Princess Alice

• Headmistress: You can wait your turn like everyone else, Princess. The world doesn't revolve around you.

• Princess Alice: Hmph. I'll have you know several worlds revolve around me!

Princess Alice is the third and current sovereign princess of Centralia.

Origin

Princess Alice is an Asterian, a star that has assumed incarnate form to live among mortal creatures as an adolescent rite of passage. Like all Asterians known to have come to Earth, Princess Alice assumes the physical form of a young human girl. This "humanesque" form, as she prefers to call it, typically appears to be about 12 or 13 years old, though she sometimes appears as a much younger child or, on some occasions, even an infant.

Nobody is quite sure why Princess Jeanette appointed Alice to be her successor as the ruler of Centralia. It honestly seems like a rare lapse of judgement on Jeanette's part, right? The most popular theory is that Jeanette believed Alice's chaotic nature would preserve and reinforce the kingdom's whimsical and imaginative nature.

Personality

Princess Alice is infamously capricious and temperamental, often experiencing rapid, intense mood swings. She has little impulse control and tends to act without considering long-term consequences. Her emotional volatility, when combined with her nearly unlimited power to manipulate reality, has a tendency to become everyone else's problem.

Princess Alice's behavior and level of maturity generally reflect her apparent age. The causal relationship is unclear: whether her age is determined by her mood or her demeanor is determined by her age has been a point of debate for centuries.

The Princess takes deep pride in her own immaturity, which she views as a positive trait. When she's told she's acting "childish" or "juvenile", she considers it a compliment, even when she is fully aware that it was intended as an insult. Conversely, when she is complimented on her maturity in handling a difficult situation, she takes offense, though this doesn't stop her from eagerly taking credit for whatever resolution she's just accomplished.

The Princess is nearly always desperate for attention, going to great lengths to try to impress her subjects and gain their admiration.

Somewhat ironically, given her position as an autocratic ruler, the Princess seems to have a strong anti-authoritarian streak. She displays a casual disregard for rules and restrictions, much to the consternation of The Handler. When asked why she thinks the rules don't apply to her, she simply replies that "The rules don't apply to anyone if you don't want them to."

Unsurprisingly, the Princess's attitude towards rules shifts dramatically when she is the one making them. She insists that her status as monarch of Centralia makes her the supreme authority in all circumstances and that her will is supreme. Few in her day-to-day life share this view, naturally, and she often does not get her way, much to her chagrin.

Powers

Like all Asterians, Princess Alice possesses seemingly unlimited power over reality itself, being able to bend space, time, and even the laws of physics through will alone. The Princess frequently describes herself as literally omnipotent, though ???

Despite her claims of omnipotence, the Princess is very much not omniscient, as she possesses an extremely limited memory. While she is quick to remind others that she is several billion years old, she is generally unable to recall events beyond her apparent human age—for example, when the Princess looks and acts like a 13-year-old, she is unable remember events that occurred more that 13 years ago, and the earliest of those memories are hazy and vague, just as a human child's early memories would be. If reminded of events "older" than her current age, she can often recall them to some degree, though the memories are often incomplete, and she has a tendency to "fill in the gaps" by just making things up.

Like all Asterians, the Princess has no physiological need to eat or sleep. Nonetheless, upon being introduced to food and sleep by her Earth friends, she quickly became addicted, and now indulges herself with junk food and sleeps the day away like any ordinary human teenager. Adults working in the Palace of Serenity have nicknamed her the "Sleepy Princess" for her tendency to nap at inopportune times.

The Princess's clothing, like her body, is a magical construct she can alter at will—with the exception of her usual school uniform, which is an ordinary material object and requires laundering just like any other mundane article of clothing.

Reign

As the sovereign princess of Centralia, Princess Alice is ostensibly the nation's absolute ruler, though in practice she delegates almost all of the day-to-day operations of the principality to her adult subordinates, finding it all to be "a bunch of boring busywork". She is, however, very fond of the aesthetic trappings of royalty, wearing her large, elaborate crown even in situations where it is obviously impractical. When she is unable to wear her crown, such as attending classes in her school's prescribed uniform, she insists on wearing something with a crown shape or crown emblem somewhere on her person.

As sovereign, Princess Alice is the commander-in-chief of the Centralia Guard Forces, though she has little practical involvement in their operations. She has been known to occasionally wear a military uniform, especially when she wants to "remind" adult authority figures that she "outranks" them. She was once sent to detention for wearing her military uniform to class instead of her approved school uniform. (Her argument that The Headmistress never specified which "uniform" she needed to wear to class was immediately dismissed.) The Princess's military uniform is adorned with what appear to be various medals and decorations, but, when pressed on the fact that she's never been in combat—and, in fact, Centralia has never been at war—she will reluctantly admit that she made them all up to make herself look cool. Her only "real" medal commemorates the time she stepped on Supreme Leader Malice's foot at a conference and pretended it was accidental. To date, this incident is the only casualty in the cold war between Centralia and Discordantia.

