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-> We'd like to see more about Molly's history, both within his canon and as a CRAU, as we feel that this aspect of the application is exceptionally lacking.

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EXTREMELY DETAILED POWERSET:
Enna is capable of, with the power of Corona Borealis, able to project powers outward, manifesting a familiar based on the spirit (for living animals) or the object the spirit is based on (for non-living things). With Corona Australis, she is able to project their power inward, augmenting her own body with their powers or physical traits. A connection between the spirit and the power is necessary, though. Vulpecula’s power can’t let her fly, but it could let her dig well. Similarly, Pavo, the peacock, could let her fly since it’s a bird, but it could also be used to grow a giant fan of feathers because of a peacock’s tail.
Ones that will be particularly powerful or relevant:

Andromeda: Manifests chains and can tie things up/bind them together. This is technically capable of sealing something, retaining its condition until unsealed, but Enna is incapable of it.
Aquarius: Creates a small font of potable water.
Ara/Fornax: Manifests fire.
Auriga: Makes wheeled vehicles move.
Canis constellations: Summon dogs for familiars.
Bird constellations: Let her summon birds or fly.
Cetus: Summon a horrible sea monster. (The monster is not under her control.) Or take on monstrous traits.
Chamaeleon: Camouflage.
Coronas: Worn as crowns on the head, no other power can be used without them.
Draco: The Star Enna has the most compatibility with due to her birth. Can fly, can breathe fire, claws, can straight-up become a dragon. Dragon form has feathers. That’s important.
Gemini: Creates a copy of herself.
Hercules: Gives herculean physical strength.
Horologium: Allows her to speed up and slow down time for herself. Could, with training, lead to rewinding time for other objects. Using this gives intense headaches and is very painful so she doesn’t want to use it.
Lacerta/Musca: Can stick to walls and climb up surfaces. Also: Is gross.
Mensa: An absolute last resort of a “oh god no” sort, it...summons a mountain. Either emerging from the ground, or literally drops a mountain. It’s never been used, for obvious reasons.
Perseus: Lets her fly with winged sandals, and more importantly: Can break seals, especially seals from Andromeda. Any seal is theoretically breakable, though Enna’s own skill is lacking with it.
Phoenix: Immortality, but only while it is actively being used. Also fire control. It’s generally a sort of ‘super mode’ that even gives her a new costume like a proper magical girl. Can be used on someone else to prevent death/allow rebirth, but once something’s already dead, it’s too late.
Fish constellations: Breathe underwater.
Telescopium, Microsopium, Reticulum: Telescopic vision, microscopic vision, an aiming reticule. Mostly used for aiming arrows.
Pyxis: Can find anything she’s seeking (as long as Plot allows.) Only finds the direction, however, and not the path to get to that thing.
Saggitarius and Saggita: Manifest a bow and arrow. Only manifests one arrow at a time, however.

Carina, Vela, Puppis: Could, hypothetically, summon the Argo Navis. This would, however, doom her own world, as the Argo Navis is needed there, so she will never, under any circumstances, use this power.

She has powers for all 84 of her Stars, though, but these are the relevant ones. The rest are mostly useless. (Triangle power.)

Oops! Here, reposting with some added info.

About the Character: Soma Cruz is the reincarnation of the evil vampire king Dracula. While there are many people who were born in 1999 (when Dracula was ‘killed for good’) who inherited his powers, Soma Cruz is implied to have his soul as well as the Power of Dominance.

Before he became ‘the dark heir’, he was just a high school student born on August 21 2017 (during the Solar eclipse), due to his Spanish surname, it’s likely he’s part Spanish, and has actually lived in Japan for most of his life, but there is little that the same supplied that suggest his life was far from ordinary before the start of Aria of Sorrow. Far as he’s been aware, he was no one special, but that changed when he visited the shrine his friend Mina lives at to watch the Solar Eclipse of 2035 with her, only to pass out once he pass the gates and woke up inside Dracula’s true castle, sealed inside the eclipse, and discover his powers – and eventually the source of them. While he was there, he fought a would be contender for Dracula’s power, being forced to kill the man in self-defense, and nearly succumbing to the dark influence of the castle, forcing to climb his way to the source of the castle’s malevolent power and destroy it before he loses himself complete, the act not only freeing him from its grip, but also returned everyone trapped inside the castle to earth. After this, until the cult ‘With Light’ attacked him, his Power of Dominance went dormant.
At the canon point he’s taken from, the year is 2036, a year after his powers first awoken and despite helping to seal away Dracula’s castle in an eclipse, things aren’t over for him as a cult sought kill him and appoint one of their own as the new Lord of Darkness. He starts the second game by disobeying orders to stay home to stop the cult on his own.

