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Character name: Alice Kingsleigh
Series: Alice in Wonderland - Tim Burton style~
Timeline: Right as she sips the Jabberwock blood
Background:
Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy--
No, wait. That is most certainly not the way to start off this particular young lady's history - Alice is very much an unconventional sort would likely be quite put out with anyone who began her story such as this.
We all know the story thus far, at any rate. A young girl falls down a rabbit hole and has the most marvelous adventures - why, a smiling cat who can dissipate into thin air, a hatter who is very much mad, a red queen so involved in herself she does not yet see it will be her downfall. Playing croquet with flamingos, painting the roses red, a smoking caterpillar...
Yes yes, we all know the story of little Alice in Wonderland, and as with any story, one must start at the very beginning.
Except, it's not exactly 'Wonderland', is it? No, no...it's more like 'Underland', a world with a bit of a twist on the surreal, the magical, the sublime.
And, for Alice at first - it is nothing but a memory. You see, little Alice (or shall we call her big Alice? One can never be quite sure with her, being of a nature to be either too tall, or too small, and never quite the right size when necessary) remembers very little of (W)Underland. She believes it to be a dream, a flight of fancy that flits through her mind in the night, and questions her father as to if she's gone round the bend (of course she has, all the best people are).
Always the same, the dream haunts her until she's older, and well on her way (or at least, according to her family - her face wont last, you see) to a an engagement party (her own!) that will lead to a Very Proper and Good marriage to a particular Earl that has a nasty sort of blockage.
In the midst of said proposal, however - Alice sees a rabbit in a waistcoat, and of course must follow. Any girl should be curious, and if one were to see an impatient rabbit, one would certainly be obliged to follow after. You mustn't keep him waiting, after all.
Thus, Alice slips into the rabbit hole once more, scattered timepieces and beds and other random items to fall into the world that is Underland once more in a flurry of lace and skirts (sans stockings and shoes). Landing with quite the thunk into a room full of many doors, Alice naturally tries each one. As opposed to screeching and pitching a hysterical fit, she tries each one and finds only the smallest door can be opened with the key that rests on the glass table in the middle of the room. Also on the table is a small bottle labeled "Drink Me", which, of course, she does. This is, after all, only a dream, isn't it? The room suddenly gets much, much larger - or has she shrunk? That is, in fact, the case - standing at only two feet tall, Alice is now short enough to fit through the door, however - the key has unfortunately been left on the table.
Not to be discouraged, Alice locates a little piece of cake labeled 'Eat Me', which she does. It seems the only natural thing to do at this point, all things considered. Growing to almost twenty one whole feet, Alice is now able to reach the key, though unable to fit through the door. Being one that is now accustomed to doing things in circles, she drinks the potion once more, this time leaving the key well within reach of a much shortened and very much NOT the right sized Alice.
Upon entering Underland, Alice is almost immediately met by the White Rabbit, the Dormouse, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and the Dodo bird. These things are all, of course - remnants of her first 'dream', and, considering this is simply a new and updated version of said dream, it only makes sense for her to properly assume that this too, is a dream.
After a bit of debate about her being the wrong or right Alice, the group takes her to Absolem the smoking caterpillar. Upon consulting the Oraculum, Alice is informed she will be slaying the Jabberwocky, as to which Alice very firmly states that that is most certainly not her doing the slaying. There is more debate about her right or wrongness, and Absolem states that Alice is "Not hardly Alice."
Unfortunately, before Alice can be returned home, the group is ambushed by the Bandersnatch and cards, and The White Rabbit, and the Dormouse are captured along with several flamingos. Alice, who is pursued by the Bandersnatch, stands her ground considering this is her dream, and nothing can hurt her here. Knowing better, Mallymkun the Dormouse saves Alice by stabbing out the Bandersnatch's eye, though it manages to claw Alice's arm. Alice and the Tweedles carry on until the 'Jubjub Bird' captures the Tweedles as they stood and debated about which way was best to go.
