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Alice Margatroid
アリス・マーガトロイド
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Alice Margatroid in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody 七色の人形遣いMore Character Titles | |
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Magician (Was formerly a human, but species changed due to training and high dexterity) |
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Magic, Puppetry |
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Unknown, but relatively young for a youkai |
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Alice Margatroid (アリス・マーガトロイド Arisu māgatoroido) is one of only a few people known to live within the Forest of Magic. She's a magician known primarily for her skillful use of dolls as well as being a loner. She gets in many fights with Marisa but they are somewhat acquaintances, sharing many of the same interests and even teaming up during Imperishable Night and Subterranean Animism.
Concept
Name
The name Alice is a reference to the main protagonist in Lewis Carroll's famous novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as the majority of enemies in Mystic Square's extra stage are card soldiers of the same type seen in the Walt Disney animated movie version of the novel. The title of the BGM used in that stage also directly translates to "Alice in Wonderland".
Alice's last name is based on the character Miss Murgatroyd from Agatha Christie's book "A Murder is Announced".
Appearance
Alice was first seen in Mystic Square wearing a pink dress with a blue apron and a matching headband with a ribbon on the side. Her eyes were gold, and her hair is blonde. She wears white socks.
- (Touhou 10.5) Same as TH7.5, but her eyes are a lighter shade of green.
- (Touhou 8) Orange eyes, short blond hair, carries a large black book, and a small red-clothed doll. Wears a light blue dress with pink ribbons and a red ribbon in her hair.
- (Touhou 7.5) Same as above, except her eyes were very dark green and nearly black, while her doll wears a black dress and a white apron instead.
- (Touhou 7) Same as above, except her eyes were dark blue, she didn't wear boots, and wasn't accompanied by a doll in her portrait. Also wore long sleeves.
Story
- Mystic Square
Alice first appeared in Mystic Square. She confronted the heroine with the help of her living dolls. In fact, she was the first boss our character met after entering Makai.
- Immaterial and Missing Power
- Main article: Immaterial and Missing Power Story
In Immaterial and Missing Power, the vast majority of her attacks involved dolls in one way or another, either attacking for her or being used as explosives. She is a doll specialist, but dolls are more like a hobby in comparison to her full power. Alice is always seen with a locked grimoire in her hands, which is thought to be the same "Grimoire of Alice" that she fought the protagonist with as the Mystic Square Extra Boss. Both dolls are used as weapons by Alice in Immaterial and Missing Power in spell cards; their sprites appear to be identical.
- Imperishable Night
- Main article: Imperishable Night Story Magic Team Arc
Two of the dolls she carries are called Shanghai and Hourai. Shanghai has appeared with several different outfits, but is always depicted with a red ribbon tied in a bow in its hair. No official artwork of Hourai exists (it appeared only as Alice's final spell card), and thus all fan depictions of Hourai are original. In Imperishable Night, Alice uses Shanghai to assist firing her shots.
- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
- Main article: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Story
However, in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, while both Shanghai and Hourai are still spell cards, the Hourai spell card summons multiple dolls at the same time, all with the same sprite as Shanghai.
- Perfect Cherry Blossom
The treatment of Shanghai and Hourai as unique dolls is strangely at odds with Perfect Cherry Blossom, where there were many copies of the dolls, used in the spell cards Curse: Eerily Luminous Shanghai Dolls and Curse: Hanged Hourai Dolls. It is almost certain that the dolls were originally not meant to have names, and that "Shanghai" and "Hourai" are references to countries where the dolls were made, much like Alice's other dolls, such as the "Foggy London Dolls" or "Red-Haired Dutch Dolls".
- Subterranean Animism
- Main article: Subterranean Animism Story Marisa & Alice Arc
- Touhou Hisoutensoku
- Main articles: Touhou Hisoutensoku Story Cirno Arc and Meiling Arc
In Touhou Hisoutensoku she creates a giant doll and tests it in battle against Cirno at the end of the latter's Story Mode.
Relationships
Alice seems to be closest to Shanghai and Hourai, who are her dolls that she created.
