Alice

Status: One-off

A young backstage staffer at The Colosseum: clipboard, badge, and the kind of authority that suggests she’s sent more people home than the band’s manager. She’s the locked door Chino and Homeboy have to talk their way through, and she opens it: suspicious, then flustered, then handing over all-access VIP passes and tucking a Durban Poison tube somewhere secure.

Description

Young, brunette, professional under pressure: she checks IDs, works the list, and holds the line until Homeboy produces the PTSDream tin like a passport, at which point the whole posture changes. Has a badge positioned just below the cleavage, which Chino reads with great interest; she notices, angles it helpfully into view, and blushes. Practical and game: she takes the sample tube without hesitation.

Role in Volume 01

In El Cucuy and the Nightmares, Alice mans the folding table where the boys’ crew credentials don’t check out (I don’t see you guys on here), and reverses herself completely on the strength of the tin and the name-drop. She issues the VIP passes, trades banter (bring friends, girl… friends), and resurfaces mid-crisis backstage, where she confirms the crew-and-PA no-smoking rule and watches the cloud war with them. Her finale: swept up in the triumph, she throws her arms around Chino and kisses him full on the mouth as the music soars. She spends the afterparty passing a joint with him between kisses.

Relationships

• Chino: her backstage romance; wink-for-wink from the first meeting to the afterparty.
• Homeboy: his delayed wink needed a push, but she got there.
• El Cucuy and the Nightmares: the act she’s crewing for; professional to the end.

Notes

• I’ll be sure to save it for later then. Alice, securing the Durban Poison: a woman who plans ahead.