A bit lost, Alice finds herself wandering into a very ominous looking forest - though instead of another Bandersnatch (if there are more than one - she isn't terribly sure about that) she meets a smiling, floating cat who helpfully offers to heal her wound, though Alice declines. Instead, he takes her to the Hatter, Mallymkin, and the March Hare who are in the midst or a very solemn seeming tea party. She's very readily (and happily!) accepted by Tarrant (her Hatter), though the reuinion is quickly broken up when Ilosovic Stayne, the Knave of Hearts, arrives at the tea party. Thinking quickly (as mad ones are prone to doing) the Hatter quickly shrinks Alice to a bitty six-inches tall (even shorter than before - she had to wonder, what would happen if she shrank even more?) and unceremoniously stuffs her in a teapot. Whilst distracting the Knave, Tarrant also manages to persuade Bayard the Bloodhound to not reveal Alice's location, causing Bayard to lead the Knave and his troops away. From here, Tarrant begins his journey towards Marmoreal with Alice on his hat.
On their way, Tarrant tells Alice his sad story on how he lost his clan and the beginning of the Red Queen's reign. It all began on Horunvendush Day, when the Red Queen in a jealous rage sent the Jabberwocky to steal her sisters crown, and the Vorpal Sword. On said day, Tarrant's entire clan was murdered, and and the reign of peace was no more. As Tarrant is lost in thought, there is barking in the distance that signals the approach of the Knave and the Cards. As a last resort, Tarrant throws his hat with Alice on it across the river (because, of course - travel by hat is the very bast way to travel). Tarrant is captured without resistance and Alice succumbs to exhaustion and sleeps under the hat.
Alice sleeps fitfully, and is awoken in the morning by a giant nose sniffing at the brim of the hat, and is eventually exposed by Bayard whom she convinces to take her to the Red Queen’s castle in order to rescue the Hatter. She is a bit put out with Bayard’s insistence she fulfill her destiny, and insists herself that she makes her own, and that she was quite annoyed at the circumstances surrounding her. But, take her she does, and upon arrival Alice gallantly crosses a moat full of severed heads to breech the castles walls at a formidable six inches.
While the Queen is playing croquet, Alice is found by the White Rabbit once more, whom she asks for some more Upelkuchen. She impulsively eats to much, and grows two feet taller than her normal size, but Alice uses this to her advantage instead of being waylaid. Informing the Bloody Bighead that she was Um from Umbridge, she told her tale of woe - being that she had been outcast because of her size, and she’d outgrown her clothing. Immediately accepted into the Queen’s court, Alice continues to use the situation to her advantage, and manages to keep the Hatter calm, and perhaps even giving him motivation to make his request to be the Red Queen’s Hatter.
Alice is given free roam of the halls, and she uses this to explore the castle and unmask the location of the Vorpal sword from the White Rabbit, which just so happens to be within the Bandersnatch’s lair. Undeterred, Alice retrieves the beasts eye from Mallymkun, though on her way she is cornered by the Knave, who’s advances she brushes off in a huff.
Upon arriving at the casa de Bandersnatch, Alice creeps inside and rolls the creature’s eye, using the distraction created to slip in and attempt to unlock the case holding the Vorpal sword, but the gash on her arm has begun to fester as Chessur had told her it would, and she passes out atop the sword case.
In the morning, Alice is still somehow alive and has not become breakfast, and the Bandersnatch sits placidly in front of her, key dangling. She takes it, and in the process he licks her wound, clearing it of infection. Now even, Alice takes the sword and leaves, though she doesn’t make it very far. The Knave’s actions against her were seen by a court member who informed the Queen, and he lies to her, telling the Queen it’s Alice who is obsessed with him. This is, of course, a lie - Alice is quite decidedly repulsed by the Knave! Alice immediately returns to Mallymkun and Tarrant, but is pursued byt the Knave and the cards, who attempts to arrest Alice for seduction. Tarrant holds the Knave and cards off, but Mallymkun blurts out, "Run, Alice", and The Knave, now knowing Alice's true identity, pursues her instead, surrounding her in the courtyard with cards. It seems quite hopeless, but Alice isn’t one to run anymore, though she finds she doesn’t have to herself.
The Bandersnatch appears like the miraculous beast it is, and she flings herself upon its back and escapes, Vorpal sword in hand to the White Queen’s castle. Upon arriving, she presents it to the White Queen, who then in turn creates a potion to shrink Alice back down to her original and very right size. She is taken to see Absolem once again, and, after a brief conversation, she is informed she is much more like Alice now than she was when she had first arrived.
