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Character Info
Name: Mollymauk Tealeaf
Canon: Critical Role, Campaign 2
Canon Point: Episode 26, on the road to save his friends
Age: Chronologically 2, mentally and physically mid 20's

Background: Molly's Wiki

Personality:

Mollymauk Tealeaf is an experience. Loud, colorful, confident and a literal and figurative peacock, he enjoys baffling people with his ostentatious looks and almost flamboyant personality. Not only because he always likes to put on a show, but because he uses it to gauge how people react to him. (He’s basically making snap judgments on people based on what he interprets as their snap judgments of him.) Molly believes you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat you, and if someone is being an ass to him, then he sees it as permission to be a dick right back. However, takes a lot to get him actually angry. Life's too short for grudges, and while he can be stern and stubborn when he's made up his mind, but mostly just lets things go - especially if it's just someone trying to provoke reactions from him.

Since he's a tiefling, a race few people trust, he's often met with suspicion in the first place - and unlike many other tieflings, he's not going to hide what he is at all, decorating his horns and flashing fanged smiles to make people even more uncomfortable. He's also very comfortable with his own body and identity (he mostly uses he/him but doesn't really give a shit about gender) and has no sense of personal space or boundaries. He often gets in the faces of the people he's around, touching, leaning against, giving quick pecks and affection both to people he genuinely likes and to push others off-balance and make them - again - uncomfortable so they show their true selves.

Technically 'raised' by a circus, it's no surprise he is a showman, creating his own personality from the empty person he was when crawling out of his own grave. Two years is not a lot of time to become a person, but as he says, 'joy can fill a lot of a person's life'. Plus what he doesn't know or understand, he bullshits instead - because Molly is a liar.

'The first thing out of your mouth should never be the truth' is his philosophy, because lies are a lot more fun than the truth, and his life is mostly a mess of lies to hide that he's missing a past. He believes people don't want to hear the truth. It only upsets them, and stories and bullshit is also a lot more entertaining. He very much prefers spectacle and tall tales to reality, because that makes people happy - and Molly is all about making people happy and leaving places and people better than they were before. He might be an asshole and not quite a good person, but he's tries to be kind person.

Being so 'young', there's a lot of things in life he has not experienced, and he's always hungry for new things. He is constantly delighted by the world - he finds life delightful, he finds everything delightful. Any thrill or high or otherwise, he is the first on board. Molly’s very much a when-in-doubt-say-yes person, so the opportunity to go along with the others rather than staying with the remains of his old life was hard to resist. He believes it’s better to be moving at high speed toward a wall than not moving at all, even if it ends up a mess. Drugs, alcohol, sex and hedonism are favorite things of his, and with the Mighty Nein he has money than he's ever seen in his time with the circus - so of course he spends that on lavish bath houses, pretty but useless things and even paid company at a fancy inn. The rest? He overpays with to people to make their day.

He has less patience for 'boring' things and never really learned how to read properly, making him functionally illiterate. He can read, just not very well - and not at all complicated things. Of course this does not make him stupid, but he's definitely more of a street-smart person that an academic.

Despite the bullshit and the showmanship, Molly also has a serious code that he lives by. He believes there’s a fairness to the universe and you should abide by it, and if it isn’t fair then you should correct it. You don’t steal from those who can’t afford it, you use the money for what you steal it for, and believes that the purpose of money is to make other people happy. He never takes more than what he feels he's earned, never steals from the people he's traveling with (and expects the others not to, either), and always keeps a promise. He seems to see some of the best in people, and encourages them, sometimes forcefully, to do better.

This moral code clashes a bit with the way he uses his innate powers to charm people, but that’s really easy to do if you are the center of your moral reality. He believes he’s smart enough not to do anything wrong, which is a mix of pride and inexperience, and also makes him seem quite arrogant at times. It all works until it doesn’t. (He’s also technically a worshiper of a god of lies, which might give him some 'moral' leeway.) Whenever he does use spells like that, it tends to be punitive or whatever he considers to be helpful for that person. It’s definitely not something a normal, healthy person should do, but he's never said that he is.

