Voice testing an OC!

[cullstheplague]

M-Mundane?

Hello.

I, ah, I hope I'm not...being...a bother. I mean, I just -

I just -

I'm...sort of...alone. And I...I j-just was hoping that m-maybe, I c-could....

[He shrinks even further into himself.]

N-not a game, though, no, I...

I don't belong....

Anywhere.

Comments

[square_cubelaw]

You sound like you belong in the front row of a confidence seminar.

Honestly, it's not about belonging. It's just about being there and making your mark. So long as that mark doesn't involve world devastation or a body count.

[cullstheplague]

[He cringes, wrapping his arms around himself and bunching up his baggy clothes.]

B-but when I leave my mark, usually people chase me away.

I scare them.

[myteenagedivalife]

C'mon, don't say that! I'm sure you belong somewhere!

[cullstheplague]

I...r-really don't.

At least, I d-don't think anywhere would...like me. I never stay in one p-place....

[ex_bouchard550]

Speak up, darling. How is anyone going to take you seriously if you can't be heard?

[cullstheplague]

[He jumps a little, keeping his distance but trying to project just a little more. Largely, he fails at it.]

I'm s-sorry.

[ex_bouchard550]

[ largely, but the effort is noted (but it's not enough to acknowledge his apology). ]

Now, what is it you were hoping for?

[cullstheplague]

[He swallows, too-pronounced Adam's apple bobbing.]

I don't...really d-dare to s-say c-company...but I have been...alone. For a very long t-time.

Being...around people would be nice.

Even if b-being among them never works.

[ex_bouchard550]

[ pout for his sake. ]

And why is that?

[retributior]

You're not alone now if that counts for anything, darling.

{So quiet. Andrea needs to keep her own voice low, not too much of a problem, and soothing to make sure she doesn't speak over him in case he says something. Or spook him if she comes off as too forward with her questioning.}

What makes you feel like you don't belong anywhere? As John Donne says himself: No man is an island, entire of itself.