Qualice

Qualice is the het ship between Quentin Coldwater and Alice Quinn from The Magicians fandom.

Season 1
UNAUTHORIZED MAGIC

Quentin is in his first lecture, when a woman named Alice is called to the front of the class. She stands at the front desk in front of a marble and turns it into a horse as Quentin watches. She awkwardly makes her way back to her desk as the room claps.

Quentin is in the school cafe when he sees Alice alone at a table. He says hi, and tries to explain Margo and Eliot, but she doesn't care. He says sorry, then sits down across from her. He says it was his fault that they said that, because they saw how jealous he was of her, and how easy magic is for her. She says that she studies. Quentin says that she does but she also gets it. He’s terrified of getting kicked out and never had anyone to help him with magic before. She says that her parents were useless crazy people who never taught her magic, so it never gave her an advantage. She asks if there’s anything else she can do to make him feel better or if he was good.

Quentin waits finds Alice after class and asks about the symbol on the page she was looking at the other day, but she tells him to go away. He shows her the symbol that Jane Chatwin left on his hand, shocking her. She asks how he got it, but he’ll only tell her if she tells him what it means. She pulls him aside and tells him to meet her at the Admin Building at 10. He asks her what it means, and she tells him “Contact the other side”. He asks if she means seance stuff, and she clarifies it more of a summoning. He sarcastically says that he likes to summon the dead anyway, and she says that’s the plan. She just needs a book that got pulled off the shelves and is now in the dean’s office. He asks if that means it needs to be stolen and she nods her head yes. Quentin tells her that he doesn’t want to get kicked out, or be the guy that dies in the first ten minutes of the movie. She asks if he wants her to pass his tests, because she can do that, but he has to help her. He’s involved for some reason, and she stomps away.

Quentin hands Alice the book and she starts to go through it as he takes off the bandage on his hand, the mark gone sarcastically saying that makes him less nervous. Alice tells him to nut up, and there’s no such thing as safe magic. Quentin asks who they’re trying to contact since they need a name for the spell. Alice says Charlie, her brother. Quentin asks how he died, and Alice presumes it was horribly since no one will tell her what happened, just that it happened at Brakebills. She asks if Quentin actually thought she came her because she loves magic, she only came to find out what happened and tells him to hurry up since they need to be done with the spell by midnight. Quentin tries to say sorry about her brother, when she finds something wrong with the spell. He asks what it is and she’s about to explain when Penny and Kady come in. Penny asks if they need extra hands. Alice says that the spell requires four people, and asks Kady and Penny to join them. They perform the spell, but nothing happens. Kady and Penny leave and After an awkward pause, Quentin tells Alice that he’ll start cleaning up.

Season 1
Unauthorized Magic
 * Quentin tells Margo he has no idea how Alice does magic.
 * Margo explains to Quentin that Alice comes from a whole family of magicians.
 * Quentin occasionally glances over at Alice during class.

Fanon
On AO3, Qualice is the most written relationship for Alice and the second most written for Quentin. It's also the fifth most written relationship in The Magicians (TV) tag, and the second most written in The Magicians - Lev Grossman tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * {{AO3/Tags|Alice/Quentin|