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Alice/The Book of Truth
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The guest of Room 431. An easygoing little girl who is determined to leave Serpent's manor and return to the outside world at all costs.
Or so it seems, at first. She was once a princess who was unable to experience the outside world for herself, as the illness she had since birth had made her bedridden. She had an obsessive love for knowledge and literature, creating a powerful artifact known as the "Book of Truth" as a result. This book automatically transcribes human souls as words on its pages, and its infinite hunger for knowledge had eventually come to destroy the world.
- Animal Motifs: Butterflies. Alice's bow resembles butterfly wings, butterflies would sometimes show up when she's around, and her appearance as the Book of Truth has actual butterfly wings.
- Big Eater: Eats through several strawberry cakes much larger than she is within the first chapter.
- Determinator: Despite being told that her journey was "tantamount to suicide", Alice carries on with her journey to leave Serpent's manor, even if the rot were to overtake her entire body.
- Delicate and Sickly: Was once a princess plagued with a high fever in the outside world. She had this illness since birth, and it hindered her ability to walk, leaving her bedbound.
- Eldritch Abomination: She became a being that was able to devour the souls of every single human on earth, leaving nothing but the decaying buildings and machines humanity left behind.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Alice's Book of Truth absorbs lots of souls at once, and it's so impervious to damage that sealing it away with magic-infused biblioclastic rounds was the only way to deal with it (at least, until it got out again).
- Photographic Memory: Alice had possessed the ability to never forget anything that she's seen. She used this ability to her advantage to take in as much knowledge as quickly as possible.
- Really 700 Years Old: Alice resembles a little girl, but she's been around for at least 100 years in comparison to Serpent. She looks more mature as the Book of Truth, however.
- Resurrective Immortality: Alice is incapable of staying dead for a long period of time, as demonstrated in Chapters 7-8. Every time she "dies", she ends up using up one of the souls she's consumed, so she has to consume more to make up for it.
- Unfazed Everyman: Carries herself nonchalantly through Serpent's manor, barely being fazed by the strange sights within it.
- Villain Protagonist: She is responsible for the destruction of humanity. The story itself is basically her just cleaning up the remaining humans that had already been sucked into her "brother".
Serpent
The head of the manor Alice wakes up in. His goal is to fill the place with 666 guests, so that he may be able to host a "party" to celebrate its completion.
- All for Nothing: He wishes to escape his prison so he can be worshipped by humanity. Humanity has already been destroyed long before he escapes and he only gets to exist outside his prison for a few short minutes before Alice absorbs him just as she did the rest of humanity.
- Always a Bigger Fish: He is hopelessly outmatched by Alice once they're both out of the book. He may be large, but Alice's true form is gargantuan.
- Breath Weapon: Fires a laser from his mouth at one point in Chapter 10.
- Big Little Brother: Alice is Serpent's older sister, though in her human form, she looks like she'd be much younger than him.
- Creepy Long Fingers
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Gains these when he finally breaks free from his book and heads into the outside world.
- Snakes Are Sinister: He's a snake-like being, and he most certainly has ulterior motifs to his wish-granting.
The Guests
In General
The Judge
The guest of Room 430. He's a giant, masked samurai who spends his days convicting and killing a caricature of the same person over and over, that person being his bully from when he still lived in the outside world.
- Bungled Suicide: In the past, the Judge had tried to hang himself after getting fed up with being bullied, but it had proven to be unsuccessful.
- Off with His Head!: Executes "sinners" by chopping off their heads with katanas.
The Bird
The guest of Room 413. A great, four-winged bird with a human face who soars through the skies above a city.
- Beast with a Human Face: She's a bird with the face of a human.
- Mind Screw: The bird is flying "above" a city. Except, that city is upside down, while she is flying upright.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: She sports two pairs of wings.
The Hero
The guest of Room 385. A man who roleplays as a comic book hero known as "Eraqram" who fights space aliens and is constantly fawned over by hot women.
- Arch-Enemy: Eraqram seems to have one in the form of Tasrizelk, a space sorcerer who also happens to be his father.
- Basement-Dweller: The "Eraqram" we see here is actually an overweight spectacled man who stays within his room, obsessing over the comic character of the same name.
The Family
The guest(s) of Room 285. A father, his wife, and son sitting at a kitchen table for dinner. Really, the father is the only real person in the room; the wife and son are manifestations of his desire to have an ideal family.
- Drowning My Sorrows: The teacher is shown in one panel near lots of empty alcohol bottles with a look of despair on his face.
- Taking the Kids: The teacher's wife had taken his son with her after she left him.
The Bog Woman
The guest of Room 276. A beautiful woman who inhabits a bog filled with flowers and mirrors.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: She's completely nude, but she's drawn with no nipples/genitalia.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: The Bog Woman was an ailing old woman who desires to remain perpetually young and beautiful.
The Tombstone
A pile of torn up book papers that inhabit Room 268.
- Soul Jar: He tried to escape the manor/book before Alice did. Unfortunately, the rot had overtaken his body and he crumbled. His soul, with nowhere else to go, was dragged back into his room and turned into words, preserved until the manor reaches full occupancy.
The Researcher
A scientist and his numerous clones who inhabit Room 255.
- Face Death with Dignity: Even though the Serpent breaks free much sooner than they expected, they welcome him nonetheless even as he barges in the room to consume them.
- Me's a Crowd: The Researcher has several clones of himself tasked with assisting him in his studies. Towards the end of the chapter, Alice questions who is the real Researcher, which leads to the clones getting into a fight with one another.
- Mr. Exposition: Gives Alice plenty of information regarding the manor/book she and the rest of the guests inhabit.
