Alice Yabusame

八分雨(ヤブサメ) アリス, *Yabusame Arisu*?

* Prison uniform
* Samurai Yaiba
* Child

### Cause of death

Hole blown in abdomen by the fake Reko's collar if the fake Reko was killed. Chapter 2, Part One
Unknown Cause of Death after Nao gained the most votes in the second main game. (Ending 1)
Hanged by Ranmaru Kageyama if Shin Tsukimi survived the Second Main Game. Chapter 3, Part One

**Alice Yabusame** (八分雨(ヤブサメ) アリス, *Yabusame Arisu*? ), initially introducing himself as **Gonbee Yamada**, is one of 20 participants chosen to play in the Death Game. He first appears inside a locker in the Red Room on the First Floor.

## Appearance

Alice has a "gaudy hairstyle," as opined by Sara; separated into two parts; the right half is blue and covers his eye, and the left side is shaved close to his head and colored into magenta and yellow stripes. He wears a striped prison uniform that is frayed at the collar and sleeves, with handcuffs hanging from his left wrist. He also has a ball and chain wrapped around his waist and is barefoot.

Being a participant of the Death Game, He wears a Collar as do all participants, Dummies, and Floor Masters.

In a childhood flashback and in Alice's Past Episode, Alice is shown to have long blue hair that covers his right eye. He wears a green striped sweater with a white shirt with a popped-out collar and a pair of brown pants.

Aswell in Alice's Past Episode Alice is seen alongside the rest of his former band, Samurai Yaiba, Alice's hair is much longer and the dyed parts of his hair is Spiky, Alice wears makeup on his left eye, Alice's Outfit consists of black and white fur collar, a black cropped jacket with dark blur fur on the right sleeve and dark pink fur with yellow fur on the end on the left sleeve with opposite stripped cuffs, The outfit also consists black and trimmed pieces.

In a flashback in Chapter 3, Part One, Alice's hair is longer, and he is wearing a black jacket with pink markings, a purple, black and white stripped shirt and black pants.

## Personality

Alice has a short fuse and holds little trust for the other participants. Because of this, he tends to go off on his own and often pushes others away when they want to work with or talk to him. He is quite aggressive in the way he speaks, but with enough persuasion and trust, he can be kind and helpful.

He can act a bit childish at times, as seen when he complains and refuses to eat any of the bitter melon served to him by Safalin, telling Sara that he would talk to her if she ate all of the "green parts" in the stir-fry. This is also shown in Island Mode when he gets angry at Mishima because the shoes he made for him aren't striped, and again because the stripes are vertical and not horizontal.

His mother tried to raise him as a girl during his childhood, because of this he slips into a feminine manner of speech when flustered or surprised.

## History

### Background

Following the Japanese idea: 'raise a daughter first, then raising a son is easier,' Alice's mother took it to mean to raise Alice as a girl because it was trendy. But as he grew up, Alice felt it was distinctly wrong; that his heart was definitely masculine. So, he prepared himself to be driven out of the house and confronted his mother to tell her he wanted to live like a boy. His mother nonchalantly said okay, since there had never been any deep meaning to why she chose to raise them the way she did.

Reko was a music prodigy and helped teach Alice how to play piano as children. When they got older, Alice and Reko formed the band Samurai Yaiba along with a few others. Alice mostly took care of the backend work until he was sent to jail for murdering a man. Samurai Yaiba dissolved and Reko formed a new band called SkullNutz.

Alice met with Sou Hiyori at a cafe where he found that Sou was carrying a briefcase with pictures of Reko and information about the death game in it. He attempted to to confront Sou about it but Sou then fell off the balcony of the cafe impaling himself through the head. However he did not bleed and still spoke to Alice because he was a doll. Alice believes that all the people involved in his case were ASU-NARO due to the lack of a real crime.

At some point Alice received Reko's bongos from someone while in jail. Alice attempted to find out who sent them but was startled to find that Sou was his jail cell guard. Alice became enraged and attempted to attack him saying he would kill him for real. Sou offered him to consent form saying that if he signed it he would get a chance.

### The Death Game

According to Alice, an arrangement was made for a visitation at the location his confinement, something which was a very rare occasion. Upon entering the visiting room, no one was there, and his senses began to fade.

He then woke up to his First Trial. Apparently, a speaker stated something about the trial, but Alice thought it was foolish, committed himself to hiding and locked himself inside the Red Room. He thus left the room he was in, clearing the trial at the cost of another participant's life, a cost which he didn't know about.

Eventually, Sara Chidouin finds him hiding in the Red Room's locker after solving a series of puzzles. He passes out and has to be carried to the Pink Room. After Reko and Keiji get over the shock of there being another person, they decide it would be best to tie him up until he regains consciousness. Once awake he is interrogated by Sara in the Bar, introducing himself as Gonbee Yamada. It is discovered that Alice had mistaken Sara for a mass murderer after witnessing the gunshots from the Russian Roulette game, hence his noncompliance. After everything is explained, Joe unties his ropes, and Alice goes off on his own.

