Alice

**Alice** is one of the many sleepers that now reside in lakes and ponds and swaps across the earth post Black Rains. She does not identify as such, having technically never reached a water source to sleep in. She has made her body into a nursery and home for fireflies, which she loves for their beauty.

## Biographical Information

### Relationships

Winona Carline — Friend
Nolan Thair - Friend

## Personality

Alice is very wise and understands alot about the world. She doesn't stand in opposition to life, but instead finds it's changes and cycles beautiful, even finding the rains beautiful despite the destruction they brought. She likes painting and tea (although she cannot drink it), and the company of other people.

## Description

Alice is described a as a desiccated slender woman with withered skin, broken nails, and long mattered black hair that obscures most of her face. She has glowing green eyes like all sleepers, and wears an over sized trench coat, under which she has made her now hollow ribcage the home for many fireflies.

## History

Alice used to work in the floral department of a supermarket. Every day she would sit with her flowers and stare at those glaring fluorescent lights and feel the minutes of her life draining away. She had no time for her paintings. She was one of the people who was called by the Rain to become a sleeper, but before she could make it to a lake or pond to drown in, she was mauled to death by a bear, at which point she became immobile but still aware. After an unspecified amount of time, she was able to stand back up, at this point the collapse of society had already happened. At some point between then and her first appearance, she either found or built her current home.

### Season 2

Episode 71 - Trials: Alice is having tea with Nolan Thair. They talk about what brought them to "[that] neck of the woods]", Nolan summarises his story for her, and she explains hers. She starts to talk about her house, and how when she'd moved into it she'd expected to be alone. She’s been kept in company due to Winona Carline and other 'neighbours', who she implies to be like her and Nolan. Nolan asks how she knows Winona, and she responds that she'd be surprised if someone didn't know Winona. She expresses her love for her, although specifies that it isn't a romantic love, and the two begin to talk about relationships. Nolan asks Alice about 'what the real estate market looked like around [there]', they start discussing potential places residence for Nolan, who mentions wanting a garden.

Episode 77 - Rebels: Alice had taken Nolan to the now abandoned and partially submerged remains of Zelda Duckworth's house. Nolan comments on how it 'didn't look very inviting' and Alice tells him that if he couldn't build a house himself before winter, he was going to have to make some compromises, making a metaphor in the form of a call back to Nolan's want to grow a garden saying “*If you want a house with a garden, Nolan, you’re going to have to plant it yourself*.”. Nolan points out that there were still someone's things inside, and asks about potential corpses. Alice tells him there was no guarantee that the house was dead body free, but she'd help him get rid of them if there was. She points out that a home half submerged would be ideal, given Ricou's specific living requirements. Nolan takes this into consideration and decides that he likes the house. Nolan asks how he was paying her, and she tells him she'd like him to pose for a few portraits This naturally confuses him, as she cannot see him, but she says that'd just make him interesting to paint. She warns him of the lakeworm infestation in the walls, but they'd leave as he made noise. Nolan asks what to do if the previous owner returns, and she tells him that she was sure they'd be happy to see their old home going to a good purpose.

Episode 96 - Horizons: at what was formerly the Duckworth house, Alice paints a portrait of two—Ricou Chapman, and Nolan, and the lake and the cold mountains beyond.

## Relationships

### Winona Carline

Alice met Winona after her van broke broke down near her cabin. Despite this misfortune, she wasn't upset, announcing that it was fate they meet. Alice express her love for Winona, although specifies that it is a love of her existence, and not a romantic or sexual love, comparing her love of Winona to her love of the wind, the twilight, and spring rainstorms. She states that it's an honour to know Winona, but if she were to have her forever, she would very easily fall out of love with her. She also states that if she were looking for a relationship with Winona, it probably wouldn't work out, due to her lack of a pulse and being a home for fireflies.

### Nolan Thair

Alice met Nolan while he was looking for Winona Carline. The two enjoy each others company, and Nolan seeks Alice's advice on almost all the problems he's currently facing, even making the joke “*You’re sure you were a flower counter lady and not a philosopher?*”, which then leads to a discussion on gender identity, and Alice is the one who suggests that he and Ricou move out of the cabin up in The Shuddering Peaks to a more populated area. She served as his real state agent during this house hunt.

## Episode Appearances

* Episode 77 - Rebels
* Episode 96 - Horizons