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Name: Laure
Age: 34
AIM SN: same as email
email: reflected.stasis@gmail.com
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Pandora Hearts
Canon Format: manga
Character's Name: Alice (B. Rabbit) Baskerville
Character's Age: DOB July 20th. Looks around thirteen, is actually over 100
Conditional: She’ll bemooching off of living with Oz and Gilbert.
What form will your character's NV take? A Samsung Omnia.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: While as Alice, she's got the size and strength of a normal thirteen year old girl.
Chains & B. Rabbit form: When her power is partially released, Alice can freely use her chains. They shoot out from behind her - as many as she needs and as long as she needs them.
When she's fully released, she becomes an overlarge black rabbit that wields a blood-red scythe, can control her chains with chilling accuracy, and has the ability to destroy other chains. She is, in fact, the strongest chain there is.
Weaknesses: Alice both wants desperately to find her memories, yet is almost petrified to remember what they'll tell - especially after leaving Cheshire's place. Even so, she's determined to push through and find them, regardless, though at times that fear does make her steps falter.
Due to the fact that her power is too much for Oz's body to contain, she has to rely on Gilbert's ability to seal and release her in order to minimize the damage done to Oz. When sealed, she cannot draw on her powers at all and is, essentially, reduced down to the size and strength of a normal thirteen year old girl.
Unexpectedly, for her, Oz has the power within himself to draw on her power - tosteal borrow her power and either seal her back into her human form or if he needs to, he can manifest her scythe to use.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A.
Weapons: B. Rabbits scythe and chains, when are sealed unless either Oz steals the power used to manifest them himself or Gilbert unseals her so she can use them.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Born one hundred and thirteen years before the beginning of the series, Alice was once a human, the daughter of Lacie Baskerville and the former Glen Revis (Glen being the title of the head of the Baskervilles).
As tradition goes, every new ‘Glen’ has someone near them that is considered a ‘distortion’ caused by their presence, usually a sibling, born with red eyes - the mark of a child of misfortune, and it is during the final ceremony to transfer the fifth Chain from the old Glen to the new that, as his first act as ‘Glen’, he must cast that sibling into the Core of the Abyss. And when it was Oswald’s time to become the new Glen after Revis, he cast his younger sister Lacie into the Abyss - but not before she told him her own secret - that she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was an experiment proposed in secret by Revis, in order to ‘find a way to allow people to handle all of the power of the Abyss’ by providing the core of the Abyss with a vessel capable of wielding its power.
Interestingly, it was revealed that Alice was born a twin inside the Abyss, though both girls call themselves ‘Alice’, Alice was able to leave the Abyss a few days after her mother had been cast into the Core, as a young lady, whereas her twin had become the Core’s vessel - named by their father as the ‘Will of the Abyss’. However, even with this separation, the girls were able to easily swap their awareness between the two bodies, so that (Will) Alice could experience the human world, or visit those whom she wanted to see. From what we can see from while Alice was alive, there was no animosity between the two Alices - if anything, it’s quite the opposite: The core, or the Will of the Abyss, seems intent on protecting the vessels left by Lacie.
The differences between Abyss Alice and Alice, aside from physical features within the Abyss, could be easily noted in her human form - Where Abyss (Will) was soft-spoken, preferred to dress in pale or softer colors, and seemed properly lady-like, Alice is and has always been loud, brash, and anything but lady-like. She prefers darker clothes, is more prone to smirk than smile, and will speak her mind without thought or hesitation, claiming to follow Oswald’s example, as her uncle Oswald, or Glen, was the person she was most attached to whereas (Will) Alice seemed to prefer Jack’s company and didn’t care for Oswald’s presence at all. Alice even goes so far as to tell Oswald that (Will) Alice hates him.
What Revis intended by revealing all of this to Jack is unclear, though as a parting shot, he did tell Jack to use Alice however he wanted in order to obtain his wish, and thus the only person, aside from (Will)Alice's cat Cheshire to notice these differences was Jack Vessalius - Glen's closest friend. After meeting her, Jack visited her at the tower regularly, claimed to be her friend, and even told her he'd take her for a visit to his own estate. He noticed a disconnect within Alice - how at times she has a softer, more 'pure' gentleness to her, while at others she seemed more brash and plain-spoken.He noticed how her cat, usually so clearly attached, would at time reject her completely. Differences in books and interests, demeanor and expressions - he noticed them all. And when he finally asked her, Alice finally explained the truth to him about her connection to the Will of the Abyss, her twin.
However, this didn't stop Jack from visiting. And later, when Jack brought Gilbert and Vincent with him to greet Alice, (Will) Alice immediately made fun of Vincent's red eye - which in turn caused Gilbert to pull her hair out of a defensive anger. This incident fueled Vincent's hatred towards Alice, because her words had made Gil "show that kind of expression again" and made Jack worry. This hatred later manifested when he gouged out the eyes if her cat, Cheshire, in retaliation.
Shortly thereafter, during the Tragedy of Sablier, Alice - still wearing the paler colors preferred by (Will)Alice - was killed in her tower. Though her killer was never shown, the bloody scissors found beside her dead body strongly implicate Vincent at first glance, though the original owner of the scissors was, in fact, Jack.
It’s still not known as of yet as to who Alice’s killer actually was, or how the human known as Alice became the chain ‘B Rabbit’.
After which, she spent 100 years in isolation in the Abyss, all memory gone save for the name 'Alice', waiting for... something.
That 'something' turned out to be young Oz Vessalius. Banished to the Abyss at age 15, during his Coming of Age ceremony, Alice first met him when a path opened up from the Abyss to his Ceremony. She saved him from the Baskerville Zwei, right after she opened the path by controlling Gilbert and forcing Gilbert to stab Oz. Alice also fought and defeated two other Baskervilles that night - Zai and Fang - easily switching between her human and B. Rabbit forms as she did so, before finally being sent back to the Abyss, where she waited on them to send Oz to her.
