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We have a new citizen in Mount Phoenix:

Alice McMichael, a 26 year old daughter of Odin. She is a museum guide at Phoenix Library and Museum.

FC NAME/GROUP: Roseanne Park - Rose / Blackpink CHARACTER NAME: Alice Stella McMichael AGE/DATE OF BIRTH: 11 February, 1997 PLACE OF BIRTH: Auckland, New Zealand OCCUPATION: museum guide at the Phoenix Library and Museum HEIGHT: 168 cm DEFINING FEATURES:

slender limbs, shoulder broader than her hips; thick, healthy-looking hair; a mole on the right under her lower lip, and very expressive eyes

PERSONALITY: Alice is self-aware and self-conscious. She knows well what she can do, yet at the same time over-analyses and over-thinks about what she cannot. However, instead of dwelling on her negative feelings, she tends to focus on dealing with the problem, although it may take some time until she strikes. As a daughter of Odin, her strategic way of taking action is paired with the ability to weigh up the situation, size up people, and optimize her plans. She does not hesitate to stand up for herself and the underdogs, although she often opts for nonviolent (but not necessarily less unrelenting) solutions when conflict arises.

Her friendliness and candidness are always ready to be shown, but so is her fierce independence and determination to get what she wants how she wants it. Despite her quick and sincere emotional response to everything in life, Alice has a hard time letting people in, yet she’s got a knack for helping others feel accepted and cared for when being around her. Her loyalty and protectiveness are saved for a few who are on the same wavelength or equally loyal, and she will express high respect for individuals who are fearless in being themselves.

She loves beautiful things and beautiful people, and while she can be a hopeless romantic, she rarely gets herself attached, which can make her appear cold and disengaged at times. While often being seen as a sociable, agreeable person, Alice may get snappy and judgemental, especially when she feels restless, constrained, or is simply in desperate need of more me-time.

HISTORY:

Trigger warning: mention of kidnapping, child trafficking, child abuse, sexual assault, homicide

– Prologue –

The peaceful life of Minah Lee ended at the tender age of three, on a fateful trip with her mother to Albania.

While they were at a night market, Minah wandered away from her mother, blending in the crowd. Before she realized she was lost, a strange woman approached, saying that she would take her back to her mother. That never happened, instead, she was anesthetized, then taken on a truck that carried her straight to England.

– Chapter I –

The young girl’s first core memory involved picking up a coin from the dirty pavement, then putting it into the tattered hat that had been there since she could remember. Meals were sporadic, almost the same every day, as bland and cold as the English nights could be.

No day was a normal day on the street and in the hands of a scary woman all the kids in her ‘family’ called Mama. In the morning, she told each kid what to do and how to do it, and if they did not finish their daily task, it always meant no food for ‘the lazy’. The name Minah was no more, and Eve was how she was called, but ‘Hey’ and ‘You’ remained much more familiar than that makeshift name until Mama decided her time on the street was over.

At the age of seven, she was introduced to a wealthy family in the uptown area as a cousin of their current maid. At first, she was instructed to help the maid run errands, mostly by picking up ordered groceries from the stores. A few weeks after, she was asked to be a kitchen hand, then a month later, she was finally entrusted with the task of doing laundry and cleaning up the rooms. It was a spoken rule that without being requested, she was not allowed to show herself up anywhere in the family’s manor, except her corner in the attic or in the kitchen. In return, she was allowed two proper meals a day and stay in the family’s attic five days a week, making weekends spent at Mama’s run-down house slightly more bearable.

Thanks to the framed family picture, she learned that Mister and Mistress had a son around her age, who only stayed with them over weekends when he was back from boarding school. In his room, old textbooks and notebooks from previous school years were neatly placed on a wooden shelf, which she dusted off and cleaned up every day. It was from those textbooks, with a bit of help from the family’s maid, that she learned the alphabet, spelling, and numeracy among other things.

Within three months, she was able to read the children’s classics in the family’s home library and do basic maths. At night, quietly, she recited everything she had read during the day, often with little to no mistakes. When she received her very first allowance, she spent all of it on a thick notebook and a box of pencils. Since then, besides reciting, she started to write what she remembered from those children’s books, and soon began to give those stories alternative endings, much to her secretive delight.

