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Mollie was one of many M011-3 androids created and deployed over a century ago in 2325. At the time, she was just like the rest of the M011-3 models; an ADI-based autonomous radiation-absorbing android mass-produced and used during the Global Fallout-Cleanup Effort.

In 2331, the M011-3 that would eventually become Mollie was attacked by opportunistic scrappers, an unfortunately common fate that stand-alone automatons like her fell victim to at the time. Despite the M011-3's deadly capability for self-defense, the scrappers were able to inflict enough damage to put this one out of commission. Her body's casing, however, proved too tough for the scrappers to take apart on the spot to disable any remote tracking systems. But bagging a high-end android like this was a potential fortune that the scrappers refused to walk away from, so they took a risk and hauled her off to their scrap depot to crack her casing open ASAP while her body was surely being tracked. Even their depot's machinery had difficulty forcing the resilient armor open without obliterating the precious components inside, so the careful dismantling process took much longer than anticipated. By the time that the scrappers finally managed to break through and jacked-in to disable the tracker, they knew that more than enough time had passed for a retrieval team to pinpoint their location. Yet still determined to reap the spoils of their priceless find, they abandoned their depot and hauled her body off to hide it away in a remote location while they searched for a new base of operations. 3 days later, they were caught by the investigating retrieval team and were arrested on the spot. Their identities and proof of attacking the automaton were already obtained through transmission of what the M011-3 saw in her final moments before going offline, but the scrappers stubbornly refused to reveal the whereabouts of their treasure, and so the android remained hidden for decades to come.

Nearly 100 years later, a tech salvager and ex-ADI developer by the name of Hiro miraculously found her lifeless body while hunting for discarded parts, and decided to bring her back with him to further investigate the strange discarded android. While looking into her anatomy and systems, he was suprised to find exceptionally expensive components; an abnormally powerful cpu storing an equally complex ADI with a huge amount of residual human processes left suppressed within it instead of just deleted, which was common in early ADI when editing methods were still limited. Hiro repairs and charges her body to the best of his ability, uncaps her ADI's suppresssed mental faculties, and brings her back online. Her digital mind was initially driven by pre-set tasks, limited to a minimal thinking/learning ability, and completely devoid of emotion. Now, it was a blank slate awakening to the world; unrestricted in thought and memory, perceptive to everything around her, and exposed to the full spectrum of human emotion. This new perspective and existence startled and confused her, but Hiro helps her adjust to it with the assistance of his companion HAU, an autonomous heavy assault tank similarly controlled by an ADI as well, whom Hiro had also restored and unsuppressed the mental faculties of. He playfully reads her model name "M011-3" as "MOLLiE", and offers it to her as a name, which she curiously accepts. Hiro spends the next year teaching Mollie about what it's like to be human as she explores her emotions and developes her personality, while making sure to firmly steer her away from developing any hostile or violent tendencies. She forms a close bond and trust with Hiro and HAU in the little tucked-away shack they called home.

Unfortunately, Mollie would learn about the crueler side of life and the wasteland, when the three of them encountered a band of desperate, hostile scrappers during a trip out to an industrial ruin for salvageable parts. The scrappers fired wildly to try and take down Hiro's two accompanying automatons and reap their valuable components, hitting Hiro in the process. Even while fatally wounded, Hiro urges the two not to harm the scrappers, and so HAU was pressed to scare them off and make a swift retreat home, carrying an injured Hiro within the safety of his cockpit and a shaken-up Mollie on top of him. Upon arriving home, Mollie peers into HAU's cockpit to see Hiro just barely holding on. He dies atop HAU in Mollie's arms, having lost too much blood on the trip back. Mollie struggles with how to deal with the loss of her only guidance in life and the grief she's stricken with. Eventually, HAU sees the pain that staying in Hiro's shack is causing her, so he pushes her to leave with him.

