Dee Character Analysis

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(The MAIN CHARACTER, who honestly has no discernible characteristics, can be extremely versatile so use this to your advantage. DEE should be cynical yet friendly-ish. There isn’t going to be that much moving around, so pretty please sit in two chairs about arm's length apart and use facial expressions, inflection, and hand gestures in order to really make these characters dynamic.)

MAIN: The first night you came into my life it was dark…(pause) you were dark. You held me in your arms fiercely and kept me safe from myself. You gave me the company I desperately needed and helped me stay up so I wouldn’t have to endure another nightmare.

DEE: You seemed so alone, I tried to preoccupy your thoughts with tragically beautiful images of lies of
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Maybe one day it could last for forever. It felt so good to show you myself inside and out, red and blood stained.

DEE: Nothing made me happier than seeing you with flashes of crimson and silver on your thighs.

MAIN: Enveloped in your warm crimson hug that sent pain through my very being.

DEE: Eventually you decided you never wanted to stop having me around… so you stopped your breath.

MAIN: I never meant to end it this way, but being with you for only a few moments didn’t seem fair. So I went out with a few handful of pills, just to feel something again. I never imagined death to be so sweet.

DEE: Together forever in a grave so deep that could only compare to the cuts on your thighs and… (gets cut off by MAIN)

MAIN: Shhh ( act like you are trying to stop DEE from saying any more of the statement) they don’t need to any more than that!

DEE: I thought dead girls don’t speak.

MAIN: I could say the same out you Dee…

DEE: Is that what you think of me? Do you think that lowly of me?

MAIN: I never wanted this in the first place! (pause almost as if to cry; emotional) Do you honestly think that I wanted to be a human rag doll of my own volition?

DEE: (get angry) Don’t you dare talk about me like that! I made you! I ended

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