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Alice Anotherbible (アリス＝アナザーバイブル Arisu Anazābaiburu?), born Alice Pleasance Liddell (アリス＝プレザンス＝リデル Arisu Purezansu Rideru?) and usually just called Alice (アリス Arisu?), is a Transcendent at the center of the Bridge Builders Cabal, introduced in Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index.[1][2][3]
Etymology[]
Alice's given name (and assumed identity) is that of the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's famous children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (不思議の国のアリス Fushigi no Kuni no Arisu?) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (鏡の国のアリス Kagami no Kuni no Arisu?), as well as her original identity and the basis of the character, Alice Pleasance Liddell.
Her surname, Anotherbible, is partially derived from the Bible, the holy book of Christianity.[2][Notes 1][3]
Appearance[]
Alice is a girl who looks around 12 years old,[2][4] with white skin, long blonde hair and sapphire blue eyes.[2] Her hair has a pair of pointy curls that resemble animal ears.[5] She wears a white apron (with a round white fluffball on the back, perhaps meant as a rabbit tail) over a blue short-sleeved dress, with white tights and black leather, strapped mary-jane shoes.[5]
The other Alice, that emerged from inside her during a talk with Kamijou Touma about her magic, wears a revealing outfit consisting of loosely binding red and black belts, apparently glistening with oil and with metal buckles.[4]
Personality[]
Anna Sprengel has referred to Alice as bored and Aradia has described everything she says as being downright indecipherable and absurdities, and that when faced with psychedelic nonsense went along with it without questioning any of it.[1] Aradia also described her as pure and innocent but capricious, cruel and violent, such that they could predict what she would do next.[6]
Alice tends to refer to herself as "the girl" or "this girl" (少女 shōjo?).[7]
Background[]
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In reference to Alice herself, her name has been explicitly noted as that of the famous children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which Aleister Crowley had suggested as must-read for those wishing to deepen their understanding of magic, claiming it took on a complete new meaning if the reader had sufficient knowledge of Kabbalah (though he never met Lewis Carroll and merely spread the legend himself), and listing it alongside the Goetia and the Golden Bough.[1][9]
Alice's full background was originally unknown - although Aleister deduced that she was born from Magick, given his own role in connecting the story with the occult,[9] it was not clear whether new life had been created for its creator's purposes or an existing person had their soul reshaped.[9][10]
It was later revealed that Alice Anotherbible is actually Alice Pleasance Liddell. While Aleister Crowley was outside of the United Kingdom due to the journey in which he received the Book of the Law from Aiwass, a self-proclaimed "Teacher of Crowley" turned Alice Liddell into an irregular Transcendent against her will.[3][11] It is unknown what happened to this "Teacher of Crowley" afterwards, although Aleister Crowley speculated that Alice killed him.[3]
When Anna and Aradia first referred to her, they described her as though she has experienced Wonderland and events described in the book, including the game of croquet and the trial.[1] According to Alice herself, she has gone on many strange adventures with people in the past, including one who wanted to become a god, one who wanted to be immortal and one who wanted to get back at academia for making fun of him.[4]
While she was living on the streets in the modern era, she was found by Trismegistus, who began raising her and discovered her abilities.[12] Sometime afterwards, she became the center of the Bridge Builders Cabal, a hidden gathering of Transcendents for the purpose of making the world a better place.[6][13][14] Seeking to make use of her unique abilities for their own ends, yet also afraid of Alice, given her exceptional power exceeding her fellow Transcendents as well as her capricious and childishly cruel nature, the rest of the cabal submitted to and catered for her whims,[6][13][14] providing her with any toys or entertainment she wanted,[6][13] with their bases determined by her interests.[6] She also played a role in them achieving their current positions and power, as the Transcendents had analyzed Alice to determine how to overwrite their own humanity.[15]
Until recently at the time of December of the story's first year, Alice had been having fun in a remote island prison she had created (speculated by Aradia to perhaps be the influence of some American drama), and an incident in which she got upset was responsible for water and traces of life on a planet dozens of light-years away, which was subsequently discovered and being talked about by the public around the time that Anna was introduced to the group.[6] The group's current base on December 29th was a cruise ship in a flooded stadium in the middle of a rainforest, with at least one giant yellow duck waddling around.[6]
Chronology[]
Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index[]
Character Art Design[]
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
