forum Magic Potions, Mad Tea Party, Alice in Wonderland... (brainstorm with me please?)

Started July 02, 2018 by @kat_i_am

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Maybe there's a guardian of the river? Also maybe, you can only go there once, because no one has ever found it twice?

I like that- a guardian. Maybe the guardian gets passed on to someone who goes mad bc of the river (so in the end, my Mad Hatter will be the guardian). I think the only going there once though wouldn't work, bc like… I don't think the Mad Tea Party goers could get enough water in one trip to make all the types of tea they drink

Can't they get water from different rivers like you said?

Yeah, but isn't the Meminileth the river that counteracts the effects of the tea that drives them mad?

I also gotta choose what the other rivers are… maybe 7, because that number is like… completion/wholeness?

Yeah, but isn't the Meminileth the river that counteracts the effects of the tea that drives them mad?

Oh yeah true. IS there a villain in your story? maybe he killed the guardian so he makes the mad tea?

Yes, but the villain actually isn't centered around the tea party lol. I'm just really excited about the tea party.
Alice has become the Queen of Hearts, and is obsessed with the idea of staying young. She uses dark magic to steal the youth from the hearts of "criminals" (but, as a child, her def of 'criminal' is questionable).
I'm also crossing it over with Peter Pan. Peter used to visit Alice when she was a younger child, but stopped visiting, and she doesn't know why. He's why she became obsessed with not growing up. Becoming an adult is terrifying to her. I do know that I eventually want a reunion and a battle between the two of them, bc Peter doesn't agree with her methods. The lines of hero/villain are kind of blurred in my novel though. Alice is the protag, and she sees Time as the villain. Peter sees Alice not quite as a villain, but as misguided/lost (lost girl, see what I did there?). Ultimately, the reader is the one who decides who the villain was.
I already have my last line planned out- "After all that happened, the Queen of Hearts was nothing more and nothing less than a child."

THAT IS SO GOOD!!!!!! Maybe Peter Pan could be like a guardian of the river? MAYBE THE RIVER GETS ITS MAGIC FROM NEVERLAND!?!

Hmmmmmmm…. There is def crossovers between Wonderland and Neverland in my novel. The way the final act (so to speak) gets put into play is a portal opens, but I feel like I can't have him be a guardian bc then I don't get to do the reveal where Peter learns about what Alice has been doing. He has to be removed from the situation for most of it.
I do think I need some more neverland/wonderland crossover magic though, so hit me with ALL your ideas?

Are you incorporating rabbit holes?

Well keep talking so I can get ideas. WOW this is the most i've thought about since. Counts fingers. APRIL!

I HAVEN'T EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT RABBIT HOLES HECK

THEY CAN BE PORTALS- or at least what portals look like on the Wonderland side. I'm not planning on doing a lot of worldbuilding or development for neverland bc it's not where the novel takes place, so I'm not gonna worry much about what they look like on the NL side

Well I had an idea

What if a few rabbit holes (not all, mind you,) led to Neverland, maybe PP’s tree itself, and that’s how Peter found wonderland in the first place?

I can totally imagine Peter Pan accidently tripping inside a hole that leads to neverland.

What if we also use mirrors as portals too?

Ooh, I like that!!! V good. DOES THAT MEAN I CAN HAVE MAGIC RABBITS THAT MAKE PORTALS THAT'S SO RAD

That might be too much, don’t you think? I mean the mirrors

Ooh, I like that!!! V good. DOES THAT MEAN I CAN HAVE MAGIC RABBITS THAT MAKE PORTALS THAT'S SO RAD

YEAH

Ooh, I like that!!! V good. DOES THAT MEAN I CAN HAVE MAGIC RABBITS THAT MAKE PORTALS THAT'S SO RAD

The White Rabbits could be like the keeper of the portals and make sure, like they don't go out of control or something?

I think v few mirrors should be portals- they're rare, difficult to make, and VERY EXPENSIVE. So some mirrors are portals, but not most

Ooh, I like that!!! V good. DOES THAT MEAN I CAN HAVE MAGIC RABBITS THAT MAKE PORTALS THAT'S SO RAD

The White Rabbits could be like the keeper of the portals and make sure, like they don't go out of control or something?

YES

I think v few mirrors should be portals- they're rare, difficult to make, and VERY EXPENSIVE. So some mirrors are portals, but not most

Maybe, like the main portal to wonderland was a mirror?

From where? From Earth? Idk, wasn't that a rabbit hole in bk 1? And I remember that in bk 2 she goes through the looking glass, but I can't remember if it was just another part of wonderland or….? I do know that in Marissa Meyer's Heartless (great book, I LOVE IT), another AiW story, the land from Through the Looking Glass is called Chess, and is another country/land, but I can't remember if that's actually original canon

Maybe theres a mirror and its the only portal to get to Neverland?