Alison

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Alison is a main protagonist of Blackwater. She is the sister to David and the leader of the Oilers.

## Appearance

Alison is a young Latina adult girl, with dyed dark purple hair tied into two pony tails that lay over both of her shoulders. She has sad-looking black eyes. Her natural hair is black. She wears a red, white, blue shawl with a hood over her sleeveless and short-length purple dress. She also wears black leggings and black boots. She exhibits a goth-like appearance with her powdered white skin. She wears black armbands on both wrists and around her neck and a singular pink hair clip on the side of her hair.

Later in the series, she appears to be covered in tattoos such as a heart over her chest, two black hands on both hips and a patterned tattoo on her right arm. These tattoos were drawn onto her by her girlfriend Deirdre. She wears black shorts with a lavender crop top. Her hair is cut short and she isn't shown to wear any make-up other than eyeliner. Also she is presented with her natural black hair color.

## Personality

Alison is a melancholy, gloomy, timid, and sensitive shut-in girl. Due to her lack of social abilities she is often scared to initiate conversations with new people. She is often the subject of mockery from her peers due to her ghostly appearance and her inept social skills. She holds many insecurities involving her physical appearance, frequently believing that she is hideous. Often she is self-conscious about the way she acts towards others often hesitating to state her mind in order to not hurt others and especially her friends. She is conflicted with being a leader to her friends and tries to be careful about her planning and decisions. She does not talk much and lets other do the talking for her in tense situations. Her voice is often mumbled or whispery and she tends to stutter but she can sometimes raise her voice when she gets irritated. However, she is incredibly observant and it quick to notice when something is wrong. Alison can get quite irrational at times when she lets her moody behavior get the better of her. She is prone to mental breakdowns when things do not go her way or that she is reminded of her perpetual loneliness.

Despite her tragic backstory, she can very kind and understanding of the people around her and would never resort to violent measure to get her way. She is incredibly well-behaved, empathetic, and can understand what others go through. She constantly seeks how she can achieve a better life for herself and for others. She is incredibly intelligent and book smart and would not hesitate to correct ignorance. Alison is mature and would think head-first before approaching any situation. Her cautious hesitancy means that she can plan and think before acting.

## Personal Life

At a young, Alison and her brother David lived in southern California with their biological parents. They lived a simple and peaceful middle-class life; their father worked while their mother was stay-at-home but very caring of both of them. Her mother told her that whenever life brought her down that she always find the good within it. This peaceful life was about to change however when a fire engulfed her house killing both of her parents. Alison was fated to also be killed by the fire but a woman by the name of Ginger unexpectedly saved her. Her brother was able escape safely but he believed that Alison was killed along with his parents.

### Early Blackwater

Brought into Blackwater as a young girl, Alison had not envisioned that she would be living without her brother and parents. For most of her arrival, she would often cry about missing her family and being too stubborn to accept her new life. Feeling sympathetic for Alison, an older Deirdre introduced her to her friends "The Oilers" in order to calm her down. The group was formed because they all shared the same predicaments; they did not want to be apart of the Blackwater and wanted to leave. However, Ginger could not let any of them leave believing that it is not possible for them to return because they were all fated to die. Bringing them all back to their realities would disrupt the gentle flow of time. Ginger also cannot give up part of her residents because she believes it would make her a poor leader.

Alison and her friends the Oilers rebel against living in Blackwater disregarding that fate is not always destiny and that life outside Blackwater was possible.

Unable to fend off Ginger's allies, only Alison and Samoa were able to leave Blackwater with the Sabazios sculpture leaving the rest of the Oilers behind.

With this new duo being unable to return to Blackwater with the rest of the Oilers, Samoa had decided that they instead resort to hiding from Ginger and protecting the Sabazios sculpture. Alison was dissatisfied with his cowardly decision to not return for the Oilers and she would scold him for being afraid.

### United Kingdom

Under the surname Schulz, Alison has lived most of her life with her new guardian Samoa in the United Kingdom. Her guardian did not know how to take care of children and would often neglect her. Deep down however, he does care about Alison and wants her to have a normal life.

Believing that her guardian is abusive, she runs away from her home at the age of 18 to go searching for her brother David.

