Hello friends. This is Vic and i'm pleased to present to you all the Hatter.
You didn't read that wrong, this is Hatter! He's not the Mad Hatter and he's not even mad at all, though he's often mistaken for him, he's actually a descendant of him.
Hatter has always been well aware of the real world and the storybook his father starred in alongside Alice (of legend). But the Wonderland he lived in wasn't the same as years before, the red queen ruled and they used the Looking Glass to kidnap humans (called oysters) to milk them of their emotions. These emotions were bottled and sold as "tea" to the inhabitants of Wonderland to keep them from rebelling against the queen and Hatter was the one that managed the tea house where it was sold. He feigned moral ambiguity when in reality he was serving the queen to hide the fact that he worked for the revolution against her.
It wasn't until Alice, a brunette black belt searching for her boyfriend, came through the looking glass that everything started to change. Hatter and Alice traveled together, saved the day, and fell in love along the way. Instead of living a life without her he went through the looking glass and took on the persona of "David".
Time passes differently beyond the looking glass, what was days for Wonderland was only an hour for the real world. Still, Hatter became a child of two worlds, moving through the looking glass at his leisure. When the infection hit the world he was in Wonderland, by the time he went through the glass again to see Alice...she was gone. Fearing Wonderland would be infected, the prince closed the looking glass from the inside for good and Hatter stayed in the real world, determined to find Alice.
He dumped the persona of David the construction worker, one he never loved to begin with, and reclaimed his identity as Hatter while he searched the earth for Alice, peddling herbs and teas and learning all about every supernatural creature and person he could along the way.
Now he's in Everett. Setting up The Tea House in the wilderness, a place where he can settle down and work the community. Make a name for himself and hope that Alice one day stumbles into his lap like she did to begin with. A boy can hope.
plottiness! I'm open to Hatter having met anyone on the road, he's been all over and he's been gathering and trading for herbs, learning how they work against different supes and stuff for the entirety of his time traveling. He's going to try and get close to/get info on peoples in charge since he likes to be the center of the web of information. Lay it on me, folks!
oh also: It's pertinent to mention that you can toss any of your people with medicinal needs at him. Wanna sleep, reduce stress, get high? He has herbs for most anything and can whip up some useful mixtures for anyone. He'll always trade this stuff for information or supplies.