Alice!!!

Alice Von Hotz of the Von Hotz Family.

Alice Williams

Gender: She/Them

Appearance: She, ironically, actually likes dressing in the same clothing style as alice from alice in wonderland and frequently enjoys tea parties. The first thing someone would notice however are the scars running up and down her arms, neck, and back almost strategically in places no one would notice or look. Normally, when not running a tea party, she can be seen wearing very...samey clothes in beige and brown colors made more for her own comfort than looking good. She has long platinum blonde hair she keeps held back from her face with a black band that has what looks like a much newer skull pin attached to the side. She can always be seen with some kind of doll, puppet, or plush by her side. She also just seems to radiate a constant anxiety, as if she's worried someone will snap at her for no reason at any given time.

Scar: Puppetmaster

Scar appearance: the main scar itself takes the appearance of what seems to be a highly articulated stringed puppet made of a porcelain-like material that is cracked all across that hangs behind her, their arms usually wrapped around Alice in a hug. They're dressed in what you'd expect a classical mother to be dressed in, it gives off an aura of warm protection and love.

Scar Powers: With Puppetmaster, Alice can bring life to inanimate objects, although they have free wills of their own and can have different abilities based on what they are, it's as if they all choose to protect and stand beside Alice of their own decisions. When brought to life their abilities are different based on what they once were. Something like a Gundam will develop energy weapons and actual sharp weaponry, specialized puppets can have anything from acid-shooting capabilities, to flamethrowers, to even being full of leeches. They all see her as someone to protect.

Later on as he powers develop, she'd discover she can use this on things other than figures, such as a model gun becoming an actual firearm, a star wars toy blaster turning into an actual laser rifle, and a halloween prop becoming an actual weapon. In fact, what it transforms into depends on her perception of the object she's "Bringing to life" in question. In fact, the more specific she is in her interpretation of the object, the more specialized or powerful the object becomes. The difference between "This is a sword" and "This is the sword Muramasa, wielded by Jetstream Sam in metal gear rising reveangance, and later wielded by Raiden. It's been passed down through Sam's family and he augmented it with a high-frequency device that enhances it's cutting capabilities."

This is a double-edged sword however, since her powers are also tied to her current emotional state. If she's just as she normally is, it's usually fine, but if she's in any kind of negative heightened emotional state this can start causing her to affect things she doesn't mean to or warp things in strange and macabre ways. Like if she's in a truly dangerous situation against say, a kidnapper, she can end up inadvertently turning that kidnapper into a mindless monster. Thankfully, the main drawback of her abilities is that the things she affects need to remain in her line of sight or near her/touching her and things that exit this radius revert to how they were before. One would think that means she can affect things long distance and even though she can she needs to keep her focus entirely on the object/person in question which taxes her mental energy incredibly quickly.

Backstory: Alice was born of split nobility, her father was a puppet craftsman from the states who was born to a rich family and her mother was from a Noble Family in Germany. Their parents were in an arranged marriage and had no love for each other but her father...truly loved Alice. Every year she'd get to visit him for a month and those were the happiest times of her life. Her Mother however...was a tyrant, she saw her daughter as a status symbol and treated her like a doll, a puppet for her own desires. The only escape she had was through visiting her father and the puppets, dolls, and plushies she came to enjoy as well as the staff at her mansion in Germany. What her father and the staff didn't know was how...tyrannical and toxic her mother was. She learned to wear long-sleeve dresses with high-cut necks to hide what she had been doing to her.

One day however, she had finally had enough. her mother's abuse, her convincing herself that her mother had to love her, she had to, it finally all came crumbling down when she listened to her mother talking about sending her to a school for ladies. This particular school was infamous for being under the table, not even recognized as legally existing and she knew that she would lose all that she was if she went there. She finally opened up to the staff and to her father and together they worked to gather all her belongings while plans upon plans piled up. It all came to a head when her mother left for a party, the staff all worked together to gather every belonging she cared about and fled, the connections that had once been used for her mother used in full force for her as she flew unmolested across Germany, across the ocean, and finally into the hands of her father.

The day she was finally safe, the first night she fell asleep her scar awakened, a power born from her love of her stuffed friends and from the trauma of what her mother treated her as. Her father recognized it for what it was and after studying for a bit, sent her to woolsworth in hopes that she can learn how to use her powers and protect herself from her mother's wrath.