Alice (American McGee's Alice)/Synopsis

The story of Alice (American McGee's Alice) from the Alice franchise.
== History ==
=== Childhood ===
Alice was born in England circa 1856 where she spent most of her childhood in Oxford in the south of England. She lived a comfortable, happy life with Arthur Liddell, a dean at Oxford University, her mother and sister Elizabeth who was too old to be a good playmate to Alice, even though she was loving.
The family cared for a cat named Dinah and two of her kittens later on. Alice was a very imaginative and creative girl who immersed in her imaginary land called Wonderland. Her daydreams of her imaginary world led Nan Sharpe, a nanny who also taught Alice and her sister French and music, to have conversations with Mrs. Liddell about it. At one point, Nan told Alice that if she spent as much time as practicing the piano instead of daydreaming, she would be the next Sullivan or Gilbert. Mrs. Liddell also had Alice practice the piano frequently.
Being a dean at the Oxford University, Arthur would often invite his undergraduates to tea at the family household. Due to their constant appearances and mannerisms, Lizzie expressed her disgust of them to Alice, calling them a "bunch of toadies".
== The Fire ==
During a winter night on November 5, 1863, a fire was mysteriously started within the Liddell household. Before the event, Alice witnessed a figure entering the house that night. However, she convinced herself that she saw a centaur instead, and that the sounds coming from her sister's room had been Lizzie talking in her sleep when it really was the one who entered the house raping Lizzie. The figure locked Lizzie's room with her room key and fled the house. Alice did smell some smoke before she fully awakened but was too busy being immersed in her daydream, something which would later cause her psychological guilt. 
While asleep Alice was at the Mad Hatter's tea party with the rest of her friends in Wonderland, a fire had also broke out, sending Mad Hatter and White Rabbit into a frenzy. The Rabbit told Hatter to save Alice and Hatter's scream roused Alice within her sleep. Although seriously burnt, Alice managed to escape by jumping out of a window with her rabbit doll and cushioning herself on snow, led by her cat Dinah who also survived the fire. Her family were less fortunate, and Alice was forced to leave them to be incinerated within the fire that destroyed their home.
As Alice cried outside her burning house, she saw the figure from earlier disappear in the shadows. Eventually, some nearby townsfolk found Alice and escorted her away from the scene. After Wilton J. Radcliffe identified the bodies at the Oxford Morgue, Lizzie's body was the only one not burnt by the flames. After an investigation, it was concluded that the fire was started due to the clumsiness of Dinah and a still-lit oil lamp in the downstairs library.
== Littlemore Infirmary ==
Alice was sent to Littlemore Infirmary on November 5, 1863 immediately after the house fire.. It is implied that Alice's burns were first-degree burns, but not second-degree because Alice's dermis was unharmed. Alice was cared for by a surgeon named Dr. Grantham who lost his sanity and it is implied he accidentally killed himself. The following year, she was judged sufficiently healed however the trauma from her families death and from the fire caused her to fall into a catatonic state. She was then transferred to Rutledge Asylum for the treatment of her broken mental state.
== Rutledge Asylum ==
On November 4, 1864, Alice was transferred to Rutledge Asylum in London under the care of Dr. Heironymous Q. Wilson, as it was the best solution to handle her symptoms. At her preliminary examination on November 11, 1864, Alice was presented as deaf, dumb, and blind to stimulation. Despite insensible passivity, preternatural quietness, and evident dementia, a course of treatment was prescribed. She would spend the next ten years under the care of Dr. Wilson During her time at the asylum. Alice would be exposed to numerous methods to remove her illness, such as going through shock therapy, leeches, blood-letting, solitary confinement, and sensory deprivation. All of the methods failed, however, and she would slowly begin to recover by 1874.
== American McGee's Alice ==
One night, the White Rabbit comes to her and tells her she must return to Wonderland to undo the wicked deformities brought on by the dictatorship of the malevolent Queen of Hearts. It is revealed later that, by overthrowing the Queen of Hearts, Alice will not only save Wonderland, but her own sanity as well. This is evident when, in the aftermath of her victory, Wonderland and its inhabitants can be seen reverting to their original forms and Alice leaving the sunny gates of Rutledge Asylum accompanied by a cat presumably her family cat Dinah and carrying a packed suitcase.
== Alice: Madness Returns ==
In Madness Returns, a year after the events of the first game. Alice has fallen on hard times. Now living at Houndsditch Home for Wayward Youth in Victorian London, Alice is under the care of Dr. Angus Bumby, a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to help his patients forget their haunting memories. Believing the fire which killed her family was no accident, Alice investigates it whilst having hallucinations of Wonderland once again corrupted and beginning to fall apart, now by the Infernal Train and the Ruin monsters. She eventually learns her psychiatrist, Dr. Bumby, was responsible for burning down her home and raped her sister beforehand. The furious Alice confronts him at Moorgate station, where she retrieves her sister's bedroom key and then mercilessly pushes Bumby into the path of an oncoming train, which kills him instantly. After emerging from the station Alice's reality appears to now fused Wonderland and it created a brand new world named Londerland, Cheshire Cat remarked that her memory was safe for the time being.
== Alice: Otherlands ==
After the events of Bumby's death and Londerland's discovery, Alice connected with and entered the mentalities and minds of those around her, further learning about the horrors of the human subconscious. Having unified the material and psychological worlds, Alice embraced her power, which allowed her to move freely between both realms. As she was no longer limited by mortal constraints, she can enter into and manipulate the psychological worlds of others. She became confident and powerful, and was able to help those in need – confronting manifestations of their psychological trauma, and thereby guiding them to resolution and tranquility.
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