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Alice Margatroid

Name:

アリス・マーガトロイド

Alice Margatroid

Species:

Magician

Abilities:

Magic, Puppetry

Age:

Unknown

Occupation:

Magician

Location:

Forest of Magic

Description:

  • (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, black boots, and a red ribbon in her hair.
  • (Touhou 7.5) Same as above, except her eyes were very dark green and nearly black.
  • (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.
  • (Touhou 5) Wears a pink dress with a blue ribbon and a matching headband with a ribbon on the side. Her eyes were gold, and her hair ribbon was blue.

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Appearances:

Titles:

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Alice 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're actually kind of close, sharing many of the same interests and even teaming up during Imperishable Night. It's like a love/hate relationship really.

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 really 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.

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.

Fun Facts

  • The name Alice is a reference to the main protagonist in Lewis Carroll's famous novel Alice 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".
  • 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. 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 Akyu, or if fans were mistaken from the beginning when thinking Alice was Shinki's daughter. The doujin entitled "The Grimoire of Alice" by Ear House attempts to reconcile this by portraying Alice as a human baby abandoned near or inside of Makai, adopted by Shinki, and turned into a youkai by her grimoire during the Mystic Square EX battle. But since there has yet to be any official statement by ZUN, this is merely speculation.
  • 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 spellcard) and thus all fan depictions of Hourai are original. In Imperishable Night, Alice uses Shanghai to assist firing her shots. Both dolls are used as weapons by Alice in Immaterial and Missing Power.
  • Alice may have an obsession for dolls. In some doujins, she is depicted as playing with dolls, making dolls, and in a 4koma series, trying to deliver a handmade doll to Sakuya, Santa-style.
  • Despite being mistreated often in fanworks (or perhaps because of it), Alice is one of the most popular characters, similar to Meiling. Because of her cold exterior and cowardly true persona, she is frequently depicted as a down-on-her-luck tsundere (alternately hostile and lovesick) girl, especially when Marisa is involved.
  • 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.
  • Alice's last name is based on the character Miss Murgatroyd from Agatha Christie's book "A Murder Is Announced."

Official Profiles

Mystic Square

Alice Margatroid

Alice Margatroid

N/A


Perfect Cherry Blossom - キャラ設定.txt

Alice Margatroid

 ○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 evincive 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 point, she is somewhat similar to Reimu.


Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt

Alice Margatroid

 ○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 natural born 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 truthfully 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.


Imperishable Night - Manual

Alice Margatroid

 ○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 part 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 natural-born magician while Marisa is a human.

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.


Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt

Alice Margatroid

 ○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 was born human and trained to be a magician whereas Alice was born a magician.

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.


Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - chara.html

Alice Margatroid

 ○

  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


Book Synopsis

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Main article: Article and Interview: Alice

Alice has been making straw effigies and nailing them to trees in the forest behind the shrine, a ritual usually done in order to curse someone (similar to the use of a voodoo doll.) However, she claims that she is only doing it to further her research in creating an independent doll.

During the following interview, Alice complains that since Aya spied on her nailing the effigies, the effectiveness of the ritual was reduced. She talks about how although such effigies don't look like anyone in particular, they symbolically represent someone, then evades the question of who that someone might be. Finally, she mentions that she thinks she saw an independently moving doll "a long time ago", and has been trying to create one ever since.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Main article: Perfect Memento: Alice Margatroid
  • Alice is known among humans for doing performances with her dolls during festivals.
  • Alice was once human and became a youkai magician through training. She is young as a youkai, so she is considerate towards humans and still behaves as one of them would.
  • Anyone is welcome to stay over at her small house in the Forest of Magic, but as she never makes conversation and only carries on with her research, she is unsettling company.
  • Most of Alice's dolls are made by her. They do the household chores, but since she is controlling them, this isn't really any easier for her.
  • Alice is believed to rarely attack humans, however she will gladly accept challenges. During battle, she is busy controlling her army of dolls, so her weak point is herself.
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