Once there, she eventually found him and saved him a second time from first a low-level 'Trump' chain, after which she gave him her name and offer him the chance to take her contract so that they could both escape the Abyss. Unfortunately, 'Sharon' saved him from Alice before they could actually make the deal and began leading him away. 'Sharon', however, made reference to something Oz hadn't shared with anyone - namely the 'dream' where Alice strangled him - which made him suspicious. When he hesitated the stronger Chain, Red Baby, revealed itself.
Just before Red Baby's attack on Oz could strike, Alice appeared between him and the other chain, saving him a third time.
Unfortunately, with her powers sealed due to the lack of a contract, she was caught by the other chain. She told Oz to run just before Red Baby ate her. Oz, after a moment's hesitation, attacked Red Baby and forced his way into the chain's mouth, to go after Alice. He accepted the contract, which released the power of the Bloody Black Rabbit. The other chain was destroyed in an instant and Alice sealed the contract with a kiss before being absorbed into Oz's body.
Together they opened up a path to Oz's world, landing unconscious in the ruins of Oz's home, where the Coming of Age Ceremony had been held...ten years earlier.
Fortunately, there were a few familiar faces there when they arrived. Namely Gilbert "Raven" Nightray, Xerxes Break, and Sharon Rainsworth. They took Oz back to one of the Rainsworth estates, where he was given the explanation of why chains need the contractor to stabilize them and informed him that they'd have to take him captive as an 'illegal contractor'. With this threat, Alice took over Oz's body and took Sharon captive by holding a knife to her chest.
Break, however, had anticipated such an move and activated a containment barrier the held Oz and Alice in place. He knocked Alice out of Oz's body, where she appeared in her human form, in order to determine her intentions upon escaping the Abyss. Alice informed him, rather bluntly, that she was determined to regain all of her lost memories and tried to move to standing within the barrier. At that point, Break started to beat her with the cane that concealed his sword and Oz saves her for the second time, claiming acts against his savior made him their enemy.
They were released from the barrier to discuss the intentions of the three Pandora members, when interrupted by a trump chain trying to come through the path opened by the memory stored in the pocket watch, however Gilbert released the seal on Alice's powers so that she could fight. She destroyed the chain with a single blow, then returned to human form, where they all experience the first memory returning to Alice.
After which, she and Oz made the decision to work with the three and conceal Oz's return from both Pandora and his family because of his illegal contractor status.
She and Oz began working for Break as his subordinates, fighting other illegal chains as they searched for their memories, until Cheshire - a fanatical subordinate of the Will of the Abyss - took Alice and Break into his dimension, where he revealed himself to be the guardian of the memories she feared remembering the most.
She fled those memories, inadvertently leaving Break's side, where Cheshire had the memory of breaks own past pull him through the looking glass to detain him. Alice however, tried to run from the memories, never escaping, as Oz and Gilbert arrived in search of Alice and Break.
In the ensuing fight, Cheshire injures Gilbert, who, upon separation from Oz, meets the fragment of Jack Vessalius' soul. Jack, in turn, saves Oz from his fight with Cheshire and explains to them both that Alice doesn't have a lot of time before the memories make her disappear. Jack sends Oz off to find Alice, only to experience the memory of the Tragedy of Sablier, recognizes Vincent (Gilbert's younger brother) as the child in the memory surrounded by corpses, then follows the memory of Vincent to Alice's tower - where he arrives just in time to see her fall, dead.
It is then that Jack reveals to Oz that Alice was once human.
Oz continued on after Alice, though some of Cheshire's madness seems to have taken over a bit as he starts to break apart the dimension, until Gilbert stops him. Together they went to where Alice was chained to a wall, seemingly unaware to the world around her. Oz managed to snap her out of it and back to herself right before Break and Cheshire show up, then Eques, Sharon's Chain, arrived to pull them back to their world - and dropped them right into the meeting of the Four Dukes at Pandora Headquarters, with Alice released in B. Rabbit form.
The two tried to run, however, were quickly surrounded by Pandora members and their chains when the fragment of Jack that resided within Oz took control of his body to seal Alice back into her human form and speak to the members, to give warning of the return of Glen Baskerville and declare Oz's role in the upcoming fight to prevent a second Tragedy.
Now accepted by Pandora, Oz's uncle Oscar took Oz, Alice, and Gilbert to Oz's sister's school so that they could be reunited. Alice's jealousy over the attention Oz gave his sister Ada while there was made worse when, she and Gilbert were separated from him at the Academy and Oz managed to borrow her powers without her permission in order to fight the Baskervilles that had shown up and kidnapped Ada. After forcing Jack out to deal with the Baskervilles and their escape, the four returned to Pandora Headquarters.
It was there, when Gilbert and Oz were both melancholy over Elliot's harsh words to them and Alice sat eating in a sulky silence, that Sharon tried to befriend Alice, drawing her out to get her to speak of what was bothering her before deciding Alice had to call her 'Sister Sharon' and needed to be taught what romance was.
Interestingly, Sharon is the second person after Oz that Alice calls by name rather than nickname.
Not long after that, Alice, Oz, Gilbert, and Break were all invited to meet with Duke Rufus Barma at the theater, wherein the Duke reveals Break’s past as the illegal contractor Kevin Regnard, how he became the Mad Hatter by meeting the Will of the Abyss and receiving that chain from the Will of the Abyss... and the contents of Jack’s journal, which revealed a truth about Alice - that she and the Will of the Abyss were identical twins, both called ‘Alice’.
Even with the information that was revealed, however, Oz realized that there was still a fair bit of information that both Barma and Break had left out, and so Gilber, Oz, and Alice headed out for the epicenter of the Sablier tragedy to investigate for themselves in the hopes of finding more of Alice’s memory fragments - and run into Elliot and Leo once again. While there, they met the children of the orphanage that was supported by Pandora, near the site of the tragedy, and learned of Elliot and Leo’s connection with the orphanage. Oz learns that the site of the tragedy is connected to the Abyss, and so they head down into the ruins.
