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As a disclaimer, Alice is always going to be super leary and on guard around people she doesn't know very well. Since you know canon, you know how that goes. Her view of people has become damaged thanks to those around her, save Nan Sharpe.
But Alice took up the task to join in Redgate, because she's livid. Absolutely livid over the battle of the silmaril. Not only did she think it was stupid of Celegorm, but she'll be angry with the other side for not even considering negotiations. As such, having Alice in that group has some sort of begrudging loyalty and Alice will do what she can to make sure her group stays alive. That being said, between Grell, Ganondorf, Lancelot, and Brucolac, Alice feels secure because you guys are just as weird as she is and she likes it. It makes her less critical.
But really tho Alice still thinks she's not even deserving of pretty hair or clothes. Have fun with that, Grell. Not to mention, I like to think she's got a good "stranger danger" sense at this rate that she is a little guarded around Grell, aside from being her usual deadpan snarker.
Take solace in the fact if she snaps, that ain't no one touching this weird-ass group \o_O/
To start off, Alice does not have a very high opinion of the seelie court right now. As a disclaimer, she thought Celegorm's actions were foolish, but she sympathized with him because he did it as an oath to his father. Feanor has left a small impression on Alice and she actually respected him, so that respect rolls onto his sons, because Alice appreciates honesty. No one is honest to her in London.
Korra comes in because Alice does not have a low opinion of her, because she appreciates the fact she can be optimistic, spirited, and friendly. She's touched by that friendliness, even if she doesn't feel like she deserves it or why it happens in the first place. Alice understands that the actions done are meant to protect others, but her frustration and anger, she just really cannot forgive Clarisse for killing Celegorm and brushing off diplomacy. She feels for Maglor, she knows how it feels to lose family.
But Alice has come in with nothing, only to find out the man she once trusted to heal her and others was the one responsible for the brutality of her sister, the death of her family, the fire, and her trauma. Twice Alice has stepped out, onto new things, only to really find herself absolutely lonely. When she sees others, she's jealous of the fact they have friends and loved ones. Alice feels alone, she feels that she's struggling to keep her mind once again, sound and without corruption -- but honestly, the battle traumatized her and Alice can only handle so much stress.
The core of her anger is that she feels that if anyone is stupid enough to ignore the pleas of others to return something that will cause a war, that they are really taking things for granted and those actions are utterly selfish to her. Lots of people got hurt in that battle and Alice just really wants to ask them if it was worth it, all that destruction. She has come to Redgate out of spite and anger, without knowledge of Korra being there. She really, really wishes she would turn back and just. Stay out of the conflict.
However, things may turn out to be rocky. Her fear now is the jabberwock will return -- even if it's not her jabberwock, it's still a jabberwock and Alice has a lot of feelings on the damn thing. Alice's fear of fire compels her to feel Drabwurld would be better of without the dragon and jabberwock, so sadly Alice will do what she can to kill them. Unfortunately, right now she's angry, like. Hello, psychotic episode angry, because of her fear of fire and her momentary flashback of seeing her family burn alive. She's terrified that may happen to her group (she really likes Grell, Lancelot, and Alyosha) and she will be powerless, once more, to stop them from burning alive.
If she had her way, she would be crying, shaking, and pleading with Korra to stop it, put the poor thing out of it's misery. Her fear also that the gates will crumble and a lot of neutral folks will perish and it will be once again (mind you, this is in her eyes) something for the sake of pride. The fire has sufficiently drove Alice to another berserker stage and she just may or may not black out some details of it.
She MAY be angry, but not to the point of hatred. She sees Korra as naive, just like any other older sister would. It's her rationale she's being yanked around by something that could burn everything to the ground and no thank you, been there, done that. Should the jabberwock awaken, Alice will insist she kill it by her own hands, again. Or just utterly give up then and there out of her anger and grief. Because you guys have something and she thinks she has nothing.