Soma Cruz is for the most part a gentle young man who zealously protects his friends, and cares deeply for people. Far as the game states, he has few friends, but he is dead loyal to those he has and they know he got their back no matter how dangerous the situation is. This caring nature can lead him to extreme recklessness – he will tend to refuse help because he doesn’t want to be a burden, and he tends to leap before he look, landing into much more trouble than if he had actually trust his friends. The young man also has a chivalrous streak, becoming enraged if any girl gets hurt in front of him, no matter how well he knows the person, for example becoming enraged at Graham for attacking Yoko and feeling guilt for not getting to her in time even though it was impossible for him to stop it.

With those he’s close to, he can be a complete dork, quick to laugh, and just as quick to be embarrassed by teasing. Even when he’s humiliated, he doesn’t snap back, suggesting he has a calm temperament and doesn’t take himself too seriously. In Dawn of Sorrow, he demonstrates a slight sarcastic streak, aimed primarily at the resident goofball (and merchant) Hammer, so he can tease just as well as Yoko or Mina, but generally chooses not to. Soma also shows moments that reveal he has a good sense of empathy, able to accurately guess the reason that Julius ditched Yoko at the castle gates and convey in a way that she could understand (she still didn’t like it, but now knew why).

Soma is rather on the naïve side, generally trusting people immediately if they don’t act openly hostile or suspicious. When they betray his trust, he becomes upset, not just at the person, but at himself for being fooled by them – and does not forgive them easily. However, despite how many times he may get his trust displaced, he’s still quick to assume the best of people, being a generally optimistic young man.

While he takes the responsibilities of his powers and heritage seriously, he also considers it kind of cool, having no desire to abuse it, but he can make jokes about it - with the 100% souls ending of Aria having he ask Mina if being Dracula makes him 'cooler' to her.

Camp Petoskey~ A charming summer camp in Northern Michigan where kids come to learn, play and enjoy nature at it's finest. Beautiful views of Lake Superior and freedom from the daily grind, that's Pure Michigan.

The camp was anything but the idyllic advertisement, however. The true purpose of Camp Petoskey was to complete an annual ritual to contain SCP-6219. Centuries ago the being that the SCP Foundation now identifies as 6219 was Asin Modo, a god to the native peoples. It was consciousness held within stone. Not stone but Petoskey fossilized coral. Contact with the main body of 6219 would cause an individual to be turned completely to stone in seconds and absorbed into the larger mass.

6219 addressed the researchers of the Foundation in the 1950s and, at that time, agreed that it would not hunt, would not seek out others to eat so long as a sufficient number of bodies were offered up to it every year. And thus the camp was born. Each year 30 individuals would be chosen to be infected, to allow a piece of 6219 to be placed inside their bodies where it would spend the next 2 months growing, slowly taking more and more of their freedom of will.

In the aftermath of Y2K SCP-6350 was found and used to create bodies with seemingly artificial souls. The SCPs produced by 6350 were all of fictional people within the world as the Foundation understood it and therefore they became implemented as the preferred source of lower class agents and sacrifices for rituals like 6219's. It was far preferrable to using "real" people.

It's unclear how the ritual became what it was when Talcott and the others from his group arrived.

6219 affected children more reliably so all sacrifices were to be between ages 11-18. Amnesiac drugs were used to ensure the children would remember nothing of their arrival in this world. They woke in assigned cabins and, to begin with, there was little explanation. 3 Counselors were on site. Pastor Dan, who was creepy and seemed very disconnected from reality, placid and serene, speaking of The Lord and the tragic understanding that Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Red, herself an SCP, mysterious and secretive. And Stan who seemed to be very confused about what exactly was happening.