Princess Alice's role as sovereign of Centralia entitles her to know where the Fairies originate—knowledge held by very few other than the fairies themselves—but she is sworn to absolute secrecy. The Princess often brags to her schoolmates that she knows where fairies come from, but when they ask her to tell them, she reluctantly responds that she just can't tell anyone. Naturally, the other children dismiss her claim, assuming she's simply making it up for attention.

! Powers

The Princess, being a construct of pure magic, has demonstrated a broad array of powers, seemingly having the ability to manipulate reality itself through the sheer force of will. She frequently claims to literally be omnipotent, though the veracity of this claim is questionable, as she often ends up in situations where she's clearly displeased not to get her way, which seems unlikely for a truly omnipotent being. If confronted about this seeming contradiction, she will often insist that she simply doesn't like to interfere with other sentient beings' free will.

Despite her supposed omnipotence, the Princess is very much not omniscient. While she is thousands of years old, she has an extremely limited memory, seemingly unable to recall events beyond her apparent age. When she looks and acts 13 years old, for example, she cannot remember events that occurred more than 13 years ago, and the earliest of those memories are vague, just as a human child's early memories would be. If reminded of events "older" than she is, she can often recall them to some degree, though the memories are often incomplete, and she has a tendency to "fill in the gaps" by just making things up.

! Divinity

Princess Alice frequently claims to be a deity, though by her own admission, nobody actually worships her. On one occasion she did manage to amass a small group of followers who venerated her as their supreme goddess and obeyed her every whim, but she quickly distanced herself from them, finding the whole situation "just a little bit too creepy".

! Relationships

Princess Lexi

Princess Alice was introduced to Princess Lexi of the Mile High Kingdom as a fellow student at Dame Adorabelle's Academy. Realizing how much they have in common, the two princesses quickly became close friends, and today they are virtually inseparable. Princess Lexi is the only student Princess Alice has been willing to share a dormitory with, and Princess Lexi has since moved in with Princess Alice at the Palace of Serenity in Queen City, where they share a bedroom and spend almost all their free time together. While she would never admit it to anyone else, Princess Alice has confided in Princess Lexi that she is the one person she truly views as her equal.

Guardswoman Robin Ravenswood

Princess Alice selected Centralia Honor Guard trooper Robin Ravenswood as her personal bodyguard during a public appearance in Sunset Valley. She quickly took a liking to Ravenswood, referring to her as "my new favorite plaything." Ravenswood seems to have a unique relationship with the Princess, who seems to be the only person who can easily understand Ravenswood's strange manner of speaking.

Supreme Leader Malice

Princess Alice first encountered Supreme Leader Malice on an online forum for anime discussion. Malice responded poorly to Princess Alice's opinion that she prefers the second season of Magical Guardian Himeko!! to the first, instigating an argument that ended with both heads of state being banned from the forum for a week. The following day, the Princess hosted Malice as part of a diplomatic visit at the Palace of Serenity. Malice's first remark to Princess Alice was to ask for her wifi password, but she quickly recognized the Princess as the girl she had been arguing with online, and immediately declared Princess Alice her sworn enemy, pledging to bring about the downfall of Centralia "for the glory of Discordantia".

Princess Alice does not regard their "rivalry" particularly seriously, especially because Supreme Leader Malice has never meaningfully acted on it beyond various attempts to embarrass her on social media. She does freely admit that Malice "really gets on her nerves" when they're forced to be together in person, though.

Miscellaneous

Princess Alice's primary mode of transportation is a sentient pink Cadillac convertible named Livery, rumored to be a transforming robot. Grown-ups are often initially hesitant to allow the Princess, who is a child both in body and in mind, to operate a motor vehicle, but they usually withdraw their objections upon witnessing her disciplined driving skills, rivaling those of many experienced adults.

Princess Alice once attempted to scam the Tooth Fairy by repeatedly assuming the form of a 6-year-old so she could lose the same baby teeth multiple times. The Tooth Fairy, who apparently keeps detailed records of every child's teeth, caught onto the Princess's ruse and blacklisted her from further transactions.

Princess Alice is probably not associated with the Eternal Schoolgirl of the Midway, a long-standing urban legend about an ageless tween girl who appears at carnivals and festivals in countries bordering Centralia. I'm not even really sure why you brought that up.