Queen of Hearts

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The **Queen of Hearts** is the antagonist of *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*.

## Appearance

The Queen of Hearts has pale skin, light pink eyes and hair and pointed ears. Her brows are very thick and have a vague heart-shape to them. Underneath her wig, her hair is styled in a pixie-cut. She has a beauty mark on her jaw, underneath her left cheek.

### Queen of Hearts Form

As queen she wears a romantic-style dress with a large bustle, decorated with red hearts and white frills. She usually wears a big powdered pink wig with two white feathers on top and a white rose splattered with red paint above her temple, as well as two heart-shaped studs in her ears.

## Personality

The queen is a very ill-tempered and tyrannical monarch, easy to anger and quick to order any she thinks disrespect her execution. If she doesn't get what she wants right away, she throws massive tantrums and screaming fits, making her a hard person to talk to.

Despite her bombastic persona, the queen is deeply insecure about herself, as she frantically held on to her title and her throne in Wonderland for years, despite knowing deep down that they weren't truly hers.

## Synopsis

### Before Forever After

The queen held a croquet party sometime when Tank was still a Prince Charming. Due to the Cheshire Cat and Tank's meddling, Alice ended up causing an incident that presumably ruined the party, resulting in the queen growing to hate them.

### Forever After

The queen realizes her execution wig is missing and calls the inhabitants of the castle to court. She accuses the Knave of Hearts of stealing it, as he had coveted it for quite a while, at least according to the queen. The knave pleads his innocence and the King of Hearts agrees that only an outsider would be insolent enough to steal from her. The queen immediately suspects Alice of being the thief and orders them to be beheaded, but the king is quick to inform her that no one knows where Alice currently is. The queen is furious and orders the beheading of everyone in Wonderland, leading to a kingdom-wide head hunt for Alice and the arrest of, among others, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare.

Eventually, Alice is found and allows the card guards to bring them before the queen, who wastes no time accusing Alice of stealing her execution wig, reasoning that because Alice is "not-of-Wonderland" they had to have been the culprit. Alice disproves these accusations by pointing out that 1. The "proof" the queen depends on is pure hearsay and 2. The knave, the queen's key witness, has never met Alice nor Alice him and thus has no basis for his claim that they are the thief. The queen snaps that Alice does not know the knave because they do not belong, to which Alice calmly replies that not belonging is hardly a crime. The queen screams that the crime is stealing her wig and Alice inquires when the queen last wore the wig and how she knows it was stolen in the first place. Having trouble remembering when the last execution she's worn the wig to was, the queen demands the king to tell her, who starts stuttering about writs of pardon and the rule of law being rather flexible. Alice deciphers this to mean that the queen has never actually executed anybody, as the king simply pardoned everyone behind her back and the card soldiers only pretended to carry out her orders.

The queen is devastated that she was lied to in this manner, despite her royal title. Alice tells her that she was never a true queen in the first place, as a true queen has power and she evidently has none. This entire time she has been little more than a spoiled womanchild playing dress-up and being indulged in the worst possible way by the people around her. Alice declares that it is time for everyone to "grow up", causing Wonderland to fade away and the humans to regain their true heights.

The queen is left in a pile of playing cards, mourning her throne and her castle, but is comforted by Alice who tells it was never hers to begin with. They then encourage the queen to go out into the world and make something she can truly call hers and rule. The queen solemnly takes off her wig and admits that she has been "asleep" for far too long. She rises from her pile of cards and walks into the woods to lands unknown.

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It is later revealed that the Queen of Hearts joined forces with Damian at his masquerade party with other villains.
## Relationships

### Alice

The queen grew to dislike Alice after they, along with Cheshire Cat and Tank, caused an unspecified ruckus at her croquet party. She easily believes the Knave of Hearts when he accuses Alice of stealing her execution wig. While the two of them never truly make up, they manage to part on at least somewhat amicable terms, when Alice comforts the queen over her lost fantasy-kingdom and encourages her to make a real kingdom of her own.

### The King of Hearts

The king is the queen's husband and desperate to please her through any means. He is willing to pretend to execute people for her and tries to avoid making her angry. He seems at least a bit fond of her, as he gives her pet names occasionally. It is unknown if the queen reciprocated his possibly romantic feelings.

### The Queen's Puppy

The puppy is the Queen of Hearts' pet. It appears to be well-cared for, which implies that the queen is very fond of it.

## Abilities

### Military

The Queen of Hearts commands a large military of card soldiers, all of whom are deeply loyal toward her and carry out her every order. Their numbers are so large they appear neverending, making them a formidable force to be reckoned with. However, while they will arrest people when the queen tells them to, they will not kill them at her command, though they are willing to violently defend her if whoever they fight appears to pose a threat to the queen.

## Trivia

* She is modelled after Marie Antoinette.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/HannahAlexArt/status/1466124681258303491