As it turned out what was happening with Stan would be what began happening to most of them. Through a combination of amnesiac drugs, 6219's own influences, and careful misguidance the fear and violence encouraged by the setting was quietly rationalized. Murder and discussions there of were simply "pranks", the punishment was nothing more than "time out", any claims of wanting to go back to their own world was merely a case of "homesickness". Nothing was bad, everything was normal. A regular Summer Camp experience with nothing out of the ordinary.

As time went on, a voice like grinding stone in their minds telling them they would all die if one person was not murdered by the end of the week, murder became the norm. First the unsettling Pastor Dan, poisoned by a terrified little girl and the rest of the kids were left to try to figure out why nearly his entire body was made of stone and execute his murderer.

On Monday morning Lillith was there, in the chapel, humming and happy, just as convinced of the normalcy of camp as Stan was. Ignorant of the fact that she was dead, all her wounds filled in with patches of petoskey stone, animated by 6219.

The second week the voice in their heads insisted that they could have the answer to any one question if they commited a murder by the end of the week. For Talcott, whose life has been defined for so long by the search for one answer, it was impossible to ignore. He asked Ichigo to protect the others, to do whatever was necessary to keep him from hurting someone. Ichigo fell asleep, Talcott stepped away for one innocent moment. And that's when he was shot in the back.

The armored vest he wore kept him from being killed and he responded swift and efficient. What would have, at best, broken the nose of any of the people he sparred with on a regular basis shattered this small, delicate French girl's face. She was dead before she hit the ground.

He was even prepared to let Ichigo take the fall for him, accepting that one more death would be justified if it meant he could save his King. Ichigo's hollow would not allow it, though. He tried to take responsibility for his execution, he tried to slit his own throat, ensure it was quick instead of the drawn out horror Lillith had gone through. The kittens of the guardian lake spirit decided to take that choice from him.

Once he died he discovered that nothing was what they thought. 6219 had no control over the bodies that they consumed, the Foundation had made sure of that, but the being he met was not a monster or god. It was a scared child, maybe 10 years old and terrified of what they were forced to do. Sol was the name they'd taken, more than simply a number. Sol was scared and desperate, all attempts to explain to the Foundation that they didn't want this any more had failed and resulted in even more death.

Talcott vowed to help them, to find a way to get through to the others.

While his corpse merrily wandered around camp, breaking the hearts of those closest to him, Talcott was left in a dreary, twilight world, watching distantly what his own body was doing. He could even feel some of what happened to his body, distant, phantom sensations. He could almost feel it when his newly acquired boyfriend held his hand or when one of the boys hugged him.

It was torture. And as the weeks went on it only got worse. For weeks the others that died came into the ghost camp and swiftly vanished into the "forest" ill-defined and barely existent. Still Tal talked to Sol, tried so hard to make things better, to reach out to the living and convince them their souls were still there. He even helped Sol to set up the weekly motive and speak to the living.

And then Stan and Red, misunderstanding so very much, promised the living campers they would find a way to kill the "god" and stop this ritual from continuing. All hell broke loose. Sol threw a tantrum, told them all they were liars and that they hated them. Sol retreated into the forest, stayed away for another 2 weeks while all the dead lost all hope. Talcott, who has no experience with children, took personal responsibility for all the failures of their attempts.

They ventured into some of Sol's memories, began to piece together the truth of what was happening. The living found video files of security cameras off site, more hints to the true nature of the Foundation as well as the implication that none of them were real, all merely fictional characters. But the deaths continued, week after week and the living grew more and more paranoid, hallucinations and insomnia became common place.

Stan was taken away by Red's superiors, the amnesiac drugs no longer working properly. Things got down to the wire where Red was convinced and open to supporting the living kids in their attempts to move on and possibly help free the souls of the dead. It came down to convincing the counselor that replaced Stan, something they had reason to believe was going to be impossible. Archer was cold, abrasive, and a future version of Shirou that hated him. It was a mess and as the Final Protocol (which would be the execution of every one left alive) came closer and closer they had one last ditch effort.

The bodies of the dead were gone, absorbed back into the stone and Sol gave them the opportunity to take control of some of the forest creatures that hadn't succumbed to stone yet. After a hilarious hour of trolling Archer (in which Talcott very happily pissed on him in bobcat form)and Shirou doing a lot of soul searching with a version of himself he hated... Archer allowed Red to continue with her plan.

