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Alina Gray is a character from Kamihama City, specifically born in the Sakae Ward, and attends Sakae General School as a first-year high school student at the age of sixteen. She has long, straight lime or bright green hair with a distinctive yellow highlight, and her eyes are turquoise or green. In her school uniform, she often carries a small bag of art tools at her waist. When she transforms into a magical girl, her outfit consists of a rainbow dress with a large black ribbon, black boots, and a police officer's hat that resembles a warden's cap; her shield-shaped green Soul Gem is located on the ribbon at her throat. Her magical girl design, along with that of her associates Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi, follows a prison motif, with Alina representing the role of the warden.
Alina is a self-described artistic genius whose work is obsessed with the themes of life and death. She is haughty, arrogant, and teasing by nature, often laughing at the misfortunes of others and treating murder as a form of artistic expression. Her actions are frequently erratic and impulsive, and she is quick to anger when things do not proceed according to her wishes. She is deeply protective of her art, viewing the creation of masterpieces as her ultimate goal. Her manner of speaking often includes English words or phrases, delivered with a distinct Japanese accent, a trait which is sometimes adapted into Italian in English-language versions.
Her motivation to become a magical girl and her worldview are rooted in a childhood marked by death. At the age of eight, the deaths of her grandparents and her pet dog sparked a fascination with the transition from a living being into an object. Growing up surrounded by art in her parents' gallery, she began creating works that explored the boundary between life and death. After winning an award for a self-portrait, a judge criticized her work, stating it had no external theme and was like a dangerous drug, predicting her brilliance would fade by the age of fifteen. This critique led her into a deep creative crisis. In despair, she destroyed her own artwork and attempted suicide by jumping from a rooftop, intending her death to be her final artistic statement. It was at this moment that Kyubey appeared, and she made her wish: for an atelier where no one could bother her. Surviving the fall, she encountered a Witch and became captivated by its grotesque and chaotic beauty, which reignited her passion and set her on the path to creating art featuring Witches themselves.
As a founding member of the Wings of the Magius, Alina serves as one of its three leaders, the Magius. While the organization's stated goal is to save magical girls from their fate of becoming Witches, Alina's personal agenda is far more self-serving. She uses the group's resources to pursue her own artistic vision, which involves capturing, breeding, and containing Witches and their labyrinths within her barriers to create what she considers perfect masterpieces. Her philosophy, influenced by theories on the death drive, leads her to believe that humanity subconsciously craves destruction, and she eventually seeks to orchestrate a global catastrophe as the ultimate work of art.
Alina possesses the unique magical ability to generate barriers and create labyrinths at will. Her primary weapon is a cube-like construct of light, which resembles a Rubik's cube, that can be used to imprison Witches, their Familiars, and even their entire labyrinths inside small, portable cubes. These cubes can be given to others to release or capture the entities inside. Her designated Doppel is named Old Dorothy, the Doppel of Fever, which takes the form of a tube. This Doppel extrudes a special paint called Pathogen Tempera from its master's back, using the hardened paint to create a giant, false body to attack opponents. During this process, Alina's human body is completely buried within the paint, and the paint itself is said to have the power to drive anyone who touches it insane.
Within the story, Alina maintains few significant relationships. She attends the same school as Karin Misono, a junior in the art club, though neither initially knows the other is a magical girl. Alina acts as a harsh and critical mentor to Karin, at times showing a begrudging and caring side. Her primary allegiance is to the Magius, working alongside Touka and Nemu, though her commitment is to her art rather than their collective ideology. Her character arc is defined by a consistent obsession with destruction as an artistic medium, and she ultimately shows little to no redemption, remaining committed to her vision of beauty forged from life, death, and despair.
Alina is a self-described artistic genius whose work is obsessed with the themes of life and death. She is haughty, arrogant, and teasing by nature, often laughing at the misfortunes of others and treating murder as a form of artistic expression. Her actions are frequently erratic and impulsive, and she is quick to anger when things do not proceed according to her wishes. She is deeply protective of her art, viewing the creation of masterpieces as her ultimate goal. Her manner of speaking often includes English words or phrases, delivered with a distinct Japanese accent, a trait which is sometimes adapted into Italian in English-language versions.
Her motivation to become a magical girl and her worldview are rooted in a childhood marked by death. At the age of eight, the deaths of her grandparents and her pet dog sparked a fascination with the transition from a living being into an object. Growing up surrounded by art in her parents' gallery, she began creating works that explored the boundary between life and death. After winning an award for a self-portrait, a judge criticized her work, stating it had no external theme and was like a dangerous drug, predicting her brilliance would fade by the age of fifteen. This critique led her into a deep creative crisis. In despair, she destroyed her own artwork and attempted suicide by jumping from a rooftop, intending her death to be her final artistic statement. It was at this moment that Kyubey appeared, and she made her wish: for an atelier where no one could bother her. Surviving the fall, she encountered a Witch and became captivated by its grotesque and chaotic beauty, which reignited her passion and set her on the path to creating art featuring Witches themselves.
As a founding member of the Wings of the Magius, Alina serves as one of its three leaders, the Magius. While the organization's stated goal is to save magical girls from their fate of becoming Witches, Alina's personal agenda is far more self-serving. She uses the group's resources to pursue her own artistic vision, which involves capturing, breeding, and containing Witches and their labyrinths within her barriers to create what she considers perfect masterpieces. Her philosophy, influenced by theories on the death drive, leads her to believe that humanity subconsciously craves destruction, and she eventually seeks to orchestrate a global catastrophe as the ultimate work of art.
Alina possesses the unique magical ability to generate barriers and create labyrinths at will. Her primary weapon is a cube-like construct of light, which resembles a Rubik's cube, that can be used to imprison Witches, their Familiars, and even their entire labyrinths inside small, portable cubes. These cubes can be given to others to release or capture the entities inside. Her designated Doppel is named Old Dorothy, the Doppel of Fever, which takes the form of a tube. This Doppel extrudes a special paint called Pathogen Tempera from its master's back, using the hardened paint to create a giant, false body to attack opponents. During this process, Alina's human body is completely buried within the paint, and the paint itself is said to have the power to drive anyone who touches it insane.
Within the story, Alina maintains few significant relationships. She attends the same school as Karin Misono, a junior in the art club, though neither initially knows the other is a magical girl. Alina acts as a harsh and critical mentor to Karin, at times showing a begrudging and caring side. Her primary allegiance is to the Magius, working alongside Touka and Nemu, though her commitment is to her art rather than their collective ideology. Her character arc is defined by a consistent obsession with destruction as an artistic medium, and she ultimately shows little to no redemption, remaining committed to her vision of beauty forged from life, death, and despair.