In fact, there's a bit of codependency in Molly, because he's never been alone more than the time between crawling out of his own grave and being picked up by the circus, and he would not be able to function on his own. That is why he's a very loyal person and fiercely protective of 'his' people, be it the circus or his new companions in the Mighty Nein. He died to protect the friend he argues with the most and has no regrets dying knowing she was safe because of him - which is telling of how much you do not fuck with his people.

Despite being a liar, he's very adamant about the fact that he's not a betrayer, and when people ask why anyone should trust him since he lies and bullshits, his response is "because I always lie and bullshit." When he's giving advice to people outside the group, it’s usually bogus, but inside the group, he’s probably speaking from genuine experience in his two years with the circus. He does have a baseline of information in his head, but it’s just not all necessarily useful information. He's also extremely good at reading people, something that helped him create himself and now also works to his advantage when he does 'fortune-telling' bullshit with his tarot deck.

This 'baseline' of information is also very much instincts, which makes him a very decent fighter on muscle memory and that alone. He also has little, small glimpses of knowledge from his past about his powers, which is why he sometimes learn new things and freak out a bit about it afterwards. He combats any links to this past self by making it his own. Molly hid all the red 'eyes' on his body that he woke up with with other tattoos, and uses gaudy, ridiculous and even useless carnival weapons to fight with. Anything to distance himself from this other person.

That is also a strong part of Molly's personality, the fact that he lives heavily in the now, believing people's past mean nothing compared to who they are now. This obviously comes from his own unknown past - he doesn't care who had his body before him, he doesn’t care who 'Lucien' was. It doesn’t matter if he was a good person or a bad person. It's his body now. He's made it of nothing but the decisions that led him to be Mollymauk Tealeaf, and he believes you get to decide who you are, and he’s very much decided who he is.

The thought of not being himself and being forced back into his past or knowing more about this other person freaks him out, and is probably his biggest fear. He knows he lives on borrowed time and that his past might one day catch up with him, so he's desperately running away from that.

Powers:

Tiefling Abilities

Darkvision
• Tieflings can see in dim light as if it was normal light, and in darkness as if it was dim light (but in grayscale).

Hellish Resistance
• Molly is resistant to fire, and only takes half damage from it.

Devil's Tongue

Molly is a variant tiefling, probably with an unusual infernal ancestor. Thus he has some mind-controlling abilities unlike the more common fire ones.

Vicious Mockery
• He can harm an enemy just with his voice. Although this is usually done with mocking an opponent, Mollymauk likes using intimidation instead, by speaking Infernal - the demonic language. What he says is usually nonsense, though.

Charm Person
• With honeyed words, Molly can bend the mind of another person (they can try to resist it), making them a trusted friend for an hour. Afterwards they will know he used magic on them.

Enthrall
• Using his mind-altering magic, he is able to ensnare a target so they are frozen and can only focus on him. Nobody else exists for the enthralled target until the spell ends after a minute or they break free.

Character Feats

Tough
• Molly's pretty sturdy and can take a bit more damage than some.

Blood Hunter Abilities

As a Blood Hunter, he has survived the imbibing of the Hunter’s Bane, a poisonous alchemical concoction that alters your life’s blood, forever binding you to the darkness and honing your senses against it. Of course he doesn't actually remember this, and keeps finding new strange powers in himself.

Hunter's Bane
• Molly can track fey, fiends, and undead, as well a recall information about them (only D&D versions, if needed to be nerfed). If he's actively tracking one of these creature types, he can also feel their presence. However, he can only be tracking one type of creature at a time.

Blood Maledict

Blood Curse of the Eyeless
• Molly has the ability to curse an enemy with some nasty blindness for a while.

