Molten

## General

Molten is a tall, sly, merciless stick bug who is an infamous figure within every major faction. He is the current leader of the Molten Legion. He is a true narcissist and wants to control everything with an iron fist. He is a minor villain prominent in many arcs and stories.

## Origin

Born in the Mantis Tribe of Hallownest with high hopes and an ambitious heart, Molten was viewed as a disappointment and picked on by others thanks to his weak and frail body. Nobody respected him and this had most probably affected him in the worst way. One day he walked into a library - one presumably undiscovered before - and found books on building mechanical constructs and torture devices. One such book caught his attention more than the others because of unknowable reasons, however. It was a book about replacing the brains of creatures - describing in terrible detail how a brain of a creature could be made to stay the same with the same memories despite being in a host other than its body. This idea captivated Molten, he needed to satisfy his devilish hunger, so he harvested the brains of Gruzzers in hopes to replace some creatures brain with them. Unable to find a perfect candidate for replacement, he found that his own parents would do a nice job.

He stared at his parents, bumping into walls in a very similar fashion as a common Gruzzer. This was the first time in his miserable life he had felt happy, accomplished. He thrived on cruelty, on experiments. Though these thoughts would soon come to a halt as his parents - whom he viewed as successful experiments hereinafter - exited the establishment. He needed to terminate them - nobody should know about this, and so he did. But in his attack, he was spotted by one of the Mantis Lords himself, the Mantis Lord that would later be known as Terrence the Traitor Lord. Instead of punishing Molten, however, Terrence saw potential in him and "offered" for Molten to help the Tribe understand the infection better. Molten hid the bodies of his own parents and left with the Mantis Lord, feeling worse every second that passed.

It took a while for Molten to get used to the undescribed place the Mantis Lord took him to. It didn't feel like it belonged in the Tribe. The Mantis Lord made Molten experiment on brains of various creatures, infected or otherwise. He spent a chunk of his life here, giving info to the Mantis Lord and experimenting on many creatures. Weirdly enough, Molten liked it. During his experimentations, he came across an oddity in the brains of Mantises. They were able to control their infection and become more powerful. Terrence verbally told Molten that he was proud of him. This was the first time Molten had felt true happiness. Impressing a Mantis Lord. The Mantis Lord mentioned how he was going to become infected but the moment was cut short by another Mantis Lord breaking into the place. The hereinafter Traitor Lord ran for his life but Molten was captured easily because of his frail body. He was put in a cell with the charge being heresy and he waited patiently for the Traitor Lord to free him. Surely he would come.

## Storyline

Molten waited 10 years in a cell, only food being rancid eggs. He tried to break out many times but failed. His mental health was spiralling downwards and he developed a specific hatred for the Pale King and the Mantis Tribe. He blamed his predicament on Hallownest's various governments and vowed revenge. His perfect opportunity rose on his 10th year of prison, however. There was an attack made on the establishment. Molten build a bomb from various utensils and broke free from his cell. He couldn't care less about who had made the attack. He swiftly escaped and hid in Greenpath where he "joined" the The Husks using orange glasses (faking the tell-tale signs of the infection). He heavily underestimated Hiro and slightly feared Code - he learned that the Husks were fighting The Refuge - this was The Eternal Siege, the first official war between the two factions. Molten plotted to join the Refuge as well and make both sides fight and steal their geo while they were occupied to build an army and an array of weapons and mech to destroy both sides. While he succeeded on the first part, he didn't have many members in his newly formed faction, ATFFF (by that I mean he had none). He eventually met Scarlet, the at-the-time Mistress of the Troupe. They made an alliance, Molten would cause chaos which would feed the Troupe, and the Troupe would lend him their help.

While that was happening he saw some robots in crystals peaks and began doing his first project, so called "project F.A.R" which stood for "Fix All Robots". With those robots he could mine geo and crystals, Scarlet asked for some, and Molten gave her one. Many shenanigans happened during Molten's life outside of the Mantis Tribe including stealing the geo of every single faction, performing attacks on the Refuge, infiltrating Xenosia, adding goons to his then small group that would be referred to as the Molten Legion such as Vengan and Honeycomb, creating various mechs and devices, writing the Iggy.Script fanfiction (very important), somehow managing to hire the Leeches, merging the Conglomerate with his group, hiring Olgur, reviving a part of Nover as Shell Nover, getting killed and eaten by Andra and transferring his consciousness into a stickbug however corrupted, torturing Andra with Olgur's help, reviving the Infectodile with metal, conquering Swarzia and indoctrinating a bunch of rats there into joining his legion, trying to kill Neyo and Andra many many times, harvesting the power of brine by inventing the Brine Collector, turning the corpse of Honeycomb into a table, pissing off literally every faction (including his), and much much more. He would eventually be erased during the Nadir inside the Black Spire.

## Personality

Simply evil, incredibly narcissistic, "dislikes playing by the rules".

## Abilities

Very smart and very good with building mechanical constructs. He has a weak body but he makes up for it with his mechs and smarts. He is also pretty good at running.

## Bonds

Considers Andra his main concern and nemesis, Neyo and Hiro as mere annoyances, Olgur, Shank, Leeches and Brimbies as his minions. He also is very allergic against healthy relationships.

## Trivia

Makes his constructs look like him, he is based of Dr. Eggman from Sonic the hedgehog series.