Elizabeth "Beth" Kane (Alice)

# Alice

## Elizabeth "Beth" Kane

Alice

*Description Here ~ Tara*

## History

### Early Life

Elizabeth "Beth" Kane was born the twin sister of Katherine "Kate" Kane, raised by their father Jacob Kane. The girls were as close as sisters could be growing up. They went to school together as children and every Friday after class they'd go to the waffle stand in the park for a special treat. Beth couldn't imagine life without Kate there at her side. But she was about to be forced to live through exactly that.

When the twins were still much younger, they had gotten captured by a group of mercenaries. Things looked grim, but Beth wasn't one to give up. So she made a reckless play, creating a distraction for Kate to get away with full intent to follow. But in the process of trying to get away, Beth lost her sister's trail and got seperated with no way to call for help. She had gotten away from the mercenaries, yet wandered into a fate worse than death.

While trying to get home, Beth was taken off the streets and dragged outside the city to a rundown farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. She had been kidnapped by an unstable man named August Cartwright. August wanted a playmate for his son, Johnny, but Beth just wanted to go home. Sympathetic to her struggles, Johnny introduced himself to Beth and befriended her with assurance that he meant her no harm. It was shortly after that when she found out August had a task for her.

Johnny's long hair was pushed out of his face to reveal his whole left half had been severely burned, and August couldn't afford cosmetic surgery to fix his son. So instead, he intended to force Beth to learn how to skin the faces off murdered subjects and use her nimble hands to create a new face for Johnny. And when Beth refused, she was locked in the basement for days with no food and nothing besides a ruined mattress and a barely functioning sink. Starved and desperate for a cleaner living situation, she finally agreed to the terms.

In the small amount of free time Beth had, she spent it enjoying Johnny's company. When he found out she liked to read, he brought down a book from his room to the basement where Beth was left. The book was none other than Alice in Wonderland, one of Beth's favorites as a child. Reading the book reminded her of her younger childhood, the childhood spent with Kate, and it gave her hope to someday return to her sister. But every day that passed, it became harder and harder to maintain that hope. Each slap and punch and kick she suffered, each day she endured without food, it took a much harder mental toll on the girl than it ever could physically. The only thing keeping her going was that one book. The story about Alice.

Then one day, Beth had endured enough. Her and Johnny had found a stray cat that they adopted and hoped to keep secret from August. They even named the cat Cheshire, after the cat in the book. But when August found the cat in the basement, Beth knew what was going to happen. August picked up the cat and with his bare hands, snapped its neck right in front of Beth and Johnny. That was the final straw for Beth. That night, she was in her basement bedroom with Johnny who snuck back to her with a butterfly knife he found in the shed, and the garnet stone that was on her necklace when she was taken, the garnet that matched with her sister's. But now, Beth was no longer calling the shots. The sweet, innocent girl that just wanted to see her family again had become corrupted into something, someone, unrecognizable. Her family gave up on her, and her new master had killed her pet. It was time to free herself, and flee to her own Wonderland. She renamed herself Alice after the character that kept her alive, with Johnny who soon became her loyal sidekick, Mouse. She welded her garnet into the handle of the blade, and stashed it under her pillow until morning.

Alice wasted no time once August came to serve her oatmeal for breakfast the next morning. She waited for him to get close and then without warning, drew her knife from her pocket and drove it into his chest. She missed his heart and failed to kill him, but she bought herself enough time to get away. She ran out with Mouse, running as far as they could away from that hellish house. The two had nowhere to go. Beth's family left her for dead, how could she ever go back to them? They were on their own.

But somehow, they were better off alone. Alice used her intellect to start scamming unsuspecting citizens out of money to keep herself and Mouse alive. And anyone that came after them was quickly met with a gruesome murder. After years of building themselves up from the ground, Alice and Mouse had their own underground crime crew ready to start running Gotham. With the hostile takeover of No Man's Land occuring, Alice and her rabbits stayed under the radar, sneaking away any supplies of food and water for Alice and her pet Mouse. When the opportunity presented itself, Alice was certain she and her White Rabbits would turn Gotham into their own personal Wonderland. But until this new threat was inevitably neutralized by the bats this city idolized, she stayed in the shadows, biding her time until there was nothing left to fear.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skills

* **High level intellect**
* **Expert tactician and manipulator/liar**
* **Above average medical and toxicology knowledge**
* **Expert in torture and interrogation**
* **Skilled musician**
* **Above average hand to hand and melee combatant**
* **Experienced knife wielder**
* **High pain tolerance**

### Equipment

* A butterfly knife with a garnet birthstone welded into it
* Wooden paddle often used similarly to a baseball bat
* A pistol hidden under her coat
* A physical copy of the book Alice in Wonderland