Blood Curse of Purgation
• He can manipulate the vitality of a creature to expunge a corruption in their blood, like poison.

Both these abilities harm him by automatically popping a vessel in one of the eye tattoos on his body, and making him bleed. If he amplifies the curse effect, he takes more damage.

Crimson Rite

Primal Rite: Rite of the Frozen
• Drawing his own blood, Molly activates a rite on his blades or any sharp object to enchant them with magic. This rite enchants his scimitars or any sharp object with frost magic, and does frost damage.

Esoteric Rite: Rite of the Dawn
• As a Ghoststayer Blood Hunter, Molly can activate radiant magic on his scimitars or any sharp object. This holy magic does extra damage to undead. This is also activated by drawing his own blood.

Inventory:

• His clothes, including his ostentatious trademark coat.

• A shitton of gaudy jewelry and decorations, worn in his horns, ears and on his fingers.

• An amulet known as the Periapt of Wound Closure, which heals him a small bit when he's knocked unconscious so he doesn't immediately bleed out.

• Fortune-telling cards, a deck of self-made cards that he uses for his impressive fortunte-telling bullshit.

• Glass carnival scimitars - fairly useless entertainment weapons, but works great once activated with his magic.

• Another scimitar known as Summer's Dance, which is less useless. Gives the ability to Misty Step, which is a short-range teleportation spell.

Samples:

01. TDM I
02. TDM II

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Scratching;
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Vehicles;
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Character Information

Name: Mollymauk Tealeaf
Series: Critical Role: Campaign 2

Appearance: 1 | 2 (Official Art)

Age: Physically and mentally adult (somewhere around 20-25), chronologically 2 as Molly.

Canon Point: Episode 26, just after dying.

Canon History: Here

Personality: Mollymauk Tealeaf is an experience. Loud, colorful, confident and a literal and figurative peacock, he enjoys baffling people with his ostentatious looks and almost flamboyant personality. Not only because he always likes to put on a show, but because he uses it to gauge how people react to him. (He’s basically making snap judgments on people based on what he interprets as their snap judgments of him.) Molly believes you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat you, and if someone is being an ass to him, then he sees it as permission to be a dick right back. However, takes a lot to get him actually angry. Life's too short for grudges, and while he can be stern and stubborn when he's made up his mind, but mostly just lets things go - especially if it's just someone trying to provoke reactions from him.

Since he's a tiefling, a race few people trust, he's often met with suspicion in the first place - and unlike many other tieflings, he's not going to hide what he is at all, decorating his horns and flashing fanged smiles to make people even more uncomfortable. He's also very comfortable with his own body and identity (he mostly uses he/him but doesn't really give a shit about gender) and has no sense of personal space or boundaries. He often gets in the faces of the people he's around, touching, leaning against, giving quick pecks and affection both to people he genuinely likes and to push others off-balance and make them - again - uncomfortable so they show their true selves.

Technically 'raised' by a circus, it's no surprise he is a showman, creating his own personality from the empty person he was when crawling out of his own grave. Two years is not a lot of time to become a person, but as he says, 'joy can fill a lot of a person's life'. Plus what he doesn't know or understand, he bullshits instead - because Molly is a liar.

'The first thing out of your mouth should never be the truth' is his philosophy, because lies are a lot more fun than the truth, and his life is mostly a mess of lies to hide that he's missing a past. He believes people don't want to hear the truth. It only upsets them, and stories and bullshit is also a lot more entertaining. He very much prefers spectacle and tall tales to reality, because that makes people happy - and Molly is all about making people happy and leaving places and people better than they were before. He might be an asshole and not quite a good person, but he's a kind person.

