I don't own Pokémon. I really should have put that in the first time.
She's born near the beginning of the year, around the time in West Kanto when the snow is freshly fallen, yet blades of green begin to poke through the blanket of white. Later, when she's old enough to somewhat comprehend the workings of human birth, they tell her that her whole birthing process took an unusually large amount of time- as if she couldn't decide whether she wanted to enter the world or not. Her father is a teacher at the Trainer's School at their hometown of Viridian City, and her mother is a chemist employed by the Silph Company, and as intelligent as they fancy themselves to be, they can't decide on a proper name for their second daughter even as she's squirming and screaming in her mother's arms. So her older sister by just about two years names her Alice, after the trainer that scored runner up in the Indigo League's Regional Finals the day before.
By the time she's three, Alice's parents decide that their daughter likes noise. Constantly, they find her slapping things, cooing, babbling, laughing, or simply taking whatever action necessary to ensure that the silence doesn't last long. When she discovers speech, she proceeds to speak. A lot. Learning to form coherent sentences only makes it understandable. If anything, she talks even more. Her parents consistently receive calls from her preschool that their daughter doesn't understand the meaning of quiet time.
When her little brother is born, it gets worse. Her tactics in those days had but one focus: hog all the attention, which her parents would chalk up to a sort of middle-child syndrome. She agrees with them on this later.
She hears a song called "Total Eclipse of the Heart" as her father takes her to school one day. It firmly lodges itself in her head thereafter.
At age four-going-into-five, her parents are called into the school for a meeting with Alice's teacher. At this point, they've succeeded in somewhat curbing Alice's motor-mouth, but now the issue is that she broke into song during morning announcements. Following that, she receives a lengthy lecture.
At about age eight, weekends of watching regional tournaments and local gym battles culminate into Alice announcing as boldly and proudly as she can muster: "I want to be a Pokémon Trainer." Her brother thinks it's an exciting prospect, and her older sister is skeptical. Her parents, on the other hand, shoot it down instantly: "When you're thirteen." For the next two weeks, Alice pesters the two, and they prove to be more resilient than she expects. She strikes a deal with them. If they won't let her be a Pokémon Trainer at the minimum age(ten, by the way), then they should at least let her take voice lessons. For a moment, they're taken aback by the seemingly random request, but then they remember that the child enjoys singing, whether it sounds nice or not (they've had to break up a few fights caused over the teasing), so she might as well learn to do it properly. They find a teacher within the next week.
In school, Alice does well enough. Her teachers remark that if the child would focus more often, she had the potential to be one of the top performing students. When Alice's parents confront her about it, she can't think of a better answer than "I don't want to." The conversation follows such that they then ask her if there's any subject in particular she likes or dislikes. She won't say, or rather, finds that she can't. A lengthy lecture follows.
She has her first recital when she's nine. Her voice cracks, resulting in a deep stage fright that she does not overcome for a long time. Though they are a touch saddened by her developing such an adversity to performing, her family is very proud of her, regardless.
When she's ten and her brother is eight, he declares that he wants to be a Trainer as well, and dubs his sister his rival. Their older sister quips that "rival" implies one has a chance of beating the other. The insult flies far over the boy's head. Alice can't tell which one of them should feel insulted.
By age eleven, Alice has taken it upon herself to learn every love song she hears. Her voice teacher finds it amusing.
Unfortunately, music is a fickle career, and thus Alice's teacher moves away to the Johto region not long after her twelfth birthday due to a particularly tantalizing job offer. The search for a new teacher becomes overshadowed by her older sister's preparations for high school. Sitting alone in her room with her ears plugged by speakers, Alice realizes the situation upsets her more than she expects it to.
It suddenly dawns on Alice's parents that they had told their daughter some time ago that they would allow her to become a Pokémon Trainer after her thirteenth birthday. They decide it's better to break their word then to let go of their child, and a heated argument ensues. When circumstances settle, Alice agrees to give high school a chance.
High school is overrated. She finds her public speaking class enjoyable, however.
Her parents are surprised at how proactive she is about the trainer's application. All they had to do was read the agreements and sign. Weeks pass, and Alice receives a letter notifying her of the success of her application, and a suggestion to schedule an appointment with the Trainers' Association branch in her area to get started.
A few days before she turns fourteen-and-a-quarter, Alice receives her first Pokémon- a male Squirtle. It's a happy, playful creature, and Alice is overjoyed at the fact that they get along almost instantly.
Soon after her fifteenth birthday, Alice wins her eighth gym badge. Unfortunately, the Indigo League "strongly encourages that trainers enter with a team of six Pokémon". Her team at the moment numbers four. Her parents, under the impression that their daughter's thirst for travel is satisfied, implore her to return to schooling. Alice makes for the Johto region.
It takes Alice ten months to earn eight badges in the Johto region. Now with a full team, she enters in the Indigo League's Spring Series for the opportunity to challenge the Elite Four. Alice and her team do not move past the preliminary rounds.
The rules bar successive entries in League tournaments, so with the Summer Series out of the question, Alice takes several months to train. She registers for the Fall Series. The training pays off in that it sees her team in the actual tournament, but they lose in the first round.
Undeterred by her family's urges to seek out some fall-back plan(i.e., go back to school), Alice registers for the Spring Series and begins researching strategies and movesets for her team. Her parents are unable to make any full opposition due to their attention being held by their eldest daughter's search for a university or college.
Alice and her team lose in the first round once again, as her older sister receives a full scholarship to the University of Saffron City.
Two weeks later, Alice climbs Mt. Silver. Upon returning, she announces that her plans to head to the Sinnoh region. Her parents, frustrated but surprisingly calm in expressing it, sternly declare that if indeed Alice follows through with this, she does it alone.
Alice's best friend watches her leave and demands an explanation as to why. She stops, but does not turn around. Gazing solemnly ahead at the rising sun she forces a smile, and in a cheery voice that betrays the weight of if all, she calls back, "I'm going soul-searching."