What concerns me most, though, is the fact that from the beginning, Alice was painted as an angel, and Tracy, a devil. It is only recently we found out that Tracy is really a force for good. So, where, if you consider the inevitable plot twist in any good work of fiction, does that leave Alice?
I certainly see your point. For what it's worth, I always felt that Tracy being set up from the beginning as "the baddie" was such an obvious ploy that it had to be a red herring. She's bitchy to the main character, she's secretive, she's X, Y, Z... it's like a checklist. She might as well have been wearing a sandwich board that says "I totally look like I'm in cahoots with the bad guys, don't I? But pay close attention, and you'll pick up a thing or two which'll make you think that eventually there'll be some kind of twist and it'll turn out I was innocent of wrongdoing all along."
And as it turns out, yeah, that was the case.
Thing is, I feel like if they were going to do something similar with Alice but in reverse, there should have been a little more telegraphing. She's portrayed as just good and pure with no real hints that there's something not quite kosher about her.
That being said, Jenna and her mysteeeeeerious background seems a little too obvious, as does Aby's being essentially thrust at the player. To me, Aby is like a too-obvious attempt at a Trojan horse which makes me almost think that she can't be the Order's Ace in the Hole, either. And yet, the idea that they had a long-running agent slipped in close to Tracy (remember that she's Tracy's BFF) to throw Tracy off the scent, keep her away from finding out useful info, etc. Well... yeah. I wonder.
Wheels within wheels, within wheels.
Or, you know, i could just be reading waaaaaay too much into everything.
Entirely possible.
But damn fun.