| Alicia Jones | |
|---|---|
| Alicia Johns | |
| Age |
12-17 |
| Relative(s) |
Mrs. Johns (mother) |
| Gender |
Female |
| Hair colour |
brown |
| Eye colour |
Brown |
| Occupation |
Student |
| School | |
| House |
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Alicia Johns is an important main character in all the original six Malory Towers books.
She is mainly the joker of the form, although she is also well known for her sharp tongue (in the book). Alicia is Darrell's friend and very popular. She first appears in the book First Term at Malory Towers.
Appearance[]
She is mentioned to have bright eyes, and Her hair is as black as ebony, but Gwendoline Lacey says Alicia's hair is short and coarse in the book, First Term at Malory Towers.
In the 2020 TV adaptation, Alicia is played by Zoey Siewert, who is a wonderful actress for her age and is an expert singer. In this version, Alicia is seen to have medium olive skin with light brunette hair in a half-crown low ponytail with two side braids tucked into it, also her eyes are as bright and is blueish-greyish as it is. However, as said by the actress that plays her during the "Meet the Cast" interview, Alicia is the only character out of the nine girls in the series that doesn't have a British accent.
Alicia as played by Zoey Siewert
Personality[]
She is active, brave, and very funny, much like her mother(as mentioned by Matron and friends) She is incredibly intelligent and excels at everything. She loves playing pranks, sometimes assisted by Betty Hill, her best friend. She scorns stupidity, weaknesses, and mostly illnesses, having not been often ill herself. Malory towers’ mistresses describe Alicia as cheeky and mischievous despite being an intellectual girl. Her friends believe she is too witty for words, however, her sharp tongue often leaves her unpopular with victims who have suffered her behaviour. She is often behind many of the pranks played on their teachers. She speaks whatever she thinks very bluntly, and is sort of a chatterbox. She also bore malice, which is why she was quite cool with Darrell after she had teased her in Upper Fourth In Malory Towers.
Hilarious, intelligent, quick witty and loveable character. But sadly, she is not sympathetic to those who need it. When she was in the second form, she scolded Ellen Wilson for fake coughing to get sympathy from Miss Potts. Her time at Malory Towers made her a little better, although her hardness is the reasons she has never been given an important responsibility in the six years she was there. She scorns Sally for being patient before judging Ellen when she was accused of stealing.
Abilities[]
Alicia has always been extremely intelligent, with a brilliant memory. She had the ability to read faster than the others and also work hard at games. She was rather hard on those who were less quick-witted than her.
She has a talent for jokes, and is often the mastermind behind any mischief or tricks in her form! She and her friend, Betty Hill, play silly pranks and jokes usually on Mam'zelle Dupont, the French mistress, or Mr Young, the singing master.
Alicia Johns is a trouble maker and joker!
Family and Friends[]
She has three brothers, Sam, Dick, and Roger. Alicia also has a cousin called June, a mother, and father, and an uncle and aunt. In her form, Alicia has quite a lot of friends, Betty being her special friend, but she also has some bitter enemies, who resent her for her sharp tongue like Gwendoline.
History[]
First Term at Malory Towers[]
Alicia first appears when she is instructed by Miss Potts to look after Darrell Rivers when she is new. She immediately mocks Gwendoline Lacey for her doting mother and makes blunt comments about the fact that Sally Hope's mother didn't come to say goodbye. Alicia compares hers and Darrell's mother to theirs. She gives the new girls a tour of the school and takes them to Matron. During the first lesson, Alicia introduces Darrell to Betty Hill, her partner in crime and best friend. Darrell is rather sad, because she had hoped that Alicia wouldn't already have a special friend and that she could be hers. Later in the term, Alicia plays a joke, pretending that she is deaf, but it is dealt with by Miss Potts. That evening, Alicia swims in the pool and clogs her ears up. She is puzzled and surprised at Darrell's temper loss with Gwen. Alicia still feels deaf the next day but for real and is moved to sit in the front row as a punishment. When Mary-Lou tidies Alicia's belongings, she accidentally smashes a photograph of Alicia's parents, causing Alicia great anger. This causes Mary-Lou to become friends with Gwendoline, which is the catalyst for Gwen's plan to get even with Alicia and Darrell. Gwen begins to play tricks on Mary-Lou, making it look like Alicia and Darrell are responsible, but no-one believes it because they have been there longer than Gwendoline, who desperately tries to make everyone see that they did the mean tricks. At half-term, Alicia invites Betty along with her. When Darrell and Sally become friends, they have a plan to make Mary-Lou braver. Alicia scorns it because she doesn't think it will work as Mary-Lou is supposed to be timid and insecure. She is, however, proven wrong. Gwendoline despises Mary-Lou once she breaks friends with her and smashes her fountain pen and blames Darrell. Alicia believes the evidence straight away and dismisses Darrell. When Gwendoline is discovered as the real culprit by Mary-Lou, Alicia re-offers the hand of friendship, but Darrell chooses to stick with Sally and Mary-Lou.
