Molly Blyndeff

Bear Trap redirects here. For the episode, see: Bear Trap
Molly-Wolly-Doodle-All-the-Day "Molly" Blyndeff is a beleaguered 12-year-old girl who runs a family toy store in place of her neglectful father and sister, Lorelai. She winds up getting locked in the Sweet Jazz City Museum after hours during a school trip and is promptly roped into an insane plot over a mysterious amulet with the power to steal people's epithets. During which she befriended Giovanni Potage and Sylvester Ashling, joining Giovanni's Villain Group under the alias Bear Trap. 
She would later find Rick Shades beached while with her best friends, Phoenica Fleecity and Trixie Roughhouse, binging him back to the store. While trying to treat him, her sister kidnapped Molly's teacher in an attempt to woo Giovanni. After defeating her with her friends and saving her teacher, Giovanni "kidnapped" Molly so she could be free from her life of constant work.
Her Epithet, "Dumb", can mute and/or simplify objects or people. This application may vary, from creating a bubble that prevents sound from traveling in or out, to lowering the damage of an attack, to actually making someone less intelligent.
==Appearance==
Molly is a small girl with brown skin, freckles and curly dark brown hair with multicolored stars and loops styled like bear ears. She wears a pink and green striped shirt, a custom-made bear hoodie, a green skirt, and yellow boots. Her eyes are styled to look like buttons, similarly to stuffed animals having button eyes.
==Personality==
Molly is a timid young girl, who finds it hard to stand up for herself until she meets Giovanni Potage, who encourages and reinforces her to be more assertive and self-caring. For the majority of the time, she has a lack of confidence, which is likely the result of her home life which involves her neglectful father, Martin, and sister, Lorelai, who place a large amount of responsibility on her shoulders without her permission.
Molly also often takes night shifts in the toy store and often finds herself getting 5 hours of sleep a night. Therefore, in comparison with peers at her age, she is more haggard and unenthusiastic.
Nonetheless, after the museum incident, she seems to have grown a bit in terms of self-confidence and esteem. For example, she decided to give herself a deserved sleep instead of doing the usual night shift after leaving the museum and returning home. She has also learned that helping others doesn't mean she has to sacrifice her well-being and be a pushover. She now knows that she has to sort out her personal issues before further helping others.
In stark contrast to her epithet, Molly is intelligent for her age and has a developed set of analytical and observation skills as she has taught herself to tackle with the dysfunctional family issues so as to keep her family afloat. In truth, she is skilled at pacifying others quickly due to being in the service industry for some time, as a means to stop them from continue bothering her and hide her dissatisfaction.https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189873355317/i-saw-people-asking-you-why-mollys-dumb-epithethttps://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1218599298222514177
She has nervous tick of gripping her backpack straps for comfort and she's always nervous so she always grips themMore Epithet Erased in 4 days!Prison of Plastic, Chapter 7: Prison of Plastic To the point of people not noticing because she does it so much. This is notably used several times during her encounter with Lorelai's Dream bubble when she kidnapped Naven.
==History==
===Past===
Molly Blyndeff was born on October 25 to Calliope and Martin Blyndeff, full name Molly-Wolly-Doddle-All Day-Blyndeff, in Sweet Jazz City, Taiga Country.Epithet Erased on Twitter - October 19, 2022
Her father had managed to work out a system with her school where she worked even days and went to school on odd ones.
One time Molly came home to find her father had bought a giant sized kiddy pool and several expensive pool toys that. He was about to fill it up but he forgot the water bill. Now they occupy 90% of the floorspace.
Molly once saw Moxie Roughhouse take a bite out of a tire.Prison of Plastic, Chapter 2: Vincent Murder
Phoenica Fleecity says that she thought communism was bad, but Molly explains that was just propaganda from the Cold War. Trixie Roughhouse then yells at them because Molly had been talking about this, and Karl Marx, for 3 hours.But Molly...
