Qoheleth/audiobook

Point of view characters

RJ/AwDae

Nonbinary DMAB, central US (Coloradoish), calm (generally) but tends toward emotional. As the book goes on, ey gets more and more detached from reality, and eir speaking becomes dreamier.

Dr. Carter Ramirez

Cis woman, Spanish/British (but no worries about accents), competent and generally confident, but easily frustrated.

Sasha

Cis woman, Colorado-ish, a bit scattered, but very earnest, theatre teacher with a well-trained voice. At the end of the book at the eulogy, she has suffered some neurological damage that leads to her having to enunciate more deliberately, covering it as best she can with a stage voice.

Ioan Bălan

Nonbinary DMAB, Romanian (again, no worries about accents), very thoughtful and calm, which is often a front for confusion or getting lost in eir thoughts or in autistic hyperfixation.

Qoheleth

Cis man, American, trained for the stage, usually sounds like he is playing the role of some biblical notable from idk a late 20th century movie.

Major characters

Dear

Nonbinary, it/its, American, is described as "speaking in italics" (which I have rendered before by pitching up the recording 4% and adding just a touch more reverb, but totally up to you). Snarky, quick-witted, posh. Enunciates clearly and deliberately, as it's based off Sasha after the events of the book.

Dear's partner

Totally up to the VA. Technically, they are the reader, as their character is the player character in a bit of interactive fiction.

Other characters

Sanders

Cis male, British, snarky and frustrated, sullen at times.

Avery

Nonbinary (unsure beyond that), nerdy, excitable, friendly

Prakash

Cis man, Indian/British, calm and confident.

Johansson

Cis man, British, theatre director, very dramatic baritone.

Debarre

Cis man, East-coast, snarky/angsty

Serene and Praiseworthy

Cis women, fun, dramatic, theatre tearchers, enunciate clearly and deliberately as they're based off Sasha after the events of the book