Her interest in books did not escape the Mistress’ attention, and so besides her own attic corner and the kitchen, Eve was allowed to spend time in the home library, as long as she remembered to do her daily tasks and leave the room immediately if anyone else except the maid or the Mistress entered. However, by the time she could finish reading all the books on the shelves, her little world once again shook.

On a crispy morning in June, the nine-year-old was stopped from cleaning the kitchen floor by a young woman dressing nicely. The woman introduced herself as Sarah, and Sarah proceeded to ask her some questions to which, based on Sarah’s facial expression, she did not believe she gave satisfying answers.

What is your full name? I’m Eve, just Eve. Where are you from, Eve? England. Yes, but where in England, can you tell me please? I’m…not sure, ma’am. Is your family here with you? Yes, I’m living with Mama. Mama, your mother, right? Can you tell me what her name is? I…I don’t know, everyone just calls her Mama.

On the same day, Sarah took her to an orphanage, not forgetting to assure her everything would be fine. Eve knew that while the woman meant all well, not everything would be fine, at least for Mama and whoever was involved with her.

She could not finish all the books in the family’s library, yet she knew that the Master was a public personage who had a deep interest in law, and that some latest documents he left on the desk revolved around child trafficking. Even though she could not understand everything written, it was enough to dawn on her that she could be a victim, that she was kidnapped from her biological parents and was trafficked to England from somewhere else in Europe. That she did not know who she used to be, and perhaps she would never know.

Ten months and some days of an alleged orphan’s life later, she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. McMichael, a renowned couple in the business world who had been struggling to have a child of their own. It was an easy decision for the McMichael after their first talk with Eve at the orphanage, as they had already learned about the poor girl’s background and her exceptionally bright mind from her ex-Master.

On a blooming morning in April, Eve was dead, and Alice Stella McMichael was born.

– Chapter 2 –

Attending a prestigious private school in London, Alice was in her element. She rarely had difficulties in her studies, and she took the mild decrease in eyesight as an inevitable side effect of spending too much time reading.

While she could fit quite well into the nerd stereotype, Alice was by no means a weakling. Since day one, she refused to be an easy target of the devious youths in school, using her mind and years of a low-class life to either snuff out the fire or keep herself out of the minefield. She was known as a smart cookie with a fierce temperament, a social butterfly until one crossed the line. An inner joke has passed among her friend circle that Alice was actually the sassy Mary Sue, for somehow she always had the best comebacks known to man, and rarely, if ever, came second in any sort of competitions she chose to take part in.

While many had the impression that Alice was untouchable, it was, sadly, not the truth. On the late night of her 17th birthday party, she lost the fight against her well-respected foster father, who left a stain she had to spend hours under the showerhead to scrub off. And right in that fogged shower stall, Alice schemed the retaliation that the monster was well deserved.

Just a few years after adopting Alice, James McMichael was diagnosed with diabetes type 2. Since then, he had to follow a strict diet and take prescribed insulin. It started with her secretly replacing the artificial sweetener used for his meals with powdered sugar. When no one was around to see, she took the insulin bottles in his insulated carry bag, then injected some pure water into them, all done with gloves on. For an extra step, she took the unopened bottles from the fridge, placed them under direct sunlight until they got warm, then put them back in their places.

The news of James McMichael passing away on his business trip from an insulin overdose came to all but one’s shock. Carmen McMichael stepped up to handle the part of business her husband left behind, which she hoped would soon enough be in Alice’s charge. However, shortly after James’ funeral, Alice got admitted to Cambridge University, with a full scholarship, to become a Modern and Medieval languages major, specializing in French and Spanish. She also took a one-year modern Greek course and an introductory course in Italian offered by the university.

As part of the curriculum, Alice spent her third year, called the Year Abroad, in France and Mexico. After three months of teaching English as a British Council assistant in Mexico, she moved to Paris for an internship with an international fashion house. There, her model potential was discovered by a well-known designer. He suggested her pose for his latest collection, which she was hesitant about at first. Yet, public reaction was unexpectedly positive, and her name started to gain attention.

– Chapter 3 –

By the time she graduated from college, Alice had already been rising to stardom.