Second Form at Malory Towers[]
Alicia becomes jealous of Sally when she is chosen as the head girl of the second form, as her name is not mentioned as a contender, and she thought the position should be hers (a la Janet in The Third Form at St Clare's). She tries to be as cool as possible towards Sally. Alicia becomes restless and uses invisible chalk, a trick that she and Betty planned, on Mr Young's stool, to the hilarity of the form. She then enlists Darrell to do it again, but Darrell writes "OY!" on the stool, causing panic for Alicia and Betty because they cannot think how to explain it away. Alicia is then angry when Darrell gets the credit for the joke. As a way of snubbing Darrell and Sally, she and Betty are rude about Sally to her face, trying to make Darrell lose her temper. As Sally tries to make Darrell calm, she herself almost goes with Darrell's hot temper. The two Mam'zelle s begin to feud over the casting of the parts in two French plays the second form is presenting. Belinda Morris does caricatures of them, presenting Mam'zelle Rougier in a negative light and Mam'zelle Dupont in a positive light. Alicia convinces her to leave them on the teachers' desk when Mamzelle Dupont is teaching them as she is good humoured and can take a joke. Despite having prior knowledge that Mam'zelle Rougier is teaching them instead, she wants to see Darrell and Sally in hot water. The whole form confronts Alicia angrily after Mam'zelle Rougier goes to report them to Miss Grayling. Sally does not sneak on Alicia. Alicia is unsympathetic when Ellen Wilson is ill in class, telling her harshly to "Go to bed if you're as bad as all that!". She becomes the victim of a few malicious comments from Gwen and Darrell after this. Money and jewellery begin to go missing in the second form and Alicia is sure that Ellen is responsible for it after she catches her going though the mistresses' desks. Despite Sally's orders to keep quiet until they have proof, Alicia tackles Ellen about the thefts and mocks Sally afterwards. She jeers at Ellen afterwards when the girl is visibly upset, so Jean McDonald tells her to shut up. Ellen is caught cheating by Darrell that night and goes to Matron with a headache. When she is missing the next morning, Alicia feels quite uncomfortable. As, the proof from Darrell was recovered, the whole form thought that Ellen was a cheat as well as a thief. When Daphne Turner is discovered as the thief instead, Sally accidentally lets slip that Alicia accused her, making Miss Grayling angry. After a few moments of anger on Sally, Alicia feels guilty and remorseful about her actions later, after Daphne confesses her story, and asks for forgiveness and stands with Daphne.
Alicia is 13 in her second form.
Third Year At Malory Towers[]
Alicia informs Darrell that Betty has a whooping-cough and won't be back until half-term, and Sally is not coming back for a while as she has quarantine for mumps, Darrell and Alicia decide to team up. Jean, who head girl this term, mentions that Alicia's tongue is getting quite sharp. Alicia becomes restless and bored with Betty gone. She is sent a parcel with sneezing pellets from her brother Sam and decides to use it on Miss Peters. However, when Sally comes back, Darrell forgets all about Alicia for a bit, and she worries that she won't even get to share Darrell with Sally. Sally becomes jealous when she hears that Darrell and Alicia chummed up while she was gone. She also disapproves of Alicia's sneezing pellet trick as she worries that it is dangerous. Alicia sees Sally's jealousy and plays up to Darrell more to annoy her. After Miss Peters saves Bill Robinson's horse Thunder from colic, the girls decide that they don't want to play the sneezing trick on her anymore after giving her three cheers. Alicia takes Darrell off to do the planning, pleased to see Sally's jealousy in public. This upsets Darrell. Darrell helps Alicia organize the trick, but Miss Potts catches them at it and Alicia has to confess. The whole form is punished, apart from Sally. Alicia is thrilled when Darrell gets into the team for the lacrosse match.
