*note: placeholder image by @ej_761
Voice Direction:
Age and Gender: ~early to mid 20s, female adult voice, mid that pans into both directions,
Accent: Ideally, for Oka, any slight accent from eastern or central to southern african countries would be great, but not required.
Description: Oka's voice has range. When tinkering and not really paying attention, or elsewhere with her thoughts, it's usually a bit lower, when excited or curious a little higher pitched. Generally, Oka's voice isn't overly expressive, which is part of what nourishes her dry wit. Excitement is usually rather expressed by her speaking a bit faster and (if you have a fitting accent as mentioned above), slipping a bit more into accent rather than trying to speak accent-free.
Psychological Profile for VA:
When acting as Oka, you dive into the mind of an engineer and inventor who sees the world as processes, cause and effect, mechanisms, patterns. You think fast, speak efficiently but most importantly, you are driven by curiosity above anything else. When acting as Oka, you're socially a bit awkward, not in the overly theatrical way and not like someone who is extremely shy either, but just someone who is a bit detached, living in her own head, but still wanting to connect. Someone who doesn't quite "get" where functional interaction ends and personal bonding begins. You're naturally quirky, be it reciting a whole gazette article from memory or correcting someone mid-sentence, but it's never exaggerated, always natural.
Reference:
Check out the splendid performance of Peyton Guzmán, former Karo VA in Scene 4 (Workshop) of Episode 0 (starting at 13:46):
https://rss.com/podcasts/the-underground-septragramma/2639564/#chapters
