I'm sitting here, thinking about what must be one of the key characters of this story. How can you have an Alice story without a Mad Hatter? And he can't just be 'mad'. Why is he mad? What is his madness like? There has to be a sensible reason why he's missing a few screws, and with the lack of mercury in hat making in the dark future, we're shy the classical excuse.
What if it's drugs? A long term abuse of hallucinogens might be a way. Addicted to the point that stopping will kill him. So suffused with his drug that he moves in a cloud of it, drawing others into his lunacy as he passes. He still lives in the real world, but it's all seen through a twisted glass.
Which brings up the March Hare. Of all the characters, he and the Dormouse are the most troublesome. I can't see a way to change them into humans without losing what they are. And then it hit me. What if the Hare is something that only the Hatter can see? An invisible friend brought on by the drug, a companion in his constant haze of madness.
Where did the Hatter come from? How old is he? Why did he start using the drug? What is the drug? What does it really do? How addictive is it? Can you overdose? Likely not, or he would have by now. Perhaps he's grown to a point where the drug isn't toxic to him anymore. It's a part of him.
Well, the more questions I have to answer, the more answers I have to write!
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