WONDERLAND → alice’s pronouns
out of all wonderland’s intrinsic peculiarities, the way its residents refer to their savior monarch is one of the more recent and unexpected.
even during her initial visit to the realm, alice had been pinpointed as the ultimate slayer of the queen of heart’s symbol of terror and destruction: the jabberwocky. tales of this slayer depicted a plucky boy with long, flaxen hair swinging the sword that brought the jabberwocky down. wonderlanders began to relay tales of this new, curious little visitor in terms of the “the boy who will save us all”. alice, considering herself clearly a girl, is most confused. it continues to be a matter of confusion for her during her first two visits. by the third, however, upon slaying the jabberwocky and being (oddly) crowned honorary queen of wonderland, alice has grown used to it. there are matters that do not matter so much after so long, so she lets them have it.
anyone who is a wonderlander will be either familiar with or accustomed to describing alice as a “he” or a “boy”. while alice does not consider herself a boy in the slightest, she accepts it. it’s easier to do so after being told of the jabberwocky legend. all in all, just another curious thing.