Mama Mathers

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Appearance

Mama is a emaciated women, heightened by her thin face and long frayed bleached silver hair. This gives her the presence of an old woman, looking fragile enough she could break, but to people that were affected by her power she felt 'heavy'.<ref name="I4cII e88">Rain averted his eyes, but he could see the white drape of the nightgown, the feet on the floor. She was sitting so the post and the sheer drape kept him from seeing a lot of her.

But he saw some. Her presence jumped into his head. He looked away, but it didn’t help.

Mama Mathers. Taller than him, gaunt, wispy of hair. She wasn’t old, but she had the presence of an old woman, thin enough that it seemed like she would break or crumple into a heap if struck. She stood right next to him, leaning over him. She touched his face, and he flinched.
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He’d only seen her leg and foot, and she’d jumped into his head, tactile, audible, present, impossible to ignore.

Now, seeing her in full, it was more pronounced, heavier, insofar as the frail woman could be ‘heavy’. Her hair was long, bleached silver, and frayed. Her face was thin enough that it appeared older. - Excerpt from Interlude 4c II</ref>

Personality

Even among her fellow Fallen she is described as "off", despite her obvious intelligence.<ref name="WDFall River"/>

She is, by all accounts, a true believer in the ideology of the Fallen.

She has a extremely regressive view of gender roles, while at the same time an extremely progressive stance. Anyone can occupy any position they want as long as they are dedicated and have powers.

Abilities and Power

Anyone who looks into her eyes is saddled with a Dybbuk. Anytime a subject thinks of Mama, a phantom image of her appears in their field of view and takes in the surroundings.<ref name="I4c e1"> -

Excerpt from Interlude 4c II</ref> It is unkown what her ceiling is for how many subjects she can affect, or how she processes the information.

This power also gives her a harsh anti-Thinker ability that allows her to keep her kin covered from snooping eyes.<ref name="R2">