- “I'm not like you. I'm not an outcast. I'm not an orphan or a street rat or some crazy girl who's lost her way. You chose hate. But I choose love.”
- ―Alice to her mother[src]
Alice, also known as Tilly after the Dark Curse, is a character who appears in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time. She is the daughter of a Tree Nymph, named Gothel and Hook from the Wish Realm and has ties with Rumplestiltskin.
History[]
After the Third Curse[]
Born in a tower, Alice is used by Mother Gothel to escape the tower by replacing Alice as its prisoner. Hoping to not abandon her, Hook stays behind to take care of her. Over the years, Hook is cursed by Gothel, preventing him from being close to Alice, forcing Alice to be left alone in the tower.
After the Fourth Curse[]
Eventually, a Troll frees Alice from the tower during her seventeenth birthday. Years since Henry stepped foot into the Magical Forest, Rumplestiltskin contacts Alice for help to rescue Henry from certain danger. Slipping into the Royal Ball at a castle, Alice drugs Henry and takes him to a secret hideout and warns him about the consequences of getting involved in other people's stories. Alice later tracks Henry down to find her father after Drizella shields her from the Witch's curse, reuniting with Hook, but finds that she was tricked. Alice escapes to New Wonderland afterward. She later returns and begins a romantic relationship with Robin after crossing paths with her. Upon discovering that she is a Guardian, Rumplestiltskin tries to get her to destroy the Dark One's Dagger so he can be reunited with Belle in the afterlife, but tackles her at the last second, preventing her from absorbing the Darkness. Because of this sacrifice, Alice feels like she owes Rumplestiltskin. When the Dark Curse is cast, Alice is sent to the Land Without Magic.
During the Fifth Curse[]
Tilly, Alice's cursed persona.
In Hyperion Heights, she is known as Tilly, who works with Detective Weaver. Tilly witnesses Henry's arrival in Hyperion Heights and informs Detective Weaver of his presence. Victoria Belfrey later instructs Weaver to place Tilly in an institution as Victoria sees Tilly as an insane woman. Till is forced to take in pills to prevent herself from remembering her past life as Alice, but due to preventing the pills for some time, she begins to remember. She then tries to get Weaver into remembering too by using Belle's chipped cup but ends up shooting him, which triggered his memory. She is later freed by Weaver, who claims that he was shot by a masked robber. Tilly later helps Detective Rogers in locating Eloise Gardener.
She later becomes a suspect in the murders of Dr. Sage and Hilda, but Detective Rogers proved that she had an alibi and was being framed, though the true killer remains unfounded. After moving in with Rogers, Tilly becomes a worker at Jacinda and Sabine's food truck, the Rollin' Bayou, and befriends Margot, Robin's cursed counterpart, though neither of them remembers each other. Eventually, Margot takes Tilly out on a date, where they spend the day together. It is later revealed that Tilly has the Dark One's Dagger, which teleported itself to her for protection due to her being the Guardian. Tilly is eventually captured by her mother's Coven of the Eight and indoctrinated into the group, with her mother planning to use her to cast a spell that will exterminate all of humanity. However, after Henry breaks the curse by giving true love's kiss to Regina, she stands up to her mother and defeats her by magically turning her into a tree.
After the Fifth Curse[]
With the curse broken, Alice, Robin, Ella, Lucy and Henry all celebrate being reunited and Alice reveals that her father is being discharged from the hospital. Not wanting to endanger her father, Alice calls Hook and they speak from a distance, with him promising to find a cure. While on a date with Robin, Alice senses something is wrong with Rogers and the others as they are trapped in the wish realm, so she and Robin convince Tiana to let them borrow the food truck as transportation, with a citizen of Hyperion Heights offering his magic bean to open a portal.
Alice and Robin later travel to Storybrooke and try to convince Grumpy, Dr. Hopper and Granny that they came to warn everyone about Wish Realm Rumplestitskin, that there was another curse, but they don't believe the girls, which causes them to hide until they spot Zelena. Noticing a 5 year old version of herself in the car, Robin convinces this version of her mother that she is her daughter and that Regina needs help, along with the realms. While this is going on, Robin asks Rogers if she can propose to Alice, which he accepts, but he is dying from the heart poisoning. Alice stays by her father's side and begs him to stay with her and wake up. Storybrooke Rumple fights his most evil counterpart and sacrifices his life to save Rogers, as he his heart glows, signifying he is a hero. After Gold's death and wish realm Rumple's defeat, the realms are brought together by Regina, who is elected as the good queen.
Trivia[]
- In "The Girl in the Tower" young Alice is seen wearing a blue dress with a white apron, which is a reference to her animated counterpart.
- She was named after Hook's late mother. (Eloise Gardener")
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See also[]
- Alice (Alice Comedies)
- Alice
- Alice (Adventures in Wonderland)
- Alice Kingsleigh
- Alice (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- CJ Hook (the daughter of Captain Hook in Descendants).
- Cassandra (the daughter of Mother Gothel in Tangled).
