Alice Johnson is a character first introduced in the first season of Stranger Things as an unnamed character in a photograph. The tie-in novel Suspicious Minds later gave her name and shed light upon her backstory. She participated in the MKUltra experiments along with Terry Ives, Gloria Flowers, and Ken.
History
Background
Alice grew up in a family with many brothers. Instead of attending college like many people her age, Alice works for her uncle where she works on heavy equipment repair.
1969
Upon coming across a newspaper ad seeking "college age women with remarkable skills", Alice applied to the ad and received a letter requesting she attend an on campus preliminary screening conducted by Hawkins International Laboratory. Alice passed the screening and became a test subject with Terry, Gloria, and Ken.
During her very first session in the lab under the influence of LSD, Dr. Brenner saw potential in her reaction and instructed his subordinates to begin electrotherapy. Confused and in pain, Alice found herself in a strange place with spores floating in the air.
As the experiments continued on, Alice became more aware of Brenner’s true intentions and afraid of him and the lab. Her visions became stronger, allowing her to see several monsters: Demodogs, the Mind Flayer and the Demogorgon among other strange events. She could not decipher what the visions meant almost to the point of questioning her own sanity briefly.
1970
As Alice and the group learned more about the secrets of Hawkins Lab, Kali, and other experiments Brenner conducted on children, Alice grew more and paranoid Brenner would discover her visions might not be wild delusions.
Together, they realized Alice's visions were of the future, making their relationship with the lab even more troubling.
Following the discovery the lab made efforts to keep them from leaving and Terry's pregnancy, they started formulating a plan to go into hiding. Before they could enact their plans, Brenner filed emergency commitment and she was seized by uniformed men and held captive in the lab. From Kali, Brenner learned Alice kept her abilities secret, but he did not yet know she had future sight.
Despite the setback in their plans, Terry, Gloria, and Ken manages to pull it together and helped Alice escape the lab by faking her death with Kali's help. Upon leaving the lab, they disguise Alice and send her away to Canada to hide and keep the future away from Brenner. Before she leaves, Alice offers to tell Terry her future where she was tortured by Brenner for a final time, but Terry declined to know.
Relationships
- Terry Ives - Friend, honorary sister
- Andrew Rich † - Friend, honorary brother
- Gloria Flowers - Friend
- Ken - Friend
- Martin Brenner † - Enemy, experimented on her
Personality and Traits
Alice is a highly independent self-taught woman. In appearance she's mostly described as a tomboy. Alice isn't shy, but also not particularly outgoing. Alice has strong interest in machines, repair, and learning how every piece of technology ticks. Whether it's cars, electroshock machinery, or large farming equipment. She even says that the human body could be considered as a complex machine, one that can be broken but also fixed. She's the only member in the "Fellowship" that is not, nor has ever been a college student.
Abilities
Psychic abilities
- Future Sight: Under the influence of LSD and electricity, Alice is able to astral project into the future. Alice witnessed the Upside Down, the Demogorgon, the Demodogs, Terry being tortured, and 011 participating in a multitude of experiments.
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*Alice's picture appears in a newspaper article in Holly, Jolly.
References
- ↑ In America, college students are roughly between the ages of 18 and 24, being in college in 1969 would make her born between 1944 and 1951.
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