It isn’t terribly long before company arrives, and Alice sees that Tarrant, along with Mallymkun, the Tweedles, the White Rabbit, and Bayard's wife and pups have managed to escape and are now coming up the walkway. Frabjous Day is tomorrow, and Alice is still very much convinced this is a dream.
The next morning, The Queen asks for a Champion to do battle against the Jabberwock, and many step forward. The Oraculem is consulted, but, still showing Alice as the Slayer, everyone realizes there can certainly be no other. If it isn’t Alice wielding the sword, the Jabberwocky isn’t dead.
Alice is very much against this slaying business and had never intended to do any slaying period, runs into the castle where once again she encounters Absolem, who is now preparing to go into pupa stage. They have a brief little chat, and eventually Alice realizes within her own mind that "Underland" is what she mistakenly heard as "Wonderland" during her first visit. Alice realizes that her dreams were really memories and Underland is very much real, and that this is not a dream. Moments later, Alice appears atop the Bandersnatch, decked in armor and clutching the sword as she pulls up next to the Queen.
Armies of each queen arrive at a chessboard-like battlefield for the battle between Alice and the Jabberwock.
The Jabberwock finally reveals itself to Alice, spouting some nonsense about meeting its sworn enemy on the battlefield once more, though Alice is quite clearly not the original bearer, though considering the Jabberwock was so rude she decided to slice his tongue off. Thus begins the great battle of the Frabjous Day, in which Alice does battle with the Jabberwock before the armies of the Red and White Queens.
As the battle carries on, the Jabberwock seems to gain the upper hand, and instead of letting that continue, Tarrant himself assaults the Jabberwock, leading both armies to battle due to his interference. As the war below rages, Alice and the Jabberwock climb up and up and up, and eventually she manages to get on the back on his back. It’s a struggle to hold on, with him flailing and flipping like that, and she eventually loses her grip and is flung high into the air. Twisting, Alice brings the blade down to sever the Jabberwock’s head, shouting, "OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!".
This event is witnessed by everyone, and while the Red Queen attempts to keep the upper hand by ordering her troops to kill Alice, they no longer follow her since the death of both the Jabberwock and Jubjub bird. The rightful Queen is re-crowned, as once again the queen of Underland, and the Red Queen is banished to the outlands along with the Knave. The Knave, though having been her noble knight and right hand man, can’t seem to stand the thought of this and attempts to kill the Red Queen, but he is quickly stopped by Tarrant. As the Red Queen and The Knave are carried off, Tarrant finally does the Futterwacken dance, on this memorable and very much suddessful Franjous Day. The White Queen collects the blood of the Jabberwock which will send Alice back to the human world. Giving her final farwell and reminding them she will return, Alice drinks the blood, returning back to her life in 1865 England.
Finding herself grasping the edge of the rabbit hole, Alice climbs up and out of the hole and returns to the party that she had so abruptly left to begin with. In front of the entire crowd, Alice declines Hamish's proposal and instead chooses to become his father's apprentice. Days (Or possibly weeks - this isn’t specified) Alice begins her voyage to China, saying goodbye to her family.
As she stands at the front of the ship staring outward, a blue butterfly lands on Alice's shoulder. Smiling softly, she murmurs, "Hello, Absolem."
And now, here - her story continues.
Personality: Alice is a young girl, approximately nineteen, and very--
Again - wait.
Forget the traditional, because that most certainly is not the way miss Alice Kingsleigh does things. As opposed to what's normal, every day, commonplace, average, the methodical and habitual, the ordinary and popular and droll, Alice is very much accustomed to something very much contradictory to that sort.
She's quiet, in a way - she isn't loud or obnoxious, and is instead extremely subtle, though still quite social and accepting of any and all odd things going on around her.
Alice can be a bit impulsive in her decision making process; sometimes she doesn’t quite think things through before she acts. This tends to have interesting consequences, though often it’s usually in Alice’s favor.
