Alice Anotherbible

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**Alice Anotherbible** (アリス・アナザーバイブル, *Arisu Anazābaiburu*?), usual just called **Alice** (アリス, *Arisu*?), is a Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal, introduced in *Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index*.

## Etymology

Alice's given name is that of the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's famous children's story, *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* (不思議の国のアリス, *Fushigi no Kuni no Arisu*?) and its sequel *Through the Looking-Glass*.

Her surname, Anotherbible, is partially derived from the Bible, the holy book of Christianity.n

## Appearance

Alice is a young girl who looks around 12 years old, with white skin, long blonde hair and sapphire blue eyes. Her hair has a pair of pointy curls that resemble animal ears. She wears a white apron (with a round white fluffball on the back, perhaps meant as a rabbit tail) over a blue short-sleeved dress, with white tights and black leather shoes.

The other Alice, that emerged from inside her during a talk with Kamijou Touma about her magic, wears a revealing outfit consisting of loosely binding red and black belts, apparently glistening with oil and with metal buckles.

## Personality

Alice Anotherbible is depicted as an extremely childish, eccentric and unstable girl. She is motivated by simple desires, wanting to have fun and play games with others, but much like a child, she gets quite emotional and impatient when her wants are not met. Anna Sprengel has referred to her as bored and Aradia has described everything she says as being downright indecipherable and absurdities, and that when faced with psychedelic nonsense went along with it without questioning any of it. Aradia also describes her as being pure, naïve and innocent but capricious, cruel and violent, such that they couldn't possibly predict what she would do next.

With a mercurial nature and great power at her disposal, Alice is a dangerous and unpredictable force that will not hesitate to punish those who upset her and terrifying others into obeying her demands. Because of this, her fellow transcendents have made a rule not to upset her and will do anything not to incur her tyrannical wrath. Despite her childlike behavior, Alice appears to have a proper understanding of everything that goes on around her. As an extremely powerful magician, she has deep insight in at least some branches of magic.

## Background

In reference to Alice herself, her name has been explicitly noted as that of the famous children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which Aleister Crowley had suggested as must-read for those wishing to deepen their understanding of magic, claiming it took on a complete new meaning if the reader had sufficient knowledge of Kabbalah (though he never met Lewis Carroll and merely spread the legend himself), and listing it alongside the Goetia and the Golden Bough.

Alice's full background is unknown - although Aleister deduced that she was born from Magick, given his own role in connecting the story with the occult, it is not clear whether new life had been created for its creator's purposes or an existing person had their soul reshaped.

When Anna and Aradia first referred to her, they described her as though she has experienced Wonderland and events described in the book, including the game of croquet and the trial. According to Alice herself, she has gone on many strange *adventures* with people in the past, including one who wanted to become a god, one who wanted to be immortal and one who wanted to get back at academia for making fun of him.

At some point in the past, she became the center of the Bridge Builders Cabal, a hidden gathering of Transcendents for the purpose of making the world a better place. Seeking to make use of her unique abilities for their own ends, yet also afraid of Alice, given her exceptional power exceeding her fellow Transcendents as well as her capricious and childishly cruel nature, the rest of the cabal submitted to and catered for her whims, providing her with any toys or entertainment she wanted, with their bases determined by her interests.

## Chronology

### Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Los Angeles Arc

*Main article: Los Angeles Arc*
Anna Sprengel and Aradia referred to Alice during their conversation in the aftermath of the events on December 26th.

#### Post-Handcuffs Arc

*Main article: Post-Handcuffs Arc*

Influenced by a suggestion from Anna Sprengel, who had secretly approached a bored Alice before Aradia and the other members of the group introduced Anna to her, Alice ran away to Academy City and snuck into Kamijou Touma's home, into his blanket while he slept.

She accompanied him throughout the events of December 29th, referring to him as "teacher" and adding to his problems as he visited Tsukuyomi Komoe for supplementary lessons and the Delivery Go Round for food purchases. When Touma was caught up in the Overhunting crash and the subsequent prisoner escape, Alice used her power to influence the resulting events, but Touma caught on and persuaded her to undo the changes she had made and let him try to resolve things properly.