Naven says that it is important to find a way to deal with stressful situations, he copes by writing lesson plans. Molly comments that he is usually writing lesson plans. Naven looks up at her sadly.Naven
==="Museum Arc"===
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==="Western Arc"===
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===Prison of Plastic===
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===Non-Canon===
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====HEIST NIGHT====
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====Among Us Script====
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====TWO-LOWEEN====
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====Giovanni Gives Bear Trap an Order====
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====Glow in the Dark Molly and Trixie====
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====That Beautiful Sound Cover====
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====Bubblegum Renegade====
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====Molly has had ENOUGH====
Martin Blyndeff asks Molly Blyndeff if she is "working hard or hardly working" causing Molly to go on a rant about how Martin isn't funny and how she has never heard him say "thank you," as he rapidly looks around.Molly has had ENOUGH
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====She Didn't Do Her Chores...====
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==Abilities==
===Skillset===
*Financial Management: She is very proficient in managing money as she is the one running the store and doing the taxes.
*Cashier: She is the Cashier for her family's store and as such is quite versed in it and dealing with unhappy people.
===Natural Abilities=== 
*Good Hearing: Molly has fairly sensitive hearing, able to hear Phoenica Fleecity yelling from far away over the city noise.
===Epithet: Dumb===
*Silencing: Molly is able to silence specific people and objects.Prison of Plastic, Prologue A: The Neo Trio 
**Silence Bubble: Creates a soundproof bubble around herself that mutes everything outside and inside. 
***Silent But Deadly: A combo technique she performs with Giovanni Potage, deafening the opponent while Giovanni attacks from behind undetected.
*Dumb Down: 
**Dumb Down Intelligence: Molly can use this to hypnotize people by reducing their intelligence, making them highly suggestible.
**Dumb Down Attack/Pain: Reduces any pain she or others feel and reduces the amount of damage an attack can do. With this, she is able to create an aura of serenity to reduce a person's discomfort.
**Hushabye: Dispels summoned objects/entities by "dumbing them down to nothing". It can only be used on small summons. 
***Bear Paw: An upgraded version of Hushabye. By giving the attack a name and yelling it out loud while performing it, Molly enhances the power of the ability, focusing her epithet-nullifying energy into the shape of a bear's claws which can erase much larger constructs in a single swipe.Prison of Plastic, Chapter 12: A Little Burnt but Still Good
==Equipment==
*Hoodie: Molly's Hoodie was made by her mother, designed after Molly's favorite animal, a bear. Over the years it became a source of great comfort for her. Giovanni Potage and Mera Salamin were able to pick up by the hood as a way of disarming her.
*Backpack: to be added
*Phone: to be added
===Former Equipment===
*Arsene Amulet: Molly temporarily gained procession of the amulet from Giovanni Potage and used its epithet-stealing power to restore Sylvester Ashling's epithet.
==Relationships==
===Martin Blyndeff===
Molly has a poor relationship with her father, Martin, as he is highly neglectful of her and unfit to be a parent in general. He uses her as a personal assistant and makes her do everything from watch his store at night to file his taxes. Martin's treatment of Molly has left her in a constantly tired state and devoid of having any confidence. He also unwittingly put Molly in danger by taking her phone to play games and completely forgetting about her when it was time to leave- leaving her trapped in the Sweet Jazz Museum overnight with no means of contacting him or anyone else who could help.
===Lorelai Blyndeff===
In addition to her negative father-daughter relationship, Molly also has strong tensions between her and her sister, Lorelai, who is childish and irresponsible. Lorelai, allegedly, feels animosity towards Molly for her ability to dumb down her dream bubbles and her refusal to play, viewing Molly as a bossy figure who only yells at her about chores and other work-related topics. Lorelai appears to also be favored by their father over Molly, further increasing tensions.
===Mera Salamin===
Molly is reasonably afraid of Mera's desire to steal Molly's Dumb Epithet. Despite this, Molly does try to sympathize with Mera. Despite Mera attempting to harm her, Molly still forgives her enough to dumb down her pain before Mera is sent to jail. However, Mera currently doesn't care enough to accept Molly's friendship.
