Molly Adler- Rabble
Gender: Female
Age: 180. Appears to be about 27.
Nature: Vampire
Occupation: Running The Fabric Temple.
Appearance: Black Irish in looks like her grandpa, Molly never had much of a chance to be more than short and thin. But underneath her delicate exterior is lean muscle.
Personality: A friendly woman, Molly looks for the best in people. A childhood of desperate poverty taught her that everyone is better off if they work together.
She has no interest in politics though; when she was human that was never anything for her, and she will accept the decisions of the vampires in charge and get on with living her own life. She can be a bit lonely at times, and enjoys socializing.
History: Born in Bethnal Green in 1837 to a factory worker , Molly was 6 when she first realized that not everyone in the world lived the only life she'd ever known, in the overcrowded slum where her parents worked from sun up to sun down on piece work for the factories. It was a Sunday, and her older brother Shiloh dragged her along to Sunday School. He told her that if she worked hard and learnt to do sums, she might be able to get taken on as an apprentice in an easy trade, or catch the eye of a shop keep who could use such a skill in his home. He told her that it could mean living in a warm home and always having food.
So every Sunday she would go, even after Shiloh had been sent to be a sweep's apprentice so their younger brother with a bad leg could keep going to the Jews' Free School.
The rest of her week was spent making match boxes, or she would dress in Shiloh's cast offs and go looking for anyone wanting an errand boy. Her mother having made her promise to never work in a factory, she looked for other opportunities to make money; and for as long as she could pull it off she knew she would make more money dressed as a boy.
So when a stranger who knew her grandfather came looking for a boy to run errands on an ongoing basis, "Moran" was happy to take the work. It was easy work too - just taking advertisements for a an available baby farmer to be printed. After a few months, Molly found herself being offered more work by the baby farmer; taking messages to and from the parents and collecting their payments. The steady work enabled her younger brothers to stay at their studies instead of going into work, and after one of her brothers managed to become a clerk the family moved out of the unhealthy home that was all Molly had ever known.
With better food and a healthier environment, puberty finally came calling for Molly. She tried binding her chest with a length of fabric, but her employer told her, with a knowing smirk, that that was not safe and to just wear a plain corset under her mens clothing. "People see what they want, child."
Somewhat surprised that a respectable person wouldn't mind a female dressing as a man, Molly did as instructed and found it to be true.
And then her employer, as a second brother got a position as a clerk, made her an offer: become her weaving apprentice.
Fully aware that the new Post service was going to replace errand boys, she agreed as soon as her mother was satisfied that it was not a factory and would have good lighting and air as she worked.
And so she left London City, and entered a very different world; the country. She found that the baby farm advertisement claims of fresh air and good food for the children were correct. She also found that her Master could be quite old fashioned in what she expected of her apprentice. But she adjusted, and if she noticed oddities about her master - well, she had always heard that the Country was very different. She also found that she could enjoy the work, even if she missed her family. And had to dress like a woman all the time.
And then one day her Master announced that her work was now above Apprentice quality and made her an offer of a very different sort of apprenticeship. Molly had read the Torah and the Bible, and she knew that Sarah was a good person no matter what the preacher would have said about what she was. More importantly, she knew that this was a chance to ensure that she would never be one of the worn-out old people in the slums, a fate that had always horrified Molly. She was happy to accept becoming a vampire, and learned the truth about why Sarah took in babies; it made for healthy and loyal adults able to provide good meals.
A only decades later, disaster struck; baby farmers who had taken children in and killed them were the talk of London. New laws came in, and Sarah decided that she would move to 'the New World'. With both her apprenticeships long over, Molly decided that she would return to London. They parted on good terms, and new technologies enabled them to stay in touch.
Molly enjoyed the 20th Century a lot, though legal identification became an increasingly tricky issue. And then in a new century, some idiots decided to out the supernatural. Her Maker contacted her, saying that her and her adopted children were relocating so she could continue to adopt at the necessary rate and could she take over the store for a while, until Sarah decided what to do about it. Molly agreed, and moved to Stone Mountain.
Abilities: Is a master-level weaver.
Weaknesses: Not technologically savvy.
Quirks: Cross-dresses fairly regularly.
Weapons: Whatever weaving tool is in her hands.
Family: Maker: 'Sarah'.
Molly has lost touch with the descendants of her human siblings.
Vehicle: A bog standard workplace van.
Home: A small apartment located at the back of the fabric store. A large apartment above the store will be rented out.
