Alyssa Hamilton

Do-Gooder
Full Name	Alyssa Hamilton
Alias(es)	None
Origin	Clock Tower 3
Occupation	Boarding school student Rooder
Powers / Skills	supernatural ability
Hobby	Unknown
Goals	No information
Family	Dick Hamilton(grandfather), Nancy Hamilton(mother)
Friends / Allies	Dennis Owen
Enemies	DarcyBurroughs,Jemima,Ralph, Sledgehammer,Corroder,Chopper
Type of Hero	Supernatural

“	DAMN YOU! You're not my grandfather, I don't know WHO you are anymore! But I know that I'm a Rooder. I'LL DESTROY YOU AND SAVE MY MOTHER!	„
	~ Alyssa confronting Dick Hamilton

Alyssa Hamilton is the hero of Clock Tower 3, the third installment of Clock Tower series of survival horror video games. She is an ordinary schoolgirl, who obliviously knows that her female ancestors have been protecting humanity from evil for centuries. During the events of the game, Alyssa is hunted by serial killers who like to take her heart away from her corpse.

Appearance

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Alyssa's character design appears to have bright cyan eyes. She has chin-length, Venetian-blonde hair, lay around her face on both sides, with a straight-cut fringe that rests on her eyebrows. As her cloths, she wears her school uniform, consisting a green jacket and tartan patterned, blue and orange skirt. She also wears a white shirt beneath her green jacket, with a small red neck-tie, white socks and mauve colored leather shoes with black soles.

Powers and Abilities

As a Rooder, Alyssa has the supernatural ability to communicate with the dead. When fighting monsters, she is armed with a Sacred bow and arrows to destroy them.

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Personality

Alyssa describes herself a responsible, wise and intelligent girl. She appears to be polite and respectful to people and is revealed to have caring and kindness. She has been called lively, strong-willed, and wise beyond her life.

Alyssa's known weakness is that she tends to be very dramatic and sensitive, but as the story progresses, she tries to get stronger, more emotionally resilient and more independent throughout the experiences she remembered.

History

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Nancy cradling Alyssa.

In Alyssa's babyhood, she has lost her father named Philip Hamilton after he was apparently killed with ax in an accident. Philip was murdered by Dick Hamilton, her grandfather. Alyssa was newly born with her remaining family members: her mother Nancy Hamilton and Dick. Dick decided "Alyssa" for her personal name. One day, Nancy told baby Alyssa that she would inherit a clover necklace with the four leaves describing love, friendship, hope, and courage.

At the age of 12, Alyssa leaves her home away for something mysterious, attends to boarding school by Nancy, and was told not to go back until she was approximately 18 years. However, Dick has gone missing this time around.

During the events of the game, Alyssa grew up and her age turned 14, almost 15, years old. Shortly before Alyssa's fifteenth birthday, she got a letter from Nancy, urgently telling her to be secret, but she would be homesick and defies her mother. So she returned to her home

Clock Tower 3

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Alyssa analyzes a corpse in London 1942.

When Alyssa arrives, her mother is missing, and the only other living person in the house is a mysterious stranger, known as The Dark Gentleman. He offers Alyssa cryptic warnings and clues as to her mother's fate. Though frightened, Alyssa becomes determined to find her mother. She explores the house and finds a bottle of holy water, along with strange symbols on doors that only the sacred water can break. Eventually, her search leads her into her mother's room, where a piano begins to play Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu wildly. Terrified, Alyssa dashes from the room and is transported back in time, to London, circa World War II, 1942, which Germany's Luftwaffe is bombing.

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Alyssa comforting May's ghost.

Her search leads her to a tailor shop, where she witnesses the gruesome murder of a young girl. The crime is perpetrated by a mysterious man wielding a sledgehammer; he notices Alyssa, and begins an obsessed search for her. As Alyssa evades him, she runs into other angry ghosts; by returning particular items to each spirit, she is able to placate them and lay them to rest. Eventually, Alyssa pieces together the mystery: May Norton, a 12-year-old piano-playing prodigy, was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve by a madman with a sledgehammer. While still exploring the tailor shop, Alyssa sees memories from the past; when May's father, William Norton, tells her that he is going to war, she gives him a Pocket Watch as a reminder of his wife and May. While in battle, he is hit by an explosion and lands on a row of barb wire, dying instantly. Alyssa decides to free May's spirit, which is trapped on earth, but on her way to do this, she is confronted by the killer. Her vial of holy water becomes a longbow, and she destroys the villain in a shower of golden light. Alyssa gives the pocket watch to May's spirit, who proceeds to play the piano once more. After a short while, May is reunited with her father, and the two thank Alyssa before ascending into the afterlife. At that moment, Alyssa faints.

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Alyssa reuniting with Dennis Owen.

