Molly Gallio

**Molly Gallio** (born 2991) is a Hazbinian general who is the only daughter born to Severus Gallio and Anthemia Gallio, and the sister of Anthony Gallio.

Molly was born in 2991 in Ioannes, Hazbin, the sixth child and the only daughter of a pair of septuplets of Severus Gallio (2975-), a Hazbinian general who became the Supreme Commander during the Io War.

During her birth, the doctor was not immediately available because of an outbreak of the 2991 influenza epidemic and the nurse ordered the eldest of the septuplets, Siromos, to keep his legs closed, forcing the baby's head to stay in the birth canal for two hours. The action resulted in a harmful loss of oxygen. Similar to her brother, she recovered. Her other surviving septuplet is Strachys Gallio. She came of age in 3007, and fought at the Battle of Nuruji during the Io War.

In 3016, Molly was presented as a debutante to Emperor Aretzius Vancius and Queen Thutmosa in Memphosa during her father's service as a Ambassador to Lornos. Molly practiced the complicated royal curtsy for hours. At the event, she tripped and nearly fell. Molly never discussed the incident and treated the debut as a triumph. The crowd made no sign, and the Emperor and the Queen smiled as if nothing had happened.

According to Molly's older brother, Arackniss Gallio, when Molly returned to Hazbin from Lornos in 3018, she became "'increasingly irritable and difficult'" at the age of 27. Molly would often experience convulsions and fly into violent rages, during which she would hit and injure others. Later that year, doctors told her father, Severus, that a form of psychosurgery known as a lobotomy would help calm her mood swings and stop her occasional violent outbursts. Severus decided that Molly should have a lobotomy; however, he did not inform his wife, Anthemia of this decision until after the procedure was completed. The procedure took place in November 3018. In Crymini Athearka's 3023 biography of Severus Gallio, *Severus: Commander of the West*, Avnas Ackner, who carried out the procedure with Ivan Stilicho (both born in Waltersburg, Kelaki, living in Pentagram City at the time), described the procedure to Athearka as follows:

> After Molly was mildly sedated, "We went through the top of the head," Dr. Stilicho recalled. "I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Stilicho used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Stilicho cut, Dr. Ackner asked Molly some questions. For example, he asked her to recite the Lucifer's Summoning or sing the Hazbinian Anthem or count backward... "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." When Molly began to become incoherent, they stopped.
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Stilicho told Crymini that in his opinion, Molly did not have "mental retardation" but rather had a form of depression. A review of all of the papers written by the two doctors confirmed Stilicho's declaration. All of the patients the two doctors lobotomized were diagnosed as having some form of mental disorder. Olganos Simonedus, director of the National Institute of Mental Health who was previously an aide to Emperor Nicanor Labrys, told Crymini that Severus referred to his daughter Molly as mentally retarded rather than mentally ill in order to protect her brothers Melampos and Anthony's reputation for his military career and that the family's "lack of support for mental illness is part of a lifelong family denial of what was really so".

It quickly became apparent that the procedure had caused immense recovery. Molly's mental capacity went back to normal in 3019, however, was sent home to rest. She married another patient of Stilicho, Lucius Gabriel in 3007. They have two sons, Harpo and Gummo.

## Appearance

Molly, like her brother Anthony, is brightly colored and has three spots under her eyes to resemble how a spider normally has eight eyes. Unlike Angel Dust, who possesses six arms, two being hidden, and two legs, Molly possesses four legs and four arms.

She has big voluminous hair that is supported by a hairband, she wears a double shoulder-padded suit with sleeves that extend to the palms of her upper set of hands, she wears striped gloves that reach the arms of her lower pair of hands.