Molly

Molly is the niece of Cash

## Appearance

Molly is a hound dog mix with light tan-brown fur. She has a tan muzzle and underbelly/chest. Her paws have brown socks, along with two spots on her back and her tail tip. Her ears are long and dark brown, and she has light tan-brown eye patches on her eyes.She has a small tuft of fur on her head, brown eyebrows, hazel eyes, and a dark brown nose. She's always wearing her blue bandana around her neck.

## Personality

As a younger pup, Molly has a short attention span and tends to spend her time following her nose and chasing anything that moves, often finding herself exploring and getting lost away from her family's farm and howls in order to get her mama or papa's attention. She's a bit too curious for her own good and tends to ask a lot of questions that usually ends conversations with the result of "because I said so". Although she is usually an upbeat and friendly pup, she does have her moments of jealousy and can get rather petty and passive aggressive when she doesn't get her way. As a young adult, Molly has been a bit influenced by her Aunt Dixie in terms of sass and snarkiness. While she's still a rather friendly and charismatic, you rub her fur the wrong way and she won't hesitate to give you a piece of her mind. She's fiesty and knows how use her voice.

## Bio

Born on farm to her parents Georgia and Conway, second oldest in a litter of 5, closest to her "twins" Blue and Wynona before they all got adopted later down the road. Molly was only a month old when she met her Uncle Cash for the first time when van blew a few tires by their farm. Cash recognized the area and led them up to his sister's farm, where he too had been raised up before running off to start his own life and adventure away from being a hunting dog. He had the strays give the pups a performance and bonded with his nieces and nephews. Since that day, Molly has always adored music and howling along to the radio whenever her owners played it. Molly asks Cash if she can join them when they come to town for the fair, but Cash chuckles and tells her she's too young, maybe when she's older. While her family tries to get her to take interest in hunting, Molly refuses and says she'd rather be a herding dog so she doesn't have to hurt any other critters. She befriended a wild fox named Elizabeth in her time exploring and didn't want to have to end up hunting her best friend, though she was very worried that one of her family members would get to her instead. A few more months pass when Summer finally arrives and Molly is pumped to go to the county fair to see her Uncle Cash perform again. She's a bit late for the first performance, but is upset to discover Copper in rehearsal when she goes to say hello to the band. Copper tries to introduce himself to her, but she just turns on her heels, running off into the crowd with disappointment and heartache. She was the same age as him, why was he allowed into the band but she wasn't? She growled and grumbled to herself, smacking away a bowl before hearing a familiar voice behind her. Dixie was walking towards her with a fox kit in tow. Dixie explained that she heard the young pup's complaints, that she and Tod were also upset that Copper was part of the band, so she let Molly in on their plans to get things back to normal. Of course, the plan went wrong. Upset that she let her emotions get the best of her, Molly hides under the van and cries until she falls asleep, too mentally exhausted to make it back home in the rain. She apologizes to her Uncle Cash the next morning and he just sighs, knowing Dixie had been the one pulling the strings and tells her it's not her fault and apologizes to his niece for hurting her feelings about breaking the rule he set for being too young to be in the band. As soon as he was about to offer to take her back home, Tod runs up and claims that Dixie is in trouble, so the gang rushes to her aid. Molly was relieved that it was just a trick to get the band back together and croons along with the group.  Molly slowly warms up to Copper and the trio become fast friends until summer ends and Copper leaves for his hunting trip with Amos. It's not until they're all adults that Molly meets up with Copper again. A little over a year old now, Copper decides to check out the county fair when it comes back into town. There he runs into Molly, all grown up. At first he doesn't quite remember her since it had been a while since the two had last seen each other, but once she says his name the memories come back up. He's stunned by her appearance, learning that she's performing on stage with The Singin' Strays since the Band has travelled back to the town they got their start, although at the moment Molly was in charge of watching her younger cousins. As if on cue, Rascal and Martina run up to Molly, Martina asking her if that was her "booooyfriend". Molly laughs and shakes her head before Copper could speak, mentioning that "Tucker" was off getting some food before band practice. Copper was a bit disappointed to know Molly was taken already, but was content to just catch up with his friend instead. The two talk and Copper finds out that Molly was adopted by a farmer that owned a ranch down the road from his own home. She lived with a few other older dogs, but she was free to roam and do as she pleased. (skips a bit cause this is where my future fanfic takes place and I don't wanna spoil things ) Molly and Copper do eventually get together after a few months of sneaking out and spending time with each other. Copper finds himself taking care of a new puppy that he and Amos found abandoned in front of a sweets shop and the next morning when Molly comes to visit, Copper introduces her to Gumdrop. Molly falls in love with the little pup and becomes instantly connected to her. As the pup grows, she starts to call Molly "mama" which makes the hound-dog's heart explode. Eventually, Molly has her own litter and is lucky enough to have all her pups get to live with her on the farm.

## Voice Actors

Young singing/speaking: Maisy Stella- Daphne Conrad *Nashville*(specifically season 1- she's the younger one) Adult speaking/singing: Carly Pearce

## Trivia

* She has a crush on Copper when they met at the fair the first summer, but after he left she met a dog named Tucker that she started to date. (but she still has her heart slightly set on Copper, hoping he comes back)
* She loves her cousins Martina and Rascal
* She's much like her auntie Dixie when it comes to jealousy and was very upset at first when Copper was accepted into the band because her Uncle Cash told her that she was too young.
* She has a best friend named Elizabeth
* She and Copper do end up together in the future (but not saying how and what happens to Tucker) and have four pups. Carrie, Paisley, Toby, and Clarabelle.
* Molly absolutely adores their adoptive daughter, Gumdrop, despite the road bumps they face throughout her puphood. Gummy is her baby and no one can convince her otherwise
* She's absolutely terrified of guns and hunters, which is why she was terrified to learn that Copper was a hunting dog in training. She eventually warms up to Copper's training, but is terrified of Amos

## Gallery

Molly's original ref sheet from a few years agoold picture from a few years back of Molly and Elizabethanother old drawing of Molly and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a bit tone deafmolly tends to trip over her ears. Nother old drawingredraw of a screenshot thing attempt. I drew Molly and had a background from the movie2015 ref2020 ref sheet