She wakes up in her room, lying on the bed, believing it was a dream. Her childhood friend, Dennis Owen, knocks on the window while hanging on to the windowsill. Alyssa helps him up, in anger, wondering why he would try to enter her residence, and Dennis gives the key to her grandfather's room to Alyssa. While searching through the room, she learns about a surprising secret in her family. The girls in her lineage are known as "Rooders", young women with the supernatural ability to communicate with the dead. She also learns of a ferocious dark power-called an "Entity", which can infect certain humans and drive them to acts of crazed murder. The agony and despair of the souls of the murderer's victims feeds their dark power, and grants the villain - now known as a "Subordinate" - immortality. The Rooders are fated to find and free those tortured souls, breaking the Subordinate's magic and allowing them to be destroyed. These powers peak at the age of fifteen, and wane afterward; therefore, the women in Alyssa's family marry young and quickly bear a daughter. Alyssa realizes that she is a Rooder, and that Sledgehammer was a Subordinate, feeding off of young May's soul. With this new knowledge, she moves back in time again. Alyssa enters a house with a blind elderly woman, Dorothy Rand, and her son, Albert Rand. After being blown away by a gust of wind, Alyssa looks at a memory where the man and his mother are murdered viciously with sulfuric acid. During the struggle, the shawl that the son made for his mother drops into a sewer. Files reveal that the murderer, known as Corroder, claimed to be a distant relative of the Rands - it is unknown if this is true. Alyssa finds the shawl and destroys Corroder, freeing the mother and her son.

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Dorothy and Albert are freed.

Upon returning home, Alyssa begins to wonder why her mother wanted her to stay away. Soon, she realizes that the mysterious "Dark Gentleman" hopes to gain immortality by becoming an Entity himself, using the Ritual of Engagement. This dark ritual requires the "heart of a Rooder". When the Clock Tower begins to form, Alyssa is sent to the top of the tower to confront the Dark Gentlemen. He throws her down the tower to "Hell", which resembles an underground factory. Regaining consciousness, she confronts another Subordinate, Chopper. After temporarily escaping from him, Alyssa looks back at a memory from when she had just been born. Hearing a scream from the stair balcony, Alyssa runs to find her father struggling against her grandfather, Dick. Her father is thrown off the balcony onto an axe head, splitting his head in half. Alyssa denies that her grandfather truly meant to kill her father and engages into a battle with Chopper, but fails to kill him and is

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Alyssa discovers the truth behind her father's death.

sent to a graveyard. Once there, she meets the spirits of other Rooders who lost battles against the Subordinates. Alyssa fights the Chopper again and, with the help from the Rooder spirits, is able to vanquish him. After completing this mission, Alyssa is warped in time once more to the home of the mysterious Darcy Burroughs, who lived on the very land that Alyssa's house now resides upon. At this point in time it is the location of the titular Clock Tower. Burroughs, obsessed with the secrets of the Entities and Subordinates, hires the homicidal twins, Scissorman Ralph and Scissorwoman Jemima, to murder for

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Alyssa meets the Scissor Twins.

him. Burroughs plotted to become an Entity himself; however, his daughter died on the eve of her fifteenth birthday, ruining his plan and driving him insane. He died crushed in the Clock Tower's gears, swearing revenge. Eventually, with the help of Dennis, Alyssa  Once Alyssa returns to the present day, she discovers that the villain behind her mother's disappearance is her own grandfather, who lived with the pair since Alyssa was a child, and performed extensive research on the Rooder powers. However, he was descended from Burroughs, and was eventually driven insane by the connections between his and his ancestor's situations, and allowed Burrough's evil spirit to fuse with him. He destroys Alyssa's mother and plots to fulfill Burrough's plan with Alyssa's heart; however, Nancy transfers what is left of her own Rooder power into Alyssa, granting her the strength to destroy her grandfather and Burroughs. After she defeats him, she immediately reunites with her mother. The tower then collapses and the evil spell of the Subordinates is permanently lifted. Alyssa awakens in a field of flowers. Clutching her clover necklace, she runs over to hug Dennis nearby. Smiling, she says, "Mum, we did it! We did it, Mum!"

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Trivia

Alyssa sitting.

• An anime-styled Alyssa is the game's memory card icon. If the player considers deleting the save file, Alyssa looks away in fear.
• Alyssa is similar in many ways to Alyssa Hale, the protagonist of Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within. Both their names start with "Alyssa Ha," their uniforms also look somewhat alike (green jacket, short shirt, red tie); both have male characters that help them: Bates and Dennis; they return from school only to discover something insane, and both uncover their heritage being told so in their relatives' diaries. They also both have relatives named Philip.
• Alyssa shares two similar extra costumes with Fiona Belli, the protagonist of Haunting Ground: cowgirl and leather. She is the first protagonist to wear a revealing outfit. Note that this is only the case in the Western releases.
• There is a notable fan theory that Alyssa and Dennis are actually dead in the ending and that the clover field is actually some sort of afterlife, or that they may be ghosts, or the entire clover field scene is Alyssa's dying hallucination. Dennis inexplicably "survives" from falling off the top of the castle, and Alyssa somehow "survives" the crumbling of the castle. The ultimate fates of Alyssa and Dennis are never mentioned anywhere else.

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• Kagome Higurashi (Inuyasha)
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Gallery

Alyssa's outfits.

Alyssa's outfits 2.