Art by StarTwo
After walking on another path through memory lane, we bring you today something back from 2016 that we never got around to post on the blog.
Meet an Alice of our own, confident as she slides down the Rabbit hole, with the confidence of someone who’s got it all figured out.
Sounds like that could give quite an interesting story too!
★stay safe and stay inspired★
A dubious skill to gain from Alice, we don’t advise to follow through.
Today we’re bringing you a character from Megami Tensei franchise, a series we’ve been very much in love with, not only for the story but also for the magnificent lore created for the several games under its title.
It’s set in a cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic dark fantasy genre with alternative realms, demons and magic with its lore ranging from inspirations of mythology with elements of philosophy, religion and occultism. There’s always a constant feeling of only being able to rely on your own abilities against inevitable destruction.
So we admit it was impossible not to be immediately drawn into it, especially when the soundtracks lure you closer even more!
Alice here in particular is inspired by the main character of “Alice in Wonderland” from Lewis Carroll and its adaptation by Disney, obvious by the colours and clothes design. Her signature skill “Die for Me!” and “Mad Tea Party” even strengthen that idea, feeding off the original tale’s dark side with a queen that demands heads to be chopped off and Mad Hatter and March Hare openly adding to tea party largely lacking in common sense.
Her origins also mention that she might also be based on a myth of an Aryan (Indo-Iranian noble class) girl who died young. With her death came great power as she turned into a spirit, turning her insane. Her story was used to scare misbehaving children, with the threat to be visited at night and killed in order to become her “friend”.
In Portugal we have an uglier, meaner version with this behavior: The Sack Man. A sort of Krampus that sells off the misbehaving children, with other harsher versions describing him as a murderer receiving the brat from their own parents…
Between dying for friendship and being sold off or given to a murderer by disappointed parents… Hm, sorry Alice, if we get you in the game, we can’t exactly die for you! But we can have a tea party instead. We may be all mad at this point, so we might as well enjoy it.
(This was a traditional sketch coloured digitally. Here’s the sketch version of this illustration: Alice Sketch )
★See you soon and stay inspired★
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