Canon is American McGee's Alice

[simplethankyou]

It amazes me how you just assume I want to play in a game. Frankly. I'm tired of games.

Though I don't think you much care about how I feel, Puppeteer. For if you did, you would be considerate to my state of mind. Which you are not. Why would anyone want to place me in a game with people who are perfectly sane?

I'm unstable. Broken. That doesn't stop you. Tell me, Puppeteer, how mad are you? How impossibly broken is your mind? Let us see your ruins of a Wonderland. Or are you afraid of what we might find there?

Useless.

Might as well be talking to myself but even then I get an answer. The least you could do is find that grinning cat. His voice might be a comfort.

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[red_of_the_dead]

*giggle*

Aw sorry, I didn't mean to be rude.

*Over elaborate curtsey*

I'm Red, and I know a version of you very well~

So I just saw you and thought I'd pop by to say hello! Hello!

[simplethankyou]

Red? A version of myself? I know a Red as well. Though she is or.. was.. a version of myself. But she had since changed.

At any rate I must ask are you in any relation to the Red queen?

[red_of_the_dead]

Pft, that stuffy bat? Hardly.

I'm Red as in "Red Riding Hood" and you're very different from the Alice in my world, but I like you better.

Though to be clear, the one I mentioned before that I'm close to? She's more like you then the one from my world. It's all very confusing. But you're used to confusion right?

[simplethankyou]

Confusion is no stranger to me.

Though multiple versions of myself is a little alarming. Tell me, Red, is this anything I should be concerned about? Anything that I should be worrying over?

[red_of_the_dead]

Oh sure!

I guess the main thing I would tell you is well...you're your own worst enemy. You may not think much of yourself but you really are something special. Something amazing. And if you drag yourself down by forgetting that...well, try and remember me alright? Because I don't just think you're amazing, I know it.

I look into those dark chaos filled eyes and I just *Giggle blush* Well perhaps some other time. Either way it's important you know that.

[simplethankyou]

You seem so sure I am an amazing person. Yet. I haven't the slightest clue who you are.

Where I'm from people don't think highly of me. Only in wonderland have I ever found people who think I'm amazing. I don't know the me you know. But she must have had some great effect on you.

[red_of_the_dead]

You can say that again~

[Moves closer casually as if they are already friends]

I'm not quite normal myself you know? My world was falling apart before something took me away from it all. I thought I'd lost my mind really. But Alice, my Alice. She made me feel OK with it. Let me know I wasn't crazy...at least not in the bad way.

[And now she steals a peck on the cheek]

So you could say I admire you...her...whatever.

[simplethankyou]

[Alice gives her a look after the kiss on the cheek. No one has ever done that before.] Though your words are kind and your acquaintance appreciated. I must remind you I am not your Alice.

However similar we may be, we are not the same. [she scoots away.]

I don't engage in such activities.

[red_of_the_dead]

[Laughs out loud again]

Yeah she was exactly like that when we met. I think the only difference so far between you two is she had this mentor that kinda put her on a different path. Now she's totally into fighting evil and darkness wherever it may hide.

[Dismissive handwave]

The important thing is you don't forget.

[simplethankyou]

The only mentor I have is a bullying cat and the only evil I fight is the one the resides in my own mind. [This other version of herself seems odd to her. But it does strike her curiosity.]

I won't forget. I've learned my lesson about forgetting.

[red_of_the_dead]

Sounds like you're on the right path to me! I mean it won't be an easy life, but then again it never has been has it? And easy lives are boring to begin with.

[simplethankyou]

An easy life is a luxury, I have not known for some time. [Though boring, she wants to be someone who could be considered normal. Though she does she what happens to people who let their wonderlands go.]

As for you. Your land. You say it is also falling apart. How so?

[red_of_the_dead]

Oh well, long story.

I guess the short version is zombies, you know the walking dead? They're infecting all the living creatures, even creatures made of food or steel, turning them into mindless killing machines. It was just me and a friend trying to track down the source and destroy it but...well even if we figure out what caused it there's not much left to save.

I already had to put down my Granny, and my former best friend. It's a real mess.

[Weak smile]

So you can see where a girl like me might go a little...nutty.

[Wink blows a kiss]