===Indus Tarbella===
If their situation were different, Molly and Indus could be friends. He helps to begin with, freeing her after she had been strapped to a chair with duct tape by Giovanni and helping her defeat, Flamethrower, Car Crash and Ben. However, when he and Mera learn that Molly's epithet can dull pain, they both realize this is what they need to finally cure Mera of the effects caused by her own Epithet, which causes her to be in constant pain, and Indus apprehends Molly as soon as Mera orders him to, without hesitation. But Indus is a man of honor and he can't help but let Molly and Giovanni go after they "help" him and convinces him he owes them. He still respects Molly, especially after seeing her willingness to protect Giovanni, and is friendly towards her all the time. He doesn't really have any ill intent towards Molly and he might feel some guilt over helping Mera take a little girl's epithet away. However, the person Indus cares for most has been in constant pain the entire time he has known her and seeing her in so much agony has likely caused him a great deal of pain as well. He knows how desperate she is to make it end and his determination to help her in any way he can outweigh everything else, even any moral conflictions he might feel.
===Giovanni Potage===
Although intimidated by him at first, Molly quickly warms up to Giovanni after learning that he is not only harmless but secretly nice as well. They bond over their mutual interests and when Giovanni gets the hint something's troubling her, invites her to sit with him and talk about it. Molly hesitates for a moment but Giovanni's genuine kindness helps her open up and she tells him about how difficult things have become since her mother passed away and how she's had to fill the void her mother left behind. It becomes evident to Giovanni that Molly takes on almost all the responsibilities of running a household and a business because her father and sister are unwilling to take them on themselves. 
That lights a fire in Giovanni and he gives her an empowering pep talk about how she's way too much of a pushover and that shouldn't let other people step on her. He reminds her that she's important too and encourages her to start standing up for herself. Giving Molly more confidence than she had before and from this moment, she knows she's found a true friend in Giovanni. Despite only knowing each other for a few hours, Molly and Giovanni are already growing close to one another. Giovanni is rapidly becoming an older brother figure to Molly and, despite being a villain, a positive role model as well. Before meeting Giovanni, Molly didn't really have anyone she could rely on but as soon as Giovanni learns this, he quickly steps up to become the person she needs.
===Sylvester Ashling===
Molly and Sylvester do not get off to a good start as he attacks her and Giovanni, thinking that they were trying to steal the Arsene Amulet, which he is hoping to study. However, when they manage to defeat Sylvie and they get a chance to talk, Sylvie learns that he had been tricked and it was, in fact, Mera who was trying to steal the amulet and this leaves him open to persuasion. His reluctance to cooperate has Molly comparing him to the difficult customers she's dealt with and uses the same tactics she uses on them to persuade Sylvie. She's simply nice to him, in his case, offering to be his friend and this works, convincing him to team up with her and Giovanni temporarily. As they begin to work together, Molly learns that Sylvie is nicer than he seems, with him offering to help her professionally as soon as he learns she has a problem, leading to them begining to form a genuine friendship.
===Percival King===
Due to the events that occurred in the Sweet Jazz City Museum, Molly is conflicted over if she views Percy as an ally or a threat. While Molly is willing to assist the police, she does so at the risk of exposing the fact that she was temporarily affiliated with Giovanni's Banzai Blasters; Molly is reluctant to provide any information that the police could use to arrest Giovanni, and she even lies to Percy to protect Giovanni and herself. Otherwise, Molly respects the police and is friendly towards Percy.
===Phoenica Fleecity===
Phoenica Fleecity and Trixie Roughhouse are Molly's best friends. Molly has shown to be protective of Phoenica as she tries to prevent Rick Shades from befriending Phoenica.Prison of Plastic, Chapter 1: Fish Out of Water They would hang out often and seen together to the point they are known as the Neapolitan trio, or neo trio.
===Trixie Roughhouse===
Phoenica Fleecity and Trixie Roughhouse are Molly's best friends. They would hang out often and seen together to the point they are known as the Neapolitan trio, or neo trio.
===Rick Shades===
Upon first meeting Rick Shades, she was cautious and evasive of his attempts to befriend her. But when Rick passes out from hunger and exhaustion, Molly attempts to give him aid.