She also created Goliath Doll used for "testing", but what she wanted to test is unknown.
Additional Information
Trivia
- Alice appears on the cover of Mystic Square.
- Strange and Bright Nature Deity chapter 5 has Sunny Milk attempting to lie to Alice, but accidentally blurting out the truth instead. Among her ramblings, she mentions that she's looking for a magician with a grimoire that "shines wonderfully with all the seven colors of the light". Alice does not deny this to be false. It is possible this is the in-universe explanation for her title, "Seven-Colored Puppeteer".
- Being known as the "Seven-Colored Puppeteer" or "Rainbow Puppeteer", Alice apparently believes in a correlation between color and power level. During her dialogue with Reimu, she asserts Reimu's powers are only equal to 28.5714% (or 2/7) of her own powers, due to Reimu's outfit only consisting of two colors. This appears to be a recurring theme in Perfect Cherry Blossom, as Yukari, Ran and Chen are all named after colors and have relative power levels equivalent to their colors' place on the visual spectrum.
- In some official material, like Imperishable Night's Prologue and Strange and Bright Nature Deity #5, Alice's dolls appear to be able to act and talk independently, but according to her Perfect Memento article, she hasn't yet succeeded in creating an independent doll, and a conversation between Marisa and Rinnosuke in CoLA #16 suggests that Alice just controls the dolls and pretends they are alive for her own amusement and for showing off.
- Alice's alternate palette from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody resembles Hina-Ichigo, a doll from the manga series Rozen Maiden. In Touhou Hisoutensoku, she has palettes resembling the other Rozen Maiden dolls: Suiseiseki, Souseiseki, Suigintou, Shinku, Kanaria, and Kirakishou. Add the fact that, in Rozen Maiden, the aforementioned dolls are battling for the title of "Alice", the perfect doll.
- Alice is the only boss who appears 3 times in a single stage (2 times as midboss and 3rd as actual boss in her Perfect Cherry Blossom appearance).
- According to Aya Shameimaru during her interview with Eirin Yagokoro, Alice has been a recurring customer of Eirin's, coming to see her to buy a medicine she developed called Kochoumugan (Butterfly Dream Pill). The medicine guarantees its imbiber to have pleasant dreams once they fall asleep, and was even featured in an article in Aya's newspaper. The reason for purchasing this medicine or even what kinds of dreams Alice is trying to have were never revealed, but instead are left purely to speculation. However, this might be a reference to "Alice in Wonderland", from which the concept of her character is derived.
- A closer look at Alice's book in her character portrait for Imperishable Night reveals that the writing possibly spells out "Grimoire". This further proves the theory of it possibly being the same Grimoire which Alice used back in the Mystic Square Extra Stage.
- Her dolls are filled with gunpowder, as said in many of the games she appeared in.
- Because Alice, unlike Marisa, is much more interested in strategy and hates having to win a fight from sheer overwhelming power, she always holds back even if it means losing.
- Her Mystic Square stage 3 title "Girl of Death" may be a Shin Megami Tensei reference as there is a demon in the game known as Alice based on the Alice in Wonderland story that is known by the same title.
- Alice may be related to the story of Dolls in Pseudo Paradise. A big connection between the two involve how one of the honest men died from being "nailed to a tree" despite being inside, relating to Alice's article in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red about her nailing straw effigies to trees. Other connections include how the men stumble upon a "Western-style building deep within the forest" and how the culprit was a "beautiful blonde girl", both of which relate to Alice.
Fandom
- Because of Shinki's dialog, in which she mentions that everything in Makai is her creation, it is thought that Alice is Shinki's daughter (although this definition would also extend to the other Makai residents). However, there's been no further mention of this since then, and Perfect Memento states that Alice was once a human who became a youkai magician. It is unknown whether this is a retroactive change of continuity, merely a mistake by Akyuu, or if fans were mistaken from the beginning when thinking Alice was Shinki's daughter. Since there has yet to be any official statement by ZUN, this is merely speculation. However, it is interesting to note that her title is "Witch of Death."