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- The real-life Alice Pleasance Liddell (later Alice Pleasance Hargreaves) was born in 1852, the fourth of ten children. After the Liddell family moved to Oxford in 1856, they met and befriended Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll), with Alice acting as a photography subject for him. During a boating trip in July 1862, Alice asked him to entertain her and her sisters Edith and Lorina with a story, and afterwards asked him to write it down for her, receiving the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864 (later sold after her husband's death in 1926 due to their home's maintenance cost, eventually ending up in the British Library). This prototype story would subsequently be developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, released in 1865. As a young woman, Alice and her sisters went on a Grand Tour of Europe. She married the magistrate and cricketeer Reginald Hargreaves in 1880 at age 28, and had three sons (two of which died in World War I), eventually dying in 1934.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is referenced in Aleister Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice. A quote from the book is featured at the start of Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 6, together with a quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Magick in Theory and Practice quote comes from the bottom of Appendix I (Bibliography and Curriculum of the A∴A∴), under Course I (General Reading), Section 2 ("Other books, principally fiction, of a generally suggestive and helpful kind"). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (in its shortened form as Alice in Wonderland) is the 14th item on the list, with Alice Through the Looking Glass and The Hunting of the Snark as the 15th and 16th items respectively. All are listed as by Lewis Carroll and "valuable to those who understand the Qabalah".[16][17]
- Elements of inner Alice's design seem to bear aspects of both her Kabbalah and storybook-related origins.[7][18] The arrangement of belts and fasteners that she wears as an outfit is vaguely reminiscent of the arrangement spheres and paths making up the Sephiroth. As well as stars, some of the fasteners are in the shapes of hearts - although these are not associated with the main character of Alice herself, they are associated with another notable character from the story - the Queen of Hearts, a few aspects of which Alice Anotherbible has referenced or used.[7][18]
- Numerous aspects of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have been utilized or referenced in the series since Alice Anotherbible's introduction,[7][8][18] and a smaller number had been used before then, mostly outside of the main story's text.[19]
| Subject | Description | Usage in Toaru Majutsu no Index |
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| All a dream | The story ends with Alice waking up to find her journey through Wonderland was all a dream. | Othinus refers to this ending to the illusion-filled nonsense story in hard reality, on witnessing Alice using her power to expose Johann Valentin Andreae's true nature as though telling a story.[20] |
| Alice | The protagonist of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass. | |
| Castle | The castle of the King and Queen of Hearts. | |
| Caterpillar | A hookah-smoking caterpillar sitting on a mushroom, whom Alice encounters while shrunk. | A large caterpillar was among the wonders manifested by Alice.[22] |
| Cheshire Cat | A cat with a distinctive mischievous grin, as well as a tendency to appear and disappear at will. | Alice referred to the Cheshire Cat, who vanishes into thin air, when calling back the Executioner from facing Frillsand #G.[23] |
| Cook | A belligerent cook who works for the Duchess and uses copious amounts of pepper in her soup. | The Cook was among the wonders manifested by Alice.[24] |
| Court/Trial | A courtroom where several characters, including Alice, were put on trial, with the Queen of Hearts seeking their execution. |
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| Croquet | A game involving using a mallet to hit balls through a set of embedded hoops on a grass playing court. The croquet played by the Queen of Hearts had flamingos for mallets, hedgehogs for balls and playing cards for hoops. |
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| "Curiouser and curiouser" | A phrase spoken by Alice in Chapter II of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, remarking on the delayed growth effect of the cake, which has come to be quoted as a phrase used when a situation takes a mysterious or strange turn. |
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| Dinah | Alice's pet cat, who only appears in the real world portions of the story, but Alice's mention of her hunting prowess disturbs mice and birds in Wonderland. She cares for a white and a black kitten during Through the Looking Glass. |
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| Duck | A duck who participates in the Caucus race, together with the Eaglet, the Lory and the Dodo. | A giant yellow duck was present at the Bridge Builders Cabal's base on December 29th.[2][13][Notes 2][2][7][18][28] |
| Executioner | The royal Executioner of the King and Queen of Hearts. | The Executioner was among the wonders manifested by Alice.[7] |
| Flamingos | In the croquet game, flamingos were used for croquet mallets. | |
| Gryphon | An overbearing and dismissive gryphon, who is ordered to take Alice to see the Mock Turtle. | The Gryphon was among the wonders manifested by Alice.[30] |
| Hatter | A mad hat-wearing man who holds a tea party together with the March Hare, possibly alluding to the phrase "Mad as a hatter". | When facing Alice, Touma recalled the tea party with a hatter and a march hare in the story as one of the few bits he knew of.[25] |
| Hedgehogs | In the croquet game, hedgehogs were used for balls. | Hedgehogs were among the wonders manifested by Alice.[7] |
| The Lion and the Unicorn | A pair of royal heraldic animals and characters in a nursery rhyme, who are fighting over the crown of the White King, despite both being on the White Side. | A lion and a unicorn are featured on the crest of the Bridge Builders Cabal's consulate.[31] |
| Lobster Quadrille | A dance mentioned in a song sung by the Mock Turtle. | When she sets the Gryphon on Touma, Alice orders it to show her the 'lobster dance'.[30] |
| March Hare | A hare who holds a tea party together with the Hatter, possibly alluding to the phrase ""mad as a March hare". | |