After the events surrounding the prison train and the battle in the Vanishing Tunnel (both resulting from the events of Operation Handcuffs) were resolved, she was picked up by Anna and returned to the group's base, where the group were dismayed to find that Alice wouldn't use her power in the way that they hoped she would, due to Touma's influence.

#### New Year's Arc

*Main article: New Year's Arc*
On January 1st, with the Bridge Builders Cabal having established a consulate in School District 12 to give her a 'secret base' in Academy City, Alice greeted Kamijou Touma as he and others were making their New Year's Day shrine visits, accompanied by Good Old Mary and Trismegistus.

The next day, Touma awoke to find Alice had snuck into his bed again. After breakfast, Alice brought the group over to the consulate to show them her new 'secret base'. When Touma accidentally let slip about the Rescuers and Killers, Alice rendered him unconscious and went on a brief rampage. As the group stayed the night at the consulate, Alice was present as they had dinner, when Aradia was washed and when Touma visited the Bologna Succubus, with the latter briefly having to use her Cold Mistress on Alice to prevent her from taking an interest in the VR game and electronic devices the demon was playing with.

On the morning of January 3rd, after Trismegistus attempted to kill Touma, over his intent to persuade Alice and others to change the cabal's decision to immediately execute Anna Sprengel, and Good Old Mary fought him after resurrecting the boy from decapitation, Alice intervened in the battle between the two Transcendents at full power and immediately brought them down, intending to punish them for their misdeed and failure. Touma's subsequent intervention to prevent her from killing the two and a misunderstanding of intentions led to a falling out between the two, with Alice setting her Gryphon on him. Around the same time, Touma's allies in Academy City were on the move. As the Gryphon bit off his right arm and was destroyed by the entity emerging from it, Touma tried to keep Alice's attention on him, but failed to avoid a bad outcome.

Following Touma's escape from the consulate, Alice was left in a broken, catatonic state. Concerned that her condition would worsen to the point of being unable to perform in their ceremony, the Bridge Builders Cabal chose to immediately begin the ceremony, calling in reinforcements from outside the city and departing the consulate, as Mut Thebes was dispatched to hunt down Anna Sprengel.

Late on January 4th, as the Bridge Builders Cabal's ceremony to bring Christian Rosencreutz into the world was reaching its climax, Alice stood at a corner of the ceremonial ground rather than on the main stage as had been planned. When the cabal's intended savior was revealed to drastically different for the worse than what legends claimed of him and knocked down the Transcendents, Alice was the only one of the group left standing, attracting the attention of CRC, who crushed the unresponsive Alice's head in front of a helpless and distraught Trismegistus.

In his battle with Anna Kingsford immediately afterwards, CRC manipulated Alice's headless corpse to stab Kingsford in the neck in a lethal sneak attack before letting it flop back onto the ground, finishing off his opponent as Touma arrived and was horrified to see Alice's corpse, dashing his hope for having her undo the Shrink Drink's effects on Anna Sprengel. While Touma and most of the Transcendents were under the impression that Alice was completely dead beyond any hope of saving, Alice's headless corpse revived and at midnight on January 6th, as Index and Othinus moved to finish off the defeated CRC before he could threaten Touma again, they were greeted by a revived but headless Alice, with Trismegistus standing by her side. The headless Alice revealed that Rosencreutz had escaped Academy City. She also revealed that not only was he the real Christian Rosencreutz but he was also Johann Valentin Andreae, the man who supposedly invented the legends of CRC. With CRC gone, Alice let out a cackle.

## Abilities

As a Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal, Alice is powerful enough to rival the regular magic side on her own, and she is exceptional even amongst her fellow Transcendents, standing above them.

Most spells used by people (including those of other Transcendents) are said to be built from the basics of magic, but Alice is said to be one of the exceptions alongside Magic Gods and some Saints. Given Aleister Crowley's role in connecting *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* to the occult and Kabbalah, Alice herself has a connection to his Magick system, though her exact origins in relation to it are not currently known.