Being so 'young', there's a lot of things in life he has not experienced, and he's always hungry for new things. He is constantly delighted by the world, he finds life delightful, he finds everything delightful. Any thrill or high or otherwise, he is the first on board. Molly’s very much a when-in-doubt-say-yes person, so the opportunity to go along with the others rather than staying with the remains of his old life was hard to resist. He believes it’s better to be moving at high speed toward a wall than not moving at all, even if it ends up a mess. Drugs, alcohol, sex and hedonism are favorite things of his, and with the Mighty Nein he has money than he's ever seen in his time with the circus - so of course he spends that on lavish bath houses, pretty but useless things and even paid company at a fancy inn.

He has less patience for 'boring' things and never really learned how to read properly, making him functionally illiterate. He can read, just not very well - and not at all complicated things. Of course this does not make him stupid, but he's definitely more of a street-smart person that an academic.

Despite the bullshit and the showmanship, Molly also has a serious code that he lives by. He believes there’s a fairness to the universe and you should abide by it, and if it isn’t fair then you should correct it. You don’t steal from those who can’t afford it, you use the money for what you steal it for, and believes that the purpose of money is to make other people happy. He never takes more than what he feels he's earned, never steals from the people he's traveling with (and expects the others not to, either), and always keeps a promise. He seems to see some of the best in people, and encourages them, sometimes forcefully, to do better.

This moral code clashes a bit with the way he uses his innate powers to charm people, but that’s really easy to do if you are the center of your moral reality. He believes he’s smart enough not to do anything wrong, which is a mix of pride and inexperience, and also makes him seem quite arrogant at times. It all works until it doesn’t. (He’s also technically a worshiper of a god of lies, which might give him some 'moral' leeway.) Whenever he does use spells like that, it tends to be punitive or whatever he considers to be helpful for that person. It’s definitely not something a normal, healthy person should do, but he's never said that he is.

In fact, there's a bit of codependency in Molly, because he's never been alone more than the time between crawling out of his own grave and being picked up by the circus, and he would not be able to function on his own. That is why he's a very loyal person and fiercely protective of 'his' people, be it the circus or his new companions in the Mighty Nein. He died to protect the friend he argues with the most and has no regrets dying knowing she was safe because of him - which is telling of how much you do not fuck with his people.

Despite being a liar, he's very adamant about the fact that he's not a betrayer, and when people ask why anyone should trust him since he lies and bullshits, his response is "because I always lie and bullshit." When he's giving advice to people outside the group, it’s usually bogus, but inside the group, he’s probably speaking from genuine experience in his two years with the circus. He does have a baseline of information in his head, but it’s just not all necessarily useful information. He's also extremely good at reading people, something that helped him create himself and now also works to his advantage when he does 'fortune-telling' bullshit with his tarot deck.

This 'baseline' of information is also very much instincts, which makes him a very decent fighter on muscle memory and that alone. He also has little, small glimpses of knowledge from his past about his powers, which is why he sometimes learn new things and freak out a bit about it afterwards. He combats any 'links' to this past self by making it his own. Molly hid all the red 'eyes' on his body that he woke up with with other tattoos, and uses gaudy, ridiculous and even useless carnival weapons to fight with. Anything to distance himself from this other person.

That is also a strong part of Molly's personality, the fact that he lives heavily in the now, believing people's past mean nothing compared to who they are now. This obviously comes from his own unknown past - he doesn't care who had his body before him, he doesn’t care who 'Lucien' was. It doesn’t matter if he was a good person or a bad person. It's his body now. He's made it of nothing but the decisions that led him to be Mollymauk Tealeaf, and he believes you get to decide who you are, and he’s very much decided who he is.

The thought of not being himself and being forced back into his past or knowing more about this other person freaks him out, and is probably his biggest fear. He knows he lives on borrowed time and that his past might one day catch up with him, so he's desperately running away from that.

Abilities:

Tiefling Abilities

Darkvision
• Tieflings can see in dim light as if it was normal light, and in darkness as if it was dim light (but in grayscale).

Hellish Resistance
• Molly is resistant to fire, and only takes half damage from it.

Devil's Tongue

Molly is a variant tiefling, probably with an unusual infernal ancestor. Thus he has some mind-controlling abilities unlike the more common fire ones.