She's a little leery of authoritative figures, Ganondorf included. Her feelings are to be cautious, that she can't really spill out too many personal details. But for the most part, she tries to be pretty neutral with him. Hilariously enough, in Alice's eyes, with their team in Redgate as well as Celegorm, Ganondorf seems like the level-headed one. Alice will give him credit there.
Also oddly enough, he did give her a slight boost in confidence because she really doesn't see herself as the best fighter (or a fighter to begin with) and the fact she's tiny.
Ganondorf grew up around women fighters who consequently would know all about dealing with larger opponents. Ganondorf is very much the exception among his kind, so he has some pretty keen insight to those who might be disadvantaged by size. (And Link is generally something of a shortie himself anyway.) So yes, all the advice. If Nabooru wasn't a terrible traitor, he'd ask her to train Alice. :(
Alice comes from London circa 1875 and it so happens that "Carmilla" was published in 1872, the inspiration for Stoker's novel. She comes just shy of the Victorian gothic interest in vampires, so any folklore surrounding them is something she's not entirely familiar with, other than these people drink blood, that's it.
And she's not the most bright and cheerful person in the world. She spent a good portion of her life in an asylum, so when it comes to things like the inhuman, social taboos, or whatever, she tends to have a more ~progressive~ view, which is why she wouldn't really condemn it, not unless he actively killed people. Alice is very much like her novel counterpart in the fact she still has her curiosity and really, she never learns. So a number of the inhuman will always have her curiosity, so she just may be more willing to open up a bit more about meager things.
But right now she's kinda worried because he got hit and is certainly livid about it. Having him in the group means she'll trust him a bit more.
I've said it before, but he reminds her so much of the cheshire cat and as that is, he was the only real friend Alice has in Wonderland, which is sad considering he's a manifestation of her subconscious. He is a tad less exasperating, because he doesn't pop out or offer her rhymes, she can actually hold a conversation with him. So he's not completely like her mangy cat, but pretty close.
So close, I think she favors him more than anyone else in this world right now. And he humors her barrage of childish questions, how can that be bad? But like the cat, he seems to have dark gifts, which is why Alice likes to heed complete caution with that. I feel too she could be a little more honest and frank with him, as soon as time goes on. And yes, she'll bring back bones or anything else because why not.
She sees Harry as a little odd, but I think she finds solace in his oddities as well as he comes from England, too. It's not to say she prefers her countrymen over others, it means she can actually ease in a conversation a bit better, which isn't saying much. It also helps her that he's a year younger than her as well as he can be just as much as a cynic as she. I see her as a little awkward with him, her mannerisms around him are really weird. It's just her being unsure of herself to actually act like a normal person and talk to them. But she genuinely wants to be on friendly terms with him and she did specifically came out there with Celegorm because he was one of the few she worried about. And like I said above; she's been shut off from society so long that magic isn't a taboo to her and neither are the old folklore surrounding magic. In her decade of morality and strict social class, it doesn't really bother her.
Shouldn't really come as a surprise that Maglor reminds her of the white king, especially in the fact the last time she spoke to him, he had accepted his demise and gave up his life so that Alice could breech what was left of the queen's castle. Lot of Maglor's mannerisms are certainly regal to her, very soft, and dark at the same time. When thinking of the white king, he does remind her of her father as well. Arthur was, of course, a very educated man, lover of arts, photography, and creativity. She knows that he's a bard and bards are typically seen as storytellers in her world and so was her father. He actually used to bring back pictures to her to look at and nurtured her creative nature.
When he died, he, too, much like the white king told her and her sister to run and leave. To save themselves. He says to her in a memory "Whoever destroys a soul, destroys the world. There is much wisdom in that, Alice." and she carries that to heart. She also sees a bit of herself in the fact he's grieving so much that it's driven him to madness as well as near death. Alice has suffered like that, too, and she has a deep regret that she could have not done more to save those around her from suffering. His manner of speaking, his self-loathing upsets her; she is a bit envious that he and Celegorm had each other, much like Legolas had his dad and Galadriel has her daughter. Maglor and Lancelot serve as a constant reminder too as well that she left a lot of people behind who suffer. She has not accepted and I don't think she will for a very long time that her guilt over it is irrational.
