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padawanwizard — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:43:20 GMT

If you have questions or want to get in touch with me about any of this, I can be found on AIM at thisrainbowrose, on Plurk at shaunmatthew, and you can always send me a message or leave a comment here.

Backtagging: Always! I am the king of backtags.
Threadhopping: Sure, go nuts. :)
Fourthwalling: If the game allows it, I'm absolutely fine with it. But only if it's allowed.
Offensive subjects: Probably cool, if we're not in touch already about it you may want to ask to be safe.

Hugging this character: Sure, she grew up in a big, affectionate family. She might not want hugs, though.
Kissing this character: Sure! She might shove you and/or Harry might murder you if she doesn't WANT your kisses, but go nuts.
Flirting with this character: Molly likes to be flirted with. And to flirt back.
Romantic interest toward this character: Anyone can fall in love with anyone. That doesn't mean she'll return the favor, though.

Fighting with this character: Verbal fighting a go. Physical fighting usually a go, but get in touch with me so we can coordinate.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): I am a horrible person. DO IT. (just IM about it so we can coordinate.)
Killing this character: Probably not, but this is dependent on circumstances. If you want to kill her, drop me a line and we can talk it out!
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes, but she will likely flip out if she finds out, so be prepared for that.
Revealing that character's future or intended fate in the games: If Fourth Walling is allowed or your character legit ICly knows her future, and you think it's going to come up, drop me a line and we can talk about it.
Warnings: Molly is a stubborn teenager with authority issues. BEWARE.

HMD!

padawanwizard — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:15 GMT

Here is the place where you let me know how I'm doing playing Molly! Please let me know if it's just general from memes or something, or if it's related to her play in a_facility.

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padawanwizard — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:21:27 GMT

OOC Information:
Name: Mat
Age: 25
AIM: thisrainbowrose
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E-MAIL: thatlovingrainbow [at] gmail.com
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IC Information:
Name: Molly Carpenter
Fandom: The Dresden Files
Timeline: Beginning of White Knight
Age: 18
Appearance: Just shy of 6’ tall and built (as Harry once noted) like the “proverbial brick house”, Molly is a very attractive young woman. She has short, sort of spiky blonde hair that she likes to dye various unnatural colors - most recently she’s bleached and dyed it white. She has a number of tattoos and piercings. Piercings in both nostrils, her right eyebrow, and a stud in the dent under her lip. Three piercings in each earlobe, a tongue stud, and a barbell through each nipple. Belly button ring, and a couple more… intimate piercings. She has a tattoo of a serpent on the left side of her neck; a tribal design on her chest that peeks out from most tops she wears that goes down between her breasts, and around her navel; and an abstract loops-and-swirls design covering the back of her right hand and twining up her forearm.

(And yes, I know her PB has long hair - I haven’t found anyone whose FACE screams Molly more than Julia Stiles, and she’s never cut her hair short and dyed it white, to my knowledge. Ah, the downsides of playing book characters.)

Abilities: Molly is, yes, a wizard, but a young one, with only about a year of training under her belt. She isn’t much good with combat magic, because she doesn’t have the sort of raw power that it takes to effectively fuel that sort of thing. What she is good at is the delicate, fiddly sorts of magic. She’s got a natural knack for veils (which basically render someone or something invisible) especially, an instinctive veil being the first sign she had that she had magic.

Molly’s real strengths, so far as they exist at the moment, are in mental and emotional magics. The application and training of which is very delicate, since those magics nearly got her executed by the White Council before her training. Still, magic that deals with the mind or the emotions is where she really shines - there and her veils, which are quite good for someone with her training.

At the moment, she’s not very trained and she’s not very strong. She knows basics, she can do slightly more complex spells (for someone of her training), though it takes her quite a while to focus her energies at this time - 20 minutes is a good average.
Also, as a side effect of magic, modern technology tends to not get along with Molly very well. Things short out, malfunction, jam, and just generally don’t work right, when magic’s involved. On the bright side, however, having much less raw power than Harry means that these things tend to happen to her less often, and less disastrously than they do for Harry.