At some point, Alice picks up a Commoner card.

The time for the Main Game arrives. Gin shows everyone the paper scraps he found while searching the shredder in the Black Room. Instead of "Sara Chidouin" aligning with the occupation "Murderer" like he originally thought, it is deduced that the name "Alice Yabusame" aligns with the occupation "Murderer." Reko, who is the only one with the last name Yabusame begins to be questioned. It reaches the point where she is cornered, so Alice loudly interjects and confesses that his real name is Alice and he's the murderer. Reko explains that she wanted the two of them to act like strangers because she didn't want to scare the kids and give them the wrong impression.

Despite lying about his identity, Alice is not voted in the preliminary round and survives the First Main Game. After Joe's execution and Kai's suicide, Alice meets Keiji in the secret room and reveals to him the name of his murder victim: Sou Hiyori.

After the First Main Game, Alice expresses a desire to make amends towards Reko, unaware that she has been replaced with a doll counterpart. With Sara's help, he optionally succeeds in retrieving Reko's bongos, only for "her" to break them in front of him. In the "Trust Bartering Game," he places in the middle. Alongside Keiji, Kanna and Sou, he is neither pinned to the target nor lifted into the Impression Room.

Alice's fate in the second chapter is up to Sara's choices. If Sara chooses to kill the fake Reko in the Final Attraction, Alice will be killed by the fake Reko's head exploding in his arms in the Room of Lies. If the fake Reko is not killed, Alice will survive but both Rekos will die.

After one of the two dies, a flashback shows a young Reko and Alice in front of a piano with Alice and her promising to form a band together once the two are older with Reko singing and Alice writing songs.

### Kill Fake Reko (Reko Lives Route)

With his sister appeared to have died, Alice is left enraged. He storms to the Room of Lies and confronts Rio Ranger, who taunts him even more about Reko's presumed fate, presenting him "Reko"'s head courtesy of Tia Safalin. Alice attempts to attack Ranger, who retaliates by tossing the fake Reko's head to him. The collar of the head explodes in his hands, leaving Alice with a gaping hole in his chest. He collapses onto the floor, crying and bleeding, as Reko is released out of the chamber she was being held in to witness him die. If Sara helped Alice get Reko's bongos on Day 2, then Alice is shown to still be alive, albeit faintly. Before he succumbs to his wound, Reko asks him if they can be brother and sister one last time. Alice then closes his eyes with faint tears streaming down his face, smiling before he loses consciousness.

Alice expires.

### Spare Fake Reko (Alice Lives Route)

With the fake Reko spared, Sara and Nao are given the choice to decide which Reko should live on. Despite their efforts, they fail to prevent the fake Reko from killing her real self, prior to being killed herself via collar detonation. Alice arrives at the Room of Lies afterwards, only to find his sister's dead body.

After Reko's death, Alice is incredibly shaken up and mourns over her body along with Nao. Sara tells the two that an explanation of the 2nd Main Game will be soon. Nao manages to convince Alice to leave Reko and hands him one of her gloves as a memento.

After a while, the group rejoins to examine Kai's Laptop. Sara walks on to the scene of a fight between Alice and Gashu. Alice attempts to strangle Gashu, and desperately trying to escape, he reveals that the Floor Masters too wear collars, as do the participants. Gashu leaves and attention is brought to the laptop. One of the files contains a profile on a green-haired man, and while the others frantically try to recall who he his, Alice confidently states that it is the man he killed, Sou Hiyori. Everyone is surprised by this, as they know a man named Sou Hiyori, and he decidedly is not dead. Once this scene concludes, we see Alice in the medical office getting his memories wiped by Safalin's device. Sara tries to warn him against it, but Alice decides to go through with it and all his memories of Reko are erased. He leaves the office seeming more lively.

During the Second Main Game, in the final vote, Alice votes for Shin. He says that he did this because he recognizes that Shin and Kanna have a sibling-type relationship, and he could never stand to vote for someone's little sister. In Chapter Three, he is surprised to see Sou Hiyori, the man he killed, alive as a doll. He is paired with Anzu Kinashi for the sub-game and is seen exploring the fourth and fifth floors with everyone else. He is one of the people who says he signed the contract, and seems angered when he sees it in the classroom. He is also there for Keiji's fight against Midori.

Again, Alice's fate depends on Sara's actions - more specifically, who she decided to spare in the Second Main Game. If Kanna died, Sara impulsively goads Ranmaru into killing off the remaining participants so that they alone can win the Death Game together, and despite her subsequent attempts to talk him down, Ranmaru goes ahead and murders Alice via activating a trap in the locker room. If Shin died instead, Sara never prompts him into enacting his plan, therefore allowing Alice to survive to the Banquet.

