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Chelsea Neves, better known as Cutmouth, is Haymarket Hector's mollisher and the mollisher supreme of the Scion Citadel of London. She is a haematomancer, a type of vile augur that uses blood as their numen.

Biography[]

History[]

Cutmouth grew up on Jacob's Island with Ivy Jacob. She never took their name of Jacob because she wasn't actually born in Jacob's Island. The syndicate took her from the street, stealing her from her mother's side when she was a child. Her mother is still imprisoned in Jacob's Island. Eventually, Cutmouth and Ivy escaped and began working in the syndicate. At some point, Cutmouth joined Hector's gang, the Underbodies, and became his mollisher and the mollisher supreme. Although she thinks the best of Hector and is completely loyal, he mutilates her face with one of his knives, leaving her with a distinctive scar and the nickname "Cutmouth."

The Pale Dreamer[]

As Nick Nygård and Paige Mahoney arrive at Farringdon station looking for the poltergeists Sarah Metyard and Anne Naylor, they are confronted by Hector and his gang. Hector wants to "welcome" Paige to the syndicate by beating her up. As the two sides begin fighting, they disturb Anne. Her sudden appearance allows Nick and Paige the chance to escape.

The Mime Order[]

Hector, Cutmouth, and the Underbodies come across Paige in the street. Cutmouth begins to beat Paige. When Hector decides to let Paige go, Cutmouth begins complaining that she didn't get to cut up Paige. Hector slaps her across the face. She is forced to ask for his forgiveness. He wraps an arm around her waist and leads the gang away.

Paige runs into Cutmouth at the black market. She asks her if Hector really doesn't care about anything Scion is doing. Cutmouth is uninterested in what Paige has to say, in denial about the danger. Cutmouth asks Paige where Ivy is hiding. Paige is shocked that Cutmouth knows who she is and why she thinks Paige would know her location. When Paige refuses to tell her, Cutmouth attacks her and manages to get her blood to use as her numen. Paige's spirit immediately attacks her. Paige manages to knock the vial of her blood out of Cutmouth's hand and they go their separate ways.

After Hector and his gang are found murdered, Cutmouth disappears. Many believe that she is the murderer, but Paige discovers the truth, that she is innocent. Cutmouth returned to Jacob's Island to hide. She knew she was going to be blamed for Hector's murder, and she knew the real murderer was trying to find her. She had seen the Abbess cutting up Magtooth's face with a butcher's knife.

Cutmouth is murdered while in hiding by the Abbess because Cutmouth is the true heir to the syndicate's throne and the Abbess wants it for herself. Paige and Vern Jacob find Cutmouth just before she dies. Her eyelids and cheeks are hewn with the same precise V-shaped cuts as those on the rest of her gang. She also has a red handkerchief with Hector's blood on it in her hand. Her whole abdomen is covered in blood. She tells Paige, "They killed Hector." Chelsea then asks Paige to tell Ivy she's sorry they took her, she was everything, and she has to make it right. Paige asks why they killed Hector and Chelsea replies, "About Rags, about them, got too greedy." With her last breath, Chelsea tells Paige it's the gray market and Rags and the Abbess are working together. Wynn Jacob arrives just after Chelsea passes and says the threnody for her.

The Song Rising[]

During her trial, Ivy recounts how she observed voyants disappearing and became worried. She told Cutmouth about it. Cutmouth investigated the Camden Catacombs where she found imprisoned voyants waiting to be sold to Scion. She reported this to Hector. But Hector’s lust for easy gold persuaded him to join the gray market instead of suppressing it. Ivy also informs the Mime Order that before Cutmouth fell in love with Hector after joining the Underbodies, she and Ivy were lovers. For a time, they couldn't have lived without each other.

Physical Description[]

Cutmouth is tall and a couple years older than Paige. Her face is sallow and delicate, but lined with cruelty. Her hair is the deepest rose-red and comes down to her waist. Her eyes are a deceptively soft brown. Her mouth is tugged into a permanent snarl, the result of an S-shaped scar that slashes through both her lips. Hector gave her the scar when he got drunk one night. She has strong hands. She wears knives around her hips.

Personality[]

While she is only one or two years older than Paige, she is already just as cruel as Hector. Everyone believes that she is devoted to Hector. However, Ivy reveals to Paige that she actually hates and despises him. Her dreamscape is an empty shipyard with light at the center, darkness at the edges, and rotten boats floating on greenish water. Underneath her hard exterior, Cutmouth is "just a young woman alone in the world who'd found a harbor in the arms of the Underlord."[1] Babs says that Cutmouth wasn't too bad without Hector pulling her strings. She would come to the Minister's Cat gambling house quite often for a game with one of her girlfriends. Everyone thought she was a brutal bully, but that's just what's expected of a mollisher. Paige realizes that they are more alike than she originally thought. Wynn says Chelsea wasn't a bad woman.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. The Mime Order
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