Alice

* Spirit
* Enraged
* Reborn
* Past
* Child
* Malice(Full Control)

"*Because...* *I love him. I love him.*"
–***-Alice to Alfred in the imaginary door.***

**Alice Aduraice** is the main antagonist of *(Mario) The Music Box*and *(Mario) The Music Box -ARC-*. She possesses Mario throughout both games. Alice has murdered many people when she was alive and has continued to do so as a spirit.

## Appearance

Alice is a slim and well-endowed 26-year-old woman (at least at the time of her death) with dirty blonde hair, green eyes, a blue column-off-the-shoulder dress, and blue high heels. As an entity, she has pale skin and black sclera with glowing green eyes.

## Personality

Alice is introduced as malicious and megalomaniacal being to the extreme, going to great lengths to continue her massacre from long ago and resorting to all methods possible to do so such as stealing control of Mario's body. Over time, she is shown and described to be very extroverted and judgmental, unafraid and quite ready to voice her rock bottom opinion of others no matter who it is including other powerful beings such as Aurora, Marchionne, and her ex-husband Riba. She also displays nigh-unparalleled confidence in herself, possessing the belief that she is guaranteed to succeed in her goals against all others, although she is capable of recognizing when she is in real danger. Being selfish, turbulent, and hysterical as well to a fault, she often gives in to fits when things do not go her way and displays total disregard for the welfare of others en route to achieving her goal as seen with both Mario Brothers. Lastly, she possesses a strong sadistic streak and love of violence, relishing in being called a cold-blooded killer and taking strong pleasure in causing pain to others whether physical or psychological.

Exploring the ARC Expansion of (Mario) the Music Box, Alice is also given a misogynistic angle, revealed to be due to her abusive mother's treatment of her in her childhood. This misogyny has festered into a strong and hostile mistrust towards other women, particularly manifesting as murderous envy towards Riba's first wife, Elizabeth, when she learned of their relationship. Indeed, other interactions she has concerning other women are dismissive at best as seen when openly disparaging Rosa following the latter's suicide to Alfred's face.

Though she is oftentimes in the throes of hysteria, she is nonetheless highly attentive to who is responsible for the misfortunes that occur around her and is extremely indignant when anyone attempts to blame her for them. For example, in the insane route of Arc, when Mario loses his sanity, kills Luigi, and believes that it is Alice's doing, she objects and points out that she did absolutely nothing and continued to say that Luigi's death was solely Mario's fault. Another example is when Marchionne tells Mario that he blames his misfortunes on Alice and that Mario should do the same. Using Mario's body, Alice objects Marchionne and argues that he is the one at fault, stating that his selfishness and cruel indifference made her life a living hell. She then continues by pointing out that although Marchionne blames her for Luciano's death, he was the very person who betrayed and killed him.

As seen throughout the game and in the trial of Wrath from the insane route of Arc, Alice is a vengeful ghost and filled to the brim with rage. Her anger for all the misfortunes inflicted upon her is so potent that Anna had to seal her away, claiming that if she were to go free, her wrath would destroy the entire world. Marchionne later claims this as well in the trail of Pride when Mario and Alice confront him. She hates Riba for the mental suffering he inflicted upon her, which is shown in the numerous death scenes where she kills him in the main game and in Arc. She also shows how much she loathes her mother, Evie, claiming that it's because of her that she holds a rather negative outlook on the world.

Alice is so malicious and immoral that her mere presence alone can scare away hostile ghosts. This is shown at the beginning of Arc in the Insane Route, where she scares away both the bathroom spirit as well as the random spirit inside of the treasure chest room (which only happens if the player lets the time run out). However, her aura does not have any effect on the hostile spirits haunting Evangeline.

Prior to becoming a spirit, Alice was shown to be infatuated with Riba to the point of being completely obsessed with and dependent upon him. Even as a young girl, she wanted to grow up and marry him. Upon learning that he was married to Elizabeth and had a child named Anna, Alice became enraged. She was heartbroken and greatly upset at Riba betraying her. Envious and vengeful, Alice confronts Elizabeth and retaliates by killing her and burning down Riba's house. As the house starts to burn, Alice sees Riba's and Elizabeth's child, Anna, whom she hated upon sight and planned to let her die. Anna's existence only worsened Alice's feeling of betrayal. However, when Alice heard Riba come to see the burning house, she decided to save Anna, knowing that if she chooses not to spare her, Riba will become suspicious, which will not only ruin her chances of marrying him but will also put her in trouble with the law. Alice's love for Riba may also make her subconsciously and erroneously believe that either she is entitled to Riba, or believe that she was always in a romantic relationship with him. This is shown when Alice firmly believes that Riba cheated on her despite the fact that they never had an official romantic relationship prior to Riba marrying Elizabeth. Even Riba, who after logically explaining how he never cheated and still failing to change Alice's mind, comments, "There's really no way to get this through to you..."

