The Captain

Runs a show boat working the coast, with a crew who were bakers and tenant farmers a month ago. He needs an act. The main character has one.

Reference art (rough sketch, final art coming): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZseRX3pH0K2rO-JqDrxe58oTDRFbTK0W/view

Personality: gruff, dry, unimpressed. Runs his ship by a numbered list of rules and quotes them at you. Embarrassed about money. Would like you to know this is a respectable vessel.

Voice: seasoned and salty, twenty years on the water. Mostly low-key and patient, someone who doesn't look up from what he's doing to talk to you. Has a big voice in reserve for the deck.

Size: around 60 lines in his chapter, counting every branch, plus 3 to 4 simple sounds and words for the non-English versions.

General Notes: patience. Keep him down low so that when he finally lets it out, it means something.

Audition direction (one take each)
"There's three of you...": Adding something up, then catching himself. The save is the joke.

"All right. [beat] Say it again..." Quiet. He already knows the answer.

"TWELFTH RULE! ..." Full voice over a storm, and he's enjoying it. Back off the mic.