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Gender: Female
Age: 27
Appearance: Alice is a quietly attractive woman, graceful and composed, and very restrained. She doesn't make any efforts to flaunt her appearance, preferring instead to wear thick clothing and many layers, as if hiding away within herself. She is a stark contrast to Cassie's fashionable and feisty look, seeming ill at ease in anything remotely stylish, preferring plain and ordinary clothing. Her hair is long and mid-brown, falling in well kept slightly wavy locks to her upper back, the one aspect of her appearance that she pays attention to - forming a morning ritual of sorts. Her eyes are hazel and often downcast, a result of her abusive husband's irritation when she met his eyes. Her build is slim and dainty, and she is of average height at 5' 8"
Personality: Alice is quiet, shy and reclusive. She dislikes speaking to strangers, though Cassie encourages her to by inviting strangers into their conversations, in an attempt to get her used to general interaction again. Alice doesn't like loud places, or anything that reminds her of her ex-husband, and is very timid towards men as a result. However, thanks to Cassie, she can now speak to other people quite confidently - before her husband of three years broke her spirit, Alice was a very outspoken individual, and Cassie's gentle nurturing is slowly reviving that person. Slowly.
Occupation: Author, no full time occupation.
History: After graduating from university with a degree in English Literature, Alice set about trying to become a writer alongside her boyfriend of six months, Jake. Though all of her submitted manuscripts were rejected by publishers, she continued to write, and eventually published a book (A Nameless Funeral), and made a moderate amount of money from its sale. Jake and her married shortly after, and after a year of marital satisfaction things began to go wrong. Jake wanted children, Alice wanted to wait. Jake wanted Alice to get another job, Alice wasn't motivated to do so. Eventually, this pent up irritation came out when Jake lashed out at Alice physically, and after that first blow, the tide just kept coming. For another two years Alice endured abuse after abuse after abuse, verbal, physical, emotional - there was nobody she felt she could turn to, nobody she trusted, and so eventually, she simply snapped. Cast to the floor by Jake's fist, the man had turned away to roar and swear at the wall. Alice pulled herself to her feet, snatched up a kitchen knife, and attacked him. He was hospitalised, she was jailed for four years. Recently released, Alice was assigned Cassie as a partner after getting to know her in several sessions in the weeks before her release, and is going through the hardships of rehabilitation.