At one point in time, Alice was unsure of herself and rather underestimated herself and her abilities, but by the end of her trials she has regained her muchness, and is therefore be a bit more self assured and willing to accept that this is, indeed, quite the curious rabbit hole she’s fallen into. Despite this, she has a quiet and aching desire to go home and get back to business. She has ideas, you see - ideas that could reshape the world into something new and exciting, and while being in Underland is quite entertaining and she’s certain this new place will be as well, she does so wish to return home.
Alice is a strong sort and does try not to let things get her down too terribly much - to be a continual visitor to Underland one must really be bred of stronger stock than most, especially considering they don’t get many visitors from Above and when they do, it’s always Alice.
Alice is a strange sort and tends to think outside of the box - in the time and age that she lives in this is generally not terribly acceptable behavior for a woman to engage in, and therefore she sometimes has trouble conforming to what the standards of the age are. Her mother is continually frustrated by Alice’s refusal to wear stockings or corsets, and by her daughter’s general need for independence and uniqueness.
Appearance: Alice is approximately 5’4’’ and around 115 pounds when she is not too tall or too small, and while she isn’t strikingly beautiful she does have quite a bit of charm that makes her far more appealing to people (though regrettably that particular sort is normally found in Underland). Her hair is blonde and quite wavy, and sometimes a bit of a hassle to properly tie - so most of the time, when she doesn’t have someone to force her to fix it, it’s down around her shoulders in soft waves. Her eyes are quiet blue and her face is terribly expressive, especially so when she is perplexed or frustrated.
Skills/Abilities: Alice's abilities, while not supernatural (unless one counts falling down a rabbit hole and shrinking and growing and shrinking as such) lay more within her mind than anything else. She's brilliant at coming up with on the spot solutions and excuses, even going so far as to name herself 'Um' in the Red Queen's courtyard, and making her believe it.
She's handy with a blade, but that won't exactly be put into play here juuuust yet, since the sword she was holding won't be coming with her.
Also, sometimes she believes up to six impossible things before breakfast.
Spoken/Written languages: Engilsh
Items: Since Alice is being pulled directly from the moment she swallows the blood and sees her last fleeting images of her Hatter, she'll still be wearing her full battle armor, and clutching an empty glass vial with Jabberwock blood residue. Lovely.
Third person sample: Hands trembling, Alice could barely hold the Vorpal Sword after the slaying of the Jabberwock on Frabjous Day. It wasn’t as if she had been expecting to be successful; Alice had been very firm in repeatedly stating that she would, in fact not be doing this. She wasn’t a slayer of any sort, and had no want to be slaying anything or anybody, period. Of course, things rarely had a way of working out as one plans them, and here she stood, eyes slightly glazed at what had just transpired. Of course, this sort of thing really wasn’t out of the norm and was to be expected here in Underland, and Alice pulled herself together quite quickly, despite sweaty palms and shaking hands and blood roaring a bit in her ears.
The next few moments were a bit of a blur as the Red Queen and the Knave were banished together, which Alice secretly thought was a very fitting punishment for the both of them. Business attended to, she eagerly watched the White Queen move to the body of the Jabberwock, a bit unsure as to what the White Queen was actually doing. However, her mind cleared immediately when the little vial was handed over, along with an explanation as to just how to get home.
Alice found herself at a bit of an impasse. She did so want to stay here in Underland, with her Hatter and Bayard and the White Queen and all the others, especially now that she wasn't too tall, or too small.
Oh, but what of her family? Alice knew she had to go back, she had unfinished business to attend to, things that she knew she needed to do and see.
But...she still heard herself promising to the Hatter that yes, she would be back.
Somehow, she believed it. Alice knew this was not the last time she would be seeing the strange and curious creatures of Underland.
First person sample:
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[click. Voice!]
Now this is terribly curious, isn’t it? [There’s a loud rustling as Alice maneuvers the oh so foreign device, and then there’s a loud exclamation that denotes an ‘aha!’ moment.
…It’s promptly discarded in favor of the creature sleeping on her chair. The device clatters to the floor, but keeps recording.]
Oh, how remarkable-! Why, I do believe I’ve never quite seen anything like you before, have you a name?
[Silence]
No? Then I shall call you Tullywobble, and you shall be mine, considering that you are in what appears to be my room, since I’ve just woken up here. [Several more moments of general awe over the beast, and then-]
Now, where was that little --
[crunch - feed ends.]
