — sometimes subtly manipulated, sometimes raw truth.

• The role grows darker as the story unfolds, mirroring the city’s descent into fear and suspicion.