A complicated series of powerswaps gave Ren the ability to transfer Ichigo's soul into an empty gigai. Then Ichigo was able to transfer all of the souls of the dead into gigai, at least those that wanted to stay. Those that were released by Sol and not attached to a gigai supposedly went home, back to their world, but it's impossible to say for sure.

The kids were transfered to a secure compound, an apartment complex where they could be monitored and learn some of the necessary protocols for their new life as SCP agents. Most of them eager to ensure drastic measures like what had happened with Sol were put to an end. That appropriate re-evaluations are conducted so no one, even if they might not be human, was forced to do something so traumatizing repeatedly. In the following two weeks they've all learned a little bit about mission protocols and a lot about how to live in this world. Talcott, one of the longest dead, has been trying to adjust to the trauma and it hasn't been going very smoothly.

He tried to sort out his feelings, agreed with Ren and Nine to try to sort things out and set aside his feelings for Lance... only to have Nine come to terms with the fact that he doesn't feel that way about Tal any more. They went to another facility to break Stan out so he could go home to his grand niece, which meant breaking him out just to turn around and kill him.

He's learning, slowly, and dealing, badly. But he's nothing if not resilient.

Thank you! The sweater dress and brown sugar are perfect. Here is the permissions post https://bastilashan.dreamwidth.org/599.html.

Powers: I forgot to mention this, but as a Devil's Tongue tiefling, Molly is also capable of casting Charm Person. I can put up permissions for this if needed.

Anyway, I can certainly do those revisions.

There was once a guy named Lucien. Not much is really known about him at this time, other than that he was oddly charismatic, used to belong to an order of blood magic users, and splintered off from them to become the leader of his own cult. After performing a ritual in the woods, he died (apparently) and was buried in an unmarked grave.

Some time later, a nameless tiefling woke up with no memories and no past in that same grave, clawing his way out and aimlessly wandering around, until he met a traveling circus who took him in. Because all Molly could say at the time was "empty", the leader of the circus used that as the base for his new name ("empty" = "M.T." = "Mollymauk Tealeaf")

Since then, he's never looked back. Molly's been eternally grateful to the people at the circus for giving him some kind of life, and is similarly attached to the adventuring party he joins later after the carnival disbands due to a zombie outbreak, for much the same reasons. Since he doesn't remember his childhood and, as far as he knows, doesn't have any sort of biological family, he aggressively adopts wherever he can.

Unlike a lot of amnesiacs in fiction, Molly is vehemently against anything that might lead him to recover memories of his past life. He likes who he is now, and is afraid that his past may one day come back to haunt him. Or, that if his memories come back, he might stop being himself. The fact that he hasn't been around for too long (he's only existed for two years) is also a big reason why he's as hedonistic as he is: he literally had to claw his way out of his own grave, so he's going to appreciate everything life has to offer.

Anyway. His story with the Mighty Nein begins, as many D&D campaigns do, with him meeting everyone in a tavern. He and his best friend Yasha (who worked as a stagehand/tent-putter-upper for the carnival) were handing out flyers, and the rest of the party decided to go see them. Then zombies happened, because people were having their life force siphoned off by a deviltoad. After being put under partial house arrest for being suspected of having something to do with this, the group tries to clear their names by bringing deviltoad to justice. Long story short, they succeed, and then head over to the city of Zadash (all while being distracted by a mineshaft full of gnolls.) They also get attacked by bandits, who Molly decides to put on the right path by talking them out of their life of crime, giving them a gold piece each, and, IIRC, possibly forcibly bathing them.

No, really.

After reaching Zadash, the Mighty Nein met some rebels who were unhappy with the local government. They recruited Molly's group to discredit some local officials and prove this one guy's wife's innocence, which the group agreed to do in a series of overly elaborate heists. None of this really actually mattered because their quest-giver died horribly, but afterwards, the group found a drow with a mysterious dodecahedron that he only referred to as "the beacon", thanks to Molly charming him.

So, normal quest bullshit. Until the group was let into a secret club... and a Tabaxi woman took one look at Molly, called him "Lucien", and hugged him. Molly, taking life advice from John Mulaney, pretended to know who this woman was, but on the inside was internally screaming.