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Character name: Alice Kingsleigh
Series: Alice in Wonderland - Tim Burton style~
Timeline: Right as she sips the Jabberwock blood
Background:
Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy--
No, wait. That is most certainly not the way to start off this particular young lady's history - Alice is very much an unconventional sort would likely be quite put out with anyone who began her story such as this.
We all know the story thus far, at any rate. A young girl falls down a rabbit hole and has the most marvelous adventures - why, a smiling cat who can dissipate into thin air, a hatter who is very much mad, a red queen so involved in herself she does not yet see it will be her downfall. Playing croquet with flamingos, painting the roses red, a smoking caterpillar...
Yes yes, we all know the story of little Alice in Wonderland, and as with any story, one must start at the very beginning.
Except, it's not exactly 'Wonderland', is it? No, no...it's more like 'Underland', a world with a bit of a twist on the surreal, the magical, the sublime.
And, for Alice at first - it is nothing but a memory. You see, little Alice (or shall we call her big Alice? One can never be quite sure with her, being of a nature to be either too tall, or too small, and never quite the right size when necessary) remembers very little of (W)Underland. She believes it to be a dream, a flight of fancy that flits through her mind in the night, and questions her father as to if she's gone round the bend (of course she has, all the best people are).
Always the same, the dream haunts her until she's older, and well on her way (or at least, according to her family - her face wont last, you see) to a an engagement party (her own!) that will lead to a Very Proper and Good marriage to a particular Earl that has a nasty sort of blockage.
In the midst of said proposal, however - Alice sees a rabbit in a waistcoat, and of course must follow. Any girl should be curious, and if one were to see an impatient rabbit, one would certainly be obliged to follow after. You mustn't keep him waiting, after all.
Thus, Alice slips into the rabbit hole once more, scattered timepieces and beds and other random items to fall into the world that is Underland once more in a flurry of lace and skirts (sans stockings and shoes). Landing with quite the thunk into a room full of many doors, Alice naturally tries each one. As opposed to screeching and pitching a hysterical fit, she tries each one and finds only the smallest door can be opened with the key that rests on the glass table in the middle of the room. Also on the table is a small bottle labeled "Drink Me", which, of course, she does. This is, after all, only a dream, isn't it? The room suddenly gets much, much larger - or has she shrunk? That is, in fact, the case - standing at only two feet tall, Alice is now short enough to fit through the door, however - the key has unfortunately been left on the table.
Not to be discouraged, Alice locates a little piece of cake labeled 'Eat Me', which she does. It seems the only natural thing to do at this point, all things considered. Growing to almost twenty one whole feet, Alice is now able to reach the key, though unable to fit through the door. Being one that is now accustomed to doing things in circles, she drinks the potion once more, this time leaving the key well within reach of a much shortened and very much NOT the right sized Alice.
Upon entering Underland, Alice is almost immediately met by the White Rabbit, the Dormouse, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and the Dodo bird. These things are all, of course - remnants of her first 'dream', and, considering this is simply a new and updated version of said dream, it only makes sense for her to properly assume that this too, is a dream.
After a bit of debate about her being the wrong or right Alice, the group takes her to Absolem the smoking caterpillar. Upon consulting the Oraculum, Alice is informed she will be slaying the Jabberwocky, as to which Alice very firmly states that that is most certainly not her doing the slaying. There is more debate about her right or wrongness, and Absolem states that Alice is "Not hardly Alice."
Unfortunately, before Alice can be returned home, the group is ambushed by the Bandersnatch and cards, and The White Rabbit, and the Dormouse are captured along with several flamingos. Alice, who is pursued by the Bandersnatch, stands her ground considering this is her dream, and nothing can hurt her here. Knowing better, Mallymkun the Dormouse saves Alice by stabbing out the Bandersnatch's eye, though it manages to claw Alice's arm. Alice and the Tweedles carry on until the 'Jubjub Bird' captures the Tweedles as they stood and debated about which way was best to go.
