Marginalia - Echo Character Voice Test
Fletz for Echo - Narrator Character
Echo is a central narrator character in Marginalia, a narrative-first indie anthology video game currently in development.This role is for a short paid voice test connected to the Tale 1 demo. Echo should feel intimate, poetic, wounded, intelligent, and quietly dangerous. The voice should not sound cartoonish, overly theatrical, or like a horror trailer.
Tone references:
- calm but unsettling
- elegant and controlled
- emotionally restrained, with pain underneath
- seductive in presence, not exaggerated
- capable of sounding gentle and threatening within the same breath
- english
- british
- irish
- male young adult
- welsh
- scottish
- male adult
[whisper/intimate unease] Fear, my friend. That is what you are thinking of. That little eerie feeling scratching at your spine every time you hear my voice. Do you know why?
[obsession/rising intensity] Would you make them bow after your final note? Make them ashamed for ever failing to know your name? Tell me! I need to know!
[arrogant charm] Well... I'm flattered. And, indeed, I am your only salvation.
