| “ | Oh, that's very clever. You're a delightfully clever man. | „ |
| ~ Molly Greenbaum to Prince Charming, Fables #1 — "Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited" |
Molly Greenbaum is a mundy woman who works as a restaurant server in New York City and debuts in Fables #1 — "Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited." She has a brief sexual liaison with Prince Charming, and is later turned into one of Mister Dark's witherlings.
History
Background
Molly Greenbaum resides in a small apartment above a dry-cleaning shop in New York City's[1] Midtown Manhattan.[2] By day, she works as a restaurant server at Gottfried's Steak House.[1]
Prince Charming
While working a shift at Gottfried's, Molly encounters Prince Charming as she serves him lunch at his table. The two begin flirting and by the end of the meal, Molly is ready to ask him back to her apartment as she is soon getting off work. At this point, Charming reveals he is actually broke and cannot afford the meal, so she agrees to pay for him, as she would have been stuck with the check if he'd skipped out anyway. The two return to Molly's apartment and have very passionate (and apparently very loud) sex, unaware that two young girls are listening through the wall in the adjacent apartment, while a man walking by outside also takes notice of the commotion.[1]
The following morning, while Molly is still sleeping, Charming takes the spare key to the apartment and some money, and goes to collect his things so that he can move in with her, leaving her a note asking her to do his laundry.[2]
Molly is merely another of Prince Charming's conquests, to be taken advantage of and then cast aside, although he does refer to one of his later conquests as "Molly" accidentally.[3]
Death
Much, much later, Molly is one of the mundies who is turned into one of Mister Dark's unmindful "witherlings,"[4] decayed minions that do his bidding until they've been exhausted. Mister Dark does so by consuming their teeth and spitting them up one at a time, summoning the spirit of the owner of said tooth to serve him.[5]
While spying on Mister Dark in New York City, Maddy catches sight of Molly's witherling form crossing the street while muttering to herself, repeating[4] the same words she said to Prince Charming when they first met,[1] "How did you find your steak?" Maddy mentally takes note of Molly's brief sexual liaison with Charming and observes the other mundy witherlings. She can't help but notice that Mister Dark only chooses mundies who have had contact with Fables.[4]
In the midst of Mister Dark's battle with Frau Totenkinder, the witch uses her powers to rot all of his stolen teeth. This results in Molly and the other witherlings experiencing their final deaths.[6]
Appearances
Fables
- Fables #1 (first appearance)
- Fables #2
- Fables #12 (mentioned)
- Fables #99
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Fables #1 — "Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fables #2 — "Chapter Two: The (Un)Usual Suspects"
- ↑ Fables #12 — "A Sharp Operation: Part One of a Two-Part Caper"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Fables #99 — "Dark City"
- ↑ Fables #81 — "The Blue Horizon: Chapter Five of the Dark Ages"
- ↑ Fables #100 — "Single Combat"