So she slapped him because she wants him to see he can change it. She thinks that he can still fight it out, that he can be strong, too. Alice will not be optimistic for herself, but she will for others. She wants to encourage them to keep moving, fighting, and get better, regardless. She knows he's dangerous, but Alice has really forgone the fact that she's surrounded by dangerous people to begin with. As such, he can push her away (like Lancelot) but she'll stubbornly stick around. His grief over his brother eventually pushed her to the Redgate to fight with the others, because she is that angry. It broke her heart to see the end of of that battle, even if it was under the stupidest reasons.
Her feelings for the seelie has plummeted, when Clarisse refused to give up the silmaril when so many pleaded it to be returned. She saw it as selfish, she thought Celegorm was ridiculous, and so Alice trudged out into that battle to see if she could persuade them to not do it. It didn't turn out that way, so she joined the others in Redgate to see that mission completed.
Long story short, things are messed up and Alice has really had it seeing people suffer like that.
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Alice Liddell | American McGee's Alice
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But Alice took up the task to join in Redgate, because she's livid. Absolutely livid over the battle of the silmaril. Not only did she think it was stupid of Celegorm, but she'll be angry with the other side for not even considering negotiations. As such, having Alice in that group has some sort of begrudging loyalty and Alice will do what she can to make sure her group stays alive. That being said, between Grell, Ganondorf, Lancelot, and Brucolac, Alice feels secure because you guys are just as weird as she is and she likes it. It makes her less critical.
But really tho Alice still thinks she's not even deserving of pretty hair or clothes. Have fun with that, Grell. Not to mention, I like to think she's got a good "stranger danger" sense at this rate that she is a little guarded around Grell, aside from being her usual deadpan snarker.
Take solace in the fact if she snaps, that ain't no one touching this weird-ass group \o_O/
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To start off, Alice does not have a very high opinion of the seelie court right now. As a disclaimer, she thought Celegorm's actions were foolish, but she sympathized with him because he did it as an oath to his father. Feanor has left a small impression on Alice and she actually respected him, so that respect rolls onto his sons, because Alice appreciates honesty. No one is honest to her in London.
Korra comes in because Alice does not have a low opinion of her, because she appreciates the fact she can be optimistic, spirited, and friendly. She's touched by that friendliness, even if she doesn't feel like she deserves it or why it happens in the first place. Alice understands that the actions done are meant to protect others, but her frustration and anger, she just really cannot forgive Clarisse for killing Celegorm and brushing off diplomacy. She feels for Maglor, she knows how it feels to lose family.
But Alice has come in with nothing, only to find out the man she once trusted to heal her and others was the one responsible for the brutality of her sister, the death of her family, the fire, and her trauma. Twice Alice has stepped out, onto new things, only to really find herself absolutely lonely. When she sees others, she's jealous of the fact they have friends and loved ones. Alice feels alone, she feels that she's struggling to keep her mind once again, sound and without corruption -- but honestly, the battle traumatized her and Alice can only handle so much stress.
The core of her anger is that she feels that if anyone is stupid enough to ignore the pleas of others to return something that will cause a war, that they are really taking things for granted and those actions are utterly selfish to her. Lots of people got hurt in that battle and Alice just really wants to ask them if it was worth it, all that destruction. She has come to Redgate out of spite and anger, without knowledge of Korra being there. She really, really wishes she would turn back and just. Stay out of the conflict.
