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Full Name: Margaret Katherine Amanda Carpenter. She will only ever refer to herself as Molly; this has been what everyone's ever referred to her throughout the series unless it's her parents yelling at her, but also because like Harry, she doesn't want anyone to know her full name. Such knowledge gives other magic practitioners all kinds of magical leverage over her.
Age: 19.
Height: Molly is just short of six feet tall; I'd guess somewhere around 5 feet, ten inches.
Eyes: Blue.
Hair: Her natural hair color is blond, but she currently dyes it peroxide-white, and keeps it around chin length.
Medical Info: Nothing particularly notable. Medical records are typical for a modern city teenager. Theoretically, she's going to have the same slow-regeneration as Harry, but we shouldn't be testing that theory any time soon.
Physical traits: Molly's "built like a brick house," with pale, smooth skin and a chest to be proud of. Molly has multiple piercings and tattoos, which will be noted in further detail later on.
What's Okay To Mention Around Her: Molly is a very curious person, and will not say no to hearing about stuff. There is the chance that she'll go spouting what you said to Harry, though.
Notes for the Psychics: Dresdenverse wizards have horrible mental defense. Harry's better than some, but Molly's a newbie wizard, and will have next to no mental defenses. She also probably still has a slight taint from the repeated practice of dark magic.
Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: I'm going to have to go with asking first. Molly thinks shapeshifting is Totally Awesome, but it's still a little tricky.
Kissing/Hugging: The very night Molly became Harry's apprentice, he forbid her to do any base-running or self-gratification. Molly thinks this is unfair, but she'll be wanting any pdas to be on her terms anyway.
Fighting: Nothing more than a good argument, please. Molly is a non-combatant.
Maim/Murder/Death: I'd prefer not. Again, Molly's not ready for this stuff, and besides, if you mess with Molly, Harry will be a shounen retard and come hurt you.
Emo, Angst, Drama: Yeah, the Dresden characters are drama whores. XD That one's fine with me.
Cooking: Molly can do very simple stuff? Like. Hamburger Helper. Assuming she, like Harry, doesn't short out the stove. She's probably very good at chopping up vegetables and stuff, since as the eldest child in the Carpenter family, she has to help her mom out with all kinds of day-to-day family stuff. EDIT: As of Small Favor, I am wrong! Molly cannot even cook an EGG without ruining it. But she makes a damn fine cup of coffee.
Other important things to note:
1) Molly has piercings. A lot of them. Um. She currently has an eyebrow piercing, one nostril, a tongue stud, another in her lower lip, two piercings per ear, NIPPLE PIERCINGS that show through her shirt, and when she tries seducing Harry, he confirms that she has even more piercings in other "interesting places." COUGH COUGH. She also has a tattoos:
She had a tattoo on the left side of her neck in the shape of a slithering serpent, and I could see the barbs and curves of some kind of tribal design flickering out from the neckline of her tank top. Another design, whirling loops and spirals, covered the back of her right hand and vanished up under the sleeve of the jacket.
The snake tattoo continues all the way past her belly button. Harry describes her as Frankenhooker for a reason, it's just. Impossible to come up with a PB that matches the detail Jim Butcher goes into when describing Molly. XD So despite the fact these things are not in her icons! Tattoos, piercings. Gothzilla. I think you get the picture.
2) OOCly, I don't care (actually I think it's very shiny), but ICly, Molly is going to be a little careful about physical contact. This is because when a practitioner of magic in Dresdenverse has skin-on-skin contact with...I think it's just another wizard? Anyway, the touch can conduct the aura of a wizard's power. This is easy to discover, because Molly was able to find on her own out long before Harry started teaching her. She will probably deliberately avoid bare contact when she can unless she's comfortable with you.
3) Yeah, that latent magical power? As you'll notice with Harry, that energy causes nearby technology to fail in a spectacular way. The newer and more complex a piece of technology is, the easier it breaks; this happens faster and more dramatically based on the wizard's emotional state. It's pretty much the Murphy's Law of technology; light bulbs burn out, gears seize up and smoke, guns jam, computer hard drives wipe themselves, elevators get stuck. Wizards are very careful about trips to the hospital because they could very well destroy some poor sap's life support by being in the same room with him. We never see Molly fry anything in canon, but that's pretty much only because generally? Harry breaks everything that's breakable first. But even practitioners with barely any talent at all have trouble getting cell phones to work, and Molly--while she doesn't have as much latent power as Harry--certainly has a good amount of it.
