| Alice Liddell | |
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Aliases |
Alice in Wonderland |
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Gender |
Female |
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Crime |
Murder |
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Status |
Alive, Contained |
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Occupation |
Homicidal Entity |
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Area of Expertise |
Murder, 19th Century Life |
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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 1861, 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. This is the first known activation of the effects of Charles Dodgeson's Mirror, though the cause and origin remains unknown.
Though she displayed 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 by the frozen estate pond. She was found crying over his body, with a pair of bloodied tailoring shears cast onto the ice. 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 a different and haunting young girl.
Having been discovered, the dark reflection of Alice took control of her body once more and lashed out at agents before being subdued. Dodgson's mirror was identified as the artifact responsible, having manifested a dark "opposite" to the innocent girl that was able to take control when her reflection was shown.
Not reacting to any form of neutralization, agents were left unsure of how to properly sever Alice's insidious link with the artifact until Charles brought forth an Oriental camera he had purchased to further his photographic hobbies. Though unfamiliar with the exact model, agents were able to identify it as a Camera Obscura, and it was able to effectively sever Alice's tie to the mirror.
The mirror was promptly recovered by the agents, though it still did not react to neutralization or display any unusual effects. Dodgeson was permitted to keep the camera under the condition he continue to photograph Alice and the Liddell family in case any ligering effects persisted.
First Escape[]
After much testing it was determined that the effects of the mirror showed a person as their opposite, with the double being able to act and react to its surroundings somewhat independently. Very few agents showed no difference in the disposition of their reflection, attributed by the resident Reader to be a benefit of a "balanced aura". These agents were the only ones permitted to handle the artifact.
It would be several years before the mirror became a threat again. During an early attempt to visially catalogue the Warehouse, an agent by the name of McRourgen inadvertantly freed the "dark" Alice when his camera flash activated the artifact. Without Alice's body, the entity seemed free to take whatever host it needed, swapping her essence with theirs. Her continued existance in the mirror was later determined to be the reasoning behind the artifact's lack of reaction to neutralizer.
Loose in the Warehouse, Alice wasted little time browsing the aisles. Donning King George III's Crown, she picking off the Warehouse staff, killing seven in the process. It was Agent Tenniel who correctly identified the nature of the threat, when he went to cover his colleague and found his image trapped in the mirror's reflection, soundlessly banging on the glass.
Quickly determining the issue at hand, he sounded an alarm system. Though he attempted to make way to the office to report his findings, he was assailed by Alice in the form of his coworker. Brandishing Mary Queen of Scots' Croquet Mallet at him, he was able to avoid the swings and retreated back to the mirror. Some quick non-verbal communication between McRourgen and Tenniel allowed him to pick up on the fact that the camera flash had been the key to the cage, though the camera was nowhere to be found (later located in pieces under a shelf).
Luring the Alice entity back to the mirror's location by feigning an injury, he quickly blindsider her with a Will-O'-the-Wisp globe, which shattered with a brilliant flash. When the light cleared, McRourgen was free from the mirror and the gaunt and furious shade of Alice was returned to her prison.
Both McRourgen and Tenniel recieved commendations for their quick thinking and communication during the incident, and the mirror was covered and moved somewhere safe.
The Re-Emergence[]
Alice would escape again in 1870, taking the body of a new Warehouse agent during an accident where a gas light flared up due to a misfired Neutralizer venting. Alice would kill another two Warehouse agents before the switch was recognized.
Utilizing Romulus and Remus' Shepard Staff to duplicate herself, one donned Anna de Coligny's Crown and the other Juana the Mad of Castiles' Crown Both spread in different direction across the Warehouse aisles. It was Agents Rose and Harrison who subdued her this time, taking advantage of the side-effect of the staff. As the doubles began to contend with each other Agent Rose took a shot, killing one double and causing it to vanish. Shocked, the remaining Alice was ambushed from behind by Harrison, who rendered her unconscious.
Taking her back to the mirror, the agents caused another flare of light which switched back the psyches. Alice, again, raged from within her glass prison, but this time a liberal amount of Neutralized was painted over the surface. It is unknown what happened to Alice, but while the mirror continued to display its primary effects her gaunt specter never appeared again.
Warehouse 13[]
Records of the Alice incidents (files WH-12-S6-01 and WH-12-S5-02) were on board the HMS Avalon when it was taken by Dan Seavey and the reports were never recovered. The mirror arrived safely via the usual method of transporting artifacts with only its tag, which possessed little to no information on its nature. It was discovered that physical objects could pass through the glass with enough force, but only if they originated from the "real" side. These objects would be forcibly expelled after a short time if not returned by a reflection.
Alice escaped a third and fourth time in 2009 and 2013 (files WH-13-S1-E07 and WH-13-S4-E06).