1. Taping into her powers over War and Wrath, she finds that instead of being a "wielder of the fires of hell", she's merely become a gateway to it. She turns this into a positive; by eating people, she knows she's condemning them to an eternity of pain and suffering.
2. Succubi are using her as a way out of hell, Alyse regurgitating the sexy demons against her will before spiriting her away in their arms.
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Isle of dolls
1. Based on the tourist attraction of the same name, its disturbing to be there during the day and lethal to stay the night, hearing giggles and whispers all around you.
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SCP
1. Alyse has been captured by the SCP foundation. A class D operative, you're brought to her to see if she can be classified as Keter, Euclid, or safe.
2. Alyse is brought in to lab24 to lure out SCP-1048 / (AKA the teddy bear). ((People who have bear characters/ yes even the many versions of Freddy Fazbear work best for this. )) Getting lost deeper into the facility, she discovers you.
2.1 She mistakes you fro SCP-1048 and attacks
2.2 You manage to hold her down long enough to convince to join you in staging a containment breach, everyone panicking they'd be easy to coral and devour.
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Haunted house/ Cursed sanctuary
Behaving more like an Onryo/Grudge ghost, she realizes that it is her hatred that is keeping her alive. After kicking out the old residents, she stays inside wanting to simmer and seethe in her own hatred; through this staying immortal.
1. You buy the house unaware it already has an owner, and after a few warnings going unheeded she finally snaps, trying to scare you away herself.
2. You're a person well versed in paranormal activity or a priest/preacher, perhaps even an angel, actively coming to ease her spirit.
She's scared everyone else away, but you are different and after hearing a replay of the events that made Alyse's soul become thick with hatred, you meet the doll herself.
2.1 Lured in by the fact you refused to run, she confides in you her sorrow; she both hates the girl who abandoned her, but longs to at least know what happened to the rest of her family did they mourn or move on without her
She asks you to find them, dead or alive, and if dead, Alyse wants to be laid down in the coffin of the last to die, wrapped up in his/her arms, only then would she allow her soul to rest.
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Item get?
1. Going on a dungeon crawl you find a wierd doll that can be used as an full armor set/weapon/item. the more you use it weird things start happening.
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Guro fanflic
1. After watching a gory horror movie, she becomes obsessed with making one of her own, the perfect cover story to cause immense pain to others.
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2. You sign up expecting a bunch of cg and animation, but you learn "Due to the low budget, there will be no stunt doubles for the guro scenes ."
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Showtime
1.You're captured and given the script, you could be an average joe, a famous serial predator, a super hero, even a god visiting the physical plane. Trapped in a dark room, dolls enter from hidden corridors and record you going insane from isolation/starvation/depression before being turned into a doll/puppet or eaten by Alyse.
2. You're given a tape watching your "hero's" decent into madness, and outraged, you try to find the film studio. To Alyse you just volunteered to be the next star of her movies.
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Therapy
1. One way or another you've managed to render Alyse completely mortal and powerless as a result. The sin of Wrath thick on her soul, you try to pry it away from her by being sickeningly sweet/ suffocatingly sexy as possible impossible to hate.
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2.Rehabilitating her to go back into the outside world, every time she lashes out at you. She's put in time out. It can be. Anywhere, each time she has to stay longer and longer until either she gets bored instead of angry. Or the fear and pain sets her straight.
Species Information
This is a tricky one, Alyse became an onryo first, and a tsukumogami second, so I'll touch on them in that order; at the end of it all she's a tsukyō .
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1. Onryo: A vengeful ghost / grudge bearing ghost, or most fitting in this case WRATHFUL spirit.
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popular examples: Kayako from "The Grudge" and Hisako from Killer instinct.
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In mind Alyse is an onryō , a ghost (yurei) believed capable of causing harm in the world of the living, ailing or killing enemies, or even causing natural disasters to exact vengeance to redress the wrongs it received while alive. These ghosts died with such strong passions –jealousy, rage, or hatred – that their soul is unable to pass on, and instead transforms into a powerful wrathful spirit who seeks vengeance on any and everything it encounters.