As such: we can expect things to start frying themselves when Molly starts feeling emotional. It ALSO means that she will never be on a computer or a phone. ALL CONVERSATIONS ARE ASSUMED TO BE HELD IN PERSON. Or shouted from the next hilltop, or something.
4) Molly does not make eye contact with you. This is because anything more than a passing glance will draw both people into something called a soulgaze. When two people soulgaze, they lose awareness of their surroundings, and all their perception is drawn into...well, viewing the other person's soul. It works differently for each person, but it always shows something that defines who he or she is at that moment. For instance, when Harry looks at Molly's soul, he sees the passage quoted in her profile. She hasn't settled into who she is yet, and could become any of those things; so her soul is one of potential and possibilities.
The rules of the soulgaze: a wizard can only soulgaze a person one time, and what the gazers see in the process is PERMANENTLY burned into their memory, always fresh as if it had just happened five minutes ago. This means that any good wizard is going to be very, very reluctant to soulgaze someone, because more often than not? What they end up seeing is not something they want to remember vividly for the rest of their lives (which, by the way, is many centuries longer than any normal human's, so long as nothing murders them first).
There are three ways to beat the soulgaze. Again, if you've already soulgazed someone, it won't happen again and eye contact can be made safely. Second, a wizard cannot soulgaze a creature that does not have a soul. HOWEVER, this is a lose-lose option because if you are immune to soulgaze because of having no soul, that's pretty much telling the wizard that you are one of the very many things that likes to eat wizards for breakfast. The third method is to NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT IN THE FIRST PLACE, and this is the preferred method.
I think that ICly, I will never have Molly entering a soulgaze with someone. However, I've made incorrect predictions with my characters before, and it's entirely possible to trap someone into making eye contact with you. It has canonically happened to Harry, who has had many, many more years experience of avoiding eye contact to help him out. So if your character really tries, it's possible to force Molly into a soulgaze. I have no real complaints with this, but I will want to coordinate with any soulgazers OOCly. Because while I find soulgazes cool, both characters involved should feel very disturbed by the experience. It's something I'm hesitant to expose her to, is all. XD
Age: 19.
Height: Molly is just short of six feet tall; I'd guess somewhere around 5 feet, ten inches.
Eyes: Blue.
Hair: Her natural hair color is blond, but she currently dyes it peroxide-white, and keeps it around chin length.
Medical Info: Nothing particularly notable. Medical records are typical for a modern city teenager. Theoretically, she's going to have the same slow-regeneration as Harry, but we shouldn't be testing that theory any time soon.
Physical traits: Molly's "built like a brick house," with pale, smooth skin and a chest to be proud of. Molly has multiple piercings and tattoos, which will be noted in further detail later on.
What's Okay To Mention Around Her: Molly is a very curious person, and will not say no to hearing about stuff. There is the chance that she'll go spouting what you said to Harry, though.
Notes for the Psychics: Dresdenverse wizards have horrible mental defense. Harry's better than some, but Molly's a newbie wizard, and will have next to no mental defenses. She also probably still has a slight taint from the repeated practice of dark magic.
Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: I'm going to have to go with asking first. Molly thinks shapeshifting is Totally Awesome, but it's still a little tricky.
Kissing/Hugging: The very night Molly became Harry's apprentice, he forbid her to do any base-running or self-gratification. Molly thinks this is unfair, but she'll be wanting any pdas to be on her terms anyway.
Fighting: Nothing more than a good argument, please. Molly is a non-combatant.
Maim/Murder/Death: I'd prefer not. Again, Molly's not ready for this stuff, and besides, if you mess with Molly, Harry will be a shounen retard and come hurt you.
Emo, Angst, Drama: Yeah, the Dresden characters are drama whores. XD That one's fine with me.
Cooking: Molly can do very simple stuff? Like. Hamburger Helper. Assuming she, like Harry, doesn't short out the stove. She's probably very good at chopping up vegetables and stuff, since as the eldest child in the Carpenter family, she has to help her mom out with all kinds of day-to-day family stuff. EDIT: As of Small Favor, I am wrong! Molly cannot even cook an EGG without ruining it. But she makes a damn fine cup of coffee.
