Molly Crenshaw

Edited Unofficial Art by Kurosu Juu

## History

Molly Crenshaw, born July 3rd, 1894, is the only daughter of Mallard Crenshaw and the deceased Dominia Crenshaw. Her father is a renowned but currently retired neurologist and biologist whose understanding of the human nervous system reaches back to his time as a field doctor in the Second Boer War.

Molly's childhood was spent in the seclusion and safety of her family's estate due to a yet undetermined form of muscular degeneration that targeted her legs, arms, and lower back. As such she spent much of her life consigned to a wheelchair and crutches and rarely went beyond the limits of her room without assistance from her parents. She spent much of her time writing, reading, and tending to a small garden she had assembled in her room but suffered from loneliness as she was separated from much of the world. The few times she escaped the mundanity of her home was to accompany her parents to Oslo, Cork, Paris, and even as far as Toronto to visit other leading physicians to cure her slowly deteriorating body.

At Age 7, Molly's mother passed away of influenza and this loss to the family had her father committed to the cure for his daughter's rapidly degrading health. For five years after did much of the family's wealth dry up with fruitless research and only after Mallard's second trip to Ceylon did he find the an instance of muscular regeneration stemming from the consumption of a rare and unheard of tree-residing lizard living in the rubber plantations of southern Ceylon. Bringing his research home he distilled a solution originating from the lizards' genetic structure and applied it to Molly's nervous system in a last-ditch attempt to heal her body. The effects took place in the subsequent 72 hours as Molly's cellular structure underwent a unique if not unsettling transformation: her bones and muscular structure continuously lost rigidity until they began to mimic the rubber that her serum was partially rooted in. On the first night of her treatment she was awoken from her dreams to find her arms and legs having elongated to dozens of times their usual length and tangled about her room. Not only could she feel her limbs once more but felt a superhuman level of clarity with everything her body came into contact with. While initially perplexed and terrified of the ordeal of her newfound elasticity, Molly quickly set about studying her new found abilities and the freedom her body now possessed. For months she would attempt to replicate the lengths her body had stretched to the first night and could soon not only stretch her limbs but any part of her body and could learn to multitask even without being able to see the parts of her body she was manipulating. With her newfound elasticity came not just unparalleled reach and flexibility but a new, superhuman endurance that allows her to take punches, blows, and even martial weapons with little harm to her.

Since the discovery of her abilities, Molly has spent much of her newborn freedom to take care of her aging father and to assist him in his research into a number of animal-to-human genetic manipulation as well as his fascination for gardening. She regularly attends to the home and makes trips into town and serves as his research aide for more dangerous projects as well as to reach the highest cabinets when he needs it.

## Relationships

* Mallard Crenshaw- Father
* Dominia Crenshaw- Mother

## Trivia

* TBD

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