However, things may turn out to be rocky. Her fear now is the jabberwock will return -- even if it's not her jabberwock, it's still a jabberwock and Alice has a lot of feelings on the damn thing. Alice's fear of fire compels her to feel Drabwurld would be better of without the dragon and jabberwock, so sadly Alice will do what she can to kill them. Unfortunately, right now she's angry, like. Hello, psychotic episode angry, because of her fear of fire and her momentary flashback of seeing her family burn alive. She's terrified that may happen to her group (she really likes Grell, Lancelot, and Alyosha) and she will be powerless, once more, to stop them from burning alive.
If she had her way, she would be crying, shaking, and pleading with Korra to stop it, put the poor thing out of it's misery. Her fear also that the gates will crumble and a lot of neutral folks will perish and it will be once again (mind you, this is in her eyes) something for the sake of pride. The fire has sufficiently drove Alice to another berserker stage and she just may or may not black out some details of it.
She MAY be angry, but not to the point of hatred. She sees Korra as naive, just like any other older sister would. It's her rationale she's being yanked around by something that could burn everything to the ground and no thank you, been there, done that. Should the jabberwock awaken, Alice will insist she kill it by her own hands, again. Or just utterly give up then and there out of her anger and grief. Because you guys have something and she thinks she has nothing.
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Also oddly enough, he did give her a slight boost in confidence because she really doesn't see herself as the best fighter (or a fighter to begin with) and the fact she's tiny.
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And she's not the most bright and cheerful person in the world. She spent a good portion of her life in an asylum, so when it comes to things like the inhuman, social taboos, or whatever, she tends to have a more ~progressive~ view, which is why she wouldn't really condemn it, not unless he actively killed people. Alice is very much like her novel counterpart in the fact she still has her curiosity and really, she never learns. So a number of the inhuman will always have her curiosity, so she just may be more willing to open up a bit more about meager things.
But right now she's kinda worried because he got hit and is certainly livid about it. Having him in the group means she'll trust him a bit more.
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So close, I think she favors him more than anyone else in this world right now. And he humors her barrage of childish questions, how can that be bad? But like the cat, he seems to have dark gifts, which is why Alice likes to heed complete caution with that. I feel too she could be a little more honest and frank with him, as soon as time goes on. And yes, she'll bring back bones or anything else because why not.
She wants to see what happens when she does.
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I have things to babble back at you but they will be in your reply on his, so |D
also also if Alice is going to build her own version of a shrine to him, where would it be? c:
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When he died, he, too, much like the white king told her and her sister to run and leave. To save themselves. He says to her in a memory "Whoever destroys a soul, destroys the world. There is much wisdom in that, Alice." and she carries that to heart. She also sees a bit of herself in the fact he's grieving so much that it's driven him to madness as well as near death. Alice has suffered like that, too, and she has a deep regret that she could have not done more to save those around her from suffering. His manner of speaking, his self-loathing upsets her; she is a bit envious that he and Celegorm had each other, much like Legolas had his dad and Galadriel has her daughter. Maglor and Lancelot serve as a constant reminder too as well that she left a lot of people behind who suffer. She has not accepted and I don't think she will for a very long time that her guilt over it is irrational.
So she slapped him because she wants him to see he can change it. She thinks that he can still fight it out, that he can be strong, too. Alice will not be optimistic for herself, but she will for others. She wants to encourage them to keep moving, fighting, and get better, regardless. She knows he's dangerous, but Alice has really forgone the fact that she's surrounded by dangerous people to begin with. As such, he can push her away (like Lancelot) but she'll stubbornly stick around. His grief over his brother eventually pushed her to the Redgate to fight with the others, because she is that angry. It broke her heart to see the end of of that battle, even if it was under the stupidest reasons.
Her feelings for the seelie has plummeted, when Clarisse refused to give up the silmaril when so many pleaded it to be returned. She saw it as selfish, she thought Celegorm was ridiculous, and so Alice trudged out into that battle to see if she could persuade them to not do it. It didn't turn out that way, so she joined the others in Redgate to see that mission completed.
Long story short, things are messed up and Alice has really had it seeing people suffer like that.
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