Talk:Alice Liddell/@comment-5782071-20190328223202

Just cuz I wanna, I'm gonna blab about my original idea for Alice's backstory (which I would've have written here, and expanded a little on here, and I urge you guys to read them before responding to this for more info I didn't put in this comment).

The story would have been about Alice's descent into her madness before her entrapment from Carroll's perspective. Over the few years between her mother's death and her capture, she would have slowly become more violent and committed more murders, and Carroll, who was both in love with her mother and was good friends with Alice herself, would have felt compelled or obligated to assist her in covering up her involvement in them (it's a lot more detailed and emotional in my head, I promise), maybe begrudgingly help her in the murders indirectly (procuring weapons or poisons, for instance).

Near the end, a pair or group of WH12 agents would have been sent to capture Alice and she, knowing who they were or not, kills one of them (or, unless she didn't use artifacts in her murders and thus wouldn't have reasonably gotten the WH involved, she kills someone who happens to have been a WH agent).

At the end, she goes to Carroll's house, where agents plan on going to try and capture her once they figure her out (since she implies she was caught by the WH by surprise). While there, Carroll does something that results in Alice being trapped in the mirror (either setting off a flash while she's in front of it with a camera, as he was a prolific photographer; or shoving her into it). Once the WH comes to collect the mirror, Carroll, who still cares for Alice, convinces them to cover up her crimes and life (maybe even fabricate the rest of it, if we still want what the world know of Alice Liddell in reality to exist in this universe as well), given how important both he and the Liddell family was/is/are, and because they "owe him" for trapping their target for them.

I swear it's better when it's actually written out, I'm just impatient.

This story would go off the basis that the mirror gains its effects from a combination of feelings of isolation and escapism. By the time Alice kills her mother, their father has already passed away and she's an only child. Add to that an active imagination with a desire to escape reality and wanting to deny and escape from the tragedy she caused, the mirror becomes a portal into a dark, cold, silent limbo.