Vicious Mockery
• He can harm an enemy just with his voice. Although this is usually done with mocking an opponent, Mollymauk likes using intimidation instead, by speaking Infernal - the demonic language. What he says is usually nonsense, though.

Charm Person
• With honeyed words, Molly can bend the mind of another person (they can try to resist it), making them a trusted friend for an hour. Afterwards they will know he used magic on them.

Enthrall
• Using his mind-altering magic, he is able to ensnare a target so they are frozen and can only focus on him. Nobody else exists for the enthralled target until the spell ends after a minute or they break free.

Character Feats

Tough
• Molly's pretty sturdy and can take a bit more damage than some.

Blood Hunter Abilities

As a Blood Hunter, he has survived the imbibing of the Hunter’s Bane, a poisonous alchemical concoction that alters your life’s blood, forever binding you to the darkness and honing your senses against it. Of course he doesn't actually remember this, and keeps finding new strange powers in himself.

Hunter's Bane
• Molly can track fey, fiends, and undead, as well a recall information about them (only D&D versions, if needed to be nerfed). If he's actively tracking one of these creature types, he can also feel their presence. However, he can only be tracking one type of creature at a time.

Blood Maledict

Blood Curse of the Eyeless
• Molly has the ability to curse an enemy with some nasty blindness for a while.

Blood Curse of Purgation
• He can manipulate the vitality of a creature to expunge a corruption in their blood, like poison.

Both these abilities harm him by automatically popping a vessel in one of the eye tattoos on his body, and making him bleed. If he amplifies the curse effect, he takes more damage.

Crimson Rite

Primal Rite: Rite of the Frozen
• Drawing his own blood, Molly activates a rite on his blades or any sharp object to enchant them with magic. This rite enchants his scimitars or any sharp object with frost magic, and does frost damage.

Esoteric Rite: Rite of the Dawn
• As a Ghoststayer Blood Hunter, Molly can activate radiant magic on his scimitars or any sharp object. This holy magic does extra damage to undead. This is also activated by drawing his own blood.

Inventory:

• An amulet known as the Periapt of Wound Closure, which heals him a small bit when he's knocked unconscious so he doesn't die.

• A shitton of gaudy jewelry and decorations, worn in his horns, ears and on his fingers.

• The wettest pouch, bedazzled with gems, containing absolutely ruined incense.

• Fortune-telling cards, a deck of marked cards that he uses for his impressive bullshit. Wet, but salvageable since I imagine they've been wet before.

• A kit of makeup and other things to disguise himself. Completely ruined. Thanks, ocean.

• Glass carnival scimitars - fairly useless entertainment weapons, but works great once activated with his magic.

• Another scimitar known as Summer's Dance, which is less useless. Gives the ability to Misty Step, which is a short-range teleportation spell.

Sample

Q&A:

What’s more important: the way others see you, or the way you see yourself?

The way I see myself, of course! Why does it matter what other people think?

Would you say that, overall, you are a decent person?

I'm never decent! Aside from that, I try to be a good person. It doesn't always work, but then I hope for at least a kind person.

What qualities do you look for in a friend?

Someone who backs me up, or at least lets me get away with my bullshit. Someone fun.

Who is the most important person (or persons) in your life, and why?

Yasha. Because she's Yasha. She doesn't come with a 'why', she just is.

If you could change something about a person you love, would you do it? Why or why not?

Why the fuck would I do this? If I care about someone it includes any weaknesses or problems they have. If there's an issue we'll talk about it.

Do you have any spiritual or religious beliefs? If so, what are they?

I'm partial to some gods, I guess? Not anything special, I'm not overly religious.

What is your greatest weakness?

...you didn't really think I'd answer this one, did you? I'm not that dumb.

