History PlayingWith / SilkHidingSteel

* '''Straight''': Alice is [[ProperLady demure young lady]] who works as a maid in the mayor's home: Cooking, cleaning, and making small talk with him and his family. She essentially runs the city this way.

* '''Reconstructed''': She has [[TrueCompanions a handful of friends who trust her]] and 'lets her hair down' only around them.

** When Alice goes to buy expensive and exquisitely tasteful perfumes and dresses, her father rides along with her nervously. After all if a mugger attack her, someone [[MuggingTheMonster has to protect him from Alice.]]

** Alice is a PuritySue who can {{transform|ationSequence}} into a MaryTzu.

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is part of a DeadlyDecadentCourt and so must carefully shift her social and political weight while remaining demure and gentle. She carries a fan made of daggers in case of assassins and a ChastityDagger in case of rapists.

* '''Discussed''': " "How are you sweet and scary at the same time?" *smile* "Practice."

** "How's this for a twist: The maid that everyone thinks is a FragileFlower turns out to be a NinjaMaid and saves the day?"

** Alice lives in a society where [[IronLady openly powerful and assertive women]] aren't taken seriously. Instead, she works through indirect means and hides a dagger or two in her OperaGloves.

* '''Double Subverted''': It's an act. She's ''actually'' a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob and her parents are her {{Secret Keeper}}s.

** Alice is an asskicking Action Girl, but when she's not fighting she's a GirlyGirl who [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals collects stuffed animals]], [[TheFashionista loves keeping up on the latest fashions]], [[AllWomenLoveShoes has a full-blown obsession with shoes]] and {{Squee}}s over boy bands. Then her teammates discover her stuff animals are [[{{familiar}} alive]], she gets all the fashions for free by manipulating the clerks, and her shoes are TrickedOutShoes, but she really is a FanGirl for teenage singing heartthrobes.

** Alice appears to be the ChessMaster manipulating the mayor but she's really just an UpperClassTwit that just happens to work for him. Then terrorists try to hold them hostage and she defeats them all with DeadlyDodging, but when asked about it later, she giggles and says it was a CoincidentalDodge. Nevertheless her pull with the major increases, JustAsPlanned.

* '''Defied''': Alice refuses to get involved in the major's career despite her charisma and/or unshakable will.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice can't be open and frank with anyone because of her reserved personality. When she tries they all suspect her of manipulating them with PolitenessJudo or a WoundedGazelleGambit