==Theme==
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==Trivia==
=== General ===
*She gets about 5 hours of sleep a night.Molly Trivia 1
*The loops in her hair are styled after bear ears.Molly Trivia 2
*Her mother made her bear hoodie from scratch. She wears it everyday.
*It was revealed in the TWO-LOWEEN script that her full name is "Molly-Wolly-Doodle-All-the-Day Blyndeff" because her father wanted his daughters to have "unique" names.
**According to the script it's "Molly-Wolly-Doodle-All-the-Day Blyndeff" while Dani Chambers says "Molly-Wolly-Doodle-All-the-Way Blyndeff"
*Molly is biracial, her father is Caucasian and her mother is black.https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189241654962/is-blyndeff-a-pun-like-blind-and-deaf-and-her
**This makes her Deepwood-Taiga race in-universe.
*In "Bear Trap", it is revealed that she has pyrophobia. In "The Doctor is In", it is revealed that she has misophonia, and one of her trigger sounds is a fire alarm. This may be associated with her mother’s untimely death two years prior.
**Jello has misophonia as well and Molly is a way of him to vent about it.Ask: h! Also I have misophonia and seeing a main... - November 29, 2019 - JelloApocalypse on Tumblr 
*The stars in her hair are naturally grown rather than being hair clips. They also have the texture of cereal marshmallows and taste terrible.Epithet Erased - MOLLY DOLL (Available now!) Specifically, they taste like dusty plastic.AskHow would you describe the taste of Molly’s hair... - May 30, 2020 - JelloApocalypse
**if you pull one off it will regrow eventually.Ask: Do ever find out what happened to Giovanni's... - May 30, 2020 - JelloApocalypse on Tumblr
*Molly's defense mechanism is going through your mailbox to burn your tax return so you never get it.https://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1218613473904603142
*There's an unused line in Molly's audition packet where she gets mad at her sister for breaking her teddy bear.Epithet Erased - Original Audition Packet! (S1 + PoP)
* Molly's friend group (consisting of herself, Trixie Roughhouse, and Phoenica Fleecity) are referred to as the "Neo Trio" in Epithet Erased, likely due to their hair colors resembling Neapolitan ice cream.https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866313017/lot-of-characters-designs-changed-quite-a-bit-when?is_related_post=1
*Molly’s favorite snack is Teddy Grahams. 
**Her favorite food is oatmeal.
*It's confirmed by Jello that she would be very dangerous if she became a villain when she grew up.https://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1218605519415451649
*According to Jello she is "1-3 years away from the point where her constant seething rage finally boils over her" and Giovanni is the only one stopping this.https://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1218599298927079424
*She is asexual.Epithet Erased on Twitter - June 23, 2021 
**More specifically, Molly knows she's on the ace spectrum and so that's the label she's using for now.Epithet Erased on Twitter - June 24, 2021 - In reply to GhastlyGriffin
*She is Chaotic Good.Epithet Erased on Twitter - December 21, 2019
*She is pro-communism.
*On Twitter, Jello revealed how she would play Among Us, which is:Among Us - Oct 17, 2020 - Brendon Blaber on Twitter (2)
**CREWMATE: Dutifully does tasks. Weaponizes her own cuteness in order to never get killed.
** IMPOSTER: Shockingly good at this. Sews the seeds of infighting while saying VERY little.
*During the Museum Arc she increased from 3 Stars to 4 Stars of proficiency.
**In the past Molly had a score of 18,Prison of Plastic, Chapter 8: Distance Based off past conversion of Tiers and Points, it can be assumed that Star 3 is 17-24 and that Star 4 starts on 25.Epithet Erased on Tumblr - December 30, 2019 This means Molly raised at least 7 points during the Museum Arc.
*Her height is 4'7"
*Molly's birthday is October 25. This makes her a Scorpio.
*Unsurprisingly, her favorite animal is the bear.
*She likes sleeping and holding a warm cup of tea or cocoa.
*Molly’s favorite flavor of lip balm is raisin and her second favorite is apple cinnamon.
