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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
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Re: Mollymauk Tealeaf | Critical Role/15 Strangers CRAU
Character name: Mollymauk Tealeaf
Character canon: Critical Role | 15 Strangers CRAU
Canon point: After death in Critical Role + Post the endgame of 15 Strangers
Physical Description: Here! Not much to really say here, he's a tiefling with extensive tattoos and scars. I also peg him as appearing about in his mid-20's, even though we have no fucking idea how old he really is physically (but his current identity is 2 years old.) He's also about six feet tall, because I noticed in the silhouette picture of the entire party that he's similar in height to Yasha (who's described as being much taller than the average human woman), and only a little shorter than Fjord (who's part orc.)
About the Character:
Molly is, for all intents and purposes, one of the biggest hedonists ever. Seriously, this is a man who once paid an escort to hand-feed him fruit like a goddamned Roman emperor, then ran out of the room naked, screaming "I AM YOUR GOD". Since he doesn't really remember all of jack shit beyond the past two years, he lives eternally in the moment, and so far, it's been working alright for him. He is, however, capable of being serious when he needs to be, it's just that he doesn't really see the need too often. After all, every day on Earth could be his last, so as long as the risk is there, he wants to appreciate the world and all its pleasures - drugs, nice food, you name it - for what they are. He doesn't complain too much about rough living, but when he can get his creature comforts, he revels in them. He also has a penchant for the overly dramatic, dressing in garish outfits and coming up with ridiculously audacious plan for the group (such as pretending to be infected with an STD to infiltrate a hospital, vomiting and screaming.)
Molly's also full of bullshit. He constantly lies about his past, changing the story as he meets new victims. He'll also flatter and charm other people as he sees fit. This isn't necessarily because he wants something from them, but because, in his mind, the truth hurts. He's personally horrified by his own past, having only dirt and pain and emptiness as his first memory. He'd rather not dwell on it, if he could. And in his mind, it's better to make people happy with a lie than it is to horrify them with the grim truth.
Which brings us to Molly's biggest flaw: his own evasiveness. He'd rather not get involved in other people's problems if the personal stakes are high - hell, he almost declined to help some starving homeless gnome children out, since it would distract from his mission with the Gentleman. (He eventually accepted because it was personally important to Fjord, who I figure he kind of has a thing for). And whenever he cautions someone not to do a risky or morally suspect thing, he always has some sort of practical justification for it that he tacks on: "Don't steal from us, you'll just get caught." "If you're going to skim off the top, be clever about it." As much as he serves the group's insight, he's also cagey about revealing anything too personal about himself: it literally took the gang casting Zone of Truth and asking him point blank about his personal history for him to open up - and later, his player admitted that if this hadn't happened, Molly would have been more than content to just keep on lying.
Still, he's a friendly enough fellow, even if he comes off as a bit smarmy or overconfident at times. He expresses more interest in finding out about other people - their pasts, their obsessions, their hopes for the future - than he is about talking about himself.
He's not a bad person at heart, and he does try to do a good turn whenever he can. He's loyal to those he considers friends and pretty thick-skinned, the latter probably because of how socially outcast tieflings tend to be in D&D verse. This is probably also why he tries his best to be amiable to others while keeping them at an arm's distance. In D&D lore, tieflings are regarded with some degree of mistrust, so Molly strikes a fine balance between not letting anyone who might screw him over too close while trying to be pleasant enough not to get run out of town.
If only he took himself more seriously.
Character abilities:
Because he's a tiefling, there's two aspects of his physiology I'd like to bring attention to:
Hellish Resistance: Molly has resistance to fire damage, due to his heritage being traced back to fuckin' hell and everything. It is technically probably possible to burn him to death, because they didn't say "immunity". However, it's going to be difficult. I would not recommend this method of death.
Darkvision: Molly has pretty good night vision, as most tieflings and like 75% of D&D races have.
If he's in dim light, he can see as if he was in a fully lit area. If he's in a completely dark area, he can see as if it were dimly lit.
If he's in pitch darkness, he also can't perceive color differences; just shades of gray.
He also has access to Vicious Mockery due to being a Devil's Tongue variant tiefling, which basically means that he can incur psychic damage to people by insulting them if he wants. They don't need to understand the insult, but it helps.
Blood Hunter Abilities: See here for a rundown on the class. Molly can use blood magic on himself (activated by charging a weapon with his own blood from a fresh wound) to produce a number of effects. This is an extremely sensitive subject for some people OOCly due to the scars he's incurred from using his abilities looking similar to those one might incur from self-harm (and the fact that he cuts himself to activate his magic), so I'm more than willing to put up a permissions/opt out post for this.
Currently, he knows one Crimson Rite (charging up his weapon-based attacks with elemental effects, which fade once the attack is over or the weapon leaves his grip), and one Blood maledict (the ability to manipulate others' bodies/life force using blood magic.) These will make up the bulk of power regain requests.
Currently, he knows the Rite of the Frozen (which enables him to make ice-based elemental attacks with his weapons and The Blood Curse of Purgation (which enables him to draw out toxins from someone's body.)
The Snow: Due to his time in 15 Strangers, he can also freeze the area/an object within a couple feet radius of him, and is totally immune to the effects himself.
Inventory:
he's wearing this outfit
-Platinum Dragon Brooch: A platinum brooch depicting Bahamut, the deity of good-aligned and metallic dragons. Shiny.
-Pair of Scimitars: A pair of decorative scimitars made out of cheap carnival glass. Doesn't really look like you can use these in battle, even though they can still cut you if you're not careful or really try.
-Deeply Gaudy Tapestry: A tacky embroidered tapestry depicting a silver dragon.
-Bedazzled Pouch: A jewel-encrusted velvet pouch with a heady aroma. Open it, and there's incense inside.
-Marked Tarot Deck: A set of marked fortune-telling cards. Several of the major arcana seem rather different from a standard tarot deck, such as "the silver dragon", "the anvil", "the serpent", "the eye", and "the shadow".
Samples: Molly at the TDM
REVISIONS REQUEST
-> 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.
Please respond to this comment within 72 hours with these changes!
Revisions Pt. 1 (Canon)
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 MALEDICTLorenzo 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.
Revisions Pt. 2 (CRAU)
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.
SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT REVISION
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.
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