Alyx (RWBY)

Alyx is the main overarching protagonist of RWBY Volume 9 and the main protagonist of the in-universe fairy tale The Girl Who Fell Through the World. 
Originally born from the Kingdom of Vacuo before the Great War started, she, along with her brother were transported into the Ever After via unknown reasons, and both of them adventured to the Great Tree to get back to Remnant.
She was voiced by Shara Kirby in English, who also voices J in Murder Drones, and Mayu Yoshioka in Japanese. 
==Appearance==
Alyx was a young girl with dark brown skin, along with long, dark brown wavy hair and hazel eyes. She wore a baby blue-colored collar shirt with puffy sleeves, alongside a navy skirt with golden trimmed swirl and star-like patterns, and for footwear she wore black leather boots. She also wore a dark blue headband on her hair, with the headband having two knots resembling the ears of a rabbit, a waist sash with colors that consist of gold, navy, red, cyan, and magenta strings with a golden rabbit pin, and bandages around her right leg, although it is unknown if it was used to cover a wound or not. 
==Personality==
In the fairy tale telling of Alyx, she was described as a petulant, cunning, intelligent, innocent and adventurous girl who strived to return home after arriving in the Ever After, even if she had to resort to lying, cheating, manipulating and stealing from the Afterans so that they could help her in her quest to return home, with the story ultimately painting her as both a desperate little girl who had done everything to survive in a foreign world and as someone "mean" due to her methods. Alyx was also described to have had difficulty in understanding the customs of the Ever After and unknowingly ignited a war by accident due to her ignorance.
Her personality in the story differed between characters:
*As described by Yang, she was not a nice person, due to her actions of lying and cheating her way through all of the challenges in the Ever After.
*According to Ozpin, she entered the Ever After after she fled from the consequences of a choice, and rather than learning from her mistake, she ended up spreading her failure.
*As mentioned by Weiss, she was merely trying to survive in the perilous land and her actions are due to the simple morals of old fairy tales.
*In reality, however, as revealed by Jaune Arc, she was purely selfish, and even outright cruel, believing that the Ever After was just a figment in everyone´s imagination and that the rules do not apply to her. Due to an unknown change inside her after meeting the Herbalist, she turned on the Rusted Knight, the Curious Cat, and even her own brother when she questioned them about everything. As such, she was completely focused on returning home, even if she had to resort to poisoning Jaune when she believed she was against her, as well as sacrificing Lewis to the tree.
**The Curious Cat, on the other hand, stated that Alyx lied and manipulated them with false promises to continue helping her and Lewis. Her selfish personality was intense enough that Jaune suspected she would get rid of her own brother by sacrificing him to the Tree just to escape, but that was a lie, as when she arrived at the Great Tree, she suddenly had a crisis in faith which later led to a change in heart, with Alyx finally choosing to stay in the Ever After to atone for her mistakes as Lewis went back home. But despite this, however, the Curious Cat saw Alyx´s choice as betrayal, which led to them killing her, debunking the Cat's earlier claim as nothing more than their own fury towards her.
Before she had strained relationships with othes, she somehow enjoyed the Ever After, with Jaune noting that she had fun hearing all of his stories alongside her brother, showing delight as she explored the land with them and smiling at all the wonders.
==Powers and Abilities==
Although her known fighting skills was limited, Alyx´s most notable trait was her own cunning personality, in which she had lied, cheated, and manipulated her way through the Ever After, and it was implied that this was the reason she managed to power through the challenges that she faced, such as escaping the Hunter Mice´s killer vine trap and fighting off the Jabberwalker, though it was unknown how she did them. Originally, when arriving in the Ever After, Alyx was armed with just an ordinary dagger that she used during her journey, but although she used it to fight off the Jabberwalker, she was unable to fight back against the Curious Cat when they angrily turned on her, leading to her death.