Mollymauk Supercut
Molly's Tarot Cards Supercut

THE CARNIVAL

Molly was introduced as a promoter for the carnival and as a "fortune-teller" within it. His fortune-telling "abilities" came from card-reading techniques and sleight of hand, not actual magic. He never developed an act for the show itself.

Molly speaks with the same accent as Gustav.

Molly's name was chosen for him by Gustav, because they had to forge papers for him. "Empty, so they started calling him M.T."

Molly sees Gustav as a mentor; within the circus, there are strong parental figures for the whole community, and Gustav filled this role. However, it's not quite a father: "There's unconditional love without reverence."

Molly doesn't miss staying with the circus; "it wasn't going to function without Gustav. There wasn't an adult left."

His stage name with the Carnival of Curiosities was "The Ice Spinner", likely due to his ability to summon ice with his blood.

As part of a scam and initiation test for The Fletching and Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities, he spent three weeks pretending to be a reincarnated royal from overseas.

“What the fuck was up with Gustav?” Matt explains that he was the one who originally made the deal with the Devil Toad, who essentially offered to make the carnival great if Gustav could provide him with people to eat. Gustav got around the deal by offering to bring him elderly and infirm after the show (which is why they were barred from the show itself), but everything got completely out of hand. All of this is why Gustav was so guilty and determined to serve out his sentence.

The M9 encountered a mosaic of three creatures and nine eyes. Laura gets Matt to confirm that the carnival in the first episode was all about those three entities.

SEXUALITY/GENDER

Mollymauk's official pronouns are he/him but Taliesin figures he would be chill with anything.

Matt said that Mollymauk was a character who was openly bisexual (or pansexual, see below) and genderfluid in an interview on the DnD Beyond twitch channel.

Molly has been described as having a "difficult to make out gender" from afar, appearance-wise. He specifically protests against using 'male viles' for a plan, and 'pan viles' was thrown in by Nott/Veth instead, and he accepted that... even if she was a little confused in her reasoning.

Jester: I hold onto Molly's horns.
Molly: I'm into this.

Molly very softly and suggestively saying "I like manacles."

About being called 'baby', "I felt demeaned, but in a good way. Felt all tingly."

AMNESIA

Molly woke up more-or-less naked, with shaved hair, and without tattoos (apart from the red ones). The tattoos are partly about rebuilding a persona by covering up the old ones. "Molly is not missing any time or memory. Molly is two years old. There's nothing wrong with him."

Molly's "mild nervous breakdown" after the fight didn't so much have to do with the violence as, potentially, the glow of his sword and newfound aspects of his powers. "Molly's not a tortured soul; he had his nervous breakdown, he's fine."

Molly is feeling like he missed out on "18, 20 years, he doesn't know how old he is", and he has expressed some regret at not experiencing a childhood. He feels like his past is catching up with him, and he's pretty sure he won't survive that if it happens. He feels like he has to experience everything because it's likely to end suddenly.

For now, Molly's decided not to worry about his past catching up to him. "The road's always safer at times like this for him. The minute you start to gain a reputation, cities are where bad things happen. We need to get out of here before they decide that we're dangerous or useful, which are the two worst things to be."

He doesn't care who Lucien was. It doesn't matter if he's a good person or a bad person, it's "I'm made of nothing but the decisions that led me to be this person. You get to decide who you are, and he's very much decided who he is." Brian talks about people being defined by their worst (or best) moments. Taliesin: "He's selected the things that mattered to him, and he's fully in that and not interested in investing in anything else."

When asked about Ghostslayer abilities: "The nervous breakdown wasn't because of the violence."

Taliesin: "I haven't revealed any of Molly's backstory." Brian: "It's all bullshit?" Taliesin: "Is it?" His backstory is, apparently, deeply unimportant to who he is on every level; he's defined by his actions.

YASHA

Yasha knows a little more than the party about Molly. They only knew each other about six months before everyone met in-game, but they have enough shared experiences to understand who each other are and to have each other's backs.