Despite Alice's flaws, she proves herself to not be inherently evil. Excluding Evie, she has shown to greatly care about her family, especially her father, even though he was not her biological father. Although Anna was her adopted child, she grew to care about and love her prior to Serena's birth. However, when Alice contracted a serious disease, she became determined not to die. This desperation, along with Riba taking advantage of it, plunged her into madness and drove her to killing her entire family. Alice has shown that, despite her affection for her loved ones, she, like most humans, prioritizes her survival over everything and almost everyone else in the end.

Upon learning that Riba manipulated her to kill her family, Alice became livid and casted a curse upon him, making it so that Riba cannot ever leave the mansion (unless either Alice lifts the curse herself or Alice's spirit passes on). She promises to make Riba understand her pain and to do everything in her power to hurt him.

Despite being a vengeful spirit full of rage, Alice also has expressed sincere guilt and sadness for her sins and the outcome of her life. Before Riba murders her, she thinks about everyone she's killed or lost (including Anna). On the rooftop, Alice appears in the form of Mario and talks to Luigi, telling him about how her zealous affection for Riba destroyed her and even encouraging Luigi to not make the same mistakes that she did. Her sorrow is further expressed in the True Ending as well as in the Hallway of Pride during the Continuance 4 ending, where Alice says that all she wanted was to live again and desired to not be alone anymore. In the Continuance 4 ending, in the Hallway of Pride, where Riba expresses guilt for making her suffer, she tearfully confesses that she wishes they could go back and start over, showing that she has finally forgiven him.

## Weapon

Knife–usually used by herself, Sometimes possessing Mario to use this weapon.

## History

A long time ago, Alice had lived with her mother Evie and her stepfather Isaac, and the family was originally quite poor. Having an abusive mother such as Evie and with Isaac likely unaware of the abuse, Alice spent her childhood very hungry, sleep deprived, and always made to work to put food on the table and beg for money. Even after the family had become rich, Evie had drained Isaac of all his funds and decided to abandon Alice. One day, she met Riba in Evangeline who, after briefly speaking with her, enlisted her aid to dispose of Marchionne in order to bring power to Riba and wealth to her own family. At some unspecified time, Alice had secretly imprisoned her mother Evie for several days before confronting her mother and then killing her. Alice herself continued to spy on Marchionne and had an encounter with Luciano, antagonizing him briefly under the belief that he was a witch. After Marchionne's execution, Riba then took the position as the head clergy of Evangeline while Alice's family was able to live in their home again. He soon married a woman named Elizabeth, thus breaking his promise of marrying Alice when she grew up. When Alice became an adult, she went to visit Riba but found out that he had a child, Anna, with Elizabeth.

Alice, who still remembered the promise of marriage that Riba made to her as a child, became angry at him and jealous of Elizabeth. One day, she visited Riba's home while he was away where she confronted his wife Elizabeth and an infant Anna there. She murdered Elizabeth and started a fire in the house, planning to let Anna burn to death, but Riba came home early and saw his house ablaze. Alice knew that if she escaped by herself, Riba would think she was responsible for the arson and Elizabeth's death. To avoid suspicion, she decided to rescue Anna from the fire. She then comforted Riba who was in great sorrow after seeing his house and beloved wife disappear in an instant.