Personality: Molly is, at heart, a good girl. She’s compassionate, loyal to her friends and her ideals, and would prefer to help people than hurt them. She’s also a rebellious 18-year-old girl. While some of her rebellion-for-the-sake-of-rebelling nature has been tempered in the past year by Harry Dresden, she still has some serious issues with authority. She thinks that she is perfectly capable of making decisions for herself, even when she really isn’t for one reason or another. She also struggles with falling into the traps of the easiest means to an end - instead of finding a way to support her friends through their heroin withdrawal naturally, finding them a rehab center or even just learning what she could and taking care of them on her own, she figured the easiest way would be to scare them off using heroin by influencing their minds - and in so doing not only broke one of the laws of magic, but damaged her friends’ souls, essentially.
She is stubborn as hell. She doesn’t play well with authority, unless that authority is Harry (and even then, she chafes). She’s very independent and often wants to do her own thing. She HATES being told to what to do, and sometimes will try to get around orders.

After growing up in a strict household, she went kind of crazy with freedom when she left, and she’s still working on finding the balance and self-discipline she needs to not only be a functioning adult, but to make it as a wizard. Currently, her state of mind is that magic is the best solution to any problem that presents itself, and Harry hasn’t managed to teach her that it’s not true yet.

History: Molly is the oldest daughter of Michael and Charity Carpenter, part of a deeply religious family. Her father is a Knight of the Cross (wielding one of three blades that has a nail from Jesus’ crucifixion worked into the cross-guard, and basically answering to the big man himself), and her mother, when she was born, had untrained, unused magical abilities which she kept secret, and which Molly unknowingly inherited. When she was 16, she instinctively veiled herself when she was coming home in clothes her mother would’ve had a fit over and realised that her mother wasn’t actually out as she’d assumed. From there, she taught herself a little about using magic, and tension between her and her mother grew out of control. Her mother found out that Molly had magic and urged her to abandon it, not telling Molly that she had done the same thing with her own, long-gone magic as a young woman. By the time Molly turned 17, it was nearly unbearable, and eventually there was a big fight, and Molly left home and dropped out of school.

Knowing nothing about the laws of magic (which govern the magic users of the world to prevent abuses of their abilities), Molly broke one when she used mind magic on two of her friends to get them to quit using drugs - to disastrous effects. Harry Dresden - a friend of her father’s and someone she’d had a bit of a hero crush on since she was 12 - got involved not knowing she was the magical force behind the incidents he was investigating. She didn’t realise it either. Phages were coming through from the Nevernever, the fairy land, creatures that fed on fear. Harry was trying to find who was summoning them. Unfortunately, Molly was, unbeknownst to anyone, being used as a beacon for the phages, so when Harry attempted to deal with the issue by sending the phages after their summoner, he sent them at Molly, who had gone back to her family’s home. They took her with them back to the Nevernever, to the depths of the Winter court, and she was held captive by Queen Mab. Harry figured it out, and he, Molly’s mother Charity, and a few other intrepid and unlikely heroes got all decked out in armor and weaponry, opened a doorway to the Nevernever, and rescued Molly from the very heart of Winter’s power. Which was surprisingly easy, even if there were near deaths all around, but the important part was that Molly was rescued.

After all of that was dealt with, Molly turned herself in to the White Council (the magical ruling body) on Harry’s advice, hoping for leniency rather than execution for being a warlock - standard practice for anyone who breaks the laws of magic, even if they didn’t know they existed. Harry stood by her and offered to take her as his apprentice, and instead of execution, she was sentenced to the Doom of Damocles, and Harry with her - if she slips up even once, they will both be killed. Still, it was a second chance, and one she was thankful for. Her hero crush on Harry only intensified after all of this, and she did try once to seduce him shortly after everything - he threw ice water on her and told her that it would never happen, and also to get dressed.

