ice princess: Defrosting8butterflyboy8February 20 2012, 04:04:29 UTC
Time Period: Throughout "Secundus" Notes: The instant I saw that prompt, I knew I had to do something about Alice. The basic idea (and the inspiration behind the title) comes from the trope "Defrosting Ice Princess," about a girl who initially seems cold and unapproachable, but who gradually warms up as you get to know her. That's how Alice looks to a lot of people who only know her by reputation -- cold and only good for killing monsters. Her friends (and beloved) know better, of course.
Most people who looked at Alice Liddell saw someone who was cold. Someone who seemingly couldn’t be bothered with love or even companionship. A girl whose life revolved around death, madness, weaponry, and killing. A girl who’d lost everything and thus had decided to seal off her heart in ice. Victor Van Dort saw something different. He saw a girl who was uneasy around people, worried about getting too close for fear of losing them again. Someone who was hurt and wary and perhaps even a little shy. Someone who wasn’t all that different from him. And when you got to know her, he discovered, you’d find that under that cold exterior - she was actually quite warm.
Notes: The instant I saw that prompt, I knew I had to do something about Alice. The basic idea (and the inspiration behind the title) comes from the trope "Defrosting Ice Princess," about a girl who initially seems cold and unapproachable, but who gradually warms up as you get to know her. That's how Alice looks to a lot of people who only know her by reputation -- cold and only good for killing monsters. Her friends (and beloved) know better, of course.
Most people who looked at Alice Liddell saw someone who was cold. Someone who seemingly couldn’t be bothered with love or even companionship. A girl whose life revolved around death, madness, weaponry, and killing. A girl who’d lost everything and thus had decided to seal off her heart in ice.
Victor Van Dort saw something different. He saw a girl who was uneasy around people, worried about getting too close for fear of losing them again. Someone who was hurt and wary and perhaps even a little shy. Someone who wasn’t all that different from him.
And when you got to know her, he discovered, you’d find that under that cold exterior - she was actually quite warm.
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