The time has come. That plot bunny is perfect for this month really, and now I can write it out. It’s time to get working on the prep work for the first book of The Looking Glass Saga. Or maybe Chronicles, but for now, Saga is what I had written down first. Let’s get to characters.
Alice Liddell
Alice just started at Lucena Academy, sent there because she had gone to Wonderland half a year before and driven her parents nearly mad with her incessant talk of her time there. She took this as they told her to take it: a chance to further her education and continue to learn to be a brilliant, polite young girl. She does, however, have a feeling her talk of Wonderland has caused them to send her here and is making an effort to not be so forthright with the tale any longer.
She is young, outgoing and not afraid to point out when someone is wrong or make a correction where she thinks it is necessary, but does so in the politest way she can manage. She is level headed and determined, working hard to make her parents proud and ready to continue to do her very best at anything that she attempts. Granted, it doesn’t always work out for the best, but her intentions are usually good.
Adrianna Case
Quite possibly the most beautiful girl in school, Adrianna certainly doesn’t let on that she is aware of that or anything at all. She has been sent to school for a good education at the same place as her seven brothers, all of them who remain at the school keeping a keen eye out for their little sister, who is quite prone to getting herself into unusual situations due to who she is.
Adrianna is an honest, caring and dim young girl. While she is beautiful, she has trouble understanding that there could ever be anything but good intentions when other people approach her and she is quite naive. While she does work hard, she is also a little slow to understand. She memorizes facts, but does not understand how to use them in any constructive way.
Cat
A somewhat aloof older figure in the school, he appears to only associate with Alice, it seems, and does not obey much of the dress code or anything else in the school. Those who have seen him say they usually find him looking to find a comfortable spot in the sun for a nap rather than attending any classes or homework. Some believe that he may not even go to this school, saying that he only appeared on campus this year and no one knows his name beyond Alice referring to him as “Cat.”
What he is, however, is the Cheshire Cat, come to bring Alice news of Wonderland and bring her back when it suits whatever his own motives may be. In all actuality, though, he is quite happy being a human at this school and doesn’t know why the children are so stressed. He certainly isn’t.
Adrainna’s Brothers
Adrianna has seven older brothers, all of them attending the same school as she is for the moment. They do not currently all have names and I am still trying to work out who is in what year, when they would graduate and all of that messy extra stuff that comes with creating families of more than two children. Well, even then, come to think of it. But there are triplets in there and they are mischievous. Possibly a pair of twins in there as well that are both perfect little angels. That would be five of them… we’ll see.
Their core function of the story, though, is to keep an eye on their little sister and make sure she isn’t getting into trouble again. She does have a bad habit of not recognizing obvious scams and being a little too sensitive. As well as that, they have their own issues and problems so that they can be well rounded characters as well.
Arthur Dragon
Doesn’t show up for a while, but he’s been a little frozen in stone for a while. When he wakes up, he is slow to pick up on how things work in the new world and his understanding that he’s not King and doesn’t have the power to do what he wants for the good of the mission doesn’t apply anymore.
He does turn into a good guy once he gets smacked around a little, though, but he does keep some of the arrogance. He’s also a bit of an unwilling hussy, kissing whoever Alice tells him to kiss because his kiss breaks curses. He’s not all that happy about this development.
Peter
Peter is the first refugee that Alice pulled out of the Looking Glass. He was on the run, trying not to get himself killed and scared for his life as well as carrying a lot of guilt over the people he left behind in the mean time. Not knowing what else to do, he ran from Neverland looking for a way out and found Alice, who pulled him out, but was unable to keep him at Lucena Academy.
He also returns at some point, though I don’t know how or what happens just yet. But he’ll be a hell of a lot happier than he was before, so everything should work out pretty nicely. Maybe a little rivalry between him and Arthur or something of the like. It would be nice to see the two of them try to show up one another.
And that’s more characters than are appearing in the book I’m working on right now. It’s being conceived as a series, so I’m working on the planning as if it’s going to be a series as well. Peter and Arthur, they aren’t getting into the story though they might be alluded to.
So this first one, Alice has been sent to Lucena and then Cat finds her and pushes her into a mirror. She’s supposed to try and save Wonderland, or just to deliver something to the White King, and fails. She goes back to her world with the gift of a book that she’s supposed to keep safe and not read.
Alice, of course, reads it and horrible things happen. And then more bad stuff happens and then the series is properly set up for all sorts of more things. Really.
And now I need to spend the rest of the evening looking for random stuff to throw into the story because, dammit, it’s Wonderland and Nanowrimo. I take that as license to have utter insanity happen. That, and I’m going to throw a fridge at a character at long last!
Oh, and I guess I should note that the looks and uniforms I have aren’t entirely accurate. I just couldn’t find a jumper. Alice and Adrianna are 12 at the start of this. They get the blue blazer when they get to the high school area in a couple years.
School uniform colours: Blue and grey. It’s the only time I’m having uniforms, I think, so I’m going to try and do a little consistency here. Just a little. But she’s still getting the black headband with boy.
Who knows, I might be able to start writing this thing tonight. Wish me luck!
