Wonderland - Alison

Straight-forward and fairly logical, Alison likes her life ordered and planned. More often than not it can take only a small thing out of place to annoy her to the point of shouting. All of this unfortunately makes her a poor candidate for Wonderland’s saviour, with her disbelieving everything about it.

She also has a problem with opening up to people, often appearing reserved or even cold. She prefers to keep herself to herself and has few friends. Far from being a cruel or nasty person, Alison does perhaps take sarcasm a bit too far on occasion, causing distress.

But when the refugees from Wonderland appear, she slowly begins to change for the better. As she becomes their unofficial teacher, she begins to understand them and see the people behind the madness. She becomes protective of them and willing to fight for their cause.

Alison was another of those characters who I struggled to understand. Like Sam, she was sort of a place-holder. She was the disbelieving woman, and that was all. Eventually I came up with some ideas and decided to try some new things that I hadn’t explored before.

Where her relationships with other characters are concerned, I tend to go back and forth on a number of people. I can’t make up my mind whether or not she should have a boyfriend, though at the moment it’s looking like no. For the most part I’m certain that she at least tolerates her boss, Mrs. Holtermez, if only because she’s an old woman.

At an early point in the story, I was going to have her very slowly fall in love with the Mad Hatter. This was again, based on me trying things that I hadn’t in other novels. This was a large part of the story for a long time, but eventually I began to grow tired of the idea and didn’t think there was much to do with it.