Molly gave Yasha both the four-leaf-clover and a HIGHLY IRONIC BOOK OF MANNERS AND ETIQUETTE she keeps it in, beginning her flower-collecting hobby.

Molly has seen Yasha's wings before, very strong hints that he realized she was an aasimar and kept the carnival from freaking out about it when Creepy Yasha Things started going down. Molly was not surprised when Yasha's wings appeared. He's seen them before. Yasha did feature in the pregame, even though Ashley couldn't be there herself for Session 0. Tal guesses Yasha and Molly have been in probably about 25 fights together so far.

Yasha feels safe with Molly, and finds comfort in the fact that he will never judge her or demand she share more about herself than she offers. He's the reason she joined M9 and keeps coming back to the group. "They stay for each other"

Yasha's introduction to the circus triggered some things in Molly's head, and Yasha feels the safest in turn with Molly. There's no judgment or need to know more about each other's histories within the friendship.

FRIENDS

"He thinks they're cute so far and was definitely meditating upon the notion of taking all their shit and vanishing into the night."

Molly's already made his conclusions about everyone. Caleb thinks Molly is a lot of color, a lot of lies, and a lot of personality, but he's impressed by the talents of every person in the group. It's still better than he was - he's safer and they're getting a lot of gold. Molly: "It's a lot less dramatic than the circus."

In a Mighty Nein Battle Royale for Molly's affections, Jester would win - they have the most in common, and he identifies with how she's full of crap (but doesn't know it yet). He likes having a certain camaraderie with being tieflings walking in the world.

Molly is avoiding Kiri "for the same reason you don't name animals you're going to butcher." He figures she's got to be dealt with at some point in the near future or she's going to be splatted. "I am not getting attached to this creature, because one way or another this creature has to go."

Taliesin on Jester jumping in whenever NPCs flirt with Fjord: "You can't call dibs on people."

"This feels very comfortable and he's not really in the mood to alter that very much. He quite likes everybody, but he's also aware that they need to learn how groups like this function."

While on watch with Beau, Molly revealed that the best lie he ever told was when, as part of a scam and initiation test for The Fletching and Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities, he spent three weeks pretending to be a reincarnated royal from overseas.

According to Taliesin, knowing that his actions helped Beau survive and he would forever have a one up against her, Molly died with no regrets.

PERSONALITY

Basic thing about Molly: "The first thing out of your mouth should never be the truth."

Molly really doesn't like cops. "He's never going to keep his mouth shut."

Taliesin notes that Molly's generally mistrustful of humans.

Molly mainly gets motivated to follow plots based on the fact that he enjoys camping and new places.

On Mollymauk insisting on paying the silver piece for the horse: "He is one of the most moral characters I've ever played." He's got a serious code that he lives by. "There's a fairness to the universe and you should abide by it, and if it isn't fair then you should correct it."

Taliesin on Molly: "He is constantly delighted by shit. He finds life delightful, he finds everything delightful. Any thrill or high or otherwise, he is on board. That is what he does with his free time, which he has not had this week."

Part of why Molly's so decked out is because everyone else's reactions to that can tell a lot about who they are as people and how they can be manipulated. He puts his flamboyance out there in order to see how people react to him and see what kind of person they are. He's basically making snap judgments on people based on what he interprets as their snap judgments of him.

Molly's very much a when-in-doubt-say-yes person, so the opportunity to go along with the others rather than staying with the remains of his old life was hard to resist. "Better to be moving at high speed towards a wall than standing still."

Other than some scams, this is the most money Molly's seen in some time; he's not thinking too much about what might be pulling the strings behind all this.

Taliesin said that Molly has never really been alone and wouldn't be able to handle it.

Molly's happy to help out with the orphans, but it seemed like too much work for people they didn't know. Beau and Molly are both primarily motivated by wanting to help Fjord. Taliesin: "I'll feel better once there's a plan."