## Throughout the Series

She spends the series dreading Ginger, the girl who saved her. She comes up with a plan to retrieve the Sabazios sculpture in order to leave Blackwater and start a new life with her found family.

## Relationships

### David

At a young age, both of them were inseparable. But after the accident, David believed that Alison along with their parents were both dead. Once Alison was able to meet up with him again she explained to him that she was his long lost sister. After hearing her story, he did not know what to believe anymore. Hearing this talk of how a mysterious lady saved her from inevitable doom, felt fantastical and unrealistic to him in the grand scheme of things. David could not believe nor trust Alison at first and he kept sticking to the notion that she was not alive. They travelled to the cemetery where both their parents and where Alison were supposed to be buried. Despite believing that her story is nonsense with some convincing he eventually comes to the consensus that is may actually be true.

Overtime they both bond over their shared personality traits and their similar backstories. Both of them lived with parents that often neglected them or did not understand what they went through. Because of their neglectful adoptive parents they both developed trauma and trust-issues for other people.

Throughout the story, they both help each other in searching and retrieving the Sabazios sculpture

Often conflict would arise between the both of them due to David's indecisiveness between choosing sides with her or Ginger.

### Ginger

From the very beginning, Alison has always despised Ginger. She believes that she's faking her Pollyanna kindness. And she thinks that her way of creating salvation to the previously dead is not a good system. Despite Ginger being the one to save her from the fire, she never thought that it was right to be taken away and to leave her parents to die without her. She did not know if her brother was alive either.

Alison eventually joins the Oilers, a group of rebels that do not wish to fit in within Blackwater.

Based on what her friends have told her, Ginger is an exploitative and cunning leader. Often not being able to take no for an answer and demanding others to do things for her. She holds people who don't want to be there by their own will and tells them that her way of life is how others should live.

Throughout Blackwater, Ginger has been shown to be a better person than she was back then and is making efforts to reverse the bad reputation she had with the Oilers. But despite this, Alison still holds onto her belief that Ginger will not change and is the same person she was years ago.

### Deirdre

Deirdre is Alison's best friend and girlfriend. They both confessed their feelings for each other but only started dating when Alison was just "mature enough." She trusts her deeply and tells her all of what goes on in her mind. Alison often goes to her for comfort whenever she has a bad day.

### Sabazios

Sabazios is the main gateway between real life and Blackwater. Without him and the hand sculpture that represents him, Alison would not be alive and have lived the way that she has. She uses the Sabazios statue to communicate to her friends like a telephone.

Alison and Sabazios have a very mixed friendship. He usually gives her very wise advice but also physically bullies her.

### Posie

Posie and Alison are both very close friends along with Deirdre and the other Oilers. In the UK, Posie would often enable her to do very mischievous tasks in the upper world like stealing for the greater good. They both share a fascination for flowers with black roses being Alison's favorite and Posie's being forget-me-nots. Posie can be incredibly selfish at times but she has been shown to not display this trait around Alison.

### Nadine

Like the other Oilers who have been with Alison since her childhood, her and Nadine are very close. She would take her hunting in the forest and let Alison practice her shooting ability.

### Victor

Despite having friendly vibes with every member of the Oilers, Victor is a mixed bag for Alison. Usually they are on good terms with each other having similar beliefs about Blackwater. But due to Victor's apathetic arrogance, egoism, and fascination towards Ginger, she does not take a liking to him and thinks he'd be the one to betray first.

### Wild

Alison and Wild are inseparable. Wild is incredibly loyal to her and would never stray from the Oilers. He teaches her about the importance of the wilderness and all the animals that inhabit it. They both share disdain for capitalism and hope to dismantle it one day.

### Honey

At first they were distant of one another due Honey's extreme obsession with her lover Pierre. But overtime they have grown fond of each other and Alison has been one of the few to have seen Honey without her mask on.

### Pierre

Alison sees him as the father that she never properly had.

## Trivia

* The name Alison was taken from the song "Alison" by Elvis Costello.
* She is similar to that of Alice from Alice in Wonderland
	+ Her friends are loose references to Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, and others.

## Gallery

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