Molli Pop
Straight out of Tako Boy Studios’ game "Candies ‘n’ Curses", Molli Pop brings her arsenal of torches and flashlights and joins Rivals of Aether! With the help of some friends (and foes!) Molli Pop is capable of controlling the stage with different projectiles and traps, which she can command and activate at her own will. While not the best bruiser up close, she excels at mid to long range combat and covering the opponent’s options during recovery.
Molli Pop also released with a dedicated stage: Halls of Sorrow!
For her strong attacks, Molli summons Zeke the zombie and the scythe-wielding Reaper to unleash a powerful uppercut or a slow-moving projectile respectively. Doing so, the called monster will leave on stage their own summoning spot, from which they can be summoned again by Molli Pop whenever she needs by using Down Special.
Molli sends forward one of three pet helpers as a projectile, depending on how long you charged the move for.
1) Mousse waddles on the floor at a moderate speed and lightly hits whoever he encounters.
2) Churra will fly in a straight line, phasing though all enemies and setting them on fire for a while.
3) Goober jumps forwards and then slowly descends, stunning for quite a while the opponent he connects with.
The spooky mansion’s butler, Bunber, shows up beside her and throws a bomb at the ground. While the timer still expires, both Molli and her opponents can mix up the bomb’s location by launching it around using their own attacks. When it explodes, the bomb damages everyone, even Molli Pop herself!
The bomb can be instantly detonated if anyone hits it with a move with a fire effect or a detonation effect, so always keep an eye on that!
Hopscotch lends Molli Pop a helping hand, letting her ride on the back while they skyrocket upwards. The vertical distance traveled depends on how long you let Hopscotch charge his jump for.
Molli Pop shouts an order from far away, during which either Zeke or Reaper responds by attacking in the place their respective summoning spot was left at. This spot needs to be set up before the summoning, and at each use of the move Molli switches between summoning Zeke or Reaper, one at a time.
Molli can cancel any move on hit into Down Special, letting you smoothly follow up your own blows with the ones from the monsters. But keep in mind that Zeke and Reaper will also hit Molli Pop if she’s around during their attacks, so watch out!
The opponent can get rid of the monster and their summoning spot:
1) By attacking the active monster before he manages to disappear. Doing so, the hurt monster and its summoning spot will be removed.
2) By putting Molli Pop in parry stun, or by making her lose a stock. If one of these happens, all summoning spots will be removed (if there were any on stage).
– Molli Pop keeps the last weapon she used to attack in her hand, switching between a flashlight, a lantern and a light sword.
– Taunting will make Molli Pop listen through different Candies ‘n’ Curses OSTs while using her mp3. Hitting during this state will make her drop her headphones.
– uuhh that’s it i guess.
– spooky skins!!!
Most of it by me, but i also wanna thank the Candies ‘n’ Curses subreddit for proposing such nice and interesting ideas for some special moves and other cool gimmicks (I’ll do my best and try to add them all someway in the future).
The Molli Pop Character, her sprites and all the art and music in Candies ‘n’ Curses belongs to Tako Boy studios. I am not affiliated with Tako Boy Studios, as this was just a passion project.
EquinoxDoodles’ tutorials that helped me go through my first Rivals of Aether character:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwqt9VdSJFPw1JajsKa5IEyGdC6PLSlYN&feature=shared
The official Steam Workshop Modding Manual
https://rivalsofaether.com/workshop/
The unofficial Workshop Modding Manual
https://rivalswsmanual.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
Tips, advices and deeper coding explanations by the awesome guys in the Rivals of Aether Discord and Rivals of Aether – Extended Workshop Discord (Especially, thanks to goldmario777 and mintedmedic!).
Me and my fellas during school breaks:
