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This moment was actually pretty humbling for Alice for a while. I mean, she had back-to-back failures, first with her courtship of Brennus, and then with who she assumed was God at the time smacking her down OLD Testament-style. She wound up in the hospital for a while, largely wallowing in self-pity, and Pepper did her best to comfort her friend (even making her a black friendship bracelet, because Pepper is nothing except awful at reading the room). Still, I think this moment definitely changed Alices attitude in general. She still has that kind of carefree mentality that leads to her doing and saying chaotic things on occasion, but I almost feel like she needed SOMEONE to step in and set boundaries for her, so shed realize she wasnt the only person around who mattered to the resistance.

Since then, Alice has mellowed with regards to Brennus (though she did seek him out and punch him in the face after practicing punches to the face in preparation for this moment). She and Pepper regularly sit around and smoke pot together and just trying to chill out in the face of the unimaginable evils of the world. Alice has started getting mentored by Nightshade in the Oblivion Bar, yet despite Nightshade taking a FAR more morally gray attitude towards murder (actively pushing Alice towards helping her in her crusade against all beings empowered by the shadows), Alice isnt entirely comfortable with that. Its important to note that early on, Alice was very much cool with killing, and thinking that restraint against killing was cowardly and stupid. Yet shes kind of turned around in that regard, now that shes actually faced something real and solid. Alice is growing up in a way.

That being said, Alice is still great for comic relief when the need arises. The fact that she can transform into various magical entities has been played for laughs quite often. Now, she has a strange tendency to get bashed on the head and suffer concussions (not unlike Peppers recent habit of breaking her nosewhich has happened as a result of Alice getting a concussion, actually). This has a tendency to get Alice swapped into the mind of another mage around Oblivion, which often has hilarious consequences. Alice pretending to be Constantine, just to piss him off, is wonderful. Popping off a fake British accent (a woman after Biohazards own heart) is always a good way to annoy the man who often comes across as above it all. Of course, this always worries Pepper, because she doesnt want her friends getting hurt, and Alice doesnt like being babied, so we get instances of Alice revealing that perhaps shes not as concussed as she seems, then tapping into Etrigan or Blue Devil just to make a point.

Most recently, unrelated to any sort of concussion, Alice started tapping into new people, first Ragman to trick Brennus, but then Madame Xanadu for an AMAZING scene with Lush. Alice has always been at least a little annoyed with Lush, largely due to Peppers early annoyance with Lush and Alice picking up on thatand the end result is her just fucking around. Not only do we get the hilarity of Alice complaining about her eyeballs being missing (I~ Cant~ See~ Shit), but then she does a tarot reading and calls out Lush for stabbing Jaime/being a psycho, calls Constantine an old pervert, and complains about Lush/Saoirses lesbian shit, and ended the reading by saying Lush needed to punch Brennus in the face to protect her future. The whole thing was amazing.

Those last few paragraphs are actually what make this write-up so hard for me, because Alice just has SO many things going on with her character, and so much of what makes her amazing is these little one-off scenes, and her interactions with large numbers of the cast. It doesnt lend itself well to a straight-forward, flowing write-up. Sometimes you have Alice dealing with the magical aspect of the campaign via Saoirse, or via Nightshade, or via Brennus. And sometimes you have the teenaged girl drama via Pepper or Brennus or Freddy. And sometimes shes just cute, like when shes playing with Rover and affectionately calling him a dumbass.

Recently though, Alice has been getting more serious about her role in the campaign, so I guess that focuses the write-up a bit towards the ending. Teaming with Nightshade has been a good training partner choice, because it helps Alice focus, but I think its also shown her what her personal limits are for what she is, or is not willing to do. Shes recently been assigned to the Tokyo field team as part of Tracis Machiavellian machinations, and she made it back in one piece; I havent had the chance to talk to her about it yet, because theres SO MUCH to do in the campaign. But she also recently joined us on a mission to Badhnesia, where she tapped into Freddys Captain Marvel powers and fought alongside him in fending off the Spectre long enough to keep Badhnesias protector gods alive while we fought our way through the fifth dimension. Alice remains a badass, even if shes maturing as the campaign goes along.

Finally, I want to end this write-up to touching very briefly on what I mentioned in Freddys write-up: I am 100% onboard with my Freddy x Alice ship. I think they complement each others personalities extremely well, and its just cute to see them working together. They clearly have such different life experiences, yet as the campaign goes along, these are two characters you would never expect to team upyet they keep getting closer. Fighting back-to-back in Badhnesia, sitting in the library, studying together, and even within the past week, we had a moment of Brennus being crushed by the discovery that his mother was a Prime Fury operating directly under Desaad. He went to Freddy for support, sure, but Freddy called for Alice to join them, effectively cockblocking any efforts Brennus might make. Wish Pepper had been invited toobut thats neither here nor there. It just comes back to Alice being her best self around Freddy, and Freddy loosens up around her. Its just a cute little shipping couple, thats all. And thats just another aspect of what makes Alice such an entertaining character, Peppers best friend in the campaign, and the number one character on my ranking.

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