While in there, the three get separated, each of them pulled into an illusion created by their own memories and for Alice... this memory was of visiting Lacie’s ‘grave’ with Jack. Alice recognized it for what it was, and wondered if it was one of her memory fragments - she expected to be able to see ‘that man’ (meaning Jack) again, and she was right. She watched as the human memory of herself left a clutch of flowers before the tombstone and Jack listened to the pocketwatch he’d made with Oswald and Lacie’s melody in it, and when she asked Jack who Lacie was, he told her that Lacie was ‘an extremely important person to Glen.
Her time with Jack, however, was cut short as she ‘heard Oz’s pathetic voice crying out her name’ and so she left Jack to go find him - and when she did, it was to see him wearing a rather manic expression. And so she did what she does best - pegged him in the side of the head with a rock, then yelled at him before going down from the cliff face to join him, Leo, and Elliot. Once down there, she tried to cheer him up by biting his cheek before she told him to call her name more often so that she could know when he was down.
Unfortunately, it was right after that, that an unexpected earthquake forced them to leave the ruins - though it wasn’t a simple earthquake at all. The Baskervilles had broken the first of the sealing stones.
Several days after that, they went to visit Duke Barma again, to try to negotiate with him so that they could ask him more questions, however he readily supplied the information. He told them about how, according to his ancestor Arthur Barma’s notes, Jack’s own body was used to seal the soul of Glen Baskerville, through the sorcery their house used to perform. He also told them that Pandora was trying to find those sorcerers before the Baskervilles, so that they could prevent the Baskervilles from releasing Glen’s soul and recreating the tragedy.
He also revealed the location of one of the sealing stones, with the caveat that they go speak to the descendant of the sorcerer. However, once they arrived, they found out that two Pandora agents had tried to enter the residence they were to investigate - and that they’d never come back out. Things turned another step towards complicated when they went into the house, as once they were inside the room seemed to affect them all rather oddly. Their movements were slower, more sluggish, and when the resident guardian of the place, a young lady, stepped out to face them, she was able to get a hit in on Gilbert straight away.
They quickly realized that whatever it was that was affecting the room and the chains, that it was also blocking their ability to summon their chains, until she moved to attack Oz. Her weapon disintegrated as she moved to attack him: however Oz, possibly controlled by Jack, summoned Alice’s scythe and nearly killed the woman - he would have, had Alice not pleaded with him not to.
The sorcerer Riitasu, stepped in then and revealed that the stone was down below them. He informed them that the only person capable of destroying the stone was the one who wielded B Rabbit’s power. He also gave Oz a box that contained several clues - loose sheets of paper with the symbol of a snake wrapped around a stake predominant on them. They decided to head back to Pandora, because the stone was too large for them to carry however as they were leaving, they felt the same kind of earthquake as they had in Sablier.
The headhunter had attacked the sorcerer, the Pandora member that had stayed behind, and the female guardian. This brought in the renewed investigation of the headhunter cases as well as the continued search for the remaining sealing stones. Their investigation brought them to attempt a meeting with Isla Yura while he was visiting Duka Barma’s villa. After enduring a bit of Yura’s fanboying over Jack, they discussed Jack and Sablier, Oz faked a ‘visit’ from Jack for Yura, and Yura asked Oz to visit his mansion. Oz realized that Duke Barma was using Yura’s fascination with Jack to get them into Yura’s mansion, where Pandora couldn’t go, and guessed that there was a sealing stone somewhere in the premise.
He used the invitation to their advantage by turning it down, claiming he wasn’t actually an adult by society standards and therefore couldn’t visit other nobleman’s houses. Yura all too happily offered to throw Oz a second Coming of Age Ceremony since his first was... interrupted... giving Pandora access to the house as guests to the ceremony. The presentation and ball carried on well enough, until Oz and Leo found the headless body of one of Pandora’s investigators. The Baskervilles had infiltrated the ball with the same intentions - to get to the sealing stone in order to release Glen’s body fragment. However, at the same time, Yura’s cult was trying to recreate the Tragedy of Sablier and set fire to the mansion, killing their guests by beheading them with the headhunter chain... and using one of the orphans that Oz had befriended to lead him down to where their ‘ceremony’ was to take place - down where the sealing stone was located.
Once down there, both Oz and Alice were incapacitated due to the effect of her proximity to the stone - so much so that they both blacked out. When Oz woke, it was to find Duchess Nightray and Yura there. They revealed their plan to recreate the Tragedy and send the world into the Abyss, claiming the rite needed the body of Jack, his soul, the Baskervilles, sacrifices, the moon, fire, and the blood of a friend (the captured Leo) in order to do so.
Shortly thereafter, Gilbert, Vincent, Elliot, and Echo arrived to where Oz was being held and released him, then they all went to where Leo and Alice were taken while Gilbert went to help Break fight two of the Baskervilles. Once there, it was revealed to be a trap, in order to get a ‘hero’ rushing to the aid of a friend in order to complete the ceremony, however Oz was able to gain control of B. Rabbits powers again - even to the point of being able to use both chains and scythe, his eyes red.
Yura, while talking to Alice just beforehand, asked her if she was really related to the Alice that was killed during the original Tragedy, at the same time that she felt Oz summon and control her chain powers without her permission. His question stirred an overwhelming sense of sadness and suffering within her. Oz’s reassurances that he would destroy anyone that tried to hurt her only increased the feeling was the ‘same’, as if there was someone inside her head shouting ‘Don’t let Oz destroy anything else!’
