Alice Liddell || American McGee's Alice || OU || Reserved || 2 / ?ofmarionetteAugust 8 2011, 20:54:36 UTC
Because she speaks her mind a lot, it's easy to guess her opinion about people. She doesn't speak positively about people unless she really does like them or consider them a friend. Even the Caterpillar, who helps her out pretty often, is often somewhat trashtalked by her. ('I remember him well. Thin-skinned. Ill-tempered. Smokes too much. Disagreeable smell. Why do I need him?') You really have to earn respect with Alice before she will give you that respect in her conversations with you. She also doesn't particularly seem to like relying on other people a lot or having to follow someone else's lead - she complains about the unseen oracle in the cave of oracles when it tells her what she has to do to defeat the Red Queen. ('Obscure allusions to chess are fine, but it troubles me that anonymous oracles know more of my business than I do.' And then, later on: 'It talks like I'm on holiday, Cat. Wandering about, having a bit of fun. The oracle's an idiot.')
Alice is a very determined person. Once she has a goal or an idea in mind, it's hard to convince her to give up on it or change her mind - she will carry it out until the very end, one way or another. Then again, Alice is the kind of person who doesn't give up easily in general. She doesn't have much of a reason to give up usually - she's pretty much fearless, especially at first impression. She faces hideous monsters with little to no fear ever passing her face. She keeps her calm in the most dangerous of fights. When someone tells her that she shouldn't face the Red Queen or her minions since they're too powerful, she just replies with 'I'm not afraid of her, or her creatures. Never was, really. You should stand up to them.' And the sentiment is genuine; she really doesn't fear the monsters. She doesn't even fear death, as she admits to the Caterpillar that she isn't afraid to die. In fact, she has even welcomed death at times (possibly since she would rather die than live on without her family in the asylum). Hatter, however, reveals that it's not completely true, there are things Alice does fear; like the confrontation with her past (the incident with her house burning down and the memories of the asylum) or the loss of the people she cares for.
ALICE: I fear nothing. HATTER: False. You fear much... a return trip to the asylum, for example... the memories that drove you there... more years in, shall we say, supervised hospitalization... ah yes, you fear much.
Alice is a violent person as shown by her fighting style, in which she mercilessly takes on monsters with her weapons - some are even decapicated, stomped on by her in giant form or slaughtered in other gruesome ways. But she isn't unnecessarily cruel - she only becomes violent when someone has true enraged her or they deserve it. When Tweedledee and Tweedledum taunt her about her past in the asylum in the first game, she becomes enraged and slaughters them. The same happens to Bumby in the second game, as she shoves him under a train without remorse for everything he has done to her and her family (and the other children). One could say she practically lives off one of the quotes the Cheshire Cat gives us in the game - 'Confront what frightens or offends you. Reckless or insulting talk should never go unchallenged.' Alice does tend to somewhat go over the top at times, for example when the Cheshire Cat tells her to give a book a tap and she instead shoves the entire book off a platform so it falls all the way to the ground. ('You call that a tap? Fortunate I didn't suggest force. You might have pulverized it.') Alice is, as her very direct and speaking-her-mind attitude implies, not a very subtle person. And it shows in her fighting style as well.
Alice is a very determined person. Once she has a goal or an idea in mind, it's hard to convince her to give up on it or change her mind - she will carry it out until the very end, one way or another. Then again, Alice is the kind of person who doesn't give up easily in general. She doesn't have much of a reason to give up usually - she's pretty much fearless, especially at first impression. She faces hideous monsters with little to no fear ever passing her face. She keeps her calm in the most dangerous of fights. When someone tells her that she shouldn't face the Red Queen or her minions since they're too powerful, she just replies with 'I'm not afraid of her, or her creatures. Never was, really. You should stand up to them.' And the sentiment is genuine; she really doesn't fear the monsters. She doesn't even fear death, as she admits to the Caterpillar that she isn't afraid to die. In fact, she has even welcomed death at times (possibly since she would rather die than live on without her family in the asylum). Hatter, however, reveals that it's not completely true, there are things Alice does fear; like the confrontation with her past (the incident with her house burning down and the memories of the asylum) or the loss of the people she cares for.
ALICE: I fear nothing.
HATTER: False. You fear much... a return trip to the asylum, for example... the memories that drove you there... more years in, shall we say, supervised hospitalization... ah yes, you fear much.
Alice is a violent person as shown by her fighting style, in which she mercilessly takes on monsters with her weapons - some are even decapicated, stomped on by her in giant form or slaughtered in other gruesome ways. But she isn't unnecessarily cruel - she only becomes violent when someone has true enraged her or they deserve it. When Tweedledee and Tweedledum taunt her about her past in the asylum in the first game, she becomes enraged and slaughters them. The same happens to Bumby in the second game, as she shoves him under a train without remorse for everything he has done to her and her family (and the other children). One could say she practically lives off one of the quotes the Cheshire Cat gives us in the game - 'Confront what frightens or offends you. Reckless or insulting talk should never go unchallenged.' Alice does tend to somewhat go over the top at times, for example when the Cheshire Cat tells her to give a book a tap and she instead shoves the entire book off a platform so it falls all the way to the ground. ('You call that a tap? Fortunate I didn't suggest force. You might have pulverized it.') Alice is, as her very direct and speaking-her-mind attitude implies, not a very subtle person. And it shows in her fighting style as well.
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