Besides signing model contracts with several prestigious fashion and cosmetics brands, she also showed up as a guest on famous TV shows. After graduation, she embarked on learning acting, starting off with playing cameos in some sitcoms and drama series. With her charm, skills, and ability to learn quickly, she convinced the audience and drew the attention of Hollywood directors. Her first supporting role in a blockbuster earned her the prestigious prize of Best new actress of the Year.

Fame is married to Trouble, and so her trouble started to flood in. It began with a beautiful romantic story between her and a famous actor. Fans adored them, and when their engagement was announced six months later, everyone was only expecting the best for the sweet couple.

However, after being spotted having their time together on Jeju Island, the couple disappeared.

No one knew exactly what happened, even Alice, who found herself on the bridge leading to a mysterious island called Mount Phoenix. She felt cold, weak, alone in a summer dress she did not recognize and, not until a couple of hours later, knowing that she was one year away from the last piece of memory retained in her mind. In the palm of her hand, there was a piece of paper folded neatly saying ‘Do not come back’.

With no other belongings, she crossed the bridge to step foot on the island, where she was greeted by strangers who called themselves by the name of gods. The only explanation they could give for why she was able to be there was because she, herself, was a half-goddess. Daughter of Odin, to be exact.

The questions they asked left Alice flabbergasted, for she soon realized she got no answers for any but her own name. There were some faces and maybe some names, of someone or somewhere she could not tell. The more she tried to puzzle out the fragments and shatters of memory, the more it hurt. In the depth of her confused mind, voices talked, telling their stories in their own languages, sounds intertwining and words mingling too well the cacophony brought absolutely no message to life.

After two weeks in the hospital, the voices in her mind started to calm down, leaving each other space to speak. Her mind still hurt, but at least, she got glimpses of camera flashes, gowns, kitchen, and books. The crumbled note and its ‘Do not come back’ remained glaring at her from across the room. A lot must have happened, Alice believed, though it was the single piece of paper that questioned whether she really wanted to solve this unholy puzzle.

For the time being, she settled down in an apartment generously given to her for being yet another abandoned child of a god. The times visiting the Phoenix Library and Museum were enough for her to realize that she could understand more than one language and that her broken brain turned out not to be so broken. It still got the capacity for her to become a museum guide, and so she guided curious eyes through the shelves of books and relics, wondering when she would be seen, when all secrets would be unearthed, and when she would be home.

PANTHEON: Norse CHILD OF: Odin POWERS:

Fighting instinct: She has an aptitude for fighting in close, physical combat, yet this ability is undiscovered due to her preference for non-violent means.

Tactical analysis: She is an innately skillful strategist who is able to create plans and strategies several steps ahead of the opponents. She can anticipate the opponents’ possible next moves, know the best actions to take, and the best timing to carry out her plan. Consequently, this helps her excel in strategic games, including chess.

Enhanced mind: She’s capable of learning, systemizing, and applying the knowledge she’s exposed to rapidly without going through intense training or practice. She can comprehend and explain complex, abstract concepts effectively, and also do faster and more accurate mental arithmetic than an average person. She also rarely experiences mental overload or mental fatigue. However, this ability is affected after the incident, as she tends to have a headache whenever she attempts to use her mental capacity for more than a couple of hours.

STRENGTHS:

She’s quick to obtain a comprehensive understanding of abstract concepts, also able of learning and teaching almost anything once she puts her mind to it.

She is open-minded and receptive to new ideas and people from all walks of life.

Her ability to empathize with others, together with her willingness to help, makes her a caring and reliable friend.

Despite her seemingly shy demeanor, she will not hesitate to defend herself and those she cares about in a determined, if not unrelenting manner.

She is naturally good at strategic games and sports, including chess and e-sports.

WEAKNESSES:

After the mysterious incident that causes her memory loss, she tends to get migraine or headaches, mostly when she uses her brain power for too long, but it can also happen out of the blue.

She may often be caught spacing out mid-conversation or when suddenly loses interest in whatever she is doing.

Despite her friendliness, more often than not, she gets cautious of others’ motives, making her seem distant and slow to truly open up.

She’s quite sensitive to weather, and it’s easy for her to catch a cold or minor allergy during season changes.

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