Alice Margatroid

**Alice Margatroid** is a character from the *Touhou Project* series.

## **Charactah Accounts**

A genuine magican. Alice was once human and became a youkai magician through training. She is young as a youkai, so she is considerate towards humans and still behaves as one of them would. She is a kind of so called humanoid youkai.

Alice is believed to rarely attack humans, however she will gladly accept challenges. During battle, she is busy controlling her army of dolls, so her weak point is being unable to defend herself alone. Her personality is uncaring towards others, and tends to be obsessed with magic. She pretends that she has a strong attitude, but truthfully she is kind of a coward in her heart.

Alice is quite average in melee fighting. Instead of that she has very high dexterity, which enables her to control many dolls as if they're living beings. That dexterity shines even among all of Gensokyo. She is a doll specialist, but dolls are more like a hobby in comparison to her full power. Alice is always seen with a locked grimoire in her hands, which is thought to be the same "Grimoire of Alice", using it she can show her full power without any dolls.

## **Appearance**

### **Anime**

* Touhou Unofficial Doujin Anime: A Summer Day's Dream

### **Manga**

* Touhou Bougetsushou: Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth
* Touhou Chireikiden: Foul Detective Satori
* Touhou Ibara Kasen: Wild and Horned Hermit
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Eastern and Little Nature Deity
* Touhou Sangetsusei: Strange and Bright Nature Deity

### **Video Games**

* Magical Battle Arena NEXT
* Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet
* Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism
* Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night
* Touhou Hisouten: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
* Touhou Hisoutensoku: Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol
* Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square
* Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade
* Touhou Suimusou: Immaterial and Missing Power
* Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom

## **Trivia**

* Alice appears on the cover of Mystic Square.
* The name Alice is a reference to the main protagonist in Lewis Carroll's famous novel *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, as the majority of enemies in Mystic Square's extra stage are card soldiers of the same type seen in the Walt Disney animated movie version of the novel. The title of the BGM used in that stage also directly translates to "Alice in Wonderland".
* Alice's last name is based on the character Miss Murgatroyd from Agatha Christie's book "A Murder is Announced".
* Because of Shinki's dialog, in which she mentions that everything in Makai is her creation, it is thought that Alice is Shinki's daughter (although this definition would also extend to the other Makai residents). However, there's been no further mention of this since then, and Perfect Memento states that Alice was once a human who became a youkai magician. It is unknown whether this is a retroactive change of continuity, merely a mistake by Akyu, or if fans were mistaken from the beginning when thinking Alice was Shinki's daughter. Since there has yet to be any official statement by ZUN, this is merely speculation. However, it is interesting to note that her title is "Witch of Death."