A bit lost, Alice finds herself wandering into a very ominous looking forest - though instead of another Bandersnatch (if there are more than one - she isn't terribly sure about that) she meets a smiling, floating cat who helpfully offers to heal her wound, though Alice declines. Instead, he takes her to the Hatter, Mallymkin, and the March Hare who are in the midst or a very solemn seeming tea party. She's very readily (and happily!) accepted by Tarrant (her Hatter), though the reuinion is quickly broken up when Ilosovic Stayne, the Knave of Hearts, arrives at the tea party. Thinking quickly (as mad ones are prone to doing) the Hatter quickly shrinks Alice to a bitty six-inches tall (even shorter than before - she had to wonder, what would happen if she shrank even more?) and unceremoniously stuffs her in a teapot. Whilst distracting the Knave, Tarrant also manages to persuade Bayard the Bloodhound to not reveal Alice's location, causing Bayard to lead the Knave and his troops away. From here, Tarrant begins his journey towards Marmoreal with Alice on his hat.
On their way, Tarrant tells Alice his sad story on how he lost his clan and the beginning of the Red Queen's reign. It all began on Horunvendush Day, when the Red Queen in a jealous rage sent the Jabberwocky to steal her sisters crown, and the Vorpal Sword. On said day, Tarrant's entire clan was murdered, and and the reign of peace was no more. As Tarrant is lost in thought, there is barking in the distance that signals the approach of the Knave and the Cards. As a last resort, Tarrant throws his hat with Alice on it across the river (because, of course - travel by hat is the very bast way to travel). Tarrant is captured without resistance and Alice succumbs to exhaustion and sleeps under the hat.
Alice sleeps fitfully, and is awoken in the morning by a giant nose sniffing at the brim of the hat, and is eventually exposed by Bayard whom she convinces to take her to the Red Queen’s castle in order to rescue the Hatter. She is a bit put out with Bayard’s insistence she fulfill her destiny, and insists herself that she makes her own, and that she was quite annoyed at the circumstances surrounding her. But, take her she does, and upon arrival Alice gallantly crosses a moat full of severed heads to breech the castles walls at a formidable six inches.
While the Queen is playing croquet, Alice is found by the White Rabbit once more, whom she asks for some more Upelkuchen. She impulsively eats to much, and grows two feet taller than her normal size, but Alice uses this to her advantage instead of being waylaid. Informing the Bloody Bighead that she was Um from Umbridge, she told her tale of woe - being that she had been outcast because of her size, and she’d outgrown her clothing. Immediately accepted into the Queen’s court, Alice continues to use the situation to her advantage, and manages to keep the Hatter calm, and perhaps even giving him motivation to make his request to be the Red Queen’s Hatter.
Alice is given free roam of the halls, and she uses this to explore the castle and unmask the location of the Vorpal sword from the White Rabbit, which just so happens to be within the Bandersnatch’s lair. Undeterred, Alice retrieves the beasts eye from Mallymkun, though on her way she is cornered by the Knave, who’s advances she brushes off in a huff.
Upon arriving at the casa de Bandersnatch, Alice creeps inside and rolls the creature’s eye, using the distraction created to slip in and attempt to unlock the case holding the Vorpal sword, but the gash on her arm has begun to fester as Chessur had told her it would, and she passes out atop the sword case.
In the morning, Alice is still somehow alive and has not become breakfast, and the Bandersnatch sits placidly in front of her, key dangling. She takes it, and in the process he licks her wound, clearing it of infection. Now even, Alice takes the sword and leaves, though she doesn’t make it very far. The Knave’s actions against her were seen by a court member who informed the Queen, and he lies to her, telling the Queen it’s Alice who is obsessed with him. This is, of course, a lie - Alice is quite decidedly repulsed by the Knave! Alice immediately returns to Mallymkun and Tarrant, but is pursued byt the Knave and the cards, who attempts to arrest Alice for seduction. Tarrant holds the Knave and cards off, but Mallymkun blurts out, "Run, Alice", and The Knave, now knowing Alice's true identity, pursues her instead, surrounding her in the courtyard with cards. It seems quite hopeless, but Alice isn’t one to run anymore, though she finds she doesn’t have to herself.
The Bandersnatch appears like the miraculous beast it is, and she flings herself upon its back and escapes, Vorpal sword in hand to the White Queen’s castle. Upon arriving, she presents it to the White Queen, who then in turn creates a potion to shrink Alice back down to her original and very right size. She is taken to see Absolem once again, and, after a brief conversation, she is informed she is much more like Alice now than she was when she had first arrived.