- Alice is often portrayed in fanon as having an obsession for dolls. In some doujin, she is often depicted making or playing with dolls. It is also widely assumed that she makes dolls of other characters for fun (such as putting on a puppet show with them). This might be somewhat official, as she has at least made dolls representing the Three Fairies of Light and used those to mock them in Strange and Bright Nature Deity. She has also used them, in some doujin, like voodoo dolls in a more sadistic manner.
- Despite being mistreated often in fanworks (or perhaps because of it), Alice is one of the most popular characters.
- Likewise in fanworks, because of her perceived cold exterior and cowardly true persona, she is frequently depicted as a down-on-her-luck tsundere. In other cases, she's also been depicted as a yandere.
- In addition, in fanworks, the PC-98 version of Alice is commonly referred to as "Lolice" (ロリス) due to the fact that she appears much younger in Mystic Square.
Spell Cards
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操符「マリオネットパラル」 | Puppeteer Sign "Marionette Parrar" | Used only in the earliest demo version; not present in subsequent demos or full release | PCB | St. 3: E/N | ||
操符「マニピュレイトパペット」 | Puppeteer Sign "Manipulate Puppet" | Used only in demo version 0.05; not present in subsequent demos or full release | PCB | St. 3: E/N | ||
操符「乙女文楽」 | Puppeteer Sign "Maiden's Bunraku" | PCB | St. 3: H/L | |||
蒼符「博愛の仏蘭西人形」 | Blue Sign "Fraternal French Dolls" | PCB GoM |
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蒼符「博愛のオルレアン人形」 | Blue Sign "Fraternal Orléans Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: L | |||
紅符「紅毛の和蘭人形」 | Scarlet Sign "Red-Haired Dutch Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: E/N | |||
白符「白亜の露西亜人形」 | White Sign "Chalk-White Russian Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: H/L | |||
闇符「霧の倫敦人形」 | Darkness Sign "Foggy London Dolls" | PCB GoM |
St. 3: E/N — | |||
廻符「輪廻の西蔵人形」 | Cycle Sign "Samsaric Tibetan Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: H | |||
雅符「春の京人形」 | Elegant Sign "Spring Kyoto Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: L | |||
咒詛「魔彩光の上海人形」 | Malediction "Magically Luminous Shanghai Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: E/N/H | |||
咒詛「首吊り蓬莱人形」 | Malediction "Hanged Hourai Dolls" | PCB | St. 3: L | |||
魔符「アーティフルサクリファイス」 | Magic Sign "Artful Sacrifice" | IaMP IN SWR |
Use Use Use | |||
魔操「リターンイナニメトネス」 | Magipulation "Return Inanimateness" | IaMP IN SWR GoM |
Use Use Use — | |||
戦符「リトルレギオン」 | War Sign "Little Legion" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
戦操「ドールズウォー」 | War Command "Dolls' War" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
咒符「上海人形」 | Curse Sign "Shanghai Doll" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
咒詛「蓬莱人形」 | Malediction "Hourai Doll" | IaMP SWR |
Use Use | |||
符の壱「アーティフルチャンター」 | Sign I "Artful Chanter" | IaMP | Story | |||
符の弐「ドールクルセイダー」 | Sign II "Doll Crusader" | IaMP | Story | |||
魔光「デヴィリーライトレイ」 | Evil Light "Devilry Light Ray" | IaMP | Story | |||
「グランギニョル座の怪人」 | "The Phantom of the Grand Guignol" | IN GoM |
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操符「ドールズインシー」 | Puppeteer Sign "Dolls in Sea" | StB | St. 3 | |||
呪符「ストロードールカミカゼ」 | Curse Sign "Straw Doll Kamikaze" | StB GoM |
St. 3 — | |||
赤符「ドールミラセティ」 | Red Sign "Doll Mira Ceti" | StB GoM |
St. 3 — | |||
偵符 「シーカードールズ」 | Spy Sign "Seeker Dolls" | SWR | Use | |||
紅符 「和蘭人形」 | Scarlet Sign "Holland Doll" | SWR | Use | |||
人形 「未来文楽」 | Doll "Futuristic Bunraku" | SWR | Use | |||
注力 「トリップワイヤー」 | Focus Power "Trip Wire" | SWR | Use | |||
足軽「スーサイドスクワッド」 | Foot Soldiers "Suicide Squad" | SWR | Story | |||
剣符「ソルジャーオブクロス」 | Sword Sign "Soldier of Cross" | SWR | Story | |||
人形「魂のないフォークダンス」 | Dolls "Soulless Folk Dance" | SWR | Story | |||
槍符「キューティー大千槍」 | Lance Sign "Cutie Phalanx" | Soku | Use | |||
