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アリス・マーガトロイド
(♫)
Alice Margatroid
Alice Margatroid
Alice Margatroid in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
七色の人形遣い
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Species

Magician (Formerly a human)

Abilities

Magic, puppetry

Age

Unknown, but relatively young for a youkai

Occupation

Magician

Location

Forest of Magic

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

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.

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Relationships

Marisa Kirisame

Marisa is Alice's neighbor in the Forest of Magic.

Patchouli Knowledge
Eirin Yagokoro
Shanghai and Hourai

Alice seems to be closest to Shanghai and Hourai, who are her dolls that she created.

Goliath Doll

She also created Goliath Doll used for "testing", but what she wanted to test is unknown.

Shinki

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 chapter 5, Alice's dolls appear to be able to act and talk independently, but according to her Perfect Memento in Strict Sense article, she hasn't yet succeeded in creating an independent doll, and a conversation between Marisa and Rinnosuke in Curiosities of Lotus Asia chapter 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: Twice as a midboss and the third as the actual boss of stage 3 in Perfect Cherry Blossom.
  • 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.
  • Yuki and Mai's second attack in Samidare looks very similar to Alice's second attack in Mystic Square's Extra Stage.
  • 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 in Strict Sense 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 been depicted as a yandere.
  • 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.

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Total: 39
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
St. 3: E/N/H
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
LW
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

  3面のボス、わりと普通の魔法使い。
  主に魔法を扱う程度の能力を持つ

  とりあえず万能の魔法使いであり、これといって属性に得手不得手は
  無い。強いて言えば魔理沙に近く、言わば妖怪版魔理沙である。

  アリスも蒐集家であり、本等のマジックアイテムを収集する癖がある。
  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。

  霊夢達と戦う明示的な理由は無い。そこに居たから魔法の相手になっ
  ただけである。圧倒的な力で勝つことは、アリスにとって楽しくとも
  なんとも無いので、常に相手の様子見て、それより少しだけ上の力で
  戦おうとする。負けても全力は出さない。

  全力で戦って負けると、本当に後が無い為である。   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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Alice Margatroid IaMP  ○七色の人形遣い

  アリス・マーガトロイド

  種族:魔法使い
  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

   生粋の魔法使いさん。見た目は人間と殆ど同じだが、人間ではない。
  所謂、人妖のたぐいである。

   彼女の家には所狭しと大量の人形が置かれている。その不気味さは、たまに迷い込む人間を恐怖に陥れる。不気味な森の中にある、余りにも異質な人形の家。それは、森がいくら不気味だとしても逃げ出したくなるのも当然の事だ。

   性格は、他人に無関心で、魔法に執着しやすい。強気を張っているが実は臆病な面もある。

   体術は至って普通。体を動かすのも魔法も使うのも人並みである。器用さはかなり高く、大量の人形をあたかも生きているかのように操る事が出来る。その器用さは幻想郷の中でもピカイチである。

*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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Alice Margatroid IN  ○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。


    備考

    今回は魔理沙と組む。

    高速移動は単独使用時のみの性能
    である。

    レーザーは貫通するのと出っ放しな
    ので、思いのほか強い。雑魚戦ボス
    戦共に重宝する。

    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.

Notes
She teams with Marisa this time.
Normal speed only applies when she is used as a solo character.
Her laser penetrates and lasts as long as the player wishes, so it's unexpectedly strong. Good against both bosses and weaklings.
It's her doll that is shooting the laser though.
Recommended for those who want to be done quickly.

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Imperishable Night - Character Settings.txt

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Alice Margatroid IN  ○七色の人形遣い

  アリス・マーガトロイド
  Alice Margatroid

  種族:魔法使い
  能力:魔法を扱う程度の能力

  魔法の森に住む魔法使い。
  魔理沙の魔法使い(職業)と異なり、種族が魔法使いである。

  魔法使いという言葉のイメージ通り、インドア派である。基本的には一人でいる事が多い。魔法の森には人間が余り来ないので、非常に快適である。ただ、森は嫌な湿度が高く、人形の手入れをしないとすぐに痛んでしまう。その為、人形の手入れを自動で行う人形を作ろうと思っている。

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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Alice Margatroid SWR  ○七色の人形遣い

  アリス・マーガトロイド

  種族:魔法使い
  職業:魔法使い
  住家:魔法の森にある
      マーガトロイド邸
  能力:魔法を扱う程度の能力
  性格:他人に無関心で、魔法に執着
      しやすい

Seven-Colored Puppeteer

Alice Margatroid

Race: Magician
Occupation: Magician
Place of residence: the Margatroid residence, in the Forest of Magic

Ability: the power to use magic
Personality: indifferent towards others, loves magic

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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
  Alice Margatroid

  種族:魔法使い
  能力:人形を操る程度の能力

  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。
  そんな時、魔理沙が間欠泉に興味津々だったのを見て、魔理沙を唆して地底に調査に行かせる事にしたのである。
  魔理沙には温泉が楽しめるゲームだと言って、間欠泉の根元に向かわせたのだ。紫に作ってもらった遠隔操作できる人形を持たせて。

The Seven-Colored Puppeteer


Alice Margatroid

Species: magician
Ability: power to control dolls

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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