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Circumstances beyond her control have marked her as different, and besides her friends, she has no social or familial support in surviving this. While Dale is born to stake vampires, Liz can conjure and destroy the undead, and Ben can does casually kill (and eat)... pretty much anyone, Alice is afraid to walk from school to home, to be at home, or to be in school not because of monsters, but because of groups of perfectly mortal assholes. If she had powers, she'd be safe, or at least be a cool freak instead of "a tranny" or "a fag." There's no secret in her past to be unlocked that will fix this, no magic ring or secret powers that run through the family. She'll have to find an alternative.
In other words, Alice's goals are:
1st. get protection
2nd. get some of these superpowers that everyone else seems to have
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Circumstances beyond her control have marked her as different, and besides her friends, she has no social or familial support in surviving this. While Dale is born to stake vampires, Liz can conjure and destroy the undead, and Ben can does casually kill (and eat)... pretty much anyone, Alice is afraid to walk from school to home, to be at home, or to be in school not because of monsters, but because of groups of perfectly mortal assholes. If she had powers, she'd be safe, or at least be a cool freak instead of "a tranny" or "a fag." There's no secret in her past to be unlocked that will fix this, no magic ring or secret powers that run through the family. She'll have to find an alternative.
In other words, Alice's goals are:
1st. get protection
2nd. get some of these superpowers that everyone else seems to have
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