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Onryo are so full of wrath they make no distinction in whom they target with their grudge; they just want to destroy. Moreover, this vengeance can never be satisfied as it can for most ghosts. While most yūrei only haunt a person or place until they are exorcised or placated, an onryō’s horrible grudge-curse continues to infect a location long after the ghost itself has been laid to rest.
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Finally and what I think is the worst power and Onryo has is they can inflict a terrible curse on the people or places that they haunt. This curse can be transmitted to others through contact like a contagious disease, creating a circle of death or destruction that is far more devastating than any ordinary ghost. (Like Taira no Masakado, it wasn't enough he killed the person who tried to kill him, he went back to their homes, destroyed their lands and killed everyone in association with the primary person he killed.)
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2. Tsukumogami: Kami/(spirit) of tool, or spirit born from a tool.
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popular examples: Kogasa Tatara (Umbrella) , Hata no Kokoro (collection of masks), and Raiko Horikawa ( Taiko Drums) all from the Touhou series.
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In body, Alyse is actually a tsukumogami; an object "that has reached its 100th birthday and thus become alive and self-aware".
While there are records of some good ones, the bad ones had the capacity for anger and would band together to take revenge upon those who were wasteful or threw them away thoughtlessly.
But wait, from her picture she's actually in pretty good shape, so what gives? =/
Ever here that phrase from Gundam? "Take my love, my anger, and all of my sorrow!
Due to events in her life, people always trying to kill her, she learned to draw in their hatred and negative energy; however she was always able to release it back as her form of attack, transforming inanimate objects into tsukumogami filled with her attackers' own killing intent.
As her 100th crept closer though there was a source of Negative energy she didn't know how to contain: HER OWN.
When her 100th birthday came she still carried this negative energy, becoming cruel herself as her body ached for revenge.
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3. Now you know what an Onryo is and a Tsukumogami is. what is a tsukyō?
The way I see it, spirits can possess objects right? And now we know that after 100 years objects will gain a spirit of their own. So what happens when a spirit is inhabiting an object while it's gaining it's own soul? I imagined 3 options:
1. Tsukumogami's spirit kicks out the onryo's.
2. The onryo kills the tsukumogami's still budding spirit to keep control over the object. 3. Or three, on the off chance the onryo and the tsukumogami have a grudge towards the same thing, they fuse together into a new stronger soul.
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1. Tsukyō are essentially walking curse zones. In their pursuit of vengeance, spirits stir and run rampant wherever they go and even after they leave a location.
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2. Anyone who gets touched by a tsukyō will be cursed, added to the list of revenge; the only real way to slow a tsukyō down is for someone else to tick it off so much that the item bound grudge ghost will shift its attention to them and away from YOU for a little while.
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3. A tsukyō's curse works a little differently as well; as the tsukyō travels if it has a grudge against more than one more person in a city or town it will pick a place to haunt, usually hiding in a secluded part of someone's house like the garage or attic. As its curse zone grows, items that have been mistreated will start to stir as the tsukyo's energy flows into them.
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4. However it's when a tsukyo actually picks up an item that they become a full fledged tsukumogami, and even when a tsukyo leaves any items that they left behind will still have a vendetta against you. Because of this though, you can tell if a tsukyo is in your house because items that can be used to harm you will start to go missing.
- 5. Unlike an onryo though, a tsukyō can be sealed and placated given enough time; you have to appease the tsukumogami part of the spirit. Once laid to rest the onryo will still be trapped inside the object they were haunted, the wrathful ghost unable to wander anymore.
members of the Midnight march (Night parade) /Tsukumogami allies
Hyakki Yagyō, or in english, The night parade of 100 demons. a term used for the gathering of yōkai beneath a leader's banner, which can only be mobilized by the leader's command. Though it implies 100 members, such is not always the case
As Alyse started to travel the world to exact vengeance on humanity, other tsukumogami started to gravitate around her. She allowed them to follow her, eventually wearing them and using them in combat as she roams the street; As a result their combined dark magic makes her a "magical girl" of sorts, able to call upon their power and transform into something more armed for combat.
She can also bless them with her dark magic so they turn back into their original form; she has a pair of tsukumogami that are her wooden slippers, and she tries to keep them in their normal form unless Alyse has a nasty trick planned, (can you imagine that? living your life out as a shoe, feeling their hot sweaty feet pushing down on you, crushing you for hours on end?)
She now leads the Night parade, her very presence making all demons and monsters follow behind her. However since she rarely ever gets enough to manage a "parade", she calls her romps through towns, Midnight marches.
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Jattai and Ittai momen
Jattai is the kimono sash on the ground, at night it slithers around like a giant snake.
Ittai momen is the giant white cloth around the person's face. More malicious than Jattai, they can be seen flying through the sky at night, occasionally attacking people.
able to attack on their own or with Alyse, they rely heavily on the element of surprise, functioning mostly as break away clothing. When attacked her kimono sash will fall to the ground, wrapping around the person's legs to trip them up.
She can also use Jattai as a grappling hook, winding around ledges so she can climb higher, and prevent falling.
Ittai momen is disguised as her clothes, when provoked the black fabric will unravel into a long narrow sheet and try to wrap his body around a person’s face and neck, strangling or smothering them to death.
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Waniguchi
Waniguchi is a tsukumogami which comes from the circular, hollow bells found at shrine entrances which are rung when praying to the shrine’s gods. When one of these bells becomes a yokai, it sprouts a reptilian body and tail, and the bell becomes the creature’s head, opening and closing just like a real alligator’s mouth.
In their base form, Alyse usually wears a Waniguchi around her neck. unless it's ripped off, as Alyse is dodging and running around, the shrine bell will chime, alerting other yokai to come to her aid. in their awakened form Waniguchi usually travel in pairs. Closing off exit ways, as Alyse is chasing down her target, if they attempt to run in2to an alleyway they only have a split second before they find themselves running headfirst into their alligator like jaws.
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Hahakigami
A hahakigami is a tsukumogami which takes up residence in a broom. They can sometimes be seen on cold, windy late autumn mornings, sweeping wildly at the blowing leaves.
The closest thing she has to a magical item, in basic mode it's part of her disguise during the day. Once she's found an abandoned house, she actively watches people who pass by her new home as she sweeps the porch. the easiest way to break her facade though is to comment "you should throw that old broom away" provoking the broom into leaping from her hands in an atempt to sweep you away.
In tsukumogami mode it's magical power truly shines, normally brooms in the old times were ritual items , swung around in the air to sweep negative energy in the air. In her hands if Alyse feels she's about to lose she'll pick up the broom and push back her opponent with powerful winds, and if you manage to follow her back to the Village of the lost Hahakigami travel in groups of 5 or more, able to push people far away with hurricane force winds.
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Karakasa kozō, Bakezori, and Mokumokuren
Karasa kozo is the umbrella, Bakezori are the two sandals and Mokumokoren are the faces on the sliding door. All are relatively harmless loving to play tricks and observe people
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Karasa/Umbrella: Part of her disguise on rainy days or late at night, Alyse shuffles low to the ground, acting like someone has broken her legs with the umbrella covering her face.
- When people come closer to her if they stare at the umbrella for too long it will slobber over the victim with their oil soaked tongue, making it very easy for Alyse to set them on fire. with Chochin Obake
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Mokumokoren / door: The Mokumokoren however are only seen when Alyse sticks around a village for a long amount of time, those lucky people who Alyse didn't get a chance to consume the soul of will haunt their murder sight.
If you enter a house and hear whispers on the other side of the door- do not slide the door to go inside, instead stare at the screen itself and eyes will start to appear.
These come in 2 varities: The first while Alyse is still around and the second when Alyse has left at least a month ago.
1. While normally it's sliding doors, more common doors will work as well. If Alyse is in a room with someone, she'll make the soul of a Mokumokoren possess the door; comedic in hindsight, when Alyse's prey tries to run out the door, the spirit will make the door slam shut on their before cackling loudly knowing they are trapped.
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2. While rarely it's a booby trap and you'll get misleading information, the Mokumokoren will steer you in the direction Alyse headed if you're trying to destroy her. The spirits are freed from their grudge having helped her kill someone, and now want to repent.
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Bakezori / Sandals: The first sign that Alyse is around, so bland and simple no one ever pays attention to it. Alyse will creep through the night, stealing all your shoes and replacing them with sandals. If you give in and start wearing them, if she's confident, Alyse with attack.
- In tsukumogami mode, the sandals will dig their razor sharp claws in your feet and slurping their slimy tongues over your sole. This makes focusing in a head on fight very difficult as they try to distract you by clawing and biting to make you lose your footing.
-Overall facts-
Alyse the Vengeful is 4 foot tall lavender colored hedgehog tsukyo with an open black top, shoes, and skirt.
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Her eyes are purple as well, decorating her wrists with string.
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Where her neck and chest meet is a zipper than runs down her body stopping at her clitoris where another zipper begins.
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There's also a third zipper on her back that stops at her tail.
Touching her body, it's soft like velvet.
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She's had several owners almost all of them either dieing due to unknown circumstances, going crazy, or outright leaving their respective country/state/continent.
Everyone claims it's the doll they're hiding from, but the audacity of these claims makes any evidence be ignored by police.
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Joining the Vedunny/Knowing ones, she was given the deadly sin of Wrath.
Because of her sheer invincibility, she was not only made one of the four elite warriors but is third in command.
To make this "official" Alyse was also given a horse pin made of ruby to symbolize the four horsemen of the apocalypse, specifically WAR.
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Similar to the other elite warriors, she keeps Nanashii at arms length.
Alyse though outright despises the changeling because of her treating people like pawns/toys; the same mentality of the those who put on this path of wrath to begin with.
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She, like the other elites, share s Elica's believe in spreading the truth around.
Alyse's truth is "Wars are like deaths, in that while they can be postponed, they will come eventually; and when they do, they cannot be avoided".
In her creating her army she's preparing for war; if war is inevitable, then the least she can do is ensure she and her allies are the victors.
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Also as an Elite warrior she has her own goal on the side. Above all else she wants to bring the world into balance in a different sense. Karma Houdini is her mortal enemy, and everyone who tries to be like him are in her sights always. Too many people have gotten away with or been pardoned for doing terrible acts.
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With her powers she wants to bring every last one of these people under the knife; bringing the world of MU back into Karmic balance.
Encounters
You can summon her by nailing a doll upside down to a wall and trace an alchemic circle around it from your blood; the more intricate the circle the stronger your desire will be made to her. Finally an incantation to summon her.
"Lord of dolls, master of puppets, pull my strings and bathe my hands in the blood of enemy"
If done right the doll will burst into flames and it's place will be Alyse.
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When she's not 'working' she can be found in the Village of the lost and forgotten; a curse zone where tsukumogami migrate to after getting revenge on their owners. Alyse goes here to heal, and it's the main time where her scowl is reduced to a small frown; she listens to the grudges of the tsukumogami, and tries to help those not battle ready pass on by refurbishing/repairing the damages time has wrought.
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For those looking for a more mundane setting, she can also be found in the Fort East Martello Museum with her grimoire, all grudges resolved; alot of cursed dolls can be found here, and if you can stay in after dark she'll read/teach you a few killing techniques within the pages.
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other places she can be stumbled upon are toy factories and old dinner theaters
Powers
Alyse is an interesting case, depending on what you're attacking her weaknesses vary. Her doll body is immune to physical attacks since she can stich herself back together and has no elemental typing; however the doll body itself is flammable, and getting waterlogged will slow her down (weak to water and fire magic)
Her soul is so heavy with grudges, it has dark typing and light hits super effective. She also has a second hidden weakness due to being a tsukumogami; they are not able to possess modern technology so electric attacks will do major harm to her.
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While it's not a super power, Alyse is a very quick study; she functions like a Blue mage, able to take what people throw at her, then give it back.
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For instance, the heroes utilize the power of the zodiac, so after drawning in another the energy they radiated she made her own celestial artifact the Spiders eye nebulae.
When she activates it, one of two things happen
1. she sprouts two extra pairs of arms/hands, allowing her to control 6 instead of 2 puppets at once.
2. She transforms into a drider, gaining a spider lower half and the abiliy to shoot out webs from her mouth and rear,
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Body wise she's learned to weaponize her doll body. It has access to a pocket dimension; like kirby if she unzips her mouth, nethers, back, or front, and shoves someone inside these openings, as soon as she zips herself back up their trapped inside her until they get transformed into dolls or absorbed into energy.
