Jester

Lead, the player's character
A mouse and village juggler whose act gets noticed by the wrong dragon. Every stage is a performance he has to survive. Falling over is his running joke, on purpose and otherwise.
Reference art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H59cnEfDGLSUOLXdw21IJ1xD1Hb2UZvY/view

Fresh round. We opened this role in September and nothing particularly clicked, so we're going again, with actual dialogue this time instead of short reactions. Honest truth, we don't know exactly what we're looking for. We'll know it when we hear it. Auditioned before? You're welcome to go again with the lines below.

Personality: funny first, hurt second, brave third. Gallows humour as armour. He pushes back when it matters.

Voice: light, quick, elastic, with room to crack into panic and drop into sincerity. Comic timing over vocal size. Think of a stand-up who is also scared for his life. Younger-sounding.

Avoid: a forced laugh, or mugging the jokes.

Size: the biggest part in the game. Around 250 lines written so far counting every branch, with more coming, plus short in-song reactions and a handful of simple sounds and words (up to 10) for the non-English versions.

General Notes: a joke and a hurt landing on the same line. A laugh that's real. If it isn't real on that take, don't force it, I'd rather not have it.

Audition direction (one take each, lines 1 to 3 below)
Line 1: Tired. The socks sentence is the joke, so throw it away.

Line 2: Whispered hysteria, spike on "not dying" (back off the mic so it doesn't clip), then quiet on "I'm a mouse". He has stopped performing.

Line 3: The bucket lands for real. The second line covers it with a joke before anyone can see.