The Awakening of Lora Abernathy (Full Cast Audiobook)
gillant for Nicodemus (Nic) Miles (he/him)
Lead role, 200+ lines.
Nic was raised under the shadow of a prophecy that said the oldest daughter born of his mother's bloodline would someday defeat a great evil come to destroy their town. The only problem? Nic is a trans man... and therefore, not a daughter.
Although he successfully compartmentalizes all his gender feelings, stuffing them in a box for 18 years, the pressure finally gets to him and he freezes up at the crucial moment. His younger sister ends up saving the town instead.
Now, Nic has found a new life as a farm hand and stable boy. He's even fallen in love with the son of the couple who employ him, Beaumont Tayag. But when a magical blight affects their land, Nic gets roped into a quest to kill the wizard behind it.
This part does include at least one romantic scene between Nic and Beau. The Awakening of Lora Abernathy is the first book in a 4 book series, and Nic's actor will have the opportunity to return in future audiobook adaptations as well.
Preference for actors with experience growing up under high control religion.
ONLY casting trans men and transmasculine nonbinary actors.
- english
- androgynous
- male young adult
- neutral
- nonbinary
- transmasculine
- transgender
“I couldn’t put all my faith towards hoping the prophecy was wrong. I didn’t have enough left. So, I decided that I must be wrong, or that it would be fine if no one knew. Stuffed everything in a box and never told anyone except my sister once in a moment of weakness. I told her to forget it afterwards. She didn’t. So, when I...” (pause) “It was probably about her, the whole time,”
“I was an ass. I projected my own fears and insecurities onto you. Whether or not we’d have come together otherwise, we’re here now. The woods already seem intent on tearing us to pieces. There’s no sense in helping them along.”
(this scene is of a pre-teen age Nic, and can be played more tomboy feminine)(grumbling) “You still shouldn’t swear. You’ll get in the habit, and Mom will lose her shit.”