Other important things to note:
1) Molly has piercings. A lot of them. Um. She currently has an eyebrow piercing, one nostril, a tongue stud, another in her lower lip, two piercings per ear, NIPPLE PIERCINGS that show through her shirt, and when she tries seducing Harry, he confirms that she has even more piercings in other "interesting places." COUGH COUGH. She also has a tattoos:
She had a tattoo on the left side of her neck in the shape of a slithering serpent, and I could see the barbs and curves of some kind of tribal design flickering out from the neckline of her tank top. Another design, whirling loops and spirals, covered the back of her right hand and vanished up under the sleeve of the jacket.
The snake tattoo continues all the way past her belly button. Harry describes her as Frankenhooker for a reason, it's just. Impossible to come up with a PB that matches the detail Jim Butcher goes into when describing Molly. XD So despite the fact these things are not in her icons! Tattoos, piercings. Gothzilla. I think you get the picture.
2) OOCly, I don't care (actually I think it's very shiny), but ICly, Molly is going to be a little careful about physical contact. This is because when a practitioner of magic in Dresdenverse has skin-on-skin contact with...I think it's just another wizard? Anyway, the touch can conduct the aura of a wizard's power. This is easy to discover, because Molly was able to find on her own out long before Harry started teaching her. She will probably deliberately avoid bare contact when she can unless she's comfortable with you.
3) Yeah, that latent magical power? As you'll notice with Harry, that energy causes nearby technology to fail in a spectacular way. The newer and more complex a piece of technology is, the easier it breaks; this happens faster and more dramatically based on the wizard's emotional state. It's pretty much the Murphy's Law of technology; light bulbs burn out, gears seize up and smoke, guns jam, computer hard drives wipe themselves, elevators get stuck. Wizards are very careful about trips to the hospital because they could very well destroy some poor sap's life support by being in the same room with him. We never see Molly fry anything in canon, but that's pretty much only because generally? Harry breaks everything that's breakable first. But even practitioners with barely any talent at all have trouble getting cell phones to work, and Molly--while she doesn't have as much latent power as Harry--certainly has a good amount of it.
As such: we can expect things to start frying themselves when Molly starts feeling emotional. It ALSO means that she will never be on a computer or a phone. ALL CONVERSATIONS ARE ASSUMED TO BE HELD IN PERSON. Or shouted from the next hilltop, or something.
4) Molly does not make eye contact with you. This is because anything more than a passing glance will draw both people into something called a soulgaze. When two people soulgaze, they lose awareness of their surroundings, and all their perception is drawn into...well, viewing the other person's soul. It works differently for each person, but it always shows something that defines who he or she is at that moment. For instance, when Harry looks at Molly's soul, he sees the passage quoted in her profile. She hasn't settled into who she is yet, and could become any of those things; so her soul is one of potential and possibilities.
The rules of the soulgaze: a wizard can only soulgaze a person one time, and what the gazers see in the process is PERMANENTLY burned into their memory, always fresh as if it had just happened five minutes ago. This means that any good wizard is going to be very, very reluctant to soulgaze someone, because more often than not? What they end up seeing is not something they want to remember vividly for the rest of their lives (which, by the way, is many centuries longer than any normal human's, so long as nothing murders them first).
There are three ways to beat the soulgaze. Again, if you've already soulgazed someone, it won't happen again and eye contact can be made safely. Second, a wizard cannot soulgaze a creature that does not have a soul. HOWEVER, this is a lose-lose option because if you are immune to soulgaze because of having no soul, that's pretty much telling the wizard that you are one of the very many things that likes to eat wizards for breakfast. The third method is to NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT IN THE FIRST PLACE, and this is the preferred method.
I think that ICly, I will never have Molly entering a soulgaze with someone. However, I've made incorrect predictions with my characters before, and it's entirely possible to trap someone into making eye contact with you. It has canonically happened to Harry, who has had many, many more years experience of avoiding eye contact to help him out. So if your character really tries, it's possible to force Molly into a soulgaze. I have no real complaints with this, but I will want to coordinate with any soulgazers OOCly. Because while I find soulgazes cool, both characters involved should feel very disturbed by the experience. It's something I'm hesitant to expose her to, is all. XD