Obsessing over the musical Alice by Heart lately and analyzing the characters. The Mad Tea Party is a heart breaking scene as it is, but today it hit me that even though Alfred, as the White Rabbit, tells Alice that FINE he's going to be the March Hare for this! And sure, it's to keep the plot moving, but there are several points during the show where we see the (sometimes literal) bleed between realities have the real world counterparts affecting their Wonderland counterparts, and at the trial the residents outright complain to the queen about how Alice has been ruining the story. And in Do You Think We Think You're Alice? they even snap at her for thinking they only exist when she decides vist. The characters are just as real as their human counterparts.
And Hatter and Dormouse even seem to acknowledge that Rabbit isn't actually the same as Hare because he opens up the Tea Party scene telling them "Did you hear what she did to poor Mary Anne?" / "Oh, poor Mary Anne!" which of couse Hare would know nothing about, this is just Rabbit taking over for a moment from wanting to vent about his scene being screwed up and the other two are fascinated to hear. We see Harold take over when Hatter grows very serious in giving her a bit of a reality check before all three turn outright antagonistic towards Alice in Sick to Death. She's not just screwing up scenes, she may be having an affect on the characters themselves. The tea trio have always been a bit rude and blunt with Alice across versions, but these three all agree to completely drop the narrative and tell Alice they don't want to be in this version of the story. THIS Alice is dangerous and there are questions about why she came to Wonderland and not just letting Alfred go, but letting them all go when they've determined they don't want to be in her head anymore.
But why should Hatter and Dormouse be so angry when technically they're only just meeting her? Possibly because not only are they aware, but something vital has changed in their story whether she intended or not. .... What happened to the the March Hare that the other two seem more than open to letting Rabbit fill in? Harold may be leaking through but it's possible his ties to Hatter has the duo still trying to make sense of what happened.
"I had a really good buddy and he was drop dead funny. Then one day he just... dropped dead. Isn't that funny?"
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