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Alice's dark symbols...


Can anyone explain the two wierd looking symbols on Alice's blood stained frock? Where have they been taken from, and do they have any significance? And, why does she have a horseshoe on her chain.

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The symbols, my friend are just there to represent the darkness that alice will desend into and the horseshoe, i belive, is there because in the original she has one, there ya go
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The original had a horseshoe? What to ward off evil spirits?

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To be honest AAA, i don't think the signs the horseshoe mean anything, when the original book/illistrations were created, the horseshoe was a popular necklace garment it's just like saying why was the cheshire cat tattooed?
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I don't know about the horseshoe, but the symbol that looks like a four is the sign of Jupiter. This could signify that Alice is the real ruler of Wonderland, just as Zeus (Jupiter) was <i>the</i> god among the Greek gods. The other symbol is Neptune's. I'm not sure why it's there, Neptune was the God of the sea, maybe this symbolizes all the tears she's shed?

Personally, if I was in charge I would have put the symbol of Pluto (Hades) instead of Neptune, and the pan pipes instead of the Horseshoe, since those were a symbol of Pan, god of Insanity. But this is just me bein' a Mythology Geek.

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they're not greek, they're a mixture of alchemy symbols and some made up symbols. and thats an omega, not a horseshoe.

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The symbols on her smock thingie are runes.

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I thought the charm she wore was the symbol for "Omega", which is Greek signifying "The End". I thought she was rather at the end of her rope through most of the game. She is still wearing it in the end cartoon, so perhaps it could signify the end of one story and the beginning of the other.

For the record, that Duchess freaked the hell out of me.

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it IS omega. not a horse shoe. i don't really think that wearing a charm signifying good luck is in scheme with the dark nature of this game.

a horseshoe pendant, 4leaf clover on her shirt.

alice is so cute!
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if it were with the points upwards ( U ) Then, I'd say horseshoe, if it were points down ( n ) then, probably Omega. This is because horseshoes were always hung points up over a doorway so that the luck wouldn't run out of them (out the bottom).

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Yeah that's what i thought it stood for. I thought the upside horse shoe represented the spilling of bad luck. since its bad luck to turn a horseshoe upside down since they usually intend to mean good luck. Alice's "good luck" all seems to pour out during this game. I duno...thats always what i thought it was,i duno Greek or anything. so yeah. :)

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Or maybe they just wanted to make fans ask themselves questions like this and find "hidden meanings" for themselves... kinda like peotry: I'll say / do something weird and hard to understand and then I'll just watch them try to find out what I meant.

And I don't think it's true that Alice had a reversed cross on her neck at the beginning, simply because she couldn't have gotten it from anywhere, being institutionalized in that asylum for so many years... Hell, I don't even think they USED that symbol back in those times. And even if they did, how could a simple teenager who had spent so much time away from the world know about it - I mean... if it did work then as well, I don't think the wide population would know of such symbols. When It comes to planet and Greek gods' symbols, yeah, she could have found out about them from books or even school, before the fire happened...


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