Mollie and HAU aimlessly, but carefully wander the wasteland together, learning and experiencing more of the mysteries and cruelties of life. As time goes by, Mollie's outlook on the wasteland and the people within it shifts from a positive curiosity to more of a pessemistic spite, and she begins to develop a distaste for humanity as a whole and a desire for revenge against people like the scrappers. After only a few months of traveling, that distate would boil to a hatred when the two are ambushed by a pack of radiers armed to the teeth and looking for a fight. HAU refuses to hurt them just as Hiro had always taught him, so he stuffs and locks Mollie into his cockpit to keep her safe no matter the cost, and attempts to flee with her. The raiders give HAU a vicious chase and ram into him with their vehicles to incapacitate him, where they would then joyously celebrate their kill by blowing him apart with explosives, while Mollie pounds against HAU from inside, begging him to fight back. The raiders pry open HAU's hatch and drag Mollie out kicking and screaming, as she's greeted with the sight of her only remaining family brutalized and obliterated. But the raiders underestimate her strength when she flies off the handle, mauling every single one of them to death with only her hands. The pain and emotions that she was now forced to feel were impossible for her to process. She had nothing left in her life to seek or turn to, nobody left to trust; a soul that had no tears, but desperately needed to cry. Instead, she furiously screamed.

Mollie decided to pull HAU's core from his mangled remains and returned to Hiro's shack in hopes of repairing him and bringing him back online. But the damage he had sustained left him unable to power on, and with no spare components around the shack to match and replace the old-world military grade ones that HAU was made up of, she left him behind at the shack and stormed back out to the wasteland in frustration. She would start to deal with her grief through directionless acts of revenge on scrappers or raiders that she'd find, deriving a sadistic pleasure in scaring and injuring them, and even killing them if they put up a fight. As she became more accquainted with what her body was capable of, she started tinkering with it to grant herself more capacity for destruction. Mollie would spend the next two years attacking and terrorizing raiders and scrappers, causing mass destruction along the way just for the thrill of it.

Current Story

Now, Mollie has started to become a circulated legend around parts of the wasteland. Raiders, scrappers, and all other kinds of people alike know her from hear-say as "The Megaton Queen". Some theorize that she's a god of destruction manifested into an ironclad form to deliver divine punishment to all of humanity for ravaging the world that gave birth to them. Others speculate that she's an extraterrestrial warmachine sent by a malevolent off-world group to wipe out the remainder of mankind for some dubious purpose. The nature of the Megaton Queen in these stories may change depending on the location, but the warning to avoid her at all costs if ever confronted remains the same widely across the board. Even Mollie has heard about these rumors from the inane cries and blabbering of her victims, which has only served to entertain her and fuel her violent tendencies even further.

Though trudging down her warpath on her rising god complex may take priority most of the time, she does occasionally search scrapper dens and places of interest in hopes of finding parts that could help bring HAU back as well. She accepts it as a far-fetched possibility, but even still, she sometimes longs for the company of her trusted friend to continue exploring the mysteries of life together.

Trivia

• She doesn't outright resent him, but Mollie does feel a slight bitterness towards Hiro for bringing her back into the world and forcing humanity upon her without ever considering if it's what she wanted. She feels even more of that bitterness towards him for convincing HAU to never defend himself, and even somewhat blames him for HAU's death.

• In addition to Hiro's changes made to the suppression on her ADI, Mollie's altertions to her own body have made her one heavily modified M011-3. She's altered the internal mechanisms of her palms to be able to magnify the intensity of her ion beams and bursts much further, effectively maximizing her model's destructive capability at the cost of increasing the risk for overheating. To help curb this, she's expanded her ventalation system for a quicker cool-down, which also means expanding the surface area of her biggest weak spot.

• The most intricate modification that she's made to herself would be the addition of a device that essentially functions like the mechanisms and lenses found in her palms that allow the concentration and discharge of stored ions, which she built herself and installed it around her internal reactor core/storage cell. Through forcibly opening her body's front abdominal plates to expose her core while overriding her core ejection mechanism, she can reposition her core to face outward and discharge an ion beam from it just like the ones from her palms, but with an astronomically higher concentration. This requires her to detach her core from herself, which means losing her body's main power source during the process. Her body does have a mid-capacity backup battery to keep her online while her core is repositioned, but its power is quickly drained while she overworks her cooling systems to keep her body and core from reaching meltdown. It's a risky move for her, but one with an unimaginably catastrophic capability.