Since then, she’s been training under Harry, struggling to come to terms with her slightly gray magical morality, learning to control her magic more precisely. She’s pretty much the opposite of Harry, magically, not extremely powerful, but with the potential to be skilled at delicate, intricate magic that Harry has trouble with because of his power. She’s been training under him for a year, living with her family again and getting along with her mother better, if not perfectly.

Roleplay Sample - Log: (hopefully you don’t mind a bit of third-person introspection set theoretically during the 4th wall event that just finished… >_> )

The seventh night in Hope’s End, Molly fell asleep in Maggie’s bed while they were waiting for Harry to get back from wherever he’d gone - probably off to see his tiny blonde, so Molly couldn’t blame him for leaving the two of them alone for an hour or two.

She woke up to her arm gone numb, from the little girl curled up against her chest, asleep on the offending limb. Molly smiled a little, and used her free hand to brush a little hair off of Maggie’s face. She reminded Molly of Hobbit, of Mandy, of Leech. Everyone seemed to think that after a couple weeks, everyone new would be sent home, but… what if they weren’t? Would she ever see her family again, if that happened? Sure she and her mom still butted heads at least once a week, but… they’re her family.

She shifted a little, and eased her arm out from under Maggie’s head. The little girl murmured a little in her sleep, but didn’t wake up, and Molly smiled softly at her for a moment. Harry as a dad was still something she was having trouble wrapping her head around, though she had to admit that aside from the regular explosions, he’d probably make a good dad. She scooted back to rest her back against the wall, clenching and unclenching her fist in an attempt to get blood flowing again. She wasn’t about to leave Maggie up here alone, so she pulled her faciliberry out and started scrolling through the recent posts.

Harry’d be back soon. Maybe with him distracting her, she wouldn’t have to think about whether or not she’d get to go home.

Roleplay Sample - Journal: Shit. Okay, well, I… guess this could be worse, right? I mean there don’t seem to be any crazy fairies trying to kill us? Which is… good.

First things first, where are we, exactly? How did we get here? And how do we get home? I know everybody probably asks that, but come on, cut a girl some slack, this is kind of overwhelmingly weird. And that’s saying something.

Also... Is there a chance that anybody’s heard of Harry Dresden, or that he’s here? I would really really like it if he were.

Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope!

This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function? Molly has gone through a lot already in the past year or so, and would go through worse in the future. The one thing that broke her in canon was losing Harry at the end of Changes. As long as she has Harry as a support for herself, she will probably be able to stay relatively sane and stable, though it will definitely harden her, and she’ll be more tempted to use mind magic if she thinks it could help as time goes on. Harry’s presence, however, is a stabilizing influence for her - while she does carry a bit of a torch for him, his role in her life has been more a second father than anything else, and his opinion of her means more than she’d admit. Without Harry, or separated from Harry for any significant length of time or through any particularly horrible torments, she may start to crack a little at a time, becoming more emotionally volatile, prone to losing her cool at the slightest provocation, or perceived provocation. Still, even unstable, she has focus and drive to do whatever she can to follow Harry’s example in being… well, a hero, to put it simply. Even if she goes off the deep end, and is cut off from any “official” resistance due to mental instability, she’ll keep trying to do what she can, even if it’s morally suspect.

Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. Molly’s age was mis-stated in White Knight as 19, contradicting earlier books, including the previous book, Proven Guilty. WK takes place about a year after PG, where she was said to be 17, but not late enough for her to have hit her 19th birthday. While this age discrepancy was carried through later books (probably to minimize confusion as much as possible), her personality and progress from PG to WK does not fit two years worth of training, and there’s much made at certain points in PG about her not being a legal adult yet, I’m stating her age to be 18 rather than 19 when taking her just after the events of WK. I can change it if it REALLY bothers anyone, but I’d prefer to keep her 18 as I think it’s more fitting.