Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-25555436-20150717180018

Mercen-X wrote: -By the way, is your version assuming Alice visited some place similar to Wonderland thus driving her insane? Because the original story never gave any indication that Alice was or became mad during or due to the events in Wonderland.

-I'll remind you that the original story of Alice was called Alice's Adventures Under Ground. -Considering the very weird place that Alice ended up in both "-in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", she either is at least partially insane, the universe she lives in is insane, or she has very, very, very weird dreams. The idea is that Wonderland and that Mirrorland are so strange, that one can't tell if they actually exist (within the story) or if they are pure imagination.

Which is why I wouldn't mind an Alice that was at least a bit mentally ill.

My headcanon is that faaaaar away from the Kingdoms, the Grimm are no pussy animals, but more like Eldritch Abominations and as ugly as them. The idea was that Alice went on a mission to one of those places, and it went badly, leaving her scarred for life, so much, that her mind, as a defensive mechanism, basically "sends" her to Wonderland. Better to swim in happy (if weird) fantasies than drown in the horrifying reality, more or less.

-I'll remind you that whoever told you that was spitting bullshit. The original story was the simple Alice in Wonderland, not "adventures under ground". I wouldn't be surprised if some adaptation was called as such, but the original was called Alice in Wonderland, simple as that. Followed by Alice Through The Looking Glass.