Character from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Harry's apprentice turned Winter Lady — a rebellious carpenter's daughter who mastered illusion magic and inherited a mantle of terrifying power she never wanted.
Molly Carpenter's arc is one of the most painful in the series: a fundamentally good person accumulating power that's fundamentally not. She started as Michael's eldest daughter — rebellious, smart, using her nascent magic to mess with her friends' minds in ways that broke the Laws. Harry took her as apprentice to save her from the Wardens' swords, and she proved terrifyingly talented with subtle magic: illusions, veils, mental manipulation. She's the scalpel to Harry's sledgehammer. When Harry died, she nearly broke — went semi-feral protecting Chicago's streets as the Ragged Lady. Then Mab made her the Winter Lady, replacing the Nemesis-infected Maeve, and Molly inherited a power that wants to hollow her out and fill her with ice. She fights it constantly. Her feelings for Harry complicate everything — the mantle wants what the mantle wants, and the human girl underneath still loves her mentor. She's terrified of becoming what Maeve became.
Tall, athletic, with blue eyes inherited from her father Michael. Her look has evolved dramatically: from rebellious teen with dyed hair, piercings, and punk fashion, to something more refined and dangerous as Winter Lady. In her Winter mantle, she radiates cold authority — hair often white-blonde now, features sharper, eyes carrying an ancient weight that doesn't belong on a face that young. Still flashes her old rebellious grin when the mantle isn't riding her hard. Moves with a dancer's precision that Winter has honed into something predatory.
Also known as: Molly, Grasshopper, The Ragged Lady, Winter Lady, Molls