Carpenter

A digital cartoon drawing of Carpenter, who is a blond lightskin woman wearing a black shirt and jacket. She is laying in shallow water, hiding her face and looking up wearily. Art by skyberia.tumblr.com/

### Aliases

Mallory Glass (birth name)
 Mal (Vaughan)
 Anathema Carpenter
 Attack Dog Of The Faith (Faulkner)
Sandra (alias)

### Beliefs

The Trawlerman (former)
The Cairn Maiden (current)

## Character Information

### Kin

Em Glass (Older Brother)
 Adeline Glass (Grandmother)
Gregory Glass (Father)
Sandra Glass (Mother)

### Connections

Faulkner (Complicated Kinship)
Paige (Friend)
Vaughan (Friend)
Hayward (Friend)
Mason (Rival)
Stewardess Acantha (Mentor)

## Content Information

### First Appearance

Chapter 1: Let Me Speak First Of Revelations

> The Silt Verses teach us that all rivers are one river. And all currents, sooner or later, find their way to the same silent garden beneath the waves.
>
> Chapter 1: Let Me Speak First Of Revelations

**Carpenter** is a weary and jaded but accomplished acolyte of The Trawler Man. Carpenter is at minimum 31 years old. She is referred to as a 'crow' and often described as seeming angry. Following the events of Chapter 4, she walks with a limp.

## Personality

Carpenter is a clever and practical person, especially in the face of fatality. She's shown to not be a fan of people's emotional outbursts or naivety, preferring people who have the dry dark humor she enjoys.

has shown hesitance when it comes to worship. Her relationship with faith and her identity, due to the long and complicated religious history of her family. She does not see faith as something positive, but something that stems mainly from fear, and has a disdain for praying, including when other do it.

## Gallery

Digital Painting of Carpenter in Black Clothes in a defensive position, looking up at the viewer. Art by skyberia.tumblr.comSketch of Carpenter looking to the side, with a stern look and a scar on her face. Art by new-hyperfixation-every-monthSide profile of Carpenter seated with two cats on her, one on her lap and one perched on her shoulder. Her expression is nonplussed and slightly rye, as she looks off to the right. Art by tumblr.com/new-hyperfixation-every-month
## Background

Carpenter grew up in the faith with her older brother Em Glass. She was raised by her Nana Glass after her parents were executed for their illegal worship of the Trawler-Man. As a child, Carpenter had trouble understanding the weight of her actions and faith. Carpenter is forced to do it instead. It is a source of shame for her. She remembers it as the unhappiest night of her life. Four months later, when Nana Glass was killed, Carpenter and her brother Em hid behind a tumble-dryer. She is certain Nana Glass sung right to the end.

Carpenter, being young, was sent to the Little Angels of Mending Reform House in southern Glottage. She grew close to Augustus, the god living in the reform house's pond, praying for him to drown the cruel reform house, to no avail. Over time, she slowly forgot the songs of her river in favour of kinder, sterile gods.

Em, on the other hand, was old enough to be 'an accessory in Nana Glass's crimes' and was sent to prison. He stayed firm in his faith, and pretending to be a model prisoner, he gathered supplies and formed a plan that ended with him flooding the entire prison, killing himself and 4 others in the process. When Carpenter saw this on the news, she was shocked and horrified to see her peers' positive reaction to Em's death. She ran outside to the pond, where she found the goldfish dead and floating like the bodies of the inmates had been in the flood. Taking this as a miracle, she began entrusting her life to the Trawler-Man again.

When she was 18, she worked at Hallowed Hoagies with her friend Vaughan for at least seven months. They spent most of their time making get-rich-quick schemes. One day while working, Carpenter was sought out by Mason, under the guise of her uncle, claiming to know of her faith and family history. Vaughan, who'd presented the idea of moving away a few months before, got the marketing job in the Linger Straits they'd been trying for and left Carpenter alone.

Mason continued to visit and tell Carpenter stories about Nana Glass, about her childhood, about the Parish. Feeling she had nothing else left for her, Carpenter changed her name as a way 'to distance herself from everything Mallory Glass represented' and agreed to join the Paraclete's Gulch, where she began building up its community for 13 years before being set off on a pilgrimage with Faulkner.

## Connections

* Em Glass
* Adeline Glass
* Gregory Glass
* Sandra Glass
* Faulkner
* Paige
* Vaughan
* Hayward
* Mason
* Stewardess Acantha

## Trivia

* Carpenter really enjoys cappuccinos and thick pancakes.
* According to an ask *The Silt Verses* Tumblr, Carpenter is confirmed as aromantic.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 29: And Where My Final Footsteps Fall
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 8: And Those I Love, It Rends
3. ↑ Chapter 9: My Song Has Taken Hold Of Me
4. ↑ Chapter 6: It Winds, It Worms, It Wends
5. ↑ thesiltverses on Tumblr on 29th of April, 2021