

When Alice arrived in Crims, Tarrant was brought into the throne room, and decided to distract the Red Queen from executing him by hatting her. Stayne tried to torture him for information on Alice's location but his insanity protected him from the torture methods. With no other options, and the enemy approaching, Tarrant put Alice atop his hat and threw it across a river to the opposite side (saving her from the Red Knights), but then draws attention to himself and got captured in the process. Soon, the Red Queen's minions picked up Alice's scent and start chasing them.


He gave Alice a potion that shrinks her, then hid her in a teapot and pretended that he'd never seen her, even after being choked by the Red Queen's Knave of Hearts, Stayne.Īfter Stayne leaves, Tarrant took Alice on a journey to Marmoreal and explained the Red Queen's reign of terror over Underland on the way.

Tarrant quickly tries to help Alice, especially when the Red Queen's minions came to him looking for her. She had no recollection of Tarrant when she rediscovered his tea table of friends and joined them in their rebellion against the Red Queen. Alice forgot these memories while she was away from Underland, but at the age of nineteen, Alice fell down the rabbit hole once again. They became friends quickly, even enjoying tea together. Tarrant Hightopp first met Alice Kingsleigh when she was a young child at the age of nine. Tarrant himself is vaguely aware of his personality problem telling Alice that he has to get out of the Red Queen's castle saying its getting harder for him to think clearly there. Alice later snaps him out of one of his episodes when he is imprisoned at the Red Queen's castle making hats. Mallymkun the Dormouse snaps him out of it the first time by shouting, "Hatter!!" when he is about to attack the Chesire cat who he blames for the attack on his clan. Tarrant can become violent in this state unless someone snaps him out of it. When he becomes upset his eyes change from green to a golden yellow and he begins speaking in a noticeable Scottish brogue. The destruction of his clan broke something in Tarrant's mind - causing him to become detached from reality and also develop a slight split personality. A scene of Tarrant's past can be seen-the Jabberwock blowing fire down on the clan, when he and Alice are travelling and they pass through the remains of his home, causing him to briefly flash back to the destruction. When we next see his face it is clear from the half smile that his sanity has shattered. He returns after to find the village burnt to the ground, a shocked look on his face he bends down to pick up his trademark hat. Tarrant only escaped the destruction because he led the White Queen's panicked horse away from the initial attack. Tarrant was thought to be the only member of his clan left- everybody and everything else was supposedly killed or burned to the ground. Though the White Queen was safely spirited away, the Vorpal Sword (as well as her crown) was lost in the confusion. The Hightopps did not indeed perish though, as it turns out they were actually captured and imprisoned by the Red Queen out of revenge. Tarrant's origins involve him with the Hightopp Clan, a family of hatters, which was supposedly destroyed by the Jabberwock, sent by the Red Queen during a visit by the White Queen to their village on the "Horevendush Day".