Like the other Transcendents, Alice possesses a seal that she can release and manifest her powers at their fullest. The exact designation of her seal is not known, but the seal is that of a *children’s book*. When released, the usual Alice tears open and another Alice emerges from within.

Even without displaying her full unrestrained power, she was able to instantly defeat two regular Transcendents fighting one another with their full power unsealed. During the events on December 29th, she was completely unaffected by deadly bacteria, bugs, and Frillsand #G's 'curse', and on recalling this when having to face her, Kamijou Touma assessed that she was immune to other internal damage, scientific or magical. She can be affected by Bologna Succubus's Cold Mistress, said to be one of the only Transcendents in the cabal who could fight back against her if the spell was used right. While the actual capability of people to read her mind is unknown, her psychedelic mind was noted by Trismegistus to be hazardous to those who might try to do so. She was also the only Transcendent to initially remain on her feet when the revived Christian Rosencreutz knocked the cabal down in a single strike.

Alice appears to differ from regular humans and even other Transcendents with regards to life and death. While CRC was able to seemingly kill her by crushing her head, her headless corpse revived one day later, though seemingly not exactly as she was before that death. Good Old Mary's resurrection technique was noted to be unable to revive her.

Alice also appears to have some form of capability to 'read' things about individuals, either through observation or her powers. In the case of Christian Rosencreutz as she was exposing his deception of being Johann Valentin Andreae, he theorized that Alice was reading the truth about his identity and history from the pieces of flesh she was tearing from his body. However, her assessment regarding Touma during the consulate battle seemed to be incomplete and not fully accurate.

### Live Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's unique magic, known as **Live Adventures in Wonderland** (ライブアドベンチャーズインワンダーランド, *Raibu Adobenchāzu in Wandārando*?), is a Kabbalah-based power that is capable of affecting the entire world. By going on an *adventure* with someone, she can connect ideas as she pleases in order to make any theory, no matter how farfetched it is or how wrong the measurements it is based on where, become reality on a global scale. She could, for example, notice that a paint set on sale had 12 colors, associate that with the 12 numbers on a clock, and with nothing more than that gain a complete control over time. Except it wouldn’t just apply to Alice herself. The moment she decided that was true, all the paint in the world would gain the same power. Using this power, Alice can alter reality in any way she pleases.

An example suggested by Alice herself to illustrate how her powers could work, was the idea that since there were four emotions and four elements, when roleplaying one could draw on special power by intentionally drawing on a specific emotion within oneself. This was described as a "stretch" or "sophistry" - it might seem reasonable at first, but there are no existing myths or laws behind it. Additionally, the four emotions are an Eastern concept while the four elements are a Western one. Other flawed notions that Alice mentioned included the idea that burning something requiring phlogiston, that neutrinos could travel faster than light, and that observing one of a pair of separated particles would determine the spin of the other regardless of the distance they were separated by. As stated by Alice and temporarily illustrated during the incident on December 29th, it works even if it is a theory on how to resurrect the dead.

The world as influenced by Alice's magic, sometimes called **Alice's world** (アリスの世界, *Arisu no Sekai*?) or **Wonderland** (ワンダーランド, *Wandārando*?), is a storybook one that can be greatly removed from how the real world would normally be. Within it, Alice can modify reality in all kinds of weird ways and turn her surroundings into a fantasy. When Touma confronted Alice on what she had been doing, time appeared to freeze and only the two of them remained facing one another in the space they were in at the time. She made it so that a giant towered into the heavens above an abandoned leisure spa and enormous pumpkins shaped like human faces broke through the asphalt to grow from the ground all over the place. A five-pointed shooting star drew a trail behind it in the night sky and incomprehensible ancient characters and diagrams danced about like neon signs.

