Alice Elliot

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Alice Elliot

Alice Elliot character design
Game series Shadow Hearts
First game Shadow Hearts (2001)
Designed by Miyako Kato [1]
Voice actor(s) Shadow Hearts: Veronica Taylor
Shadow Hearts: Covenant: Georgette Rose

Alice Elliot is the heroine in the video game Shadow Hearts. She is noted for using a Bible as a weapon in battles. Her magic class in the game is Light [2]. In the beginning of the game she is 20 years old and she is an exorcist [3].

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[edit] Appearances

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Shadow Hearts

She is one of the main playable characters in Shadow Hearts and the eventual love interest of the protagonist Yuri Volte Hyuga.

The story begins with her father being murdered on a rainy night. She was accompanying him and witnessed his death but managed to get away. A month later she is being transferred by the Japanese army heading for Fengtian on a steam train [4]. It is here where she first meets the villain of the game and Yuri for the first time, as the villain tries to kidnap her and Yuri attempts to save her. It is here where the story of Shadow Hearts begins.

Her fate and the ending of Shadow Hearts depend on certain actions the player does in the game regarding Yuri, Alice's sacrifice in the graveyard and the masks. The result is the player receives one of two endings to Shadow Hearts: one good (in which Alice lives), one bad (in which she dies). The 'bad ending' is considered canon as it is a plot piece in the sequel, Shadow Hearts: Covenant.

[edit] Shadow Hearts: Covenant

She is not a playable character in Shadow Hearts: Covenant but she does appear in numerous cutscenes throughout the game and is an important part of the story in certain sections.

At one point, quite late in the game, the player can visit the location Zurich and it is revealed Alice has been buried there. The words "Be at peace Alice Elliot! This I swear to you...your soul will have my life-long love. Yours, Yuri." were written in her tombstone. In another part of the game it is also revealed to the player, by Jeanne, that Yuri buried Alice in his long coat that he wore during the first game.

A key point in the game revolves around Yuri trying to resurrect Alice using the forbidden Emigre Manuscript. The game hints at this possibility early on in a cutscene involving the Emigre Manuscript and Alice suddenly appearing in Yuri's head (accompanied by her theme music) when he comes into contact with the book. Later on in the game he attempts the resurrection with the Emigre Manuscript, and despite all other attempts resulting in demons and not the original soul coming back, this one time, the correct soul is called back- but the body she is called back to is unstable. In a cutscene called "The Miracle", Alice manages to use her already disappearing body to tell Yuri she loves him, to which Yuri replies, tearfully, that he loves her too. Afterwards, her soul returns back to the afterlife and the body disappears.

Alice also appears in a cutscene called "The Oath" which revolves around the journey they went through together and what Yuri would do if he had just one wish [5]. If the player chooses later in the game the option necessary to acquire the 'good ending', the game ends with Yuri going back to that time when he first met Alice, when he was the happiest [6].


Alice in promotional art for Chaos War.
Alice in promotional art for Chaos War.

[edit] Chaos Wars

Alice appears in Chaos Wars, a tactical role-playing game for the Playstation 2 released in September 2006 in Japan [7] [8]. Her appearance, as well as other characters appearances from the Shadow Hearts series, should not be considered canon.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Special Moves

Her special moves in Shadow Hearts are:

  • Cure - Cures targets' HP
  • Holy Edge - Gives Light-class attribute to normal weapon attacks.
  • Blessed Light - Light-class special attack against a single enemy
  • Wish - Cures all status ailments except Unconscious and Berserk
  • Gospel - Raises target's physical and special defense for 5 turns.
  • Arc - Restores HP of all party members
  • Resurrection - Revives an unconscious character with full HP
  • Advent - Heavy Light-class special damage to all enemies- second-strongest attack in the game, behind Yuri's "For the Children".

[edit] Trivia

  • The voice for Alice in Shadow Hearts: Covenant was Michelle Ruff but it is actually credited as her pseudonym Georgette Rose
  • There is a track on the Shadow Hearts Soundtrack (2001) called "ALICE" which is Alice Elliot's theme song throughout the games, appearing on a few occasions throughout them. It was created by Yoshitaka Hirota and Yasunori Mitsuda.

[edit] References

  1. ^ (2001) in Midway: Shadow Hearts Instruction Manual UK (in English), 17. 
  2. ^ (Japanese) Shadow Hearts character details with classes listed from official website. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
  3. ^ (2001) in Midway: Shadow Hearts Instruction Manual UK (in English), 13. 
  4. ^ (2001) in Midway: Shadow Hearts Instruction Manual (in English), 6. 
  5. ^ Yuri: "If there really is a God and he'd just grant me one wish, I'd go back to that day we met." Alice: "Then we could take a trip together." (Shadow Hearts: Covenant)
  6. ^ Alice: "It's the world you secretly prayed for, the place your heart returns to, the time when you were the happiest." (Shadow Hearts: Covenant)
  7. ^ (Japanese) Chaos War official website. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.
  8. ^ Magic Box video game website report of Chaos War. Retrieved on 2007-01-06.

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