#and before you ask I'm actually not sure how I'd handle A:MR in this verse

[victorluvsalice]

Bringing this one back because I've been listening to to this video again and having Valicer feels about it this time! Specifically in the context of -- well, remember how in the tags of the Childhood Friends story for OT3 Week, I mentioned that "part of me thinks this could be the opening to a Valicer take on the 'Somebody I Used To Know' idea where Victor got yanked into the events of AMA"?

Yeaaah, that AU idea hasn't gone away. I should probably do a proper post about it at some point, just to get it out of my system, but the gist of the AU would be the trio were childhood friends who were separated shortly before the fire (there was an argument among the parents about the trio playing wedding and both Alice and Smiler marrying Victor), and end up reuniting while Alice is in Rutledge -- specifically, Victor learns about her incarceration there and goes to visit her, only to run into Smiler, who's visiting the place with their father Dr. Kelman, and letting them know her situation. The two get pulled into her treatment, and via Currently Unknown Means, end up getting pulled into Wonderland with her when she drops back in at the start of American McGee's Alice. Leading to a weird three-player situation where Victor and Smiler accompany Alice on her journey to save Wonderland, and maybe figure out a few things about themselves in the process...

Anyway, how this relates to the song (or chunklet of one) is that I keep picturing the trio in the basic situation of the AU during the video -- dealing with the Rutledge stuff in the sadder half (like some of the awkwardness of Victor and Smiler getting to know each other again, or the pair having to stop Alice trying to go after her wrists with that spoon during a certain incident), and plunging into Wonderland and working their way through that in the more triumphant half (I recently had an image of the three of them wielding the Jabberwock's Eyestaff together to finally take down that flying asshole and I quite like it). I also just like picturing their three Wonderlands all blossoming up again together in the second bit after a period spent dead and dormant -- it's nice. :) The song just lends itself to that kind of thing, you know? I like it a lot.