*Her favorite color is brown.Prison of Plastic, Chapter 11: Judgement 
===Future of the Series ===
*She will get a lullaby sung to her by Giovanni since the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached 250K.Prison of Plastic Kickstarter
*She will have a minor role in Sweet EscapeTWO-LOWEEN and a major role in Horizontal Pilot Command.Story Arcs Character List - August 18, 2022 - Epithet Erased on Twitter
===Anime Campaign=== 
*Molly being changed from Caucasian (in Anime Campaign) to biracial (in Epithet Erased) is due to Jello having watched a Cree Summer interview about Black women and multiracial people not having enough spotlights in media.
*At the start Molly had a Proficiency of 18. Trixie and Phoenicia had a Proficiency in the single digits. This was due to Molly also having the weakness of auditory sensitivity.https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/173591783702/so-wait-does-molly-have-canon-auditory
===Design===
*Her last name (in conjunction with her epithet's ability) is a pun derived from the expression "blind, deaf, and dumb," an outdated descriptor for someone who cannot see, hear, or speak.
*Her eyes are button eyes to befit her family running a toy store.https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189381865197/are-mollys-eyes-supposed-to-look-like-four-leafThe Art of Epithet Erased, Characters - Molly
*Rhea Burtram regretted making her design so complex due to making here difficult to draw and having to fix others' mistaking when drawing her.
===Tierlists===
*On Twitter, Jello made a tier list of how well liked in the fandom each character is, placing Molly in "Universal Favorite"Epithet Erased on Twitter - 12/20/22
*On Twitter, Jello made a tier list of Stardew Valley spouses, Molly being paired with Penny because "Molly marries Penny to free her from her familial situation... then imendeality divorces. "Go on," she says, "You're free. You can go now! Anywhere you want! ... What's that look for? ... Oh you're in 'love' with me? Oh. Oh, uh.... no thanks!"EpithetErased character Stardew Spouses - 12/13/2023 - Epithet Erased on Twitter
===Reception===
*Molly along with Arnold Markdown are Jello's favorite characters out of the Epithet Erased cast.https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866404677/whos-your-favorite-out-of-the-cast
===Fanworks===
*On Twitter, Jello revealed he was sent a set of teas inspired by characters from Epithet Erased. Molly was used on a tin of mambo and earl grey moonlight tea titled "Moll-Leaf Blyndeff". It had the caption "Sprinkles + Apple Pieces = Cereal Marshmallows!".https://twitter.com/EpithetErased/status/1241818221474430980
**On Twitter, Jello retweeted a promotion for Rick Shades-inspired tea from a Prison of Plastic collection made by the same creator as the ones he was sent.https://twitter.com/mac_toons/status/1614068829281464320 Molly was also apart of this collection, her likeness being used for a mambo, currant, and spiced apple chai tea titled "Brew-Trap". It has the subtitle, "This Marshmallow Now Packs A Serious Cinnamon Bite!".https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=206151
== Merch==
===Doll===
* A doll for Molly was first sold on MakeShip.https://www.makeship.com/products/molly
** It ended/sold out on May 18. 2020.
**This doll appeared in HEIST NIGHT.Epithet Erased - HEIST NIGHT
*A glow-in-the-dark doll was a pledge reward for the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter.
**It is sold out.
**It appeared in Glow in the Dark Molly and Trixie.Glow in the Dark Molly and Trixie! - [Classic 90s Commercial]
**It was also available on Makeship.com till December 17, 2021.https://www.makeship.com/products/molly-gitd-plush
===Hoodie ===
*A Molly Hoodie was produced because the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached $310K.
*It was featured in Molly Hoodie Commercial.
* It does not have the ball tail, due to wanting to have an easier time sitting.Molly Hoodie Tweet - 9/21/22 - Epithet Erased on Twitter
*Brendon slashed his profits by $20 to make it considerably cheaper by cutting down shipping cost.Prison of Plastic Kickstarter - Update #14
===Vinyl Figure===
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Molly Vinyl Figure Preview.png|A Preview of a Molly Blyndeff Vinyl Figure
* A Molly Vinyl Figure was teased on twitter on December 8, 20232 Years Later Update [4/3]
*The figure released on January 20, 2024Epithet Erased on Twitter - January 20, 2024
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