Molars
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-- Molars
Molars is able to see things immaterial. More to the point, he is able to eat them. He can touch and interact with various entities that are manifested from the unconscious of humanity, some of which are very dangerous. In addition, he can consume these entities to take on their abilities. He can eat most anything, provided he can properly cook and prepare it, and anything he eats, he can take on the traits of.
Table of ContentsBackstoryMolars remembers when they first realized they were special. It was porridge they were eating, at the table with their family when they saw their first monster. They were 8. The monster was looming outside the window, in the cornfield. The chickens were dead the next day. It wasn't a fox. Foxes don't do... that.... to their prey. The guts were everywhere.
Molars remembers being sad that those livers were contaminated now. He'd just learned to make chicken liver more than passably. And the eggs. It would be a long time before they could find a layer like Matilda.
It came for him in his bed next. He fled to the kitchen to get a knife. He stabbed it, then when it stopped moving, he took it to the butchering shack and carved it up, like his dad taught him to do with the hog. It made meals for a week, and what do you know, it had a very nutritious liver. Good with Garlic, and butter. But everything's good with butter
His parents were scared. Proud, sure, but scared They'd heard about things like that in old stories. The power to kill something like that, was impressive, and terrible. The power to cook something like that, though... that was a different kind of power entirely.
He traveled a while, getting into scraps with creatures no one else could see, and working kitchens across the continent. He was 12 when he came across the Looming Shambler. It was a vast, cow-like thing, wretched in every way. A manifestation of despair, it brought bad harvests, bad weather, and worse to the entire county. It made a good soup.
He was 16 when he fought the Exalted Delusion. It had a whole village in it's clutches, hypnotized by those singing and whispering mouths. Its tender flesh was best with far too much sugar to be reasonable.
At 21 there was the Red Beast. It's pure Rage and violence, made manifest in every armament imaginable, all fused into one mass of fur, flesh and vengeance, cut through a number of retired military officers who fought in a war long finished. It did not cut through Molars. Molars did cut through it. It made a good barbecue, with jerky for later.
23 brought the crawling plague. It was a bad one. The worst so far. It's venom turned people into husks full of hate and desire to spread the infection. A city fell to it before Molars could stop it. It was good wrapped in a pastry, but not good enough to forget it's horror. When Molars felt that venom gather behind his own teeth he wanted to be sick. But even something like that deserved the recognition of a good meal.
25 was when he encountered the Squatting Sultan running the biggest thieves ring in the Gazarian Markets. It was another kind of monster. Smart. Cunning. No less monstrous. It was Greed manifest, and it didn't care what was done to satisfy it. Slavery was outlawed in Gazar, and none of the other syndicates were running people. One of the best things Molars ever did was turn that thing into jam, and not just because of how exquisitely the flavors melted with the fruit.
Compared to the Crawling Plague and the Squatting Sultan, the Maze King was almost benign. Almost. It's spreading of a "perfect world" with it in perfect control was less overtly evil, but it grew petty and cruel, and so it's wings had to be fried and tossed with spinach and onions.
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Personality
Molars is extremely unsettling, feeding on a diet of demons and evil spirits will do that to you, but under all those disconcerting mannerisms is a legitimately good heart. He will always do his best to protect innocents and those in danger, and maintain harmony with the world around him. Even when that means striking the source of disharmony down.
The joy he takes in butchering and cooking his prey is another unsettling feature of him. One gets the sense that this is as much an art for him as it is a duty. The fact that he is always thinking of how good something might taste with butter and what spices, what cuts of it might make the best eating, moreso than it's terror or the sheer necessity of fighting it, is a definite strangeness.
Likes
- Good Food
- Good Company
- Cooking
- New Culinary Experiences
- A job Well Done
Dislikes
- Disrespect for the craft of cooking.
- Endangering humans
- Callousness and Cruelty
- Tyranny
Abilities
✦ You Are What You Eat
Molars can gain minor properties from anything he consumes. This is usually not to the level of a new ability, and wears off shortly, except in the case of supernatural monsters, properly prepared.
✦ Cook Anything
Molars has the ability to take the invisible and intangible, particularly entities and monsters, and not only see and touch them, but butcher and prepare them for consumption.
✦ The Six Great Meals
Molars has many minor abilities from the various entities he's consumed over the years, but there are six monsters that stand heads and shoulders over the rest. All of his other abilities tie into these, basically being part of them. He cooked each in turn, and the gifts they gave him are outlined below.
Cream of Looming Shambler
Can cause things to decay by touch
Candied Lips of Exalted Delusion
Charisma that borders on mind control. Must be actively turned on.
Jerky of Red Beast
Manifest almost any weapon from their flesh, mostly cooking utensils
Breaded Crawling Plague
The Venom
Squatting Sultan Jam
Store an endless amount of material wealth and goods inside their stomach, undamaged, as well as unhinging their jaw to intake or disgorge such things
Maze King Salad
Exhibit control over a limited physical area. Turning it into a kitchen or restaurant of most descriptions. Time and focus can expand this area.
Skills & Stats
Molars is an excellent combatant, an excellent survivor, and an even more excellent cook.
Weapons
Thanks to his abilities, Molars doesn't need to carry anything in the way of weapons, or cookware for that matter. His entire inventory is mostly a collection of foods and spices, all tightly sealed, contained in the pocket dimension behind his throat.
✦ General Stats
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✦ Imperative Strengths
Excellent Cook: An Expert on the culinary arts and sciences, can cook just about any dish you can think of, and do it very well.
Excellent Fighter: Let's just say all those fights with dangerous monsters weren't won by luck.
Excellent Survivor: Knows how to live off the land and how to patch himself up after a scuffle.
Excellent Tracker: Knows the signs of a monster or entity's passage. Can follow them to a thing's lair.
✧ Imperative Weaknesses
Unsettling: Without the use of the Candied Lips, he's absolutely abysmal at any kind of social interaction, just due to his sheer upsetting presence.
Not Good at Reading People: He has very little ability to understand other people's emotions, his extremely high perception does not extend to social cues
Has a Hard Time Taking Things Seriously: This is less to do with any kind of playfulness or childishness, but more to do with how much he's already overcome.
Specialized in Spirits: Though he is unmatched in fighting demons, spirits, and manifestations of negative emotions and trauma, he's much less focused on plain physical or human threats.
✦ Psychological Stats ✦
| Charisma | ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ | Kindness | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧ |
| Patience | ✦✦✦✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ | Intelligence | ✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧✧ |
| Confidence | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧ | Perception | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧ |
| Discipline | ✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧✧✧ | Psych stamina | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ |
| Courage | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ | Caution | ✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧✧ |
| Honesty | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧ | Loyalty | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧ |
| Maturity | ✦✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ | Creativity | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧ |
| Cleanliness | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ | Work ethic | ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧ |
✧ Physical Stats ✧
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| Magical Strength |
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Constitution |
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| Physical Defense |
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Dexterity |
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| Magical Defense |
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Stamina |
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Author's Notes
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