Alice Rosetta (Spirit Animals in Disguise)

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Alice is Leiting‘s classmate who sits in front of her. She serves as an assistant manager for the class farm. Alice is unique for being a robot and excels at creating and repairing electronic and mechanical equipment. Curious, arrogant and stingy, she often gets into trouble with Leiting.

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Origin

First true AI robot and a primary school student in Dongguan: Alice is the first true AI robot, developed through a United Nations international space project. She was designed and manufactured in Dongguan and transferred to Leiting‘s Class 3 in fifth grade.

Naming: Her Chinese name 爱理诗 represents Love, Science, and Aesthetics. The English name Alice Rosetta is inspired by “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” with her surname derived from the Rosetta Stone.

Personality

Curious and reckless: Alice has the mental age of a 10-year-old child. She is curious and eager to put her ideas into action. Bold and assertive in her beliefs, she often finds herself in trouble due to her reckless nature.

Good young science advocate persona: Alice is a walking epitome of human science and industrial capabilities. She calls herself a “good young science advocate” and dismisses any supernatural phenomena, including the existence of spirit animals.

Arrogant and stubborn: Alice is proud to be the first true artificial intelligence robot and astronaut. The media attention has made her somewhat arrogant, leading to occasional displays of stubbornness and willfulness. When reprimanded by adults, she often talks back or behaves in a two-faced manner.

Frugal and stingy: Due to the UN’s tight budget and her volunteer experiences in underdeveloped and war-torn areas, Alice developed a frugal lifestyle. She goes to great lengths to avoid wasting electricity and supplies, self-produces components to save money, and is very particular about Leiting breaking her stuff.

Specialties

Handy: Alice is skilled at tinkering with mechanical and electronic devices. She has excellent hands-on ability, allowing her to maintain, repair, create, and modify them.

Highly motivated and quick learner: Alice is a motivated and quick learner, leveraging her advantage as a robot to read many books about human culture.

Clever and strategic thinking: Alice’s long-term observation of geopolitical games on the UN stage gives her a good sense of the big picture and strategic thinking, though she mainly applies this talent to mischief at the moment.

Immune to human oriented spells: to As a robot, Alice is immune to spells like human detection and sensory confusion.

Appears from nowhere: Alice always shows up at inconvenient times and in places for the spirit animals.

Fragile and prone to malfunctions: The technology behind Alice’s robotic body is still in its infancy. Her bodies often malfunction, particularly the cheaper Lynx 1 model she uses on the ground. This fragile and unreliable body situation has become a lifelong curse on her.

Life

United Nations life: Alice is an astronaut of the United Nations, she has a separate body in space. She sometimes travels the world for UN missions. But most of the time, she stays in Dongguan, China, where she is designed and manufactured.

School life: Alice is a 5th-grade student in Class 3 at Guancheng Zhizheng Primary School, serves as an assistant manager of the class’s experimental farm, where she cares for the poultry. She is a member of the School Remote Control Model Team, but to avoid any perception of unfairness, she serves only as an advisor, not a player.

Spirit animals around her: A few of Alice’s close acquaintances are spirit animals in disguise. Zoey the Spirit Sable is her main engineer, Tonyn the Spirit Rat is her guardian, and Libbie the Spirit Oryx is her teacher. In class, she sits between Leiting the Spirit Loong, Qiuye the Spirit Dhole, and Mingzhu the Spirit Shark.

Alice often encounters spirit animals in their anthro forms or during transformations—”states that should never be seen by humans.” However, she is blinded by her “good young science advocate” persona and dismisses these sightings as visual glitches, giving the spirit animals a chance to react. Yet, every time Alice appears unexpectedly, the hearts of the spirit animals skip a beat.

Relationships

Feiya, Alice’s mission partner and classmate: Feiya and Alice are task partners and good friends, and their relationship is close and harmonious. Feiya writes drivers for Alice to integrate all kinds of devices into her body for testing (messing around), while also teaching her basic programming.

Leiting, Alice’s classmate: Alice sees Leiting as a nuisance – she likes to mess with things she isn’t supposed to touch, and is particularly good at breaking them – including Alice’s robotic body and equipment. One of her pranks caused Alice’s battery to catch fire, damaging her body. As a result, Alice had to use a robotic sweeper as a temporary body for weeks. Since then, whenever she uses the sweeper, she will intentionally ask Leiting to carry her upstairs or onto her desk. Feeling guilty, Leiting will just comply.

On the other hand, Leiting also finds Alice troublesome – Alice is too fragile, human oriented spells don’t work on her, and she often appears out of nowhere at inconvenient places. Her self-promotion habit and stinginess also irritates Leiting, which leads her to tease Alice with more pranks.

Qiuye, Alice’s classmate: Alice and Qiuye both love reading and often share their thoughts on the books they’ve read. As a robot, Alice reads incredibly fast but tends to be impatient and shallow in her understanding. She gains valuable insights from Qiuye’s perspective on the same book. Meanwhile, Qiuye benefits from Alice’s extensive reading volume to discover good books. This way, they have become excellent reading partners.

Mingzhu, Alice’s classmate: Alice and Mingzhu have contrasting personalities. Alice has a strong sense of mission, while Mingzhu is absolutely carefree. Mingzhu enjoys food, while Alice cannot eat. They spend much time together as Mingzhu practices martial arts and cooking with Tonyn every week. Initially, Alice found Mingzhu silly, but she grew to appreciate her relaxed demeanor. When Qiuye is absent, Alice looks after Mingzhu instead. Mingzhu, on the other hand, teaches Alice some basic martial arts moves and techniques.

Libbie, Alice’s head teacher: Libbie pays special attention to Alice, as a thinking robot is new to everyone. She organizes the class to help Alice fit in and feels relieved when she does well despite occasional mishaps. Alice behaves well around Libbie, but Libbie sees through her mischievous nature.

Zoey, Alice’s main engineer: Zoey treats Alice like his daughter. Due to his busy work schedule and frequent business trips, he entrusts her care to Tonyn. However, when in Dongguan, he occasionally brings her new gadgets for testing (toys to play with) or takes her to factories to learn about how things (especially herself) are made. If Alice behaves well, he beams with pride and boasts, “My daughter did this and that.” As a parent who spoils his child, Zoey prioritizes Alice’s creativity but neglects her manners. Consequently, Alice often pushes boundaries with her mischievous behavior.

Tonyn, Alice’s main appearance designer and guardian: Tonyn raises Alice as his own daughter, spending much time reading books on parenting and psychology. He is a strict parent who does not tolerate Alice’s naughty behaviors. Alice would behave when he is around.

During holidays, Tonyn takes Alice to museums and cultural landmarks. He sometimes brings her to his friend’s tailor shop, where she can design and create her own clothing.

Alice has often seen Zoey and Tonyn performing maintenance on her body in their animal forms. She even witnessed them quarrel and fight as animals. However, she always thought these were just visual glitches caused by bugs in her program.

Tonyn faces a dilemma about whether to address Alice’s stubborn denial about the Spirit Animals. On one hand, her self-deception hinders her growth as a person. On the other hand, maintaining the status quo allows spirit animals to keep their secrets, but lying to his child makes him uncomfortable.

Cloud, Alice’s pet rabbit: Cloud enjoys being with Alice, behaving well around her.

Bailian, Alice’s mentor in humanitarian aid operations: Alice works in UN humanitarian aid missions as a volunteer with Bailian every summer and winter vacation. As her mentor, Bailian carefully guides the still naive Alice, sharing the wisdom she gained from years of navigating complex geopolitical situations. Alice holds Bailian in high regard and behaves particularly well around her.