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This is in some regard how all her attacks fuction; when she's not in battle 's absorbing the negative energy/emotions and killing intent of those who are about to fight her inside of her grimoire: Grand Gignol.
This hatred then powers her spells, and once the energy reaches critical she releases it all in an EMP (Ethereal Magic Pulse) of Necromantic energy. More often than not, her attackers weapons will transform into tsukumogami and turn on their wielders, effectively disarming them.
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Ultimately all her attacks revolve around necromancy, reviving or conjuring that have long been dead to do her bidding whether it be:
1. gathering information people took to their graves.
2. helping them kill others so their spirit can truly rest.
3. Or giving inanimate objects new life as tsukumogami to help her kill others.
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Annihilation of Mind
1. When attacking with normal plush dolls, she can employ 'mind over matter' Depending on how afraid they are, an attack from a doll will be felt with the same amount of pain as if it were the real deal.
(a croc doll biting someone and imagine their arm being ripped off. in reality the arm that was bitten will go limp.)
2. it becomes a tricky mind game, psyching out her opponent as especially when she starts using her explosive dolls. It becomes difficult to tell the set up for a trap from a legitimate threat.
Reincarnation of a Puppeteer
1. Alyse, having perfected her doll making craft has moved onto making automatons and golems
Automatons: machines that perform a function according to a predetermined set of coded instructions.
Golem: an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter
Automatons and golems make up the majority of her army, and her best ones she has made her generals and these generals were allowed to make lesser automatons.
(using skyrim as an example. Alice is the jarl, the special automatons are her houscarls, and the dolls her houscarls create are thralls, bottom of the barrel.)
2. With the strings that come out of her wrists, if they latch onto her opponents body she can control them.
3. Her ultimate ace though is she can become a voodoo doll if she swallows something that belongs to the person she's fighting.
Any attack on her will be felt by the assailant just how much damage they would have done.
Weakness
As she's primarily a doll, on her own she has no muscle mass. Her 'strength' comes from her telekinesis only able to really force her psi strength in pushes,pulls, and squeezes.
If someone can bind or cut off the access to her pocket dimension, she has to rely on her tsukumogami helpers and her own combat skills.
In her chest she has red threads which she calls her heart strings.
heart strings: One of the nerves or tendons formerly believed to brace and sustain the heart.
For Alyse this is indeed the case and if someone can tug at her heart strings Alyse will actual pain.
Backstory
"The Phantom of the Grand Guignol", a grimoire filled with the tales of Dramatic entertainment that deals with the macabre, and features overly graphic violence. To read of this book is to delve deep into madness; many serial killers read from it at least once, and scrawled their own misdeeds into the pages.
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What many don’t know is the Phantom of the Grand Guignol, the original author, before she could be killed; transferred and repurposed her soul to transform the ordinary book into a grimoire of magical power.
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She had also managed to start a family line that would guard the grimoire and her memory throughout the centuries. The Family honors the phantom’s memory through many things, but at base value they showed respect by legally changing their names to hers: Alice.
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That was a thousand years ago, when the current head of the family / Alice the 10th / X and daughter/Alyse the 1st/ I, decided to break their ancestors’ taboo; using the grimoire simply as a "catalyst" for their own powers.
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Killing was a constant throughout the world they lived in, but the Alice family made sure murderers couldn’t get away with their misdeeds. Alice X used necromancy to reanimate those murdered, the testimony of the dead was evidence not even the corrupt police could sweep under the rug.
Meanwhile Alyse I used the grimoire to pursue another branch of necromancy, and honored Alice the first’s memory, she studied the art of soul transplantation; since she was just a kid she used her powers give life to her dolls so they can play with her.
By the time Alyse I reached her teenage years she was able to join her mother in the vigilante business, transferring her soul into inanimate objects in general, turning them into her eyes, ears, and mouths, to catch and sometimes stop murders as they happened.
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Everything changed though when Alyse’s mother / Alice X finally died. Aunts and uncles from near and far, came to fight for the Inheritance of Alice the 10th’s soul and property; they claimed that because of their age and power they had to right to do so. The joke was on them though for Alyse had already eaten her mother's soul, by now a full grown adult.
