Hatteress

"Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk? Well!
You left me anyhow, and the days got worse and worse and you see I've gone completely out of my mind! And...
They're coming to take me away, haha, they're coming to take me away, hoho, heehee, haha, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, hahaaaaa~!"

Josie Stevens is completely insane. For reasons unknown to any, one day she just...snapped. A spring in her brain went "ping!" They tried medication. They tried incarceration. Straitjackets. Electroshock. Anything and everything. Hallucinations. Catatonia. Paranoia. She got worse. Nothing could be done. Then...she got away.

She disappeared. They just found her padded cell empty one day when she was due for pills. No one saw her go, no one found her afterwards. Well....here she is.

She's five feet, seven inches tall, although she often seems shorter due to all the slouching and contorting she's prone to. Bone-white hair, dark eyes, skin that's dusky despite not appearing to have had much to do with the sun. Lanky, loose, flat as a board, pouty-lipped. Tiny scars and bandages, both from her time in the asylum and living largely on the streets since. She still wears what she (presumably) escaped in; rough, short skirt, plain white undergarment, and all her restraints. Of course the chains apparently don't really hold her, since she slips in and out of them frequently, and may not even have them with her.

There are often signs of how her time in the asylum affected her...things brought out most often by forcibly restraining her, mentioning needles and similar. She has an odd aversion to playing cards, particularly in the suit of hearts. Her reaction could be anything though. Mental stability isn't her strong suit.

She is fairly certain she's dreaming, of late. You see, all her madness, all her "hallucinations" stem from a trip down the rabbit hole. Is she Alice? No. She is Josie, but she's been where Alice has been, and she didn't react well to coming back...

"How sane are you today?"

It is possible, upon finding the correct ingredients, that she could recreate the "Drink Me" and "Eat Me" drink and food. Yes, the very same which makes Wonderland inhabitants shrink and grow, respectively. She often tries, but this doesn't mean the results are reliable, or even do a thing.


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