## Relationships

### Reko Yabusame

Even where they were both young, Alice seemed mystified by Reko's ability to play music, looking up to her in a way. Reko taught Alice somethings about music, but he wouldn't end up playing a major part in the band the two siblings would later form called Samurai Yaiba, mostly playing the drums and writing their music behind the scenes.

Alice seems to have viewed Reko as impenetrable in the past, describing her as a "superhuman with a will of steel", however he realized his mistake when he was given an article about Samurai Yaiba's disbandment, where Reko said "I can't sing this bands songs anymore", realizing she was just a human, he regretted his murder, seeing he broke his sister's heart. Despite this, he still held Reko in higher regard than himself saying she is stronger and luckier than him and that her life has more value.

Alice had a poster of Reko in his prison cell, despite being lonely without her around, he was happy she got back into music and joined a new band after her heart was broken upon hearing her brother was a murderer.

During the death game, Alice and Reko stray away from each other, calling each other strangers up until the other's death, in which Alice cries out, swearing to kill Rio Ranger, in the aftermath of her death he is considerably shaken, and chose to forget some of the bad memories he had of Reko's death.

Alice cares deeply for Reko and feels that the way to make her happiest is to stay away from her. However, in an optional sequence in which Alice obtains Reko's bongos her attempts to reconcile with her, but is shut done by the fake Reko.

### Nao Egokoro

While trying to get enough tokens to get Reko's bongo's, Nao is one of the first people he goes to. She was still intimidated by him, although Alice was trying to become less intimidating towards her, his efforts were recognized by Sara.

Alice also has a sense of respect for Nao because of how often she and Reko would interact. After Reko's potential death, she stays by his side also mourning.

### Sou Hiyori

Upon finding plans to kidnap certain people, including Reko, to take part in a death game, Alice confronted and then murdered Sou Hiyori, although Sou did not bleed at all upon this happening and continued talking, as he wasn't fully human. Alice's incarceration seemed to have been planned.

When they met again in his prison, Alice threatened Sou, and swore to kill him for real, signing the Asunaro vow.

### Anzu Kinashi

Alice was paired with Anzu during the Murderer Game should he have been the Yabusame to survive the Final Attraction. Anzu is initially scared of Alice because of his status as a criminal, however Anzu, if she survives the first Obstructor fight, notes that Alice is kind.

She still remains afraid of him throughout the whole subgame, in stark contrast to her cordial reactions towards Reko, only growing comfortable with the prisoner around the Banquet's beginning.

## Appellations

* Participants A
* Participants B
* Organization members

## Trivia

* His likes are listed as nooks, stripes, and musical instruments in his character profile.
* The kanji that makes up his surname are 八, *ya*, lit. “eight”, 分, *bu*, lit. “currency”, and 雨, *same*, lit. “rain”.
* Alice has a 6.6% chance of winning the Death Game.
* In the original Japanese, Gin at one point refers to Alice as an "okama murderer." Okama, オカマ, is slang and a slur literally meaning pot or cauldron and roughly translated to mean "homosexual" or "transvestite". In the English version this is changed to "girly."
* In an early version of the game, Alice was a female who played a "bad" guy. While Nankidai really did like her design and wanted to use her somewhere, since there is Shin, Nankidai didn't want another character in a similar role.
	+ This version of Alice also shows up in the face-gif on Kimigashine's RPG Atsumaru's website and her silhouette appears as one of the characters in the title and save screen's background.
	+ The same situation can be applied during the ending of the official music video for PRAYER despite Alice's actual sprites appearing throughout.
* Alice may have been named after the hit rock band, Alice in Chains, due to the fact that prisoners are commonly referred to as being "in chains."
* Gonbee (権兵衛) translates to 'some guy' which is referred to people who don't know the name of a male person.
* Along with his sister Reko, as of Chapter 3, Part One Alice is one of the only two participants that can be killed in two different chapters as a result of player choice.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 1, Part One. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai. August 28, 2017.
Nankidai. Tokyo: Dwango. 2021. Print. *Kimi ga Shine Character Settei Materials: Survivor Roster* p.24, 20代後半
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Nankidai (May 30, 2019). Kimi Ga Shine Character Profile Vol. 1 (キミガシネ　キャラクタープロフィール第1弾, *Kimigashine kyarakutāpurofīru dai 1-dan*?) (Japanese). Pixiv.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Mishima's Story. *Your Turn to Shine: Island Existence* (キミガシネ番外編　～生存島～) by Nankidai. December 20, 2019.
5. ↑ 6th Broadcast of “Kimigashine” × “The Other World's Leading Role is Us!"