人形「レミングスパレード」 | Dolls "Lemmings' Parade" | Soku | Use | |||
人形「セミオートマトン」 | Doll "Semi-Automaton" | Soku | Story | |||
騎士「ドールオブラウンドテーブル」 | Knight "Doll of Round Table" | Soku | Story | |||
犠牲「スーサイドパクト」 | Sacrifice "Suicide Pact" | Soku | Story | |||
試験中「レベルティターニア」 | Testing "Level Titania" | Soku | Story | |||
試験中「ゴリアテ人形」 | Testing "Goliath Doll" | Soku | Story |
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Official Profiles
Mystic Square
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Perfect Cherry Blossom - Character Settings.txt
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Alice Margatroid PCB | ○七色の人形使い
アリス・マーガトロイド
主に魔法を扱う程度の能力を持つ
蒐集家同士、魔理沙とかち合う事も多く、割と犬猿の仲だったりする。 最近はいわく付きの人形集めに嵌っている。
ここらへんの性格は霊夢に似ている。 |
*Seven-Colored Puppeteer
Alice Margatroid The stage 3 boss, kinda ordinary magician. Her main ability is use of magic. She is a versatile magician, that has no specific strong or weak point in any area. If you ask me, she is similar to Marisa, or rather I'd say a youkai version of Marisa. Alice is a collector as well, and has the habit of collecting magic items, especially magic books. As they both share the same hobby, she often clashes with Marisa so they're kind of in a cat-and-dog relationship. Most recently, she is interested in collecting dolls that have a story associated with them. She had no evident reason to attack Reimu and company. They were chosen for the target of her magic because they were there. Dominating the enemy with overwhelming power is not fun at all for Alice, so she always sees her opponent's reaction and tries to fight with power that exceeds the opponent by a hair. Even if she loses, she doesn't show her full power. That's because she thinks it would be the end of the rope for her if she lost with full power. In this aspect, she is somewhat similar to Reimu. |
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Immaterial and Missing Power - Shanghai Alice Correspondence.txt
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○七色の人形遣い
アリス・マーガトロイド
住処:魔法の森にあるそれなりの家(固有名称はない) 能力:魔法を扱う程度の能力
所謂、人妖のたぐいである。
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*Seven-Colored Puppeteer
Alice Margatroid Species: Magician Location: Moderate sized house in the Forest of Magic (has no specific name) Ability: Use of Magic A genuine magician. While her appearance is almost identical to humans, she is not one. She is a kind of so called humanoid youkai. Her house is crammed with a lot of dolls. The sight is so spooky that it scares rare visitors away. The house of dolls is strangest even in the forest of the bizarre. It's no wonder that they tend to run away from there. Her personality is uncaring towards others, and tends to be obsessed with magic. She pretends that she has a strong attitude, but actually she is kind of a coward in her heart. She is quite average in melee fighting. Both her physical strength and magic powers are average. Instead of that she has very high dexterity, which enables her to control many dolls as if they're living beings. That dexterity shines even among all of Gensokyo. |
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Imperishable Night - Manual
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○七色の人形遣い アリス・マーガトロイド
魔法の森に住む魔法使い。 魔法を操る程度の能力を持つ。人形を遣うのも魔法の一種である。 基本的に自分から出かける事は少ないが、今回はしぶしぶ。 魔法の森に住み、魔法使いで収集家、と魔理沙と共通点が多いが、魔理沙は人間、アリスは魔法使いという決定的な違いがある。 ちなみに、魔法の森に生えるきのこを好んで使う、使わない、の違いもある。 もちろんアリスは使わない方。だからという訳では無いが、二人は仲が悪い。 武器は魔法。魔法使いの魔法は常に術者オリジナル。
今回は魔理沙と組む。 高速移動は単独使用時のみの性能 レーザーは貫通するのと出っ放しな 撃っているのは人形だが。 せっかくだから速攻で、と言う人に。 |
*Seven-Colored Puppeteer, Alice Margatroid
