Alice Grey

Alice Marie Fitzgerald, also known as Alice Grey, is one of the protagonists in The Vigilante Trilogy: Shadow. She is a twenty-year-old online college student and waitress at Riley's Diner at the beginning of the book. She is the second child and only daughter of Zachariah Fitzgerald and Emmeline Fitzgerald, and the younger sister of Simon Fitzgerald.

Appearance
Alice is described to have big, bright blue eyes (from her father), long, dark hair, and a rosy complexion. She is average height, skinny, and dresses quite fashionably. She can be described as a girly.

As a Child: Alice was described as a small, freckled girl with big blue eyes and long hair that was always braided back.

Personality
Alice Grey is a very light-hearted and happy young woman who always tries to see the best in people. She is a scrupulous and self-respecting person, which is shown in how she renounced the Fitzgerald Empire upon learning about her father's culpable business dealings as a teenager.

She is very inquisitive and curious -- a quality that Dakota often points out as a side effect of her name. It's her curiosity which lands her in so much trouble throughout the book.

Everyone who has ever crossed paths with Alice knows that she is a very compassionate and empathetic person. After her kidnapping in 2004, where she witnessed the death of the childhood best friend, Wesley Lovett, Alice was emotionally scarred from the ordeal - so much so that she has a loyal dog, Thor, for protection.

History
Before the Kidnapping: Alice had a very luxurious childhood in Fitzgerald alongside her older brother, Simon. With their family as the most powerful among the six elite Richie families, they were akin to modern-day royalty. Her father often ignored and neglected her for reasons unknown, but her mother was a very kind and loving towards her two children. Alice didn't have many friends as a kid because of her father's terrible reputation, but her one best friend was Wesley Lovett -- who was the son of her father's best friend, Christopher Lovett. It is believed that Wesley had a crush on Alice that only his siblings knew about.

During the Kidnapping: Seven-year-old Alice was kidnapped along with Dakota Lovett and Wesley Lovett in December of 2004. Alice mostly kept quiet during her time in captivity. At some point, she and the two Lovett siblings were placed in the commune at the Institute where they got their first taste of what the Institute was about.

A couple of days into their captivity, Wesley became sick. Upon realizing this, the Leader of the Institute order for his execution and tasked Lieutenant Ophelia with the deed. In turn, Ophelia ordered Brutus to shoot the boy while other Faceless Men restrained the girls. Alice was the last person that Wesley saw before he was executed, and Alice closed her eyes just before it happened. Despite not actually seeing the execution of the best friend, the experience would scar her for life and prompt her to get justice years later by exposing the Faceless League.

A short time after Wesley's execution, Dakota and Alice plot to escape the room they were held in. Alice watched in horror when Dakota stabbed Ophelia in the neck with a rusty nail, avenging her brother. She helped Alice escape through a boarded up window, but is captured before she can make it out herself. Alice trekked through the woods for hours until she was found on the side of the road by rookie cop Charlie Byrd. Alice never saw Dakota Lovett again. The case of the missing Lovett children turned cold years later, but Alice never gave up on it.

After the kidnapping: When Alice was 14-years-old, she witnessed her mother get killed in a hit-and-run outside of her father's hotel after leaving her birthday party. A couple of months later, while on her way home from a tutoring session, Alice was attacked by three drunken men in an alleyway. Just as they were about to assault her, a mysterious hooded girl appeared out of nowhere and beat the men to bloody pulps before taking her to the Fitzgerald hotel. Alice would later discover that the mysterious girl was the Shadow and that she was her first rescue before she even became the notorious vigilante.

At some point during her late teens, Alice got emancipate from her father because she no longer wanted to deal with his neglect or be associated with his shady business dealings. She used a trust fund and her inheritance from her mother to start a life of independence, and she met Ezra Collins, her British boyfriend, not long after that.