Molly McCoy

Name	Molly McCoy
Race	Human
Type	Monster Hunter
Faction	The Night Stalkers, BDA
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	Roy McCoy, Absinthe Van Gothen, Muriel Van Gothen, Calis Van Gothen

Molly McCoy

"These good people and my pa risk their lives every night to protect the innocent."

Biography

Pre-Desideratum: Blood Bonds

Molly McCoy has had anything but a normal upbringing. She was born in Utah where her parents, Roy and Muriel McCoy owned the Tumbleweed Mesa ranch. She does not remember her mother too well because she was only a toddler when Muriel died. Nightbred had been attacking the ranch for a number of years, which was why they had given up their previous daughter, Abigail McCoy, to adoption. Muriel was a Van Gothen, and Ivor was paying a handsome bounty for anyone that could slay Muriel. However, reports came back to Ivor regarding the sheer number of defeated Nightbred, and he decided that he could not allow that threat to continue, however, he did not risk his own life. He called forth Eleanora Blackwood. The witch appeared at the ranch from absolutely nowhere. Cackling and enjoying herself, she began destroying the homestead, while the McCoys remained within their home. Molly cried as her parents argued about what to do.

Inside their home, they had a hidden door. This went under the house to a tunnel that led to the barn. Muriel told Roy to escape with Molly and run away. Roy refused as pieces of their house were torn to bits. Eleanora gave a final warning falsely claiming that if Muriel would face her, then she would spare her husband and child. Roy then understood that they would all die and kissed his wife one last time, he grabbed Molly and fled. Muriel stepped outside and strode to the witch, ready to fight. Before Eleanora even attacked the hunter, she smirked and imploded the house to show that she had lied; however, Roy and Molly had already escaped to the barn. Muriel leapt at Eleanora and fought her as father and daughter rode away on their horse, Bessie. Muriel died in the battle, but because of her sacrifice, Roy and Molly remained hidden from Ivor’s wrath.

Molly was raised on the road for the next fourteen years. She watched her father slay monsters. She learned how to survive in the wilderness and how to hunt, fish, and forage. He taught her what plants were edible and which to avoid, and Roy taught her how to shoot. She became good with many different firearms, but her best was a rifle. She could hit a moving target from a great distance. In her teens she constantly fought with her father about monster hunting. Roy felt it was far too dangerous, but Molly was every bit as stubborn as Muriel and continued to push him. The whole time, Roy festered in regret over Abigail and anger over Muriel, and tracked Ivor down, himself, intending to kill the vampire. This led him to Portland, Oregon where he met the Night Stalkers and later, his estranged daughter, Absinthe Van Gothen. Molly wanted to go on hunts and had now turned eighteen, but still, even as an adult, Roy forbade it. He had been cleaning out the Portland sewers after the destruction of the local MedUSA lab. The mutants from the lab escaped into the Big Pipe Project, and almost every section had been cleaned out by Roy, but Molly finally had enough and she decided that she would prove herself.

Desideratum: Blood Bonds

In Desideratum: Blood Bonds, Molly is part of the Night Stalkers. She is the youngest in the group, and tends to defer to her father's decisions. During the novel, Molly entered the sewers from the Big Pipe Project in an area lit by red lights. Not far into the section, she felt her boot stick and looked down to find a thick spider web. She looked around to find massive webbing strewn everywhere. Then, her Van Gothen blood kicked in and she sensed movement nearby. Suddenly, swarms of giant spiders skittered towards her from the darkness. She lifted her guns and began firing. With her marksmanship and the blessed blood in her veins, she laid the creatures down in droves. Easily killing more than a hundred massive mutant spiders, she suddenly stopped. There, from the webs, strode women. She put them into her sights, but felt it would be murder. Instead, she went back to killing the giant spiders as the women, infected by the xenopoxian spider strain, surrounded her. They webbed her up. About that same time, Absinthe wandered into the same area, slaying the mutants. She slew even their brood mother and then stumbled into Molly. The girl had been bitten and was in the process of mutating.

Roy had been worried sick back at Sanctuary and he and Abby went to the Big Pipe Project to find Molly. Absinthe shot the spider on Molly and was forced to knock her out when Molly tried to bite her. She was taken back to Sanctuary where the scientist, Siri Solen, took to studying her condition. Roy had not felt so powerless since Muriel died, and he became emotional. All that he wanted was Molly to return to normal. Siri set out for the Hawthorne Asylum to get a clean strain of Xenopox from the evil Doctor Demented. Absinthe was forced to retrieve Siri and on their return, Molly was healed. With Molly cured, Roy felt immense relief. However, the whole episode taught him that he needed to accept that he could not control everything and he decided it was time to come clean to his daughters. He explained their past and the three of them became a family. Roy was proud when, before the Night Stalkers embarked on the Shanghai Tunnels to slay Ivor, Absinthe gave a speech.

Right afterwards, legions of Nightbred attacked the Sanctuary. Guns in hand, the old cowboy killed as many vampires as he could muster. Watching his daughters in battle filled him with pride, but with age comes wisdom, and Roy understood that this attack was only a diversion, so he urged Abby to go to the tunnels and stop the forces of evil. After Absinthe and Evelyn Addams left, agents from the Bureau of Demonic Analysis arrived and aided the hunters in their defense. Afterwards, Molly and the other Night Stalkers were placed inside the building’s foundry and given a choice to aid the government or be considered a terrorist group and face prison. When Absinthe and Brone arrived victorious, Molly agreed that to aid the BDA was better than the alternative.

Appearance

Molly is an 18 year old woman. She is skinny, has long brown hair, and wears cowboy attire.

Abilities

• Van Gothen Blessing
• Expert Marksman
• Firearm Proficiency

Notes and Trivia

In several bad ends of D:BB, Molly is converted and helps Absinthe overtake the Sanctuary. The following themes are possible bad ends: Bimboization, Plague Witch, Shadowed Transformation, Deathly Transformation, Ice Clone, and Blood Suit Corruption. The most prominent bad end featuring Molly involves comforting her at the Sanctuary after she has been bitten, in which she bites and converts Absinthe.