Alis

**Alis** is the protagonist and titular character of Alis Pastry.

## History

Alis was first mentioned in the introductory ARG to ECKVA; during it, Danielle Scott's email sent four variations of the same email, with a different image for each email. One of them showed a heavily distorted picture of a donut, with "ALICE" written in bold letters atop it. Later, after the release of ECKVA2, eckva.net/7777 updated to show a giant, 7777x7777 picture of Alis' face.

Alis was properly introduced in ECKVA3, with the beginning of Alis Pastry through an animation test. The title card called it test #452, with it being a part of the children's programming department. The video itself showed Alis walking through heavily distorted backgrounds; after walking for a few seconds, she began to glitch out, before speaking in a voice that later appeared during the EAS of ECKVA5. The current best transcript of what she said was: "Stay inside. Stay inside if you value the rest of your life. I see him watching me and it's not [unknown]". After speaking, she rapidly flashed through multiple images of her arms growing into branches that take up the entire screen, while also revealing a third eye on her head.

Alis was not seen again until ECKVA7, which showed the Alis Pastry episode "alis goes to TV". In the episode, Alis is sitting in an abstract void while watching television; as she watches, the television shows a different Alis Pastry cartoon titled "alis goes to doctor". This shows Alis visiting The Doctor, lying down on an operating table as they look at a scan of her brain; the scan shows a human skull with a bright light in the middle of her brain. After the Doctor touches the light, a brief error screen appears before he delivers his diagnostic, which is that she does not see what's important, while dispatching a house call.

She appears again briefly in ECKVA8, where she's seen branching out her arms to grab onto the mind of an individual. As she does this, she has a smile on her face, and her third eye from ECKVA3 appears again. This animation is overtop a low-quality video of either a television or a computer monitor. Before anything can happen, the broadcast is cut short due to interference at SHawkins television setup.

Her next appearance is in ECKVA10, during the episode "alis learns to listen". It shows her walking in a colorful void to the right as she passes by a television. It initially shows the house call dispatched screen from ECKVA9, but after she disappears off screen, strange growths emerge from the television screen, before it switches to a highly detailed close-up of her face listening to a cartoon representation of ARKlistener. ARKlistener's face appears to slide off its head as it speaks unintelligible gibberish, before the cartoon glitches out, triggering a reset that shows a Preaxin commercial.

Alis appears again in ECKVA11, during the episode "QUIETBUG COMES HOME". She first appears sitting in a house, watching "alis learns to listen" on a television; however, after watching it for a moment, she emanates a loud noise while the television distorts, bouncing around the room until she vanishes. ARKlistener is seen watching through the window as she leaves through a door; as this happens, an overlay of Quietbug is just barely visible. A brief flash of an unidentified face is then seen before it transitions to the Broadcaster using the ARKlistener system.

Her next appearance after that is in ECKVA14, during a segment in an unnamed Alis Pastry episode called "NEXT TIME". In it, she's looking up at another Alis with a more elongated head as it flies down to her; it hugs her head, then tears it off her body, flying away quickly with it as a face briefly appears in the upper left corner. After this is a brief appearance in ECKVA17 during an unnamed Alis Pastry episode, where she is seen speaking with both words and sign language; however, both are gibberish and unable to be deciphered.

Alis' final appearance to date is in ECKVA18, where she appears in an Alis Pastry episode titled "ALIS PASTRY GETS BETTER". She first appears in a continuation of the cartoon from ECKVA14, with the Alis that has an elongated head carrying her head through a strange void; the distorted face of The Doctor is in the upper left corner. After a moment, a black tendril reaches from the bottom of the screen to drag both down. The two are then seen in front of the Doctor, who's very distorted, as the Alis with an elongated head twitches rapidly on the floor. Alis, meanwhile, has her body returned to her. The Doctor holds out a pill, which Alis takes; there's originally a messy background with lots of distorted noise playing, but as she takes it, the background changes to pure white while the distorted noise disappears, leaving just music and smoother static. She next appears with very long legs, taking Boxface out of the abandoned house as a bright light rapidly moves around in the background.

She has not yet made another appearance.

## Theories

It is widely believed that the Broadcaster uses the characters, environments, and events in Alis Pastry episodes represent certain people, places, and events in the world of ECKVA Network. With this in mind, it is commonly theorized that Alis Pastry is meant to be representative of BLOT victims, or perhaps BLOT itself. ECKVA3 and ECKVA8 both show her with branching arms, and a 3rd eye; meanwhile, Louse shows the Blot creating branches from itself, while the 3rd eye might be able to be tied to the camera eyes seen in ECKVA15, ECKVA16, and ECKVA18. Those don't show the camera moving as eyes normally would, but instead appear more like a camera imbedded into the head of SHawkins, which may be what Alis' third eye is showing. This would also match with ECKVA7, where a bright light is seen in Alis' head; meanwhile, both SHawkins and Andrew Raymond mentioned something crawling through their brain when they were blotted. However, this correlation is not confirmed. Alis representing BLOT victims instead of BLOT itself may be supported by there being two Alis' that appear in ECKVA14 and ECKVA18.

It is also theorized that Alis may be representative of Liz Steiner specifically, as she was the lead animator of Alice's Bakery, which Alis Pastry is a bastardization of; she also disappeared in an abandoned house in Georgia, and was presumably never found. This is not mutually exclusive with the theory that Alis represents BLOT victims, if the one seen most frequently is meant to represent Liz; however, this is not confirmed.