Miralice

Miralice is the femslash between the White Queen and Alice from the Alice in Wonderland fandom.

Alice Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Alice first meets the White Queen when she notices her shawl being blown away. Then she sees the White Queen running towards her, clearly intending to grab the shawl in midair, but Alice caught it first. Alice tells her that she is glad that she happened to be in the way and helped her put on the shawl again. The White Queen could only look at her, frightened, muttering "bread-and-butter" to herself. Alice realizes that if she wanted to converse with the Queen, she must start the conversation herself and timidly, but politely asks her if she is the White Queen. The queen confirms Alice’s assumption, but bluntly tells her that she doesn’t want to be addressed by her. Alice is not in the mood to start an argument right away and politely asks her the right way to begin, promising that she’ll do it as best as she can. The queen denies Alice’s request, telling her that she doesn’t want to be “a-dressed” on principle, with Alice realizing that the queen misheard her. She silently wonders if it was better for the queen to get someone else to help her get dressed, noticing how untidy she looked. She kept those thoughts to herself, asking aloud if she may fix the queen’s shawl.

The White Queen allows Alice to fix her shawl and her hair, telling the Queen how much better she looks now. But she does not spare a comment about the Queen hiring a maid. The Queen makes an offer to hire Alice to be her maid, offering her two pence a week and jam. When Alice laughs denying her offer, the Queen adds that it’s very good jam. Alice doesn’t care for the idea of getting jam every other day, but the Queen words it as saying that she will never get jam today, only yesterday and tomorrow. When Alice laments that she doesn’t understand the White Queen, the Queen explains that she is living backwards. When Alice says that she never heard of something like that, the White Queen adds that it has its advantages: her memory works both ways; she can practically see into the future. Giving an example of the king’s messenger being punished for a crime he didn’t commit yet, Alice guesses that means he will never commit the crime. Alice finds this line of thinking questionable, but the White Queen asks her if she had ever been punished. When Alice admits that she had, she adds that it was only for mistakes she had made in the past.

Just as Alice further questioned the Queen’s logic, the Queen starts to shriek: The finger she just put a plaster on started to bleed. Alice has to cover her ears as the screams of the Queen are as loud as a steam engine, when she uncovers them, she asks if the Queen pricked her finger. The Queen tells her that she hadn’t pricked it yet, fastening her shawl again, the brooch will fall off and the Queen will prick her finger on the brooch trying to catch it. Alice tried to prevent it, but the Queen had already pricked her finger before she could catch the brooch for her. The Queen smiles, hoping that Alice understands the way things happen in the Looking-Glass Lands now. When Alice asks why she isn’t screaming anymore, the Queen asks her why she would continue screaming after she had already done so.

As Alice mistakes the crow flying away for nightfall, she comments on how glad she is that its gone, which makes the White Queen lament that she couldn’t manage to be glad. She explains that she had forgotten the rule, guessing that Alice is living a charmed life being glad whenever she likes to be in the wood. But Alice hates how lonely it is out here and starts to cry, which leads to the White Queen trying to bring her to consider other thoughts, hating the sight of seeing her cry. Alice laughs through her tears at the Queen’s logic, but the Queen explains that she could never do two things at once. She asks Alice of her age to consider it, Alice replies that she’s exactly seven and a half. Though the White Queen gets annoyed at her using “exactly”, she also tells her that she is one-hundred and one, five months and a day old. Alice has a hard time believing that, to which the White Queen advices her to try believing by closing her eyes and drawing a deep breath. Alice retorts that it’s no use trying to believe the impossible, but the White Queen tells her that she did it all the time when she was Alice’s age. But just as the White Queen spoke, her brooch came undone, he shawl fell off, but this time she caught it. Alice hopes that this means the White Queen’s finger is better, but when the queen answers, she started to bleat like a sheep. Before her eyes, the White Queen transformed into an old sheep, with Alice suddenly finding herself in some kind of shop. Somehow, the Looking-Glass Lands transported Alice into a shop by transforming her surroundings and turning the Queen into a different character entirely.

Alice would meet the White Queen again after crossing the chessboard and earning the title of Queen herself. But when Alice approached the Red Queen and White Queen with newfound pride, they belittle her by giving her mathematical riddles Alice couldn’t answer. Based on that, they realize that Alice is poorly suited to be a Queen and Alice walks off.

Fanon
People didn't start shipping Alice with the White Queen until the first Burton movie. For the Burton movies as a whole, Miralice is the second most popular ship, after Hattice.

Generally, people ship them because the White Queen is the only other friendly human face in Underland. That hasn't stopped theories from suggesting that the White Queen is evil and is only using Alice to serve as her literal pawn to take down her sister. It is worth noting that Anne Hathaway supports such theories, believing her character to have an "inner darkness" she is desperately trying to suppress.

What shipping there is for the original Carroll incarnations is completely platonic, logically since Alice is only a little girl while the White Queen is implied to be immortal.

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