A magician living in the Forest of Magic. Her ability allows her to use magic. Puppetry is a type of magic too. She rarely goes out by herself, but she had no other choice this time. She has many similarities to Marisa, namely living in the Forest of Magic, being a magician and a collectomaniac. However, they have an absolute difference in that Alice is a magician as a species while Marisa is a human magician. Other than that, they're also different in using forest's mushroom as preference or not. Of course, Alice is the one who doesn't like using them. Because of that and other things, they're on bad terms. Magic is her weapon. A magician's magic is always originally developed by the magician.
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Imperishable Night - Character Settings.txt
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○七色の人形遣い
アリス・マーガトロイド Alice Margatroid
能力:魔法を扱う程度の能力
魔理沙の魔法使い(職業)と異なり、種族が魔法使いである。
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Seven-Colored Puppeteer
Alice Margatroid Species: Magician Ability: Use of magic A magician living in the Forest of Magic. The greatest difference between Alice and Marisa is that Marisa is a human of magician occupation whereas Alice is a magician as a species. You might imagine magicians as being indoor-type people; in Alice's case, you'd be right. She spends most of her time alone, and the forest is a good place for that. The forest is quite humid, however, and her dolls will become damaged without her constant care. Because of this, she's currently planning to make a doll that will automatically take care of other dolls. |
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Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html
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Subterranean Animism - Character Settings.txt
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○七色の人形遣い アリス・マーガトロイド 種族:魔法使い 森に住んでいる人形遣い。 間欠泉から不穏な空気を感じたが、妖怪が地底に行く事は憚れていたのでどうしようか悩んでいた。 |
The Seven-Colored Puppeteer Alice Margatroid Species: magician A puppeteer that lives in the forest. She felt something odd about the geyser that erupted, but since youkai prefer not to go underground she worried over what to do. That's when she noticed that Marisa was especially interested in the geyser, so she convinced Marisa to investigate the underground for her. She told her that investigating the hot spring would be a fun game, and pointed her towards the source of the geyser. She also made her carry dolls that had Yukari's remote control devices in them. |
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Official Sources
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- 1998/12/03 Mystic Square - Stage 3 dialogue; Extra Stage dialogue; Extra Stage endings
- 2003/08/17 Perfect Cherry Blossom - Official profile; Stage 3 dialogue
- 2004/08/15 Imperishable Night - Official profile; Marisa and Alice's scenario and extra stage dialogue
- 2004/12/30 Immaterial and Missing Power - Official profile; Alice's scenario; Alice's Vs. mode dialogue
- 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Alice
- 2005/12/30 Shoot the Bullet - Stage 3 Spell Card comments
- 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Article
- 2007/01/26~2007/02/26, 2007/05/26 Strange and Bright Nature Deity - Chapters 5-6, 9
- 2008/05/25 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - Official Profile; Alice's scenario; Alice's Vs. mode dialogue
- 2008/08/16 Subterranean Animism - Official profile; Marisa and Alice's scenario and extra stage dialogue
- 2008/09/22 Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth - Chapter 16
- 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Alice Margatroid's Spell Cards
- 2009/08/15 Touhou Hisoutensoku - Cirno's scenario; Alice's Vs. mode dialogue
- 2009/12/22 Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth - Chapter 30
- 2010/11/25 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 3 (cameo)
- 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
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- Characters in Subterranean Animism
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