Gilice

Gilice is the het ship between Gilbert Nightray and Alice from the Pandora Hearts fandom.

Canon
Gilbert and Alice were originally supposed to meet 100 years in the past, but the Intention was in charge of the body at the time. The Intention angered Gilbert, causing him to attack her and pull her hair. Because of this, both Jack and Oswald saw no reason for Gilbert to see her again. Even while dragged into the abyss, the Intention was in control and Gilbert was passed out.

Gilbert and Alice truly met 10 years after the story began. At this point, Alice had already turned into a chain. She had made an illegal contract with Oz to get both of them out of the abyss. Because the illegal contract would kill Oz, Gilbert’s first reaction to Alice was that of hatred. One of his first suggestions was to kill her. Alice immediately hated Gilbert due to his threat to her and possessive nature over Oz.

While Gilbert and Alice were willing to physically fight each other, Alice giving many threats and Gilbert even pointing a gun at her, most fighting between them were arguments and name calling. Gilbert refused to call Alice anything but “stupid rabbit” while Alice only referred to Gilbert as “seaweed head”. The majority of their arguments were over the treatment of Oz. Neither wanted to give him up to the other.

While the relationship started off with hatred and death threats, Gilbert and Alice started to tolerate each other. Much to Gilbert’s displeasure, he found he was growing fond of Alice. Despite wanting to save Oz, he was unable to kill her. When given the chance of killing her at Sablier, Gilbert saved her when she almost fell to her death. Both Oz and Vincent mentioned Gilbert beginning to care for Alice, but he constantly denied it.

Alice was more open with beginning to like Gilbert. Her fondness for his cooking caused her to like him easier. She admitted to all of them being friends while grabbing arms with Gilbert, Break, and Oz. When her head was first patted by Gilbert, she began doing everything she could to have him do it again. When asking others to pat her head, she realized she liked Gilbert doing it because his hands were big and made her feel protected. She then praised Gilbert for it, making him happy.

By the end, Gilbert and Alice had both accepted the fact they were friends. They had gotten over each other’s possessiveness of Oz when accepting they both wanted the best for him. Though they still refused to call each other by their real names, Gilbert called Alice “rabbit” and Alice called Gilbert “Raven”. Gilbert continued to show affection for Alice by patting her head and cooking almost everything she wanted and Alice attempted to show affection in her misunderstood way. She attempted to bite his cheek to cheer him up as she thought of it as a kiss.

When Gilbert reunited with Alice and Oz after removing his arm, he hugged both of them as best as he could. Alice was concerned about Gilbert’s loss of his arm, but was also concerned about him no longer cooking. She then offered to help him cook. The friendship was fully cemented on Alice’s end when she called him Gilbert before her death. It was finished on Gilbert’s end when he waited for both her and Oz for 100 years.

Extras show Gilbert and Alice getting along while still bickering. Gilbert carried Alice on his back and then shoulders because she thought it looked fun when Oz did it. Alice was injured when stealing candy from Break to get Gilbert’s praise. Alice was in the background biting Gilbert when Ada was encouraging ‘lovey-dovey’ activities. Sharon claimed that Gilbert would do more for Alice if she called him onii-chan.

Quotes
"In other words, it'll be fine if you die."

- Gilbert

"I shall allow you to pet my head with gusto today!"

- Alice

"In any case... I thank you for it."

- Alice

Fanon
Gilice is not a very popular ship in the fandom. It’s just popular enough to have discourse because of the age difference of 11 years. Because of the age difference, the ship is normally seen as platonic or familial. Romantic ships between the two use aged up Alice or and aged down Gilbert. It is rare to find a romantic fic of them at their current age.

Because of the canon interactions, Oz is the character most used with Gilice. He will either be a friend to the side or turn it into a ship with all three of them. There are multiple fics that turn into GilOzAlice friendship fics or start off that way before turning into Gilice. Sometimes Jack or Oswald will be brought up, but never in a romantic way.

The age difference with Gilice will usually stop any comments from supporters as the ones against it see nothing but 11 years. Shippers have sometimes been looked down upon despite seeing the ship as one-sided with Alice, familial, or a different age. Even though Ozbert has almost the same age difference at 9 years, people have approved of that over Gilice.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Gilice tag on FF.net
 * Gilice tag on FF.net