| Mice | Alice encounters a mouse while shrunken and floating in a pool of her own tears, asking if he knows the way out of the pool and tells a tale that Alice imagines in the shape of a tail. | Mice are among the wonders manifested by Alice.[32] |
| "Off with their heads" | A phrase (and variants thereof) commonly spoken by the Queen of Hearts, frequently demanding the execution of people who have displeased her. | Alice uttered the phrase at one point during the events of December 29th.[23] |
| Painted Roses | When Alice first comes across playing cards near the castle, they are painting white roses red on the Queen's orders. |
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| Pig Baby | The Duchess has a baby, suffering due to pepper in the air, who after being handed to Alice, turns into a piglet and scurries off into the woods when set down. | A piglet was among the wonders manifested by Alice.[22] |
| Playing Cards | Partially anthropomorphic playing cards act as the servants of the King and Queen of Hearts. | Standard playing cards (the ones with visible fronts being the Ace, Three, Seven and Queen of Hearts) were featured in the background behind Alice on the cover of Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 5.[29] |
| Queen of Hearts | A foul-tempered queen, prone to ordering people's decapitations at the slightest offense, who presides over the croquet game and trial at her castle. | |
| Shrinking drink | At several points in the story, Alice encounters and makes use of food and drink which enlarges or shrinks her when she consumes it, the first of which was a shrinking drink contained in a bottle with a label saying "Drink me". | The anti-Transcendent spiritual items known as Shrink Drinks are derived from the drink which shrinks the imbiber, similarly diminishing their target.[21] |
| Tea Party | A tea party being held by the Hatter and the March Hare when Alice encounters them. |
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| White Rabbit | A white rabbit running late which Alice pursues at the start of the story, falling into Wonderland in the process. | A white rabbit was featured in Alice's arms on the cover of Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 5.[29] |
- Numerous proposed theories and ideas, many of which are inaccurate, contested or false, have been brought up when considering the possibilities of what Alice's power can connect to, utilize and/or actualize, regardless of how illogical they might be. These have included the four emotions (喜怒哀楽 Kidoairaku?) and four elements (火水風土 Hisuifūdo?),[4] Phlogiston theory,[4][37][11] quantum entanglement (observing the spin of one half of a particle pair determining the spin of the other regardless of distance),[4] neutrinos traveling faster-than-light,[4][37] the geocentric model,[37][11] Moon landing conspiracy theories,[37] the Y2K problem,[37] ancient nuclear war,[11] dinosaur farts and the ice age,[11] the location of Yamatai,[11] perpetual motion machines [11] and Flat Earth [11] On the more accurate side, universal gravitation and quantum theory has also been mentioned.[11]
Notes[]
- ↑ While pondering the subject during her introduction to the Bridge Builders Cabal, Anna Sprengel mentioned that while the Bible was said to be complexly coded with some very unusual ways to read it, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written in modern English, positing aloud that it might be a lot easier to analyze and rearrange.
- ↑ The giant yellow duck present at the Bridge Builders Cabal's base was not explicitly identified as one of the wonders and Anna Sprengel, after seeing the duck, considered a giant duck as a potential example of what the Transcendents might make for Alice if she wanted it, as though critically important regardless of actual nature, however given the Duck in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the patterns of Alice's later manifestation of entities from the story, it is reasonably likely that the duck was one of them.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 04 Epilogue
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Prologue
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 2 Part 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Between the Lines 3
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Chapter 1 Part 1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Between the Lines 1
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06 Epilogue
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07 Chapter 1 Part 6
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 8
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 3
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Epilogue
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06 Chapter 2 Part 1
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08 Epilogue
- ↑ Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06 Prologue
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Volume 11 Cover
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09 Epilogue
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07 Chapter 2 Part 5
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 2 Part 7
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Chapter 3 Part 7
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 9
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07 Chapter 4 Part 6
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 4 Part 3
- ↑ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 2
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05 Cover
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07 Chapter 4 Part 7
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 07 Opening Illustration
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 2 Part 9
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 10
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 6
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 3 Part 4
- ↑ Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 4 Part 5
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10 Chapter 2 Part 3
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