Murder Drones: Overture Audiobook
Nova for Uzi Doorman
The main protagonist. An angsty, rebellious worker drone with a slew of unresolved trauma and a dream to free Copper 9 from the Murder Drones in honor of her mother.
Two words: Gremlin energy. Uzi is strongly individualistic, free-thinking, and goes against the grind. She's a social outcast. Try to capture the energy of Elsie Lovelock's performance in the show.
CONTEXT:
- Line 1: Uzi is made to give a presentation for class. She gives a history lesson of what life was like before before the Murder Drones. She's fond of the past, and hates what the workers have lost.
- Line 2: Uzi is in an intense, emotional argument with her father, Khan. He thinks she's being reckless and endangering the lives of herself and her classmates. Uzi, however, is sticking to her guns. To her, merely surviving isn't enough. Living is experiencing the world and all it has to offer, and there's not much to offer when you're confined to a bunker your entire life.
- Line 3: Uzi and Thad are conversing in the clinic, following Uzi's disastrous presentation. She showed off her railgun to the class, but its instability resulted in an explosion, and now both are recovering. Thad's asked Uzi about the weapon and is impressed she built it on her own. Uzi takes great pride in this.
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- female teen
You want a presentation? I'll give you one. Copper 9 may be a frigid wasteland, but it was our frigid wasteland once! There was a time when we lived in buildings, not bunkers. There was a time when we could look at the night sky and see constellations. There was a time when we could walk freely without fearing for our lives! For seven years, we've been forced to hide underground, and we all know why! Those things took our home from us!
(frustrated) I don't want to survive, Dad! I want to live! But no one in this stupid colony believes in me!
(proud) My Dad's always been an inventor. I guess he rubbed off on me. Only, I don't build barriers. I build weapons!
To refer to specific takes, I'll say, for example, 1A to mean the first take of Line A.
2A, 3B, and 3C were the best deliveries of your batch. I have a couple of suggestions that I probably could have made more clear.
- When Uzi says "things", she emphasizes the word. Have you ever said something without directly referring to it by name but everyone knows what you mean? It's like that. The Murder Drones are known to the newer generation, but are kind of like that open secret. They know *of* them, but don't like to *talk* about them. Uzi is forcing the difficult subject here. I like most of 3B's delivery, but 3C's "Those things took our home from us!" is the best of that particular part.
- When speaking of the past, here "there was a time" lines, there's a certain nostalgia to it. She's happy to recall the days when fear wasn't the norm. When she indirectly brings up the Murder Drones, her pleasant demeanor turns bitter because she's back to the reality they live in.
- 3B is the best take of this line, and I like the added growls of frustration to communicate she's at her wits' end. Similar to the last one, 3C's ending "but no one in this stupid colony believes in me!" is the best reading of that line.
- My recommendation would be to channel these to combine the best of these takes! I hope this helps!