== History ==
=== Early Life, journey into the Ever After, and Death ===
Not much is known about Alyx and her life before her journey in the Ever After. She and her brother Lewis were from Vacuo during a time before the Great War, before the two ended up in the Ever After together through unknown means. Alyx met with the Hunter Mice, got trapped in vines, and fought the Jabberwalker. She got her weapon stolen by the Jinxy Peddler, and had to barter with him by giving him her saddest and happiest memories to get her dagger back. She later beat the Red King at a board game, met the Curious Cat and the Rusted Knight, Jaune, who introduced himself as someone from Remnant like them, and was waiting for his friends. Together with her brother, the four made their way through the Ever After to the Great Tree, with Alyx promising the Curious Cat that she'll take them back to Remnant with her. The four travelled to many places, where Alyx would cause trouble and strife wherever she went.
At some point during their journey that was not included in the fairy tale, Alyx met the Herbalist whom she enjoyed. Though soon after Alyx changed after her meeting, becoming much more distrustful towards her friends and even family, accusing them of keeping her trapped in the Ever After. She eventually decided to leave, secretly poisoning Jaune and proclaimed he wouldn't stop her from escaping.
Alongside with Lewis and the Curious Cat, Alyx arrived at the Great Tree. However, before she left, she spoke with the Great Tree and experienced a crisis of faith. Watching Lewis leave, Alyx spoke to the Cat and explained she desired to make amends for all the trouble she caused in the Ever After, remorseful for what she'd done. However, the Curious Cat became angry over her breaking her promise, and killed her.
=== Legacy ===
After her death, Alyx's knife would be taken to the Blacksmith. Back on Remnant, her brother Lewis would write a story of her in honor of her memory, writing himself out of the story while attributing some of his personality onto her. He also changed the story a bit by omitting many other places and characters the two had seen.
After the Cat secretly killed Alyx, both the Cat and Jaune would hold her in contempt for decades, the first for her breaking her promise to them to bring them to Remnant with her if they helped her that ended up twisting the Curious Cat's personality and heart, causing them to become much crueler and more manipulative to succeed in their goal of escaping the Ever After and traveling to Remnant through any means necessary. While Jaune hated Alyx for poisoning him, and to his belief, her lying about what truly happened in Ever After in her fairy tale and Jaune coming to believe that she had supposedly sacrificed Lewis to the Great Tree to make it home to explain why Lewis was exempted from the story. Jaune only found out the truth many years later from the Curious Cat after his friends fell into the Ever After and joined him.
After falling off of the tree, Jaune experienced a vision of Alyx who encouraged him to change into the kind of man that Jaune always wanted to be.
Before Jaune and his friends returned to Remnant, the Blacksmith confirmed that the Curious Cat had been telling the truth about Alyx's change of heart and betrayal of the Cat and that The Girl Who Fell Through the World is the story as Lewis wished it had happened while Alyx's broken promise broke the Curious Cat's heart, leading to their cruelty with no one to send them back to the tree for repair. Producing Alyx's knife, the Blacksmith revealed that when Alyx died, she chose to leave a part of herself behind as a wish to fix what she had broken. Jaune took Alyx's knife which surrounded him in a bright glow as Alyx's spirit briefly appeared to smile at him. As a final gift to her old friend, Alyx restored Jaune's youth, turning him back into the young man that Jaune was when he first fell into the Ever After, his unblemished armor included (although it was unknown if Crocea Mors´ blade was restored).
== Trivia ==
* Alyx alludes to Alice from Lewis Caroll´s Alice in Wonderland, where her brother, Lewis, alludes to Lewis Caroll himself.
** Alyx also used a knife for combat against a Jabberwalker, which may allude to Alice using one in the video game "American McGee's Alice" and its sequel, "Alice: Madness Returns".
* Due to the fact that she was born before the Great War in Remnant, her name is not derived from a color at all.
* Her 3D character model was created for the clip of her illusion talking to Jaune in "Of Solitude and Self".
* Although it in confirmed that non-Afterans such as Humans and Faunus can ascend in the Ever After, as shown with Ruby, who chose to ascend as herself while all healed up with her battle outfit repaired, as well as regaining her emblem pin, the Blacksmith, the avatar of the Great Tree who is responsible for the process of Ascension, stated that Alyx simply died and passed on, with only a piece of her spirit remaining in her dagger, which was later used to restore Jaune back to his youthful self. This implies that if a species outside the Ever After dies without accepting Ascension through the leaves, they perish fully and do not ascend.
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