Alice has demonstrated to be capable of modifying, changing and enhancing the powers of others, as well as granting them new powers. That includes such mundane powers, like enhancing ones information gathering capabilities, to fantastic science powers, like linking an artificial ghost to an android in order to resurrect the dead. She can also manipulate the behavior of many people to her own ends, such as making Shirai Kuroko work with a criminal or making Frillsand #G attack exclusively with lightning strikes. She also emotionally manipulated Uiharu Kazari to allow her to give a neutral report of gruesome crimes. Furthermore, Alice even managed to bypass the Imagine Breaker to make Kamijou Touma lucky, allowing him to survive many events unharmed which he usually have been injured by, such as getting caught up in a train crash, dropping from a large height or getting grazed by Frillsand's lightning. She also won a small lottery on the first try.

On being convinced to put things back the way they were and Alice giving a verbal command to immediately cease all modified kabbalah bridge linking within Live Adventures in Wonderland, there was a thunk like a metal lock opening, followed by a light which enveloped Touma, with senses and surroundings fading away, eventually restarting at the time, place and events where Wonderland's effects had previously begun to be applied. Touma had suspected that if he had continued through the optimal world without questioning it, all of the pieces would have intertwined and become real.

### Wonders

There are a number of *"wonders"* connected to Wonderland which Alice can manifest. Sometimes, these entities manifest automatically as a form of psychological defense to deal with any attack or obstacle which she cannot avoid by herself. This is apparently not out of protecting herself or fear of injury, but because an attack that hits her and obstructs her movement is likely to anger her and lead her to kill the offender without even meaning to or without thinking, so she makes sure to block attacks so that does not happen.

Initially, this psychological defense takes the form of a pink flamingo acting as a cricket bat that floats around Alice and deflects all attacks against her, even Frillsand's lightning. Several Hedgehogs can also appear from below her dress. They are soft and springy, serving mainly to cushion any kind of fall for her. Beyond the cricket defense is an emaciated, bony, axe-wielding figure, wrapped in a tattered black cloak, that emerges from her shadow, known as the **Executioner** (処刑人, *Shokeijin*?). It has crystal clear bones and a one-sided axe with a sharp sword blade extending from the butt end of the staff. It is covered by a tattered black coat. This executioner attacks his target by spinning its axe around, but the place the cuts appear are independent on where and if the axe actually cuts. This technique even managed to knock Frillsand's head around, breaking her neck, despite the ghost being incorporeal. Should an opponent escape the Executioner's blade, they will likely be faced by Alice's own power.

Another figure that was summoned during the events at the consulate is the **Gryphon** (グリフォン, *Gurifon*?), a beast with the front half of a bird and the rear half of the lion, at least 7m long with a wingspan of 20m or more, with high physical destructive and defensive power. Alice also likely had a hand in the Shrink Drinks, anti-Transcendent spiritual items lent to the cabal's execution specialist Mut Thebes for use against Anna Sprengel, intended to diminish a Transcendent's power when injected, much like how the drink physically shrank the imbiber in story.

## Character Art Design

### Gallery

Alice Anotherbible's character design for *Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 05*.Inner-Alice's design by Haimura Kiyotaka.

## Trivia

* *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* is referenced in Aleister Crowley's *Magick in Theory and Practice*. A quote from the book is featured at the start of *Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 6*, together with a quote from *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*. The *Magick in Theory and Practice* quote comes from the bottom of Appendix I (Bibliography and Curriculum of the A∴A∴), under Course I (General Reading), Section 2 ("Other books, principally fiction, of a generally suggestive and helpful kind"). *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* (in its shortened form as *Alice in Wonderland*) is the 14th item on the list, with *Alice Through the Looking Glass* and *The Hunting of the Snark* as the 15th and 16th items respectively. All are listed as by Lewis Carroll and "valuable to those who understand the Qabalah".
* Numerous aspects of *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* have been utilized or referenced in the series since Alice Anotherbible's introduction, and a smaller number had been used before then, mostly outside of the main story's text.

* Elements of inner Alice's design seem to bear aspects of both her Kabbalah and storybook-related origins. The arrangement of belts and fasteners that she wears as an outfit is vaguely reminiscent of the arrangement spheres and paths making up the Sephiroth. As well as stars, some of the fasteners are in the shapes of hearts - although these are not associated with the main character of Alice herself, they are associated with another notable character from the story - the Queen of Hearts, a few aspects of which Alice Anotherbible has referenced or used.