History Characters / AliceIsntDead

%%* TheRunaway

* TheHero: Deconstructed thoroughly throughout Season 2. She gets cocky after her [[spoiler: killing of a Thistle Man]] and thinks she's this, but events show that she's essentially the RecklessSidekick to Alice. [[spoiler: The Police Woman outright states that Keisha is alive because she's not dead yet, as in: she wasn't deemed enough of a threat to be assassinated]].

* ADayInTheSpotlight: She narrates her first appearance on the show in "The Last Free Place", and shares narration duty on "Badwater". Before that, she has a preview bit set in Haugen, Montana, in "the largest gift shop in Montana", where she'd tracked the Narrator.

* KnifeNut: Despite not being shown using one, she nonetheless took the opportunity to buy knives from a gift shop that sold them for five bucks each.
-->''"I bought ten. Never enough knives. Not if you know how to use them. They're cheap, sure. But even cheap can cut."''

* PunchClockVillain: She is following the Narrator because it is her job. She is going to kill the Narrator because it is her job. This is an [[AvertedTrope aversion]]; She ''loves'' her job.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During her last encounter with the Narrator, she challenges the Narrator's belief that the reason she's still alive, despite everything she's seen and done up to that point, is because she's a HumbleHero who still has a part to play in TheConspiracy; Instead, the Police Woman suggests that [[spoiler: the reason she's still alive is both because [[StatingTheSimpleSolution she hasn't died yet]], and because she's not a big enough threat to kill right away. She declares, moreover, that assuming that one ''truck driver'' is somehow important enough to singlehandedly play a part in a massive conspiracy is the highest arrogance. The Narrator is a nuisance and needs to be eliminated, certainly, but she is so ''unimportant'' that Thistle, Bay and Creek, and the U.S. Government can afford to wait until someone inevitably comes along and does the job for them; someone like The Police Woman]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: The real power behind Thistle. Well, almost; She ''is'' Thistle.]]

* EmptyEyes: The {{Narrator}} describes his eyes as being "...flat. Like a bad painting of a face."

** FanNickname: People on the fan subreddit have taken to calling her "Instigator".

* HypnotizeThePrincess: An {{Implied}} power, triggered [[AmbiguousSituation either]] by touch or a continuous grip on the neck. The victim's eyes go "vacant" and they seem semiconscious or asleep, but still capable of movement. The Thistle Man uses it to walk truck driver Earl out of a diner and into a parking lot unobtrusively, to further demonstrate his powers and nature to the {{Narrator}}.

* ConspiracyTheorist

* TheRunaway

The title character, and wife of TheNarrator.

Another trucker at the same stop TheNarrator visits in "Omelet".

* CassandraTruth: No one seems to listen to her about the Thistle Man (besides TheNarrator).

TheNarrator of the show, she is a long haul trucker out making her rounds and searching for/talking to [[TheOneThatGotAway Alice]]. [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Until Part 1, Chapter 10, all we knew about her actual name is that Alice preferred to refer to her by nicknames.]]

* AMFMCharacterization: In the brief opening log of "Alice" TheNarrator sings along with Music/{{Weezer}}'s "Say it Ain't So," a story of ParentalAbandonment and following in their footsteps by replicating their addictive behaviors. The Narrator proceeds to explain how she struggled to admit that her wife Alice had suddenly left her, and, upon discovering that Alice was secretly caught up in some sort of cross-country spanning [[TheConspiracy Conspiracy]], abruptly quit her job and started investigating, by travelling cross-country as an employee of one of the companies involved.

[[folder: The "Police" Woman, or [[spoiler:Thistle]]]]

A... [[AmbiguouslyHuman man]] that's taken to following our heroine around. He has horrible eating habits.

* HumanoidAbomination: See AmbiguouslyHuman.

-> Voiced by: Jasika Nicole

* BadassGay: She's the ActionSurvivor protagonist of a CosmicHorrorStory, and a lesbian.

[[folder: Alice ]]

-->'''Keisha:''' ''I'' saved ''you''. ''I'' saved ''you'', OK? So go ahead, kid yourself that everything you did was because I needed protection and so that justifies it somehow. But you remember this. You remember that I saved you and not the other way around.

* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:Sylvia wears heather oil because apparently the Thistle Man can't stand it.]]

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Becomes an Oracle - and a very powerful one at that - in chapter 29.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: They're implied to be at least human-shaped from the fact that they wear typical hooded sweatshirts, pants, and shoes, and have eyes in roughly the region of the face where they should be. They speak in raspy voices, and don't experience time the way the rest of us do. Their nature aside from their clothing is anybody's guess.

* NonLinearCharacter: [[spoiler:It is revealed in "What Happened To Hank Thompson" that the Oracles experience all points in time at the same instant. Thus, they find it difficult to determine what's already happened and hasn't happened when interacting with beings who experience linear time, and can't really provide plain answers to Keisha and Alice's questions.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: When we hear her talking, it becomes obvious that she does not have normal thoughts; while at a gift shop she mentions thinking hobby-horses are for either "pretending to ride a horse or pretending to carry a decapitated horse head around on a stick", she buys an armful of knives just because the place was selling them cheap, she marvels at the tacky and occasionally nightmare-inducing kitsch for sale, and later she tells the Narrator that the main reason she followed her to "The Last Free Place" was because her truck was going fast, and when something that big is going that fast, you wanna chase it.

* NoNameGiven: She has yet to give a name, or even be given a nickname by the Narrator.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During her last encounter with the Narrator, she challenges the Narrator's belief that the reason she's still alive, despite everything she's seen and done up to that point, is because she still has a part to play in TheConspiracy; Instead, the Police Woman suggests that [[spoiler: the reason she's still alive is both because [[StatingTheSimpleSolution she hasn't died yet]], and because she's not a big enough threat to kill right away. She's a nuisance and needs to be eliminated, certainly, but Thistle, Bay and Creek, and the U.S. Government can afford to wait until someone inevitably comes along and does the job for them; someone like The Police Woman]].

[[folder: The "Police" Woman]]

* WeaksauceWeakness: spoiler:Sylvia wears heather oil because apparently the Thistle Man can't stand it.