Little did Alice know, Riba already knew the truth and was already plotting of a way to get back at her for Elizabeth's death, starting with finally upholding his promise to marry her. Alice being none the wiser, she was susceptible to Riba's deceit when he proposed a ritual that would make her immortal with him. Alice had apparently hesitated for some time, but when she became terminally ill with no way to cure her disease, she desperately turned to the occult and black magic to begin the ritual and make herself immortal with Riba. Serina was to be the sacrifice, but Anna had murdered Serina prior to Alice being able to use Serina as a sacrifice. Infuriated that Anna had cost her the immortality she sought, she murdered Anna in retaliation and attempted to hide the evidence. Once again, however, Riba eventually learned of the truth and changed the ritual's requirements to include the rest of Alice's family and servants. Alice took to this second chance and began her infamous killing spree, murdering everyone she could left and right. In the end, however, she was left all alone once her work was done, lamenting all she had done, how her father must have been so disappointed in her, and that everything her family had done would die with her. Riba finally confronts Alice concerning her murder of Anna and Elizabeth to which Alice confessed but maintained that Riba had committed infidelity and thus she could not love Anna the way she loved Serina. Riba revealed his true colors to Alice, admitting having never loved her and having only used her for her potential power once she became immortal, although Alice ultimately failed in the end which Riba wasted no time calling her out for on failing everything. Infuriated that she was thoroughly used and giving in to sheer rage, Alice curses Riba so that once she dies, he will be trapped in the mansion, unable to leave unless he were to resurrect her. Going one last extra mile to spite the world she felt so cruel to her, Alice also cursed the rest of the land of the living, spreading destruction to everything that would come her way. Riba, fed up with Alice, finally ends her life by bashing her skull in with a crowbar, and he takes her body inside for Anna to trap her spirit inside the music box to prevent her leave and to keep her curse from spreading outside of the mansion to destroy everything. Although her mortal life ended, Alice eventually rose up as a vengeful spirit bent on world destruction, cursing the mansion to lure people to it so that she may yet again roam among the living (shot-lived living should she have her way), but thanks to Anna she was left to simply play the waiting game.

## Present Day (Base Game)

One day, a new prospect host for Alice's soul came to the mansion to inspect the rumors about the place eating travelers alive; Mario, after receiving a tip from Princess Peach, goes alone for her supposed safety (although he is more worried about himself), eventually making his way to the home and prying the front door open with a crowbar (the very same one Riba had used once upon a time). Because of Riba having vague familiarity of Mario and because Mario had felt different from the rest of those who entered the mansion, Anna had allowed him to roam free in the hopes that he would save them all—a grave error in judgment when the only room Mario ventures to happens to be the one with the music box which Alice was trapped inside. The moment Mario takes hold of the music box, Alice enters his body having found her new host to escape with. So close to having her freedom, she is denied when the exit to the front door to the mansion is removed, forcing her to wait until Mario's mind became weak enough for her to possess him and waiting for another exit to be found.

Once Mario falls asleep after Riba calms him down from the extreme stress the man had gone through, Alice finally meets with her new host face to face in a dream, eagerly looking forward to taking over his body completely. She once used Mario's body in an attempt to kill Riba, though she is temporarily thwarted by Riba's self-defense measures. Once Riba and Mario make it to the gardens, Alice more properly reintroduces herself to Riba and strikes a deal with him that the two of them would both benefit from: deliver Mario to the ritual room and finish what they started centuries ago so that both of them will be free to do as they pleased. Riba betrays Mario and attempts to abscond with his body, but he is temporarily stopped by Luigi who was tipped off about the man's true nature, abandoning Mario to flee Luigi for the time being. From here on out, Alice's fate depends on the various endings that are achieved.

Should the player undertake the Missing ending route, Alice's role continues into the -ARC- Expansion as she schemes always to take over Mario's body and be granted true freedom once more to curse the world.

## Gallery

Previous reference sheet of Alice Aduraice.Newer reference sheet of Alice Aduraice.Updated family photo of Alice with her relatives, servants, and Riba.Past!Alice scolding Anna for causing Serina's injury.Alice encountering Riba in the forest past the garden.Past!Alice just seconds after fatally wounding Alfred, displaying her descent into madness.Alice when confronted during the "Omitted Memory" ending route.Alice displaying her power, wrath, and true form just moments before her boss fight in "Omitted Memory".Mario uses the holy water to defeat Alice (Omitted Memory).A reborn infant Alice cradled by a cursed Mario and spared from it (Omitted Memory).A reborn child Alice hugging her new adoptive father Mario (Omitted Memory).A reborn child Alice crying over eating pasta which she thinks are worms (Omitted Memory).A reborn child Alice baking with Mario (Omitted Memory).A reborn child Alice holding a huge turnip (Omitted Memory).A reborn Alice offered a star bit by Mario (Omitted Memory).A reborn Alice jumping to reach an apple in a tree (Omitted Memory).Past!Alice preparing to rid herself of Anna.A photo of Alice and Riba's wedding.Alice reanimating herself in her old body in the mines.Alice reanimated in her old body preparing to murder Mario in the mines.Alice's shade approaching Mario before taking over his body (Puppet).Alice in the ending screen for "Puppet".Alice having one last conversation with the Mario Bros. (Better Off Lost).Alice overcome with joy at being given salvation by Mario (Better Off Lost).Alice bids her final farewell before passing on (Better Off Lost).