Upper Fourth at Malory Towers[]
Alicia's cousin June begins at Malory Towers in the first form, same as Darrell's sister Felicity. Alicia has no intention of taking June under her wing like Darrell intends to do with her sister. She teases new girls Connie and Ruth Batten when they arrive, and during supper, we learn that Alicia told June to "jolly well look after [herself because first formers are such small fry and aren't even worth taking notice of!". Alicia teases Darrell about having a "glint" in her eye when she loses her temper, and when the North Tower girls have prep in the Court, Betty and Alicia try to ruin it and tease Darrell about her "glint". Alicia mentions to Darrell that she doesn't think that it is a good idea for Gwen to have complete control over new girl Clarissa Carter, and keeps twitting her, making Darrell angry. Alicia is left waiting for Gwen and Clarissa with Belinda when they fail to come back at the right time from Mrs Lucy's when the fourth formers have their picnic, but she helps them take the food and hide it by the swimming pool for the fourth form to have a midnight feast. She locks it in a cubby hole but is seen coming back by Betty, who she invites to the feast. Later, she forgets the key, so she has to sneak back and get it. June catches her in the act and threatens to spill the beans, so Alicia scolds her. A storm comes, and the feasters relocate to the first form common room, where June and Felicity interrupt them. After the feast, Alicia speaks to the head girl of the first form and tells her she is displeased with June's behaviour, and the first form sends June to Coventry. This makes June decide she is going to own up about the feast, to get even with Alicia. Darrell loses her temper with June and is forced to resign as head girl. Alicia doesn't believe in Gwen's weak heart but is the first one to question her absence. She scorns the people who are struggling with the School Cert. causing Connie to lose her temper, but Alicia begins to feel ill during exam week and is diagnosed with measles after she faints during the last exam. This is a turning point for Alicia as she decides not to be so hard on everyone else. When she recovers, Betty and the rest of the form play a trick on Mam'zelle Dupont to celebrate.
In the Fifth at Malory Towers[]
Alicia did not pass the School Cert. and has to work for it again on the side. She immediately strikes up a rivalry with old fifth former Moira Linton, resenting her domineering ways. She dislikes Maureen Little and mocks her on the first evening, then is part of the plan to push her onto Gwen. She also encourages Mam'zelle Dupont to play a trick on the girls. Alicia leads the girls when they imitate Gwen's fond farewells to her family. She is voted onto the committee for the fifth form's pantomime, along with Mavis Allyson, Irene, Belinda, Darrell, Janet, Sally, and Betty, and is enlisted by Moira for general organization. Alicia is cast as the Demon King in the pantomime, meaning that she has to spend time learning to conjure and juggle. She finds this hard, as it requires practice. Alicia is in on the plan to humiliate Maureen after she drives everyone to distraction with her self-admiration. Maureen is upset and runs out. Gwen remarks how much she hates Maureen, and Alicia cannot resist drawing on the similarities between Gwen and Maureen. Moira bosses Alicia and Betty around too much at rehearsals, making the two girls resent her. Alicia comes up with a demon chant that she didn't have time to ask Darrell to put in, and after Betty takes her side and Darrell follows, anxious to avoid a row, Moira blows up and Alicia walks off. Darrell writes in Alicia's chant, and Moira gives in with very bad grace. When Moira begins to receive anonymous letters, Alicia is one of the people that she suspects could be sending them, but Miss Potts, Darrell and Sally dismiss that Alicia could be behind it. At the next rehearsal, Moira and Alicia have another row and Alicia resigns from the pantomime, leaving Darrell distraught at its ruin. Betty also resigns as co-producer. Alicia is shocked when her cousin June is revealed to be the person writing the anonymous letters to Moira, and Miss Grayling decides to expel her. Felicity runs to the fifth form common room and begs for help. Moira goes to talk to Miss Grayling and June is let off. This causes Alicia to withdraw her resignation and come back as the Demon King
Last Term at Malory Towers[]
Alicia joins the joke of Irene losing her health certificate for the final time. She hears Gwen regaling her tale of her fight in the holidays with her father and is sickened by it. Alicia is relieved and glad when Catherine Gray leaves from the last term, as she could not stand her doormat ways. Alicia mocks the new girl Amanda Chartelow, scornfully suggesting that she should enter the Olympic Games, unaware that this is actually Amanda's intention. Gwen is also unimpressed by Amanda and hopes that Alicia will deal with her. Alicia takes the Higher Cert. exam in her last term. Alicia continues to be disgusted and bored by Gwen's grand finishing school. She is disappointed in June when June gives up being coached by Amanda, as June could be really good if she tried. She laughed a lot when the second formers decide to prank Mam'zelle during a sixth form lesson to cheer them up after their exams. Alicia gives June a pep talk after Amanda is injured, telling her to do her best for the school now that Amanda can't. She is immensely proud of June in the teams when she swims and plays. Alicia gives June a warning to "carry the standard high" on her last day.
After Malory Towers[]
Alicia goes to St. Andrews University with Betty, Sally Hope and Darrell Rivers after attending Malory Towers, and joins the police force afterwards She rejoins the old girls in Goodbye, Malory Towers for the reunion, works out who has been plaguing Gwen with pranks and helps to lay a trap for the culprit. It is unknown if she has children, but she vows to send any of them to Malory Towers and to Bill Robinson and Clarissa Carter's riding school.~