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Alice Ramblings
Mar. 22nd, 2011 10:58 pmOkay, I did some research last night to discover Alice's possible age in the canon that includes "American McGee's Alice" and "Alice: Madness Returns," and see about working up some sort of timeline. Anyone interested in my results?
-HD: We are! Let me just get the tarts ready to serve.-
*laugh* Good.
-TD: Find out anything interesting?-
A few things -- one that it is surprisingly hard to find a good transcription of the AMA casebook online. (Of course, I only remembered that I had a ready link to scans of it in a certain text-based Let's Play that I like after much searching.) Another is that the timeline may be a bit floaty. . .Tarts served?
-MHG: And butter buttered! Go ahead, my dear, and don't forget to take some tea.-
Okay!
( Rambling Ahead )
So yeah, final analysis -- if the books are set in 1862, she's slightly older than Victor, and about 19 at the end of the original game, possibly 20 in the sequel.
-DW: Hmmm. Anything else you'd like to share with us?-
Well, it's more of a question of my own, actually -- does Alice have any living family? I've got Charles and Susan Liddell and their sons, of course, but what about proper-canon Alice? The Alice in the books has an older sister and a brother (yes, she does -- she mentions reading his Latin book in Wonderland when she meets the Mouse). The historical Alice was one of TEN kids -- two of whom died very young, but that still leaves eight to account for. But the Alice of the games seems only to have trauma over the death of her parents, which suggests to me she was an only child. Hmmm.
A mystery to puzzle for another day, however. I gotta get up early for a mall trip tomorrow. :)
-HD: We are! Let me just get the tarts ready to serve.-
*laugh* Good.
-TD: Find out anything interesting?-
A few things -- one that it is surprisingly hard to find a good transcription of the AMA casebook online. (Of course, I only remembered that I had a ready link to scans of it in a certain text-based Let's Play that I like after much searching.) Another is that the timeline may be a bit floaty. . .Tarts served?
-MHG: And butter buttered! Go ahead, my dear, and don't forget to take some tea.-
Okay!
( Rambling Ahead )
So yeah, final analysis -- if the books are set in 1862, she's slightly older than Victor, and about 19 at the end of the original game, possibly 20 in the sequel.
-DW: Hmmm. Anything else you'd like to share with us?-
Well, it's more of a question of my own, actually -- does Alice have any living family? I've got Charles and Susan Liddell and their sons, of course, but what about proper-canon Alice? The Alice in the books has an older sister and a brother (yes, she does -- she mentions reading his Latin book in Wonderland when she meets the Mouse). The historical Alice was one of TEN kids -- two of whom died very young, but that still leaves eight to account for. But the Alice of the games seems only to have trauma over the death of her parents, which suggests to me she was an only child. Hmmm.
A mystery to puzzle for another day, however. I gotta get up early for a mall trip tomorrow. :)
