Alice Liddell

Biography
Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, supposedly inspired the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Outside of her association with Carroll little of her life is known, save for an unusual connection to Prince Leopold.

Missing Files
In the Spring of 1961, Charles Dodgson A.K.A. Lewis Carroll hosted an afternoon tea party for the Liddell family, which were close family friends. Alice, having a curious and easily distracted nature, took to exploring rooms of the house and found Dodgson's study. In it she found a desk and a large mirror taking up most of the opposite wall. Exploring the desk drawers, she came upon Dodgson's personal hand gun and took to examining it. Her mother came in, having been looking for her, and was upset to find her child holding a such dangerous weapon.

When Alice refused to surrender her new toy, her mother attempted to wrestle it from her hands. During the scuffle the gun fired, striking her mother directly in the heart and leaving young Alice alone in the study with her mother's body and holding the smoking gun. Traumatized by the event she barely understood, she saw her reflection as the other guests rushed in to investigate. The sight of herself holding the weapon, her white dress stained red, is believed to be what created both the mirror as an artifact and the dark, fractured part of Alice's psyche.

Although initially displaying the typical symptoms of grief, Alice's disposition was noted to change when she saw her reflection. She would become aggressive, violent and showed a noted contempt of any living thing. Although doctors would be brought in, none would identify any problems as the symptoms would cease as soon as they were observed. This began to manifest in a darker way in the following months as dead animals would begin to appear, first outside the Liddell property, then inside.

In Winter of '61 Alice took a massive step, killing a homeless man. She was found crying over his body, with a pair of tailoring shears in hand. Confiscated pages of father Henry Liddell's journal note a concerning feeling of insincerity in the tears, however. Warehouse staff were contacted by Dodgson, a known associate for his mathematical analytics. Warehouse 12 agents, upon conversing with Alice, confirmed the presence of an artifact when her reflection in a window showed different facial expression.

Having been discovered, the dark Alice lashed out at agents but was subdued. Going back to the instigating event, Dodgson's mirror was identified as the artifact responsible. Investigating agents noted the their reflection in the mirror, while looking identical and following basic movements, acted of its own accord in minor ways and, when allowed to be idle, acknowledged its owner with a friendly wave.

From the report of Agent James Adamson: "My own visage waved like a familiar fellow on the street may, then pointed towards the desk drawer. He followed as I moved and opened the drawer as I did so, although he removed the pistol within where I did not. I suspect the the entity within was not myself, but the artifact attempting a means of communication. Indeed despite its effect on the Liddell girl, the artifact showed me no malice and in fact (silently) applauded me as I voiced aloud my conclusions to it. It would appear the dark change in young Alice was due purely to the events of the artifact's creation rather than the intent behind it now, as it seem to only wish me success and provides encouragement."(*)

Exposing Alice to the mirror a second time, her reflection showed how deeply she had been affected. Pale, gaunt and grinning, the dark shade of Alice taunted the agents of Warehouse 12 in obscene ways. Prompted again by his reflection, Agent Adamson made the bold decision to shove the restrained child into the glass, a move with consequences that would remain debated among the Regents for decades. Instead of colliding with glass, Alice passed through the surface of the mirror and into the arms of Adamson's reflection, who restrained her tightly as she struggled. The mirror was promptly neutralized and relocated to the Warehouse.(**)

First Escape
Mere days after being cataloged by Warehouse archivists an incident occurred. The protective tarp over the mirror was removed to reveal Alice, sadistically grinning over the dead body of Adamson's reflection.(***) Banging incessantly on the barrier between them, Alice eventually burst out from the mirror, it having never intended to hold physical forms for any length of time.

The agents present were unable to react with enough speed, and one was quickly disarmed. Both were found dead with the entire cylinders of both firearms discharged into their bodies. Loos in the Warehouse Alice wasted little time browsing the aisles, reading artifact descriptions and collecting toys. Donning King George III's Crown herself, she waged a small war against the Warehouse staff, killing seven more in the process.

It was Agent Tenniel who found a solution, stopping Alice with Peter Henlein's Egg as she continued her onslaught with Charles II's Executioner Axe. Approaching the incapacitated girl, he carefully used the effects of Hakim Adu'l-Fath Gilani's Hookah to separate the two distinct selves. Innocent Alice Liddell was left unconscious on the floor of the Warehouse while the raging spirit of her mad mind shook the hookah from within. Recalling the effects of the mirror failed because of the physical nature of its prisoner, Tenniel turned the hookah back towards his reflection.

The spirit of Alice passed from his hookah to the one held by his double, who proceeded to smash the artifact. The smoke from the hookah enveloped the full scope of the mirror surface, showing a black void where the shade of Alice ranted wordlessly and pounded on the glass. Without a reflection on the other side, however, she was unable to maintain a physical form and faded with the darkness. Believing the issue resolved, Alice was returned to her family and the mirror was left in the shelves of Warehouse 12.

The Story
Remembering little of the events that had occurred, Alice would frequently pester Dodgson about the past year. Unable to tell the truth he knew, having been granted access to the Warehouse case files, Dodgson was forced to concoct a story that, although fiction, contained enough truth to satisfy Alice's curiosity. After much needling by both Alice and her sisters, who had come to appreciate his storytelling, Dodgson would write down and later publish the stories under the pen-name "Lewis Carroll".

The Liddell friendship became strained when Henry remarried another woman, coincidentally with the same name as his first wife. She didn't care for the amount of time Liddell spent with her girls, and the attention her step-daughter Lorina was paying him. In 186 the Liddell family cut all ties to Dodgson, blaming him for the disastrous events of the past two years and not wanting to expose their children to any further dangers. Almost all records since the death of Alice's mother were removed from public records to prevent their family coming under scrutiny. Alice would live until 1934, where she died at the age of 82 with no knowledge of her involvement with the Warehouse.

The Re-Emergence
See case files WH-13-S1-E07 and WH-13-S4-E06.

(*)It would later be discovered that the mirror reflects people as they see themselves and Adamson, seeing himself as the investigating agent, was reflected as a helpful aide. The reason for such a drastic effect in Alice remains unclear, but may have been exacerbated by a fragile mental condition.

(**)Alice's family was informed that she would be taken to an institution for an undetermined period of time, so as to avoid divulging any Warehouse secrets.

(***)While initially causing much concern, it was eventually confirmed that Adamson did still possess a reflection, although he would never appear in Dodgson's mirror again.