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Alice Gulliver (Scenesys ID: 1113) | |||
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Full Name: | Alice Gulliver | ||
Gender: | Female | ||
Species: | Human | ||
Theme: | Marvel (FC) | ||
Occupation: | Police Detective | ||
Citizenship: | {{{Citizenship}}} | ||
Residence: | {{{Residence}}} | ||
Education: | {{{Education}}} | ||
Status: | Active | ||
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Apparent Age: | 34 | Actual Age: | 34 |
Date of Birth | 27 December 1990 | Actor: | Wang Luodan |
Height: | 165 cm | Weight: | 52 kg |
Hair Color: | Red | Eye Color: | Black |
Theme Song: | "Bring Da Ruckus" by Wu-Tang Clan |
Profile
Daughter of August Wu of the Coral Shore, the magical guardian of Hong Kong, and Detective Sergeant Adam Gulliver, Alice had a fairly normal childhood for a Hong Kong teen. Contrary to her mother's wishes, however, she set her sights on joining the police to follow in her father's foosteps rather than going into business like her grandmother as her mother desired.
Tragedy struck the family when Alice was 16. Her mother, investigating the arrival of a demonic entity in Hong Kong, was killed by said entity. In her last act she passed her magical powers on to Alice who woke up from a nightmare with red hair instead of her former dark brown as the first sign of her mother's death.
Alice continued in her goal of becoming a police officer, but incorporated her mother's magical role into her life as the magical guardian of Hong Kong, simplifying her mother's grandiloquent title down to The Wu. To keep her magic low-key and invisible, she doesn't use her magic directly. She instead imbues her weapons and equipment with charms, hexes, and spells invisible to normal eyes.
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Description
Of course in North America she's dead-average in height, albeit unusually slim. Her red hair doesn't stand out unless her ethnicity is noted. Even with that, however, mixed ancestry is commonplace; she's noteworthy but not "exotic" or "strange" or any of the other terms used to describe her in her native Hong Kong.
What she is, though, is wiry. She may be small but her body packs cables of muscle. Slim-hipped, short-haired, and small-breasted, she could easily be mistaken for a teenaged boy in poor lighting. Her mode of dress, favouring jeans, a functional blouse that looks more like men's work clothing, and a black leather vest, add to the illusion unless the plain black, short-heeled pumps are noted.
Of course what's likely to be noted first is the harness over her shoulders holding two handguns, one under each arm.
History
Alice continued her course and eventually became a police detective. Her mother's death transferred the August Wu's magical powers down the line to Alice; magical abilities that Alice uses to her advantage both as a cop and as the new mystical defender of Hong Kong. Alice now dispenses justice, both mundane and magical, under a shortened version of her mother's grandiloquent title: The Wu.
Recently Alice has joined an "Asian Crime" task force and is seconded and deputized within the Gotham City Police Department as several jurisdictions work together to take on a Triad operating across mainland China, through Hong Kong and deep in the heart of several American cities. She has both a Hong Kong badge and a Gotham City badge as a result, despite being a Chinese citizen of Hong Kong.
Personality
Abilities
As The Wu, the magical guardian of Hong Kong, Alice inherited the magical affinity of her mother. She has chosen, however, to go low-key with her magic and does not cast spells directly (although there is nothing stopping her from learning to if she needs it). Alice's magic consists instead of enchanting her weapons and other equipment with hexes and spells that are invisible to mortal eyes. This permits her to use, say, her handcuffs to make a violent suspect calm and docile when she activates them. Or it makes some of her bullets, say, tools to dispel demons possessing a target. She has a very large arsenal of such pre-enchanted tools and spends a large chunk of her time maintaining and expanding that.
PERCEPTION
Alice has excellent sensory (and extrasensory) perceptive ability, an ability that serves her well as an investigator and enforcer in matters both mundane and magical.
PHYSIQUE
Alice is stronger than she looks, although by no means super-strong. She is also very agile and graceful, able to jump and dodge and generally move her body well.
Skills
Alice has had to learn a lot about the world of the occult. What she doesn't immediately know about demons, ghosts, monsters, and magicians she knows where to look up. In her home she has a respectable library of mystical tomes, as well as a rather complete grimoire of charms and hexes she puts to practical use.
POLICE WORK
Alice is a trained police officer who excelled in the academy and in her detective training. She is adept at hand-to-hand combat and very adept with firearms. She has a decent grasp of street tactics and is a whiz at filling out paperwork at need. She is also a crime scene investigator without par.
