[Now, carnival life for Molly mainly involved loving insults and underhanded compliments. He very rarely takes offense to anything, even direct abuse thrown at him, because he's completely used to it.

Though that's not to say that nothing gets under his skin. He has a few particular sore spots. But his appearance certainly isn't one of them, because the girl's observance is completely true. Molly is pretty proud of how he looks, is proud of himself as a person, and is proud of how he presents himself to the world.

So really, Molly quite likes being called a "painted nightmare". He'd like to be called that over candlelight sometime, honestly. Change things up a bit.

The only thing he's sorry about is to disappoint the kid.]

You're quite right about that. I think I look plenty striking. Not a lot of lavender tieflings out in the world.

[He indicates his pierced and outfitted horns, normally a quick indicator of a tiefling. That is, if "tiefling" held any meaning in Hadriel the way it does in Exandria.]

Good way to find out who's the real arsehole in the room is to look the way I do, at any rate. You're certainly not one of them.