Personal Creed:
You don't steal from those who can't afford it
There's a fairness to the universe
You do what you took the money for
If there's something unfair about the universe you fix it

Moonweaver Creed:
Seize your own destiny by pursuing your passions
Let the shadows protect you from the burning light of fanatical good and the absolute darkness of evil
Walk unbridled and untethered, finding and forging new memories and experiences

Molly has been overpaying for things the entire game on purpose, and believes that the purpose of money is to make other people happy.

If Molly's giving advice to people outside the group, it's usually bullshitting, but inside the group, he's probably speaking from genuine experience in his two years with the circus. He did have a baseline of information going in. "There's information in his head, but it's just not all necessarily useful information."

On Molly using coercion-type magic on allies despite his strong moral convictions: "It's really easy to do if you are the center of your moral reality." He believes he's smart enough not to do anything wrong. "It works until it doesn't." He's also technically a worshiper of a god of lies. Whenever he does use spells like that, it tends to be punitive or whatever he considers to be helpful for that person. "It's definitely not something a normal, healthy person should do."

Molly just went for the insomnia potion/sleeping tea because it seemed interesting and he "wanted options". "But no, Molly sleeps like a baby." He's got a pretty clean slate after only two years.

Molly's "a big believer in playing hard." Molly's seen a huge part of the countryside traveling with the circus, but he just never learned the names of most of the cities because it was never a priority. "He sees a party, he's into this, and I'm just going to meet if not exceed the energy level wherever I'm at."

Molly has a deep distrust of staying in one place, exacerbated by knowing that "no one wants zany, kooky friends in their city" when wars begin around them. The people in power will start looking for spies, conscriptions, and "loud-looking people." Their ability to fly under the radar is over - they're too powerful to hide now. These cities are not places where niceness is necessarily rewarded.

Taliesin leans into Molly's charm (despite having a lackluster CHA stat) in part because he knows that due to how he looks, the world is a bit against him anyway. It's a strong Priscilla, Queen of the Desert vibe.

The notion of civilizing influences; Taliesin doesn't think Mollymauk has any. As a worldview, he brings up a couple lines from Don't Let's Start by They Might Be Giants: "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful / Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful".

Taliesin describes Molly as "a kind of shitty person who's fucking got your back."

ABILITIES

Molly's using Vicious Mockery entirely through intimidation. He's also entirely talking bullshit; if Jester didn't also speak Infernal, he'd just be blatantly saying nonsense words in a scary voice.

Molly's Devil's Tongue comes from himself, not Lucien. He knows he can speak Infernal and figured out that speaking it hard enough could make people bleed. The voice he uses comes from mimicking the Charm of Making from Excalibur.

MISC

The pendant is very specific.

The coat is embroidered silk, and a hand-me-down, most likely from Gustav or Desmond. There are a lot of the symbols on his coat, including all the symbols of the Exandrian deities. The back has a sun/moon combo where the sun is a skull. Mentioned by Taliesin on the mini painting show, but later retconned on his official action figure.

Mollymauk's deck is an original creation of Taliesin's, still in progress. He worked with his brothers (one makes games and one DMs) to start putting it together. In-game, Molly made it himself and has several unfinished ones.

Molly's tattoos are both meaningful and just because they're cool.

Molly first awoke with nine red eye tattoo on him. Mentioned are the right side of his neck, on his right shoulder, and one eye on back and palm of his right hand. Integrating and concealing these eyes, he had a serpent tattoo made that curled all along the length of his right hand and up his arm, that wove into a floral piece on his shoulder, and then into a peacock that ran up the side of his face. Although he had tried to tattoo over the eyes they would not take ink.

Between his shoulder blades rising towards the hairline, he had tattoos of an eye within a pyramid, eliminated by another eye above it. Flanking and connecting through it like a mantle, he had a moon and sun tattoo.

Alternate classes considered for Molly included bard and warlock.

He went Ghostslayer because it fit the "ghoulish" direction he wanted to take the character/class.