Resources
Through her mother, Alice has some reputation in the mystical world and can, in case of extreme emergencies, call upon higher-calibre magical backup. Through her father she has connections up the Hong Kong police and via that some limited connections in various police forces in the USA as part of her "Asian Crimes" task force position.
INGREDIENTS
Alice has in her apartment an old-school apothecary that would give practicing Wiccans a joygasm if they could have five minutes' access to it. Which they won't get because she needs the ingredients to make her tools
LIBRARY
Alice is always looking out for and purchasing books of arcane lore to help her in her role of defending humanity from the demonic and monstrous.
MONEY
Monetarily Alice lives rather frugally because her library of occult lore and her magical ingredients for spells and hexes take a sizable chunk of her salary.
Weaknesses
Her mother's shocking death at the hands of a demon damaged Alice as a teen and that scar tissue remains. Yes, she views herself as a defender of humanity from threats both temporal and mystical, but ... she really doesn't feel herself as much of a part of humanity. She feels herself as belonging on the outside looking in, being part of things only insofar as it relates to her role.
SOCIAL ATTACHMENTS
For someone who doesn't feel herself as part of humanity, it is actually amazing how many people she views as "family". There's not much of her literal family left: her grandmother (Madam Lan, a Hong Kong businesswoman close to retirement) and her grandmother is about all she has left. On the other hand, she forms unusually close attachments to people like her barber (actually her father's barber from Hong Kong, long since retired, but who still cuts her hair for old time's sake), the grocer she frequents most often, that guy at the newsstand around the corner, the poor drug addicted girl who lives downstairs that she helped out of a jam once, her partner, etc.
STUBBORN
Determined, yes. Stubborn, oh God yes. Alice is like a mule and will actively resist any attempt to force her into anything, even if it's good for her. "You really need to see a doctor." "Go away, I'm fine!" That level of stubbornness.
Logs
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Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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Police brutality and a field of buttercups. | November 15th, 2017 | Summary needed |
The Burning Men Festival: planning and execution | November 3rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
Research Raiding | October 27th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Unwarranted requests | October 24th, 2017 | Something fishy may be going on with Poseidon Shipping, a subsidiary of Cranston Multinational. Alice Gulliver was sent by the Asian Crime Task Force to ask for permission to search the place, but failed to be sufficiently diplomatic to Natasha Cranston. On the other hand, now The Shadow Knows of something rotten in her company, and will likely investigate... |
The Devil('s Daughter) Went To Chinatown | October 20th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log 2890 | October 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Good Night's Gone Bad! | October 14th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Doubleback | October 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log 2678 | October 3rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
Princess Bride Joke | September 5th, 2017 | Ares and Shulkie help out Alice Gulliver with a large rat problem. Literally. |
Log 2215 | August 29th, 2017 | Allison Gulliver asks John Aaron for help with a problem. He brings along Jen. |
Log 2173 | August 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log 2190 | August 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
A Witches Home! | August 25th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log 2158 | August 25th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Coffee Shop Shenannigans! | August 23rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
Half Off Fortune Cookies | August 22nd, 2017 | Summary needed |
Hunted Between Worlds | August 17th, 2017 | A Chinese military officer on the run from the People's Republic is a major token in the schemes of the old money of European alliance. Penguin's careful arrangement to move him into the hands of British paramilitary hands is foiled by Alice Gulliver, who takes him into her custody, outside the eyes of Hong Kong or Gotham City police. But still the man lusts for revenge against his homeland. And the Penguin is always one who understands humanity's darker ambitions, those that promise thanatos. |
Log 2001 | August 15th, 2017 | Summary needed |
All Magic. All the time. | August 4th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log 1801 | August 3rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
Shooty meets Bang-Bang | August 1st, 2017 | Summary needed |
Bank Robbery in Midtown! | July 27th, 2017 | Central Union Bank is being robbed by The Million Dollars. |
Cop vs. Octopus | July 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Cold Open | July 24th, 2017 | Thugs are chased by cops. A couple would-be heroes intervene. Catwoman remains literally above it all. |
Pork Bellies and the Future | July 23rd, 2017 | Alice and Angela have a quiet dinner at Angela's place |
Chicken Wings and Stranger Things | July 18th, 2017 | Alice and Angela meet to discuss a few things. |
Stalking the Night Mediocre | July 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Fight Night | July 16th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Skated By An Angel | July 16th, 2017 | Random fun at the Skate Park! |
Shopping Trip OF WAR | July 15th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Burning for Honour | July 14th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log | July 14th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log | July 13th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Ghostly Vibes | July 11th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Assault On Zhang's Laundry | July 9th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Log | July 7th, 2017 | Summary needed |
Cutscenes
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