The family members were RIGHT about one thing though, Alyse wasn’t a fighter; backed into a corner, Alyse made a doll of herself and transplanted her soul, her mother’s soul, and the soul of the Grand Guignol / Alice the first, inside of the doll before running away.
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When the family rivals managed to get inside their house it was already too late; so in rage, the relatives destroyed Alyse’s mortal body, and in doing so condemned her to being a soul trapped inside of a doll. Alyse was still mentally aware though, completely assimilating her mother’s soul into her own.
- Doing this, Alyse was able to perform her mother's branch of necromancy, and now even had Alice I trapped with her to teach Alyse how to intertwine their combined necromancy with Alice’s serial killer techniques and the techniques of those who wrote in the grimoire. . . the only missing was the grimoire
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Letting herself be picked up by a random child on the street, she laid low for a little while as she honed her skills.
Peace didn’t last long though because her family relatives were still after Alyse; however not only was she ready now, she had MANY grudges to settle.
- Since she lacked muscles, every time someone came close to, or got inside the house she would absorb the killing intent of her uncle/aunt and their henchmen and send it back throughout the house in a pulse of necromatic energy; all inanimate objects would come to life and kill them on the spot.
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Because the child’s mother and daughter were always distracted by the corpses in their home this let Alyse slip out unnoticed, and would go back to her relatives’ homes and return the favor by destroying their land and ransacking their belongings. Alyse would always be able to return home though because, her adoptee sewed a return address to the back of her neck.
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And so this pattern continued, until one day, the child was awakened by the sounds of the slaughter going on in her home, and saw Alyse get up on her own and leave. This time when Alyse got back, finally having the grimoire in hand, the child and her mother were ready and waiting.
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The mother was scared that the doll would become a bad influence on her daughter, so commanded that the child tear Alyse apart with a kitchen knife, and sew her mouth shut. When the deed was done Alyse was mangle of parts, before the child locked Alyse away in her closet.
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((And now for something a little different, a slightly visual aid as two what's happening. ))
And it was in that closet that Alyse stayed, betrayed by the child she had been protecting all this time. After a few years Alyse stopped banging on the door to get out, playing along as she stayed in ‘time out’ ; however as years turned into decades, and Alyse I started talking with Alice I, Alyse couldn’t help but get scared.
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She began to be frightened at the idea of being abandoned, replaced, but most of all FORGOTTEN. Fear, confusion, and sadness gave way to anger, so struggling to hold back insanity from isolation, Alyse finally slipped up and began to read from the Grand Guignol Grimoire.
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As decades passed Alyse began feel a hatred swelling up inside her doll body; a new soul, black as pitch and simmering with thoughts of revenge. Her doll body was starting to turn into a tsukumogami, this new hateful soul threatening to swallow up her own. At this point an infuriating thought reached her: “I’ve been locked away for at least 100 years.”
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Alyse SNAPPED! SHe could feeling her mind suffocating as she shifted from a ghost to a wraith/onryo as the grudge she now harbored dug into her heart like a rusted knife.
Alyse I's Onryo soul fused with the hatred of the tsukumogami soul growing in her body; becoming a soul big enough, that it finally assimilated the soul of Alice I, the start of the Alice into her existence. Alyse gained the knowledge of not just killing, of SLAUGHTER, how to make her prey SUFFER. Alyse had become a tsukyo as her rage, for that moment was uncontrollable; letting it all out as from the closet came an ear splitting scream!
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Her hatred was released throughout the house as all the inanimate objects turned into tsukumogami as well, shreiks and howls echoed through the house as the child now a full grown adult with a child of her own was murdered after Alyse was set free by her new comrads.
Onyro are ghosts filled with wrath, not even the completely unrelated child was safe as with the same knife she was stabbed with 100 years ago, Alyse opened her new jaws wide and shoved the child into her stuffing filled stomach.
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Mutated by the magic in her body, Alyse coughed up a doll of the child she had eaten a few hours later. Manipulating the new doll with strings wrapped around her wrist, Alyse left the house; filled with an unquenchable hatred, making it look like the child was still alive and in control. . . meanwhile inside the new doll, the soul of the child, the soul screamed silently in her new doll prison. Before she was completely absorbed by the doll she heard Alyse speak to her.
"Let's trade places, a hundred years your mother played me for a fool so now I'm going to play with YOU."
