The prerequisite for Alice being a good mother is her having LOTS of therapy and a healthy partner. If she has both of those things she's capable of being a good mom.

Canonically her only biological child is a girl she only held one time and named Aster and only saw once more in her entire life. In AU's where Alice ends up having children at any point she spoils her girls. She's very supportive and encouraging and really loves doing all of the stereotypical girly-girl things. Shopping, manis and pedis, hair salons. I haven't really given Alice having a boy much thought. I think she'd struggle a little to connect with a boy but she'd work to cultivate his interests, probably put him in sports.

Alice is a very flawed woman but she has a lot of love in her heart. In a healthy environment she would be a supportive but slightly overbearing mom. The kind that wants to take "just one more picture" for dances, always showing up for every game, show, or any activity her children are in, and always gives slightly too long hugs that have her kids groaning and getting embarrassed.

No, this size is not on purpose. At its largest, The Menagerie has five women in it! They all adopt an animal identity for their kink/play persona. In chronological order they are; Alice Bolton - Kitten, Mia Russel - Puppy, Elsie Thompson - Piglet, Dove Fowler - Bird, Juliette Hammond - Bear Cub.

Grayson has been polyamorous the entire time he's had romantic and sexual relationships, but when he and Alice began their committed relationship he didn't have any plans to have a harem. When he met Mia he was intrigued by the way she spoke about her play persona and why she enjoyed puppy play as much as she did. Mia is the reason he started the play personas, she asked him to brand her, she's why he even considered trying to pursue other longterm serious relationships.

Every other addition to The Mengarie has been merely through happenstance. He didn't seek the other girls out with the intention of adding them to The Menagerie, it just sort of happened.

Alice met Grayson when he was twenty-eight. He had quite a few misdeeds by this point. In the present day I write most of my fics in Alice is thirty-eight and Grayson is forty-eight. By that point, I would say Alice only knows about ten percent of his past misdeeds. She knows he was involved in a fight in high school that nearly got him expelled but very little else about the incident. She knows that his fiancée died after a car crash where he was the driver and that he feels responsible for her death but very little else.

Grayson is an intensely private individual. From my fic Pantomime Matrimony, "This man who took nearly five years of knowing her to tell her what town in France he spent every summer in until he turned twenty-five." Grayson doesn't share very deeply of himself and works even harder to hide previous wrongdoing, so Alice really is not in the know.

From most to least heartbreaking for Grayson is: Alice, Juliette, Elsie, Dove, (Mia). The two most likely candidates for dying of unnatural causes are Alice or Juliette.

If Alice died of unnatural causes the most likely thing would be Grayson murdering her. If he did it's likely he'd either beat her to death, strangle her, or break her neck. It would fuck him up severely. He finds Alice's regulation of his behavior annoying but he is unaware how grounded she keeps him. Without her, he would become more violent & unstable.

If Juliette died it would be by suicide and it would destroy Grayson. He would feel as though he failed again. Juliette soothes two of his past aches (his dead fiancée, Simone, and a patient of his who died from suicide named Darcy) and he subconsciously feels as though taking care of her and providing for her amends those mistakes.

Alice is very athletic! She and Grayson are part of a country club and you can find her there often participating in some class. Pilates, yoga, you name it she probably does it. She also plays tennis. Alice has played tennis since middle school and she LOVES it. She’s pretty good!

She also a wine connoisseur! She loves trying new wines and pairing them with different food. It’s one of the things she and Grayson bond over. They’ve been to many wineries over the years together.

Alice also has an entire room in her apartment dedicated to Mommy Domming. Alice is a Mommy Domme and has been domming regularly since she was 20. She loves doing it.

She also reads pretty frequently. Mostly nonfiction, she likes biographies and in depth dives of fashion and architectural history. Grayson tried to recommend books to her but she usually finds the things he reads very dry and very boring.

There was no wedding party. Grayson is a lame ass and has no friends and Alice was already planning an unconventional wedding as they were marrying at 44 and 34. It was quite expensive. Alice was planning this wedding with a metaphorical gun to Grayson's head. <3 So, she was going to have the exact perfect beautiful wedding she wanted. Their honeymoon was a month long.

No! She and grayson had a very long conversation (that will probably be a fic one day) in which he expressed his disappointment which was worse than a punishment would've been for her. She was really upset because Grayson had been explicit about keeping the fact that she used to be his patient a secret from Alice and Mia and it was a complete accident that she told Alice.