It isn’t terribly long before company arrives, and Alice sees that Tarrant, along with Mallymkun, the Tweedles, the White Rabbit, and Bayard's wife and pups have managed to escape and are now coming up the walkway. Frabjous Day is tomorrow, and Alice is still very much convinced this is a dream.
The next morning, The Queen asks for a Champion to do battle against the Jabberwock, and many step forward. The Oraculem is consulted, but, still showing Alice as the Slayer, everyone realizes there can certainly be no other. If it isn’t Alice wielding the sword, the Jabberwocky isn’t dead.
Alice is very much against this slaying business and had never intended to do any slaying period, runs into the castle where once again she encounters Absolem, who is now preparing to go into pupa stage. They have a brief little chat, and eventually Alice realizes within her own mind that "Underland" is what she mistakenly heard as "Wonderland" during her first visit. Alice realizes that her dreams were really memories and Underland is very much real, and that this is not a dream. Moments later, Alice appears atop the Bandersnatch, decked in armor and clutching the sword as she pulls up next to the Queen.
Armies of each queen arrive at a chessboard-like battlefield for the battle between Alice and the Jabberwock.
The Jabberwock finally reveals itself to Alice, spouting some nonsense about meeting its sworn enemy on the battlefield once more, though Alice is quite clearly not the original bearer, though considering the Jabberwock was so rude she decided to slice his tongue off. Thus begins the great battle of the Frabjous Day, in which Alice does battle with the Jabberwock before the armies of the Red and White Queens.
As the battle carries on, the Jabberwock seems to gain the upper hand, and instead of letting that continue, Tarrant himself assaults the Jabberwock, leading both armies to battle due to his interference. As the war below rages, Alice and the Jabberwock climb up and up and up, and eventually she manages to get on the back on his back. It’s a struggle to hold on, with him flailing and flipping like that, and she eventually loses her grip and is flung high into the air. Twisting, Alice brings the blade down to sever the Jabberwock’s head, shouting, "OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!".
This event is witnessed by everyone, and while the Red Queen attempts to keep the upper hand by ordering her troops to kill Alice, they no longer follow her since the death of both the Jabberwock and Jubjub bird. The rightful Queen is re-crowned, as once again the queen of Underland, and the Red Queen is banished to the outlands along with the Knave. The Knave, though having been her noble knight and right hand man, can’t seem to stand the thought of this and attempts to kill the Red Queen, but he is quickly stopped by Tarrant. As the Red Queen and The Knave are carried off, Tarrant finally does the Futterwacken dance, on this memorable and very much suddessful Franjous Day. The White Queen collects the blood of the Jabberwock which will send Alice back to the human world. Giving her final farwell and reminding them she will return, Alice drinks the blood, returning back to her life in 1865 England.
Finding herself grasping the edge of the rabbit hole, Alice climbs up and out of the hole and returns to the party that she had so abruptly left to begin with. In front of the entire crowd, Alice declines Hamish's proposal and instead chooses to become his father's apprentice. Days (Or possibly weeks - this isn’t specified) Alice begins her voyage to China, saying goodbye to her family.
As she stands at the front of the ship staring outward, a blue butterfly lands on Alice's shoulder. Smiling softly, she murmurs, "Hello, Absolem."
And now, here - her story continues.
Personality: Alice is a young girl, approximately nineteen, and very--
Again - wait.
Forget the traditional, because that most certainly is not the way miss Alice Kingsleigh does things. As opposed to what's normal, every day, commonplace, average, the methodical and habitual, the ordinary and popular and droll, Alice is very much accustomed to something very much contradictory to that sort.
She's quiet, in a way - she isn't loud or obnoxious, and is instead extremely subtle, though still quite social and accepting of any and all odd things going on around her.
Alice can be a bit impulsive in her decision making process; sometimes she doesn’t quite think things through before she acts. This tends to have interesting consequences, though often it’s usually in Alice’s favor.
At one point in time, Alice was unsure of herself and rather underestimated herself and her abilities, but by the end of her trials she has regained her muchness, and is therefore be a bit more self assured and willing to accept that this is, indeed, quite the curious rabbit hole she’s fallen into. Despite this, she has a quiet and aching desire to go home and get back to business. She has ideas, you see - ideas that could reshape the world into something new and exciting, and while being in Underland is quite entertaining and she’s certain this new place will be as well, she does so wish to return home.
