Character Description
Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, alias Dagger, is the deuteragonist of Final Fantasy IX, and the heir of Alexandria in the 17th generation. Garnet notices a change in her mother, Queen Brahne, and seeks to escape Alexandria Castle. Hiding her identity while traveling with Zidane, Garnet takes the alias Dagger, inspired by Zidane's weapon. Initially polite and soft-spoken, and naive to the world outside her castle, Garnet loosens up during her travels, and becomes more streetwise. She resolves to use her powers as a summoner to protect her kingdom, and becomes more assertive and less dependent on others for help.

Garnet has a love for learning both from books and from the people and world around her. She loves theater, Lord Avon's I Want to Be Your Canary being her favorite play.

She starts as self-deprecating and blames herself for events beyond her control, relying on others, but she wants the power to summon eidolons so she can better defend her kingdom and her companions. Through Zidane's influence, Garnet learns to act in a more commonplace way, and endeavors to "blend in". She changes her speech patterns from overly formal to more casual, and as Zidane teaches her more about the outside world, she falls in love with him.

Garnet can be naive due to her sheltered childhood, for example, she is shocked at some of the more unwholesome sights at Treno. Garnet is quick-thinking and finds ways to outwit others to pursue her goals, and eventually matures into a more assertive individual who realizes that past does not need to constrain how she lives her life in the present.

Vocal Notes:
Voice Garnet with a blend of royal elegance, independence, and determination. We're looking for a lighter, higher pitched tone, not a deeper, mature tone.

Directorial Considerations:

- Consider your "Objective" within the scene. You don't have to make it complicated. What does your character want? What strategies is your character using to achieve it? What is getting in their way of achieving it? What does your character have to lose?

- Your audio must be devoid of sound reflection. Consider recording with a blanket, or inside a space where the microphone isn't picking up the bounciness of your recording.

- If you only have a British Dialect and are not confident in a North American Dialect, that is perfectly okay, as that will really bring support into the role.

- Lastly -- Consider your environment(s) and read between the lines. If you just record the audio as-is, there won't be much life to it. You don't want to wander off-script, but there is still a lot of flexibility that can be added to the dialog to acknowledge breathe life into your recording.