This, Molly confessed to Fjord (the warlock), was his worst nightmare. He was always aware that he had amnesia, and always lived under the fear that one day his past would catch up with him. After the Tabaxi explained some of "Lucien's" past, the group was kind of suspicious of Molly, who until now had been evasive and given bald-faced lies whenever asked about his past. Eventually, Jester (the cleric) cast Zone of Truth, which prompted Molly to reveal his backstory to everyone but Yasha (who knew already.)

It should be noted that Molly trusted them all at this point to give them this information - Zone of Truth prevents people from lying, but someone affected by it can still decline to speak if they're not comfortable talking about something.

The Tabaxi woman, who by now had introduced herself as Cree, revealed that she had been working for a crime lord only known as "The Gentleman" after the cult Lucien was once a leader of had disbanded. After going to meet the Gentleman, the party accepted a few quests from him, complete with Cree taking their blood so she could track them via blood magic.

This was primarily why Molly was so nervous: all throughout his life, he instinctively knew how to perform the blood magic that Lucien could during his life, learning new skills as if he'd known them before. The fact that someone else out there had weird blood powers meant his past was catching up to him as he'd feared.

This also marked the point where Molly started opening up more to the rest of the Mighty Nein. While he'd always been friendly enough to the group (even his butting heads with Beau seems more like a sibling-type relationship than genuine dislike), none of his conversations had been terribly personal in nature unless they were with Yasha. That all started to change when they knew where he came from.

On their way to do quests for the Gentleman, the gang stopped by the gnome town of Hupperdook, where they took part in some nightlife and entered a drinking contest. Molly tried to use his blood powers to extract the alcohol out of Beau's bloodstream, which Beau didn't really appreciate. Then a few of the group got pickpocketed by gnome street urchins, whose parents had been thrown in jail for heresy. At first, Molly wasn't too enthused about helping them because he was afraid of what the Gentleman might do to him if he didn't finish that quest in time, but after seeing that the plight of the gnome kids was important to Fjord (who was an orphan and wanted to keep the kids out of a shitty orphanage like the one he grew up in) Molly was 100% on board.

After freeing the pickpocket kids' parents and fighting a giant robot, Fjord, Yasha, and Jester were kidnapped by slavers.

The party goes to rescue them, and they eventually confront Lorenzo and try to fight him. But ~~TALIESIN JAFFE FORGOT THAT MOLLY WAS AT CRITICALLY LOW HP AND DECIDED TO DO THAT ONE LAST BLOOD MALEDICT~~ Lorenzo proved to be way too much for the group to take on, and, before he got away, managed to kill Molly.

Molly, who thought this was a load of bullshit and wasn't all that eager to die again, could only spit blood in Lorenzo's face.

His time in the third round of 15 Strangers didn't affect him terribly much beyond what development he's had in canon. During this time, the group was recruited as "micronauts" to fight a disease inside the body of a person known only as the "girl genius", and I promise that it makes just as much sense in context. This was literally a murdergame set inside someone's butt.

The first couple of deaths left him rattled: Akira's trial because he honestly liked the kid and wasn't willing to go through with voting for him (and he didn't), and Naoya's because of the sheer lengths Naoya was willing to go through to desperately escape being voted for. He had no real sympathy for when their overseer got executed in the third trial, though.

Apart from the usual CRAU shenanigans, such as a man from a medieval fantasy universe being introduced to modern technology for the first time, Molly's also grown slightly more willing to give up personal information about himself if he has to. The impact this had on the group was somewhat lessened here, though: because no one asked about his personal history, Molly didn't think it necessary to give it. This came back to bite him in the ass during the second trial, where he was nearly accused of murder. Luckily, he's not willing to die for the sake of a secret. He's not willing to die for much of anything. It also came into play during endgame, when everyone had the chance to recover their lost memories -- Molly was the only person who declined, under the mistaken belief that the memories he'd recover would be those of "Lucien". A man who Molly, for all intents and purposes, considers to be both dead and a different identity from his own. The resultant confusion and concern was what finally prompted him to speak up.

He's still likely to bullshit in non-critical situations, though.

I'd also like to add this item to Molly's inventory:

Temeggrity: The egg baby Molly had during his time in murderbutt, which has now been hollowed out to prevent from smelling. It's got pipe cleaner horns and a tail, and its name is Temerity.

Hey look, Molly's a tiefling and the PHB says that's a valid tiefling name.