Alice is a strong sort and does try not to let things get her down too terribly much - to be a continual visitor to Underland one must really be bred of stronger stock than most, especially considering they don’t get many visitors from Above and when they do, it’s always Alice.
Alice is a strange sort and tends to think outside of the box - in the time and age that she lives in this is generally not terribly acceptable behavior for a woman to engage in, and therefore she sometimes has trouble conforming to what the standards of the age are. Her mother is continually frustrated by Alice’s refusal to wear stockings or corsets, and by her daughter’s general need for independence and uniqueness.
Appearance: Alice is approximately 5’4’’ and around 115 pounds when she is not too tall or too small, and while she isn’t strikingly beautiful she does have quite a bit of charm that makes her far more appealing to people (though regrettably that particular sort is normally found in Underland). Her hair is blonde and quite wavy, and sometimes a bit of a hassle to properly tie - so most of the time, when she doesn’t have someone to force her to fix it, it’s down around her shoulders in soft waves. Her eyes are quiet blue and her face is terribly expressive, especially so when she is perplexed or frustrated.
Skills/Abilities: Alice's abilities, while not supernatural (unless one counts falling down a rabbit hole and shrinking and growing and shrinking as such) lay more within her mind than anything else. She's brilliant at coming up with on the spot solutions and excuses, even going so far as to name herself 'Um' in the Red Queen's courtyard, and making her believe it.
She's handy with a blade, but that won't exactly be put into play here juuuust yet, since the sword she was holding won't be coming with her.
Also, sometimes she believes up to six impossible things before breakfast.
Spoken/Written languages: Engilsh
Items: Since Alice is being pulled directly from the moment she swallows the blood and sees her last fleeting images of her Hatter, she'll still be wearing her full battle armor, and clutching an empty glass vial with Jabberwock blood residue. Lovely.
Third person sample: Hands trembling, Alice could barely hold the Vorpal Sword after the slaying of the Jabberwock on Frabjous Day. It wasn’t as if she had been expecting to be successful; Alice had been very firm in repeatedly stating that she would, in fact not be doing this. She wasn’t a slayer of any sort, and had no want to be slaying anything or anybody, period. Of course, things rarely had a way of working out as one plans them, and here she stood, eyes slightly glazed at what had just transpired. Of course, this sort of thing really wasn’t out of the norm and was to be expected here in Underland, and Alice pulled herself together quite quickly, despite sweaty palms and shaking hands and blood roaring a bit in her ears.
The next few moments were a bit of a blur as the Red Queen and the Knave were banished together, which Alice secretly thought was a very fitting punishment for the both of them. Business attended to, she eagerly watched the White Queen move to the body of the Jabberwock, a bit unsure as to what the White Queen was actually doing. However, her mind cleared immediately when the little vial was handed over, along with an explanation as to just how to get home.
Alice found herself at a bit of an impasse. She did so want to stay here in Underland, with her Hatter and Bayard and the White Queen and all the others, especially now that she wasn't too tall, or too small.
Oh, but what of her family? Alice knew she had to go back, she had unfinished business to attend to, things that she knew she needed to do and see.
But...she still heard herself promising to the Hatter that yes, she would be back.
Somehow, she believed it. Alice knew this was not the last time she would be seeing the strange and curious creatures of Underland.
First person sample:
[Click. Click. Clickclickclickclick]
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[click. Voice!]
Now this is terribly curious, isn’t it? [There’s a loud rustling as Alice maneuvers the oh so foreign device, and then there’s a loud exclamation that denotes an ‘aha!’ moment.
…It’s promptly discarded in favor of the creature sleeping on her chair. The device clatters to the floor, but keeps recording.]
Oh, how remarkable-! Why, I do believe I’ve never quite seen anything like you before, have you a name?
[Silence]
No? Then I shall call you Tullywobble, and you shall be mine, considering that you are in what appears to be my room, since I’ve just woken up here. [Several more moments of general awe over the beast, and then-]
Now, where was that little --
[crunch - feed ends.]