Pinkie Promise
tearfully for Kagura Marzanna
Character: Kagura Marzanna
Role: Secretary, Director, KeyboardistCore Tragedy: A spirit trapped in a purgatorial loop, forever performing the role of the "perfect" girl. Unaware she died, she believes love is a transaction earned through flawless achievement.
Voice Characteristics & DirectionPrimary Voice (The Performance):
Quality: This is a lead role and a main character. Her voice is a deliberate performance: a classic 2000s American Valley Girl accent mixed with a sarcastic, bored mean-girl tone. Think a sharper, more cynical version of Cher from Clueless or early 2000s anime dubs.
Pitch: Medium to high, with a lot of vocal fry and upward inflection, making statements sound like questions. It's a voice that's meant to sound effortlessly cool and disinterested.
Speech Pattern: Sarcastic, fast-paced, and littered with 2000s slang. She uses this persona as a shield to maintain control and keep people at a distance. Underneath the "tsundere" attitude (pushing people away before they can reject her) is a deep, screaming insecurity.
Key Direction for the Actor: The actor must master two key shifts:
The Mask Slipping: When her perfect facade is challenged, the Valley Girl cadence should break, revealing a sharper, more panicked, or genuinely irritated tone.
The True Vulnerability: In her final moments, the performance must fall away completely, leaving a raw, exhausted, and profoundly sad young woman. The contrast between her "mean girl" act and her true, broken self is the heart of her tragedy.
- english
- female teen
- american valley girl
- visualnovel
- female young adult
"Uh, as if? Nikolai, sweetie, that beat is so five minutes ago. My grandma could keep a better tempo, and she's, like, literally ancient. Are you even trying? It's giving... major cringe. Get it together."
(Her voice starts as a seething whisper, then erupts into a raw, screaming confession before collapsing into a choked attempt to regain control.) "It's NOT enough! Nothing I do is EVER enough! Do you have any idea what it's LIKE?! To have to be perfect every single second of every single day?! To know that everyone is just WAITING for you to fail so they can say, 'I knew she wasn't that great'?! WELL, I'M NOT GREAT! I'M A FRAUD! AND I AM SO... TIRED... OF... PRETENDING! (Her voice cracks into a shattered scream) AAAAAGH! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! ...(Heavy, hyperventilating breaths, followed by a choked, broken whisper) "...I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... I didn't mean... I just can't do this anymore..."
"It's like... whatever I do... I feel like the next thing will finally be it. I'll finally be... happy. Be me. But... I just feel like I'm rotting from the inside out. The makeup, the clothes, the act... it's so. Heavy."
