Malacoda Lortec

Malacoda Lortec is a Danganronpa OC who originally came into being when Lizard thought up a more psychotic version of Marie Lector for an Au. However, the more she thought about it, the more this character turned into it's own OC, although they do share looks with Marie Lector due to their colliding backstories.

## Malacoda Lortec

### Aliases

Former Ultimate ToxicologistOlivia - Past name

### Relatives

Maire Lector - Half sister/apprenticeMary Lector - Half sister

## Appearances

### Debut

N/A

Malacoda is a very lively and eccentric girl who is very affectionate towards people. She struggles to read people so she might often push boundaries without realising it, but she will stop if she is told to. She places a lot of time into her work and often times finds herself going into great length about her work if someone shows the slightest interest in it. She can sometimes finds herself distracted easily and having a short attention span due to her ADHD, which is why she takes medication, Atomoxetine. She is the definition of a mad scientist, having tested her various toxins (including cyanide) on herself on more then one occasion just for the sake of her research. If she experiences too much of an emotion (Fear, excitement, etc) she can go into periods of non-verbal communication.

## Backstory:

The Lector father had a lot of mistresses in his time, even when he was married to his wife, and due to the fact he was very much against protected sex, eventually a few of his mistresses had children, and Malacoda was one of these children, although her name was originally Olivia. Olivia was born a bastard and was despised by her mother for such a fact, who had only really had sex with the Lector father in exchange for money due to her situation, so Olivia was handed off to the local adoption centre at the first chance she could. Due to this, Olivia was passed around a few households, but none were able to hold her for long, leading to Malacoda developing various difficulties when she was growing up, including abandonment issues, and possibly her ADHD.

It was her third family that seemed as if it might work well. She was 8 and adopted by a single dad who worked as a chemist and was also slightly Italian, so it was around that age that Olivia got exposed to the art of chemistry and she showed a great interest and passion into it, to which her adopted father was more then happy to teach her all she wanted to know about the subject. Although, there was a certain area Olivia was interested in the most, the practical side of chemistry, but her adopted father always refused due to safety concerns. She would often watch her father perform various experiments at home, and she always wanted to find a way to replicate them. It was when her adopted father walked into her room and she had lab equipment and was testing various chemicals that he decided to finally teach her this art of chemistry. For years then, the two would work together on various experiments together. Despite Olivia's young age, she was almost naturally gifted in chemistry, or one part in particular, the art of toxicology and the creation of poisons and different types of gasses. Her father was slightly concerned that this was the part of chemistry that interested his young adopted daughter so much, but as long as she was safe, then he saw no worry in this. Due to the fact that she was also prone to cause problems/accidents (due to her developing ADHD), she was given the nickname 'Malacoda' by her father, which eventually developed into her actual name since she preferred that name over her actual name.

However, this changed when Malacoda's adopted father died of a terminal illness when Malacoda was 14. She was devastated by his death as he was the only thing close to a father figure she ever had, since she never even knew her original father. What scared her most was when there were talks about putting her back into the adoption circuit. This freaked Malacoda out so much she fled half way across the city, and she became homeless for a time, before she discovered a run down school, where she was able to hide and carry out her experiments in peace with the various forgotten pieces of lab equipment.

This would once again change when Malacoda was scavenging for some supplies and she ran into a girl who she bared a striking resemblance to. Malacoda felt pity on the girl, and invited her back to her place, the abandoned school which had now been transformed into a makeshift lab/home. It was here, after a curious blood test, that Malacoda realised she hadn't just found any random girl on the street, this was a girl she was related to, a half sister she never knew about called Marie Lector. The two, from that day on, were practically inseparable, with Malacoda instantly latching onto the girl from that information and making Marie her apprentice, glad that she had someone related to her, she no longer felt alone. She made Marie her apprentice much like her own adopted dad did for her, so Malacoda gave Marie all the information she could possibly need about chemistry, and by using various school books and her private tutoring, Marie was able to fill in any blanks in her education. It was here that Marie discovered her passion for Robotics Engineering, and so, the two very much worked in tangent together, helping each other and talking about their projects and both working at the same side hustle of a job as chauffeurs, although Malacoda was soon fired due to being underaged. It was also during this time that Marie gave Malacoda a robotic tail since the girl had always been talking about having one and they both dyed their hair a similar dark blue, only Malacoda had her's go into a fade of black at the end.

Both of these girls were then sent an invite to Hope's Peak College, and were quick to accept such a thing, not only would it aid their education, but having the title of an 'Ultimate' would absolutely guarantee their fame and money for the two. However, Malacoda was expelled about a year in due to a very dangerous gas leak that she accidentally caused after she failed to take her medication and overlooked a safety failure, this caused her title to change to the 'Former Ultimate Toxicologist'. That was when Marie and Malacoda lost contact as Malacoda was sent to prison for her crime of 'bioterrorism', despite the fact it was an accident, Hope's Peak had to disguise it as something else to hide their ignorance to the fact that Malacoda was brewing very toxic chemicals.

There are several outcomes for her. She was released and brought back to Hope's Peak due to her extraordinary talent, but was brought back as an employee rather then a student. She was bailed out of jail by Marie as a final gesture of her remaining kindness. Or she thrives as a crazy mad scientist who runs around the ruined cities of the Tragedy.

## Trivia

- Malacoda is the name of a character in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and their name means 'Evil tail' in Italian. Lizard choose this name because she has a robotic barbed tail similar to a scorpion's, her in-lore reason is because she was prone to accidents when she was younger.

- She is the first Danganronpa OC who didn't have her origins in Amino.

- She is the only OC who has actually served jail time for her crimes.

- She has Anosmia due to working with such toxic gasses all the time. 'I can't actually smell it, but when there's that burning sensation in your nose, you know you've done something right!'

- Her step father's name was Aldo Alessio. Aldo meaning 'Old and wise' and Alessio meaning 'defender', 'Old and wise defender'.

- She has ADHD which she takes atomoxetine for.