Character image portrayed by: Tessa Virtue
Age: 180. Appears to be about 27.
Nature: Vampire
Occupation: Running The Fabric Temple.
Appearance: Black Irish in looks like her grandpa, Molly never had much of a chance to be more than short and thin. But underneath her delicate exterior is lean muscle.
Personality: A friendly woman, Molly looks for the best in people. A childhood of desperate poverty taught her that everyone is better off if they work together.
She has no interest in politics though; when she was human that was never anything for her, and she will accept the decisions of the vampires in charge and get on with living her own life. She can be a bit lonely at times, and enjoys socializing.
History: Born in Bethnal Green in 1837 to a factory worker , Molly was 6 when she first realized that not everyone in the world lived the only life she'd ever known, in the overcrowded slum where her parents worked from sun up to sun down on piece work for the factories. It was a Sunday, and her older brother Shiloh dragged her along to Sunday School. He told her that if she worked hard and learnt to do sums, she might be able to get taken on as an apprentice in an easy trade, or catch the eye of a shop keep who could use such a skill in his home. He told her that it could mean living in a warm home and always having food.
So every Sunday she would go, even after Shiloh had been sent to be a sweep's apprentice so their younger brother with a bad leg could keep going to the Jews' Free School.
The rest of her week was spent making match boxes, or she would dress in Shiloh's cast offs and go looking for anyone wanting an errand boy. Her mother having made her promise to never work in a factory, she looked for other opportunities to make money; and for as long as she could pull it off she knew she would make more money dressed as a boy.
So when a stranger who knew her grandfather came looking for a boy to run errands on an ongoing basis, "Moran" was happy to take the work. It was easy work too - just taking advertisements for a an available baby farmer to be printed. After a few months, Molly found herself being offered more work by the baby farmer; taking messages to and from the parents and collecting their payments. The steady work enabled her younger brothers to stay at their studies instead of going into work, and after one of her brothers managed to become a clerk the family moved out of the unhealthy home that was all Molly had ever known.
With better food and a healthier environment, puberty finally came calling for Molly. She tried binding her chest with a length of fabric, but her employer told her, with a knowing smirk, that that was not safe and to just wear a plain corset under her mens clothing. "People see what they want, child."
Somewhat surprised that a respectable person wouldn't mind a female dressing as a man, Molly did as instructed and found it to be true.
And then her employer, as a second brother got a position as a clerk, made her an offer: become her weaving apprentice.
Fully aware that the new Post service was going to replace errand boys, she agreed as soon as her mother was satisfied that it was not a factory and would have good lighting and air as she worked.
And so she left London City, and entered a very different world; the country. She found that the baby farm advertisement claims of fresh air and good food for the children were correct. She also found that her Master could be quite old fashioned in what she expected of her apprentice. But she adjusted, and if she noticed oddities about her master - well, she had always heard that the Country was very different. She also found that she could enjoy the work, even if she missed her family. And had to dress like a woman all the time.
And then one day her Master announced that her work was now above Apprentice quality and made her an offer of a very different sort of apprenticeship. Molly had read the Torah and the Bible, and she knew that Sarah was a good person no matter what the preacher would have said about what she was. More importantly, she knew that this was a chance to ensure that she would never be one of the worn-out old people in the slums, a fate that had always horrified Molly. She was happy to accept becoming a vampire, and learned the truth about why Sarah took in babies; it made for healthy and loyal adults able to provide good meals.
A only decades later, disaster struck; baby farmers who had taken children in and killed them were the talk of London. New laws came in, and Sarah decided that she would move to 'the New World'. With both her apprenticeships long over, Molly decided that she would return to London. They parted on good terms, and new technologies enabled them to stay in touch.
Molly enjoyed the 20th Century a lot, though legal identification became an increasingly tricky issue. And then in a new century, some idiots decided to out the supernatural. Her Maker contacted her, saying that her and her adopted children were relocating so she could continue to adopt at the necessary rate and could she take over the store for a while, until Sarah decided what to do about it. Molly agreed, and moved to Stone Mountain.
Abilities: Is a master-level weaver.
Weaknesses: Not technologically savvy.
Quirks: Cross-dresses fairly regularly.
Weapons: Whatever weaving tool is in her hands.
Family: Maker: 'Sarah'.
Molly has lost touch with the descendants of her human siblings.
Vehicle: A bog standard workplace van.
Home: A small apartment located at the back of the fabric store. A large apartment above the store will be rented out.
Character image portrayed by: Tessa Virtue