While yelling at Oz, however, Yura tried to shatter the sealing stone and both Alice and Oz moved to stop him - though it was Jack, through Oz, that actually put a chain through Yura to do so. After, Jack killed Yura with a sword he’d picked up. That’s when the Baskervilles made their move to shatter the sealing stone. Gilbert, having joined them once again by this time, stopped Vincent from shooting the stone before going down to help Oz and Alice. Unfortunately, they were able to shatter the stone and escape, however the power that was released with the breaking of the seal was enough to destabilize all of the other chains, making it impossible to use them save for Oz using B Rabbit’s power... and Humpty Dumpty, Elliot’s illegal chain. In order to protect Alice, Oz fought the chains that made up Humpty Dumpty, unknowingly inflicting those wounds onto Elliot, before Elliot finally rejected his chain - an act that killed both Humpty Dumpty and himself.
It’s that moment, where Humpty Dumpty suddenly disappears that Alice arrives from.
Point in Canon: The end of chapter 59
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: As Alice: At first glance, Alice appears to to be a loud, obnoxious, and utterly fearless little lady. There’s a confidence in her actions that cannot be faked, for all that she has survived for a century with her name as the only memory she’s retained. This confidence, often taken beyond the point of cockiness, usually leads Alice to say or do things considered ‘inappropriate’ for a young lady – which is perfectly fine, because she’s never claimed to be a lady.
She’s brash and bold and absolutely unapologetic for her rough-around-the-edges demeanor – and more importantly, she always has been. Not that she can remember that just yet. Even so, it's her determination to find herself again, to remember herself, that bolsters her strength and conviction to be who she is today, no matter what her memories hold.
There is no dissembling with her – if asked, she probably couldn’t tell you what that word even meant.
Alice wears her emotions on her sleeve, unapologetic for the fact that she always revels in the experience of feeling exactly what she feels in that moment. Because for Alice, each feeling – happiness, sadness, loneliness, hopes, joy, pain, confusion – is something of a new experience for her. Each and every one is a treasure found that needs to be embraced and understood, much as she’s able to do so.
Thus, when she’s sad, Alice will cry; when she’s angry, she will shout and yell and make demands; when she’s lonely or overwhelmed, she’ll reach for Oz (even if she won’t admit to doing so); and when she faces any and everything that causes fear, save her own being, she will bluster and rage and refuse to give in or back down.
The fear of who she is or was, of whether she is really human or not, now however, is enough to push her back into that feeling of complete isolation, deep in the silence of her mind. That fear is powerful enough to stay her hand from reaching out to others.
This is where the true frailty of the girl resides.
Her loss of her memories has, in many ways, given her back an almost child-like innocence. Many things that the average person would take for granted in the knowing give her pause, confuse and interest her.
And much to the chagrin of those around her, her first instinct is to take an unknown and see if it can be eaten. She’s been known to eat flowers, weeds, and poke at carpet with a fork. If something unrecognizable as 'person, place, or thing' is mentioned to her, her first question is always "Can you eat it?".
To be fair, however, she spent a century in the Abyss as, quite likely, the only Chain that doesn’t eat people – so she has a hundred years worth of starvation to make up for.
Her childish behavior is made glaringly apparent when Oz spends too much time with anyone not her – be it Gilbert, Break, Elliot, or even Oz’s sister Ada or Uncle Oscar. When this happens, she either becomes sullen and withdrawn and prefers to spend her time pouting and eating gluttonously or will cut right in the middle and attempt to take Oz back, yelling at him that he is HER manservant and thus was required to give her all of his attention.
Thankfully, Oz seems to understand the root of such behavior, as he’s never gotten angry at her for these intrusions or demands.
Aditionally, because her only memory was her name, and the fact that the only person she's allowed to call her name in a century was Oz, the use and application of a name has a deeper, more intristic meaning for Alice. It's recognition at the most basic of levels and something reserved thus for for Oz and most interestingly, Sharon - though even then, she calls Sharon 'sister Sharon'. Otherwise, she addressed Gilbert as 'Seaweed-head' and Break as 'Clown'.
As the Chain Bloody Black Rabbit: Alice's personality remains quite similar in chain form - as a matter of fact, she's confident to the point of extreme arrogance. Quick to insult and taunt an enemy with how she'd like to tear them apart, she's utterly fearless while in chain form.
Her blood-lust while in chain form is something she cannot really control and has, occasionally, required Oz to step in and stop her by controlling her own power when she gets too far gone.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Develop her without the ability to find her memory shards. Aside from that I haven’t made any plans.
Appearance/PB:
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The NV flickers on to reveal a young lady, her long chestnut hair drawn back to fall richly down her back, violet eyes wide, innocently curious, just before the little device turns in her hands. There’s a dizzying shift to reveal the pitted baseball diamond around her. Her voice, when she speaks, is soft and a little unsure.]
This thing really lets me talk to others?
[Another dizzying flash of the baseball diamond as she tosses it in her hand, snatches the strange thing out of the air with a nimble hand. There’s another blink – right before a sudden smirk curves her lips, her expression both annoyed and confident. Just because she can't see him nearby doesn't mean he isn't around, right? Right.]
Oz! Oy! Answer me you useless manservant! Where the hell did you disappear to this time?! Just because that Chain disappeared doesn’t mean you and Seaweed-head are allowed to, too! If you don’t hurry up and get here, I’m going to kick both your stupid heads it, you hear me?
Oz?!
Third Person Sample
Why she was going to watch that stupid seaweed head work, Alice didn’t know. Nor did she care, really.
What she cared about was why, if he was busy, her manservant was still giving that stupid man more of his attention then her.
But that was fine. Just fine.
It just meant, according to Sharon’s book, he still needed more training.
For the moment, however, it really didn't matter all that much. She was stuck in this strange city, with no hope of finding her memory fragments, but at least the food here was pretty good. Even better that there was so much of it around! Though the smells that were getting stronger were quite distracting, so many places to try, with yummy things to eat… and her belly was growling.
So when she opened the door to such a nice, warm bakery, with all kinds of delicious things on counter displays, Alice’s eyes lit up with an unholy glee and she dashed around a waiting customer and leapt over the counter, neatly kicked clerk in the chest (to make him move away from her food) as she grabbed two very tasty looking bun things that smelled like strawberries as she hollered, “Why didn’t you tell me there was food here?!”
Name: Laure
Age: 34
AIM SN: same as email
email: reflected.stasis@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes.
Currrently Played Characters: Teito Klein
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Pandora Hearts
Canon Format: manga
Character's Name: Alice (B. Rabbit) Baskerville
Character's Age: DOB July 20th. Looks around thirteen, is actually over 100
Conditional: She’ll be
What form will your character's NV take? A Samsung Omnia.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: While as Alice, she's got the size and strength of a normal thirteen year old girl.
Chains & B. Rabbit form: When her power is partially released, Alice can freely use her chains. They shoot out from behind her - as many as she needs and as long as she needs them.
When she's fully released, she becomes an overlarge black rabbit that wields a blood-red scythe, can control her chains with chilling accuracy, and has the ability to destroy other chains. She is, in fact, the strongest chain there is.
Weaknesses: Alice both wants desperately to find her memories, yet is almost petrified to remember what they'll tell - especially after leaving Cheshire's place. Even so, she's determined to push through and find them, regardless, though at times that fear does make her steps falter.
Due to the fact that her power is too much for Oz's body to contain, she has to rely on Gilbert's ability to seal and release her in order to minimize the damage done to Oz. When sealed, she cannot draw on her powers at all and is, essentially, reduced down to the size and strength of a normal thirteen year old girl.
Unexpectedly, for her, Oz has the power within himself to draw on her power - to
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A.
Weapons: B. Rabbits scythe and chains, when are sealed unless either Oz steals the power used to manifest them himself or Gilbert unseals her so she can use them.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Born one hundred and thirteen years before the beginning of the series, Alice was once a human, the daughter of Lacie Baskerville and the former Glen Revis (Glen being the title of the head of the Baskervilles).
As tradition goes, every new ‘Glen’ has someone near them that is considered a ‘distortion’ caused by their presence, usually a sibling, born with red eyes - the mark of a child of misfortune, and it is during the final ceremony to transfer the fifth Chain from the old Glen to the new that, as his first act as ‘Glen’, he must cast that sibling into the Core of the Abyss. And when it was Oswald’s time to become the new Glen after Revis, he cast his younger sister Lacie into the Abyss - but not before she told him her own secret - that she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was an experiment proposed in secret by Revis, in order to ‘find a way to allow people to handle all of the power of the Abyss’ by providing the core of the Abyss with a vessel capable of wielding its power.
Interestingly, it was revealed that Alice was born a twin inside the Abyss, though both girls call themselves ‘Alice’, Alice was able to leave the Abyss a few days after her mother had been cast into the Core, as a young lady, whereas her twin had become the Core’s vessel - named by their father as the ‘Will of the Abyss’. However, even with this separation, the girls were able to easily swap their awareness between the two bodies, so that (Will) Alice could experience the human world, or visit those whom she wanted to see. From what we can see from while Alice was alive, there was no animosity between the two Alices - if anything, it’s quite the opposite: The core, or the Will of the Abyss, seems intent on protecting the vessels left by Lacie.
The differences between Abyss Alice and Alice, aside from physical features within the Abyss, could be easily noted in her human form - Where Abyss (Will) was soft-spoken, preferred to dress in pale or softer colors, and seemed properly lady-like, Alice is and has always been loud, brash, and anything but lady-like. She prefers darker clothes, is more prone to smirk than smile, and will speak her mind without thought or hesitation, claiming to follow Oswald’s example, as her uncle Oswald, or Glen, was the person she was most attached to whereas (Will) Alice seemed to prefer Jack’s company and didn’t care for Oswald’s presence at all. Alice even goes so far as to tell Oswald that (Will) Alice hates him.
What Revis intended by revealing all of this to Jack is unclear, though as a parting shot, he did tell Jack to use Alice however he wanted in order to obtain his wish, and thus the only person, aside from (Will)Alice's cat Cheshire to notice these differences was Jack Vessalius - Glen's closest friend. After meeting her, Jack visited her at the tower regularly, claimed to be her friend, and even told her he'd take her for a visit to his own estate. He noticed a disconnect within Alice - how at times she has a softer, more 'pure' gentleness to her, while at others she seemed more brash and plain-spoken.He noticed how her cat, usually so clearly attached, would at time reject her completely. Differences in books and interests, demeanor and expressions - he noticed them all. And when he finally asked her, Alice finally explained the truth to him about her connection to the Will of the Abyss, her twin.
However, this didn't stop Jack from visiting. And later, when Jack brought Gilbert and Vincent with him to greet Alice, (Will) Alice immediately made fun of Vincent's red eye - which in turn caused Gilbert to pull her hair out of a defensive anger. This incident fueled Vincent's hatred towards Alice, because her words had made Gil "show that kind of expression again" and made Jack worry. This hatred later manifested when he gouged out the eyes if her cat, Cheshire, in retaliation.
Shortly thereafter, during the Tragedy of Sablier, Alice - still wearing the paler colors preferred by (Will)Alice - was killed in her tower. Though her killer was never shown, the bloody scissors found beside her dead body strongly implicate Vincent at first glance, though the original owner of the scissors was, in fact, Jack.
It’s still not known as of yet as to who Alice’s killer actually was, or how the human known as Alice became the chain ‘B Rabbit’.
After which, she spent 100 years in isolation in the Abyss, all memory gone save for the name 'Alice', waiting for... something.
That 'something' turned out to be young Oz Vessalius. Banished to the Abyss at age 15, during his Coming of Age ceremony, Alice first met him when a path opened up from the Abyss to his Ceremony. She saved him from the Baskerville Zwei, right after she opened the path by controlling Gilbert and forcing Gilbert to stab Oz. Alice also fought and defeated two other Baskervilles that night - Zai and Fang - easily switching between her human and B. Rabbit forms as she did so, before finally being sent back to the Abyss, where she waited on them to send Oz to her.
Once there, she eventually found him and saved him a second time from first a low-level 'Trump' chain, after which she gave him her name and offer him the chance to take her contract so that they could both escape the Abyss. Unfortunately, 'Sharon' saved him from Alice before they could actually make the deal and began leading him away. 'Sharon', however, made reference to something Oz hadn't shared with anyone - namely the 'dream' where Alice strangled him - which made him suspicious. When he hesitated the stronger Chain, Red Baby, revealed itself.
Just before Red Baby's attack on Oz could strike, Alice appeared between him and the other chain, saving him a third time.
Unfortunately, with her powers sealed due to the lack of a contract, she was caught by the other chain. She told Oz to run just before Red Baby ate her. Oz, after a moment's hesitation, attacked Red Baby and forced his way into the chain's mouth, to go after Alice. He accepted the contract, which released the power of the Bloody Black Rabbit. The other chain was destroyed in an instant and Alice sealed the contract with a kiss before being absorbed into Oz's body.
Together they opened up a path to Oz's world, landing unconscious in the ruins of Oz's home, where the Coming of Age Ceremony had been held...ten years earlier.
Fortunately, there were a few familiar faces there when they arrived. Namely Gilbert "Raven" Nightray, Xerxes Break, and Sharon Rainsworth. They took Oz back to one of the Rainsworth estates, where he was given the explanation of why chains need the contractor to stabilize them and informed him that they'd have to take him captive as an 'illegal contractor'. With this threat, Alice took over Oz's body and took Sharon captive by holding a knife to her chest.
Break, however, had anticipated such an move and activated a containment barrier the held Oz and Alice in place. He knocked Alice out of Oz's body, where she appeared in her human form, in order to determine her intentions upon escaping the Abyss. Alice informed him, rather bluntly, that she was determined to regain all of her lost memories and tried to move to standing within the barrier. At that point, Break started to beat her with the cane that concealed his sword and Oz saves her for the second time, claiming acts against his savior made him their enemy.
They were released from the barrier to discuss the intentions of the three Pandora members, when interrupted by a trump chain trying to come through the path opened by the memory stored in the pocket watch, however Gilbert released the seal on Alice's powers so that she could fight. She destroyed the chain with a single blow, then returned to human form, where they all experience the first memory returning to Alice.
After which, she and Oz made the decision to work with the three and conceal Oz's return from both Pandora and his family because of his illegal contractor status.
She and Oz began working for Break as his subordinates, fighting other illegal chains as they searched for their memories, until Cheshire - a fanatical subordinate of the Will of the Abyss - took Alice and Break into his dimension, where he revealed himself to be the guardian of the memories she feared remembering the most.
She fled those memories, inadvertently leaving Break's side, where Cheshire had the memory of breaks own past pull him through the looking glass to detain him. Alice however, tried to run from the memories, never escaping, as Oz and Gilbert arrived in search of Alice and Break.
In the ensuing fight, Cheshire injures Gilbert, who, upon separation from Oz, meets the fragment of Jack Vessalius' soul. Jack, in turn, saves Oz from his fight with Cheshire and explains to them both that Alice doesn't have a lot of time before the memories make her disappear. Jack sends Oz off to find Alice, only to experience the memory of the Tragedy of Sablier, recognizes Vincent (Gilbert's younger brother) as the child in the memory surrounded by corpses, then follows the memory of Vincent to Alice's tower - where he arrives just in time to see her fall, dead.
It is then that Jack reveals to Oz that Alice was once human.
Oz continued on after Alice, though some of Cheshire's madness seems to have taken over a bit as he starts to break apart the dimension, until Gilbert stops him. Together they went to where Alice was chained to a wall, seemingly unaware to the world around her. Oz managed to snap her out of it and back to herself right before Break and Cheshire show up, then Eques, Sharon's Chain, arrived to pull them back to their world - and dropped them right into the meeting of the Four Dukes at Pandora Headquarters, with Alice released in B. Rabbit form.
The two tried to run, however, were quickly surrounded by Pandora members and their chains when the fragment of Jack that resided within Oz took control of his body to seal Alice back into her human form and speak to the members, to give warning of the return of Glen Baskerville and declare Oz's role in the upcoming fight to prevent a second Tragedy.
Now accepted by Pandora, Oz's uncle Oscar took Oz, Alice, and Gilbert to Oz's sister's school so that they could be reunited. Alice's jealousy over the attention Oz gave his sister Ada while there was made worse when, she and Gilbert were separated from him at the Academy and Oz managed to borrow her powers without her permission in order to fight the Baskervilles that had shown up and kidnapped Ada. After forcing Jack out to deal with the Baskervilles and their escape, the four returned to Pandora Headquarters.
It was there, when Gilbert and Oz were both melancholy over Elliot's harsh words to them and Alice sat eating in a sulky silence, that Sharon tried to befriend Alice, drawing her out to get her to speak of what was bothering her before deciding Alice had to call her 'Sister Sharon' and needed to be taught what romance was.
Interestingly, Sharon is the second person after Oz that Alice calls by name rather than nickname.
Not long after that, Alice, Oz, Gilbert, and Break were all invited to meet with Duke Rufus Barma at the theater, wherein the Duke reveals Break’s past as the illegal contractor Kevin Regnard, how he became the Mad Hatter by meeting the Will of the Abyss and receiving that chain from the Will of the Abyss... and the contents of Jack’s journal, which revealed a truth about Alice - that she and the Will of the Abyss were identical twins, both called ‘Alice’.
Even with the information that was revealed, however, Oz realized that there was still a fair bit of information that both Barma and Break had left out, and so Gilber, Oz, and Alice headed out for the epicenter of the Sablier tragedy to investigate for themselves in the hopes of finding more of Alice’s memory fragments - and run into Elliot and Leo once again. While there, they met the children of the orphanage that was supported by Pandora, near the site of the tragedy, and learned of Elliot and Leo’s connection with the orphanage. Oz learns that the site of the tragedy is connected to the Abyss, and so they head down into the ruins.
While in there, the three get separated, each of them pulled into an illusion created by their own memories and for Alice... this memory was of visiting Lacie’s ‘grave’ with Jack. Alice recognized it for what it was, and wondered if it was one of her memory fragments - she expected to be able to see ‘that man’ (meaning Jack) again, and she was right. She watched as the human memory of herself left a clutch of flowers before the tombstone and Jack listened to the pocketwatch he’d made with Oswald and Lacie’s melody in it, and when she asked Jack who Lacie was, he told her that Lacie was ‘an extremely important person to Glen.
Her time with Jack, however, was cut short as she ‘heard Oz’s pathetic voice crying out her name’ and so she left Jack to go find him - and when she did, it was to see him wearing a rather manic expression. And so she did what she does best - pegged him in the side of the head with a rock, then yelled at him before going down from the cliff face to join him, Leo, and Elliot. Once down there, she tried to cheer him up by biting his cheek before she told him to call her name more often so that she could know when he was down.
Unfortunately, it was right after that, that an unexpected earthquake forced them to leave the ruins - though it wasn’t a simple earthquake at all. The Baskervilles had broken the first of the sealing stones.
Several days after that, they went to visit Duke Barma again, to try to negotiate with him so that they could ask him more questions, however he readily supplied the information. He told them about how, according to his ancestor Arthur Barma’s notes, Jack’s own body was used to seal the soul of Glen Baskerville, through the sorcery their house used to perform. He also told them that Pandora was trying to find those sorcerers before the Baskervilles, so that they could prevent the Baskervilles from releasing Glen’s soul and recreating the tragedy.
He also revealed the location of one of the sealing stones, with the caveat that they go speak to the descendant of the sorcerer. However, once they arrived, they found out that two Pandora agents had tried to enter the residence they were to investigate - and that they’d never come back out. Things turned another step towards complicated when they went into the house, as once they were inside the room seemed to affect them all rather oddly. Their movements were slower, more sluggish, and when the resident guardian of the place, a young lady, stepped out to face them, she was able to get a hit in on Gilbert straight away.
They quickly realized that whatever it was that was affecting the room and the chains, that it was also blocking their ability to summon their chains, until she moved to attack Oz. Her weapon disintegrated as she moved to attack him: however Oz, possibly controlled by Jack, summoned Alice’s scythe and nearly killed the woman - he would have, had Alice not pleaded with him not to.
The sorcerer Riitasu, stepped in then and revealed that the stone was down below them. He informed them that the only person capable of destroying the stone was the one who wielded B Rabbit’s power. He also gave Oz a box that contained several clues - loose sheets of paper with the symbol of a snake wrapped around a stake predominant on them. They decided to head back to Pandora, because the stone was too large for them to carry however as they were leaving, they felt the same kind of earthquake as they had in Sablier.
The headhunter had attacked the sorcerer, the Pandora member that had stayed behind, and the female guardian. This brought in the renewed investigation of the headhunter cases as well as the continued search for the remaining sealing stones. Their investigation brought them to attempt a meeting with Isla Yura while he was visiting Duka Barma’s villa. After enduring a bit of Yura’s fanboying over Jack, they discussed Jack and Sablier, Oz faked a ‘visit’ from Jack for Yura, and Yura asked Oz to visit his mansion. Oz realized that Duke Barma was using Yura’s fascination with Jack to get them into Yura’s mansion, where Pandora couldn’t go, and guessed that there was a sealing stone somewhere in the premise.
He used the invitation to their advantage by turning it down, claiming he wasn’t actually an adult by society standards and therefore couldn’t visit other nobleman’s houses. Yura all too happily offered to throw Oz a second Coming of Age Ceremony since his first was... interrupted... giving Pandora access to the house as guests to the ceremony. The presentation and ball carried on well enough, until Oz and Leo found the headless body of one of Pandora’s investigators. The Baskervilles had infiltrated the ball with the same intentions - to get to the sealing stone in order to release Glen’s body fragment. However, at the same time, Yura’s cult was trying to recreate the Tragedy of Sablier and set fire to the mansion, killing their guests by beheading them with the headhunter chain... and using one of the orphans that Oz had befriended to lead him down to where their ‘ceremony’ was to take place - down where the sealing stone was located.
Once down there, both Oz and Alice were incapacitated due to the effect of her proximity to the stone - so much so that they both blacked out. When Oz woke, it was to find Duchess Nightray and Yura there. They revealed their plan to recreate the Tragedy and send the world into the Abyss, claiming the rite needed the body of Jack, his soul, the Baskervilles, sacrifices, the moon, fire, and the blood of a friend (the captured Leo) in order to do so.
Shortly thereafter, Gilbert, Vincent, Elliot, and Echo arrived to where Oz was being held and released him, then they all went to where Leo and Alice were taken while Gilbert went to help Break fight two of the Baskervilles. Once there, it was revealed to be a trap, in order to get a ‘hero’ rushing to the aid of a friend in order to complete the ceremony, however Oz was able to gain control of B. Rabbits powers again - even to the point of being able to use both chains and scythe, his eyes red.
Yura, while talking to Alice just beforehand, asked her if she was really related to the Alice that was killed during the original Tragedy, at the same time that she felt Oz summon and control her chain powers without her permission. His question stirred an overwhelming sense of sadness and suffering within her. Oz’s reassurances that he would destroy anyone that tried to hurt her only increased the feeling was the ‘same’, as if there was someone inside her head shouting ‘Don’t let Oz destroy anything else!’
While yelling at Oz, however, Yura tried to shatter the sealing stone and both Alice and Oz moved to stop him - though it was Jack, through Oz, that actually put a chain through Yura to do so. After, Jack killed Yura with a sword he’d picked up. That’s when the Baskervilles made their move to shatter the sealing stone. Gilbert, having joined them once again by this time, stopped Vincent from shooting the stone before going down to help Oz and Alice. Unfortunately, they were able to shatter the stone and escape, however the power that was released with the breaking of the seal was enough to destabilize all of the other chains, making it impossible to use them save for Oz using B Rabbit’s power... and Humpty Dumpty, Elliot’s illegal chain. In order to protect Alice, Oz fought the chains that made up Humpty Dumpty, unknowingly inflicting those wounds onto Elliot, before Elliot finally rejected his chain - an act that killed both Humpty Dumpty and himself.
It’s that moment, where Humpty Dumpty suddenly disappears that Alice arrives from.
Point in Canon: The end of chapter 59
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: As Alice: At first glance, Alice appears to to be a loud, obnoxious, and utterly fearless little lady. There’s a confidence in her actions that cannot be faked, for all that she has survived for a century with her name as the only memory she’s retained. This confidence, often taken beyond the point of cockiness, usually leads Alice to say or do things considered ‘inappropriate’ for a young lady – which is perfectly fine, because she’s never claimed to be a lady.
She’s brash and bold and absolutely unapologetic for her rough-around-the-edges demeanor – and more importantly, she always has been. Not that she can remember that just yet. Even so, it's her determination to find herself again, to remember herself, that bolsters her strength and conviction to be who she is today, no matter what her memories hold.
There is no dissembling with her – if asked, she probably couldn’t tell you what that word even meant.
Alice wears her emotions on her sleeve, unapologetic for the fact that she always revels in the experience of feeling exactly what she feels in that moment. Because for Alice, each feeling – happiness, sadness, loneliness, hopes, joy, pain, confusion – is something of a new experience for her. Each and every one is a treasure found that needs to be embraced and understood, much as she’s able to do so.
Thus, when she’s sad, Alice will cry; when she’s angry, she will shout and yell and make demands; when she’s lonely or overwhelmed, she’ll reach for Oz (even if she won’t admit to doing so); and when she faces any and everything that causes fear, save her own being, she will bluster and rage and refuse to give in or back down.
The fear of who she is or was, of whether she is really human or not, now however, is enough to push her back into that feeling of complete isolation, deep in the silence of her mind. That fear is powerful enough to stay her hand from reaching out to others.
This is where the true frailty of the girl resides.
Her loss of her memories has, in many ways, given her back an almost child-like innocence. Many things that the average person would take for granted in the knowing give her pause, confuse and interest her.
And much to the chagrin of those around her, her first instinct is to take an unknown and see if it can be eaten. She’s been known to eat flowers, weeds, and poke at carpet with a fork. If something unrecognizable as 'person, place, or thing' is mentioned to her, her first question is always "Can you eat it?".
To be fair, however, she spent a century in the Abyss as, quite likely, the only Chain that doesn’t eat people – so she has a hundred years worth of starvation to make up for.
Her childish behavior is made glaringly apparent when Oz spends too much time with anyone not her – be it Gilbert, Break, Elliot, or even Oz’s sister Ada or Uncle Oscar. When this happens, she either becomes sullen and withdrawn and prefers to spend her time pouting and eating gluttonously or will cut right in the middle and attempt to take Oz back, yelling at him that he is HER manservant and thus was required to give her all of his attention.
Thankfully, Oz seems to understand the root of such behavior, as he’s never gotten angry at her for these intrusions or demands.
Aditionally, because her only memory was her name, and the fact that the only person she's allowed to call her name in a century was Oz, the use and application of a name has a deeper, more intristic meaning for Alice. It's recognition at the most basic of levels and something reserved thus for for Oz and most interestingly, Sharon - though even then, she calls Sharon 'sister Sharon'. Otherwise, she addressed Gilbert as 'Seaweed-head' and Break as 'Clown'.
As the Chain Bloody Black Rabbit: Alice's personality remains quite similar in chain form - as a matter of fact, she's confident to the point of extreme arrogance. Quick to insult and taunt an enemy with how she'd like to tear them apart, she's utterly fearless while in chain form.
Her blood-lust while in chain form is something she cannot really control and has, occasionally, required Oz to step in and stop her by controlling her own power when she gets too far gone.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Develop her without the ability to find her memory shards. Aside from that I haven’t made any plans.
Appearance/PB:
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[The NV flickers on to reveal a young lady, her long chestnut hair drawn back to fall richly down her back, violet eyes wide, innocently curious, just before the little device turns in her hands. There’s a dizzying shift to reveal the pitted baseball diamond around her. Her voice, when she speaks, is soft and a little unsure.]
This thing really lets me talk to others?
[Another dizzying flash of the baseball diamond as she tosses it in her hand, snatches the strange thing out of the air with a nimble hand. There’s another blink – right before a sudden smirk curves her lips, her expression both annoyed and confident. Just because she can't see him nearby doesn't mean he isn't around, right? Right.]
Oz! Oy! Answer me you useless manservant! Where the hell did you disappear to this time?! Just because that Chain disappeared doesn’t mean you and Seaweed-head are allowed to, too! If you don’t hurry up and get here, I’m going to kick both your stupid heads it, you hear me?
Oz?!
Third Person Sample
Why she was going to watch that stupid seaweed head work, Alice didn’t know. Nor did she care, really.
What she cared about was why, if he was busy, her manservant was still giving that stupid man more of his attention then her.
But that was fine. Just fine.
It just meant, according to Sharon’s book, he still needed more training.
For the moment, however, it really didn't matter all that much. She was stuck in this strange city, with no hope of finding her memory fragments, but at least the food here was pretty good. Even better that there was so much of it around! Though the smells that were getting stronger were quite distracting, so many places to try, with yummy things to eat… and her belly was growling.
So when she opened the door to such a nice, warm bakery, with all kinds of delicious things on counter displays, Alice’s eyes lit up with an unholy glee and she dashed around a waiting customer and leapt over the counter, neatly kicked clerk in the chest (to make him move away from her food) as she grabbed two very tasty looking bun things that smelled like strawberries as she hollered, “Why didn’t you tell me there was food here?!”