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ICly, When your character is on a canon update, they completely disappear from the world. It's almost as if they were removed the game, however there's a key difference. Their amulet will remain and be in a translucent state. Characters will be gone from the game from three days to a week. They will reappear wherever their amulet is and can continue their progress from wherever they left off. They will also retain all of their memories.
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Character: Alice L. Malvin
Current Canon Point: Volume 11, Chapter 45: "As a Living Being"
Updated Canon Point: Volume 19, Chapter 92: "No Glory Yet No Mockery"
Updated Background:
When we last left Alice in Chapter 45, she was returning home with a dislocated shoulder and something of a resolution with the conflict in District Zero. We're told Lieutenant Vitter took the fall for the incident in Karussell, acting as a superior officer rather than allowing the blame to shift to Alice herself. It also turns out that the amnesty granted Section Three was in part because Rondario, who had wanted to destroy District Zero and publicly called out Section Three, had donated a massive amount of money to the military using Section Three. The government is thus hesitant to sanction Section Three in any way, hoping more entrepreneurs will follow Rondario's lead and donate money as well.
There was also talk during the District Zero arc of the upcoming Nebulo Conference (or Congress as it's called at times), a convening of the different countries to discuss policy and relationships with one another as well as many other topics. This becomes the next major plot in canon. One of the major focuses of the Congress is what to do about the Kauplin's patents, a major point in these next few volumes that I'll take some time to summarize here.
Kauplin was a genius inventor who created more than a few patents for weaponry and other technology. In fact Kauplin created so many patents that scientists and inventors of the Empire and many other countries within the world Alice hails from are hitting a significant roadblock in any research and development they do. After pouring time and money into experimentation and invention of new weapons and devices, one person and group after another trips up on the same thing - a patent from Kauplin already existing for a thing they just created! Kauplin took advantage of a public indifferent to intellectual property at the time and patented an amazing amount of things that only existed in theory. Thanks to this, the Empire has had a foothold when it came to weapons and technology development in comparison to the rest of the world. The annulment of Kauplin's patents would leave inventors and scientists free to create new technologies but it would also mean stripping the Empire of it's one major advantage over everyone other country. And this is a distinct problem for the Empire.
We also dive more into the plot of the Silver Wheel, who have been lurking around in the background since Volume 6. It seems the aim of the Silver Wheel is to break apart the Empire bit by bit. There's talk of speeding up the process and many of the events in the next few volumes concerning a terrorist group called the Anti-Ares is the work of one of the "spokes" of the Silver Wheel itself, a masked woman names Vylos.
For the most part the Congress goes as scheduled in the beginning. There is talk of District Zero, how it is a sign that the Empire is too overburdened being the "Knights of the Nebulo" and so that they might rest, the annulment of Kauplin's patents is a necessity. The fourth day is when everything collapses. A terrorist group known as the Anti-Ares storm the Tower of Babel, taking most of the visiting dignitaries hostage. It seems most of the Anti-Ares are made up of individuals from nations that were crushed by the Empire during the war and bear a heavy resentment against the Empire for it. While their demand is for the Empire to give up Pelion, a nation conquered by the Empire, it isn't this surrender that seems to be the ultimate goal of the Anti-Ares.
Alice ends up participating with the Nebulo Congress as head of the War Damage Symposium during most of the congress. Very few people come to the Symposium. Thanks to the relative unimportance of the war relief symposium compared to the rest of the Congress, the Anti-Ares terrorist group largely forgets about Alice and those attending her symposium. She isn't rounded up with the rest of the nobles on the fourth day when the terrorist group begins it's holy war. Ehen the terrorist announce that they are going to free some of their hostages to show that the Empire is their only enemy, she is given the opportunity to be the first one to attempt to leave when the terrorists offer to let anyone who wishes to walk out to do just that, provided they are not within the Tower of Babel itself but in the buildings surrounding the Tower. This act invites censure and eventually rock-throwing in Alice's direction from the crowds gathered near the Tower, saying she's being a coward for taking the chance to escape first considering she is both Imperial military and a noble as well. Alice however sees it as setting a precedent, showing the other nobles that she isn't gunned down by the terrorist and thus they aren't lying about them being free to leave. Without someone taking that risk first, Alice reasons, no one would dare try to escape for fear of looking dishonorable and in the end those people would be seen as "willingly" staying and thus most wouldn't care if they were sacrificed or not in the end.
After her escape Alice leaves and returns much later to combat one of the tanks the Anti-Ares have brought into the fight, decked out in set of armor called the White Rose that bears special modifications to aid in in repelling gunfire. She also brings her horse Ace into the fight.
More about Alice's personal background is also revealed in these volumes. We meet Lieutenant Marwin of Section One, the Information Department, and Haarkenmeijer, someone from the Foreign Vistors' Bureau as well as officer third class of the Sacred Swords of the Azure Bloom. Marwin is from a branch of the Malvin family. We also learn that the "L." in Alice's full name (Alice L. Malvin) is a type of distinction within noble families. It seems there can only be one person within a noble family line that bears the letter for that family. Branch families compete for the letter and those of Marwin family were determined to take the L away from Alice and instate their own families as lead. Everyone seemed to think it would be an easy task, considering Alice was a young girl who until a few years prior was bedridden from illness, but Alice proved otherwise in a duel with Lieutenant Marwin himself.
Thanks to this, Marwin and Haarkenmeijer both view Alice as a sort of flawless hero to idolize. Haarkenmeijer reasons that they couldn't allow themselves to see Alice as any less (or even human perhaps) because it meant they lost to her. You can't lose to something that is unbeatable and so in keeping Alice on a pedestal, they were really protecting their own egos. Lieutenant Marwin won't accept this idea and both eventually contributes to Haarkenmeijer's death as well as targeting Randel for beginning to introduce taint into Alice's perfect, unblemished heart. Her questioning her ideals of neutrality, of compressing her own feelings and sacrificing her desires to be a neutral hero archetype is apparently not allowed in Lieutenant Marwin's eyes.
We also learn begin learning more about how Alice views justice and heroism. She begins by denying the idea that she could be a hero or even pretend to be one until she eventually agrees to try to play the part of a hero for Haarkenmeijer but more importantly for the Anti-Ares as well. She reasons this is a war relief effort because the Anti-Ares were part of the damages of war. Taken over by the Empire, the Empire then attempted to wipe out much of their culture. They were beaten down and considered lower than most Empire citizens. Thanks to this Alice wants to give them a hero they can feel good about being defeated by, who they can feel was a worthy fight and respected them in the fight rather than just merely beating them down. She wanted to give them a hero that considered them as equals.
Updated Personality:
Very little has changed with regard to Alice's personality beyond a few points.
The Tower of Babel arc of the manga focuses quite a bit on Alice's disillusionment with the idea of being a hero as well as a "defender of justice". She vehemently denies that she is a hero or has the capacity to be one to Haarkenmeijer because she recognizes she can't be a complete defender of the people (or "justice" as she sees civilians). What people demand from a hero is an image and Alice can't give them that image they crave because she was rejected by that embodiment of "justice" in the first place.
We hearken back to a moment first mentioned in Chapter 12 and then later at the beginning of the District Zero arc - Alice's first assignment as leader of State Section III. It was a disastrous mission to bring aid and supplies to District Zero that lead to Alice questioning many of her notions of justice as well as heroism. As a child she heard heroes being called "defenders of justice" and decided that meant they couldn't be justice themselves. Justice must be many things then and because heroes defended it, Alice decided as a child that justice must mean the people, the civilians that her family as nobles must naturally serve. In District Zero this idea was shattered with "justice", the people she was sent to help with supplies and aid, turned on her and her squad. They threw rocks, they yelled at her and all of the idealism she had exited school with dissipated. She realized she couldn't act for love of the people or a wish to protect "justice" anymore than she could act in anger for them or against them. She had to be impartial.
In this arc she rebuilds that vision of what a hero means and what defending justice means to her as well.
We're also beginning to see Alice allowing herself to have more emotions and just what that does to her. During the tank fight, she gets lost in her anger over what this terrorist group is doing to the city. She becomes so focused on that rage and anger that she forgets why she had come to confront them in the first place (beyond simply stopping the tank) and focuses only on defeating them. It's seeing Haarkenmeijer's sword breaker caught on the tank that she snaps out of this mood suddenly. She later regrets having allowed herself to lapse into that feeling so thoroughly.
Updated Abilities: Nothing has changed here.
Other: Alice will be returning wearing the battered remains of her White Rose armor and a long blond wig. She will also have new dagger called a swordbreaker as well as a saddle bag for Ace containing another copy of her State Section Three uniform.
Questions: I tried to condense a lot of things down and left out some things that had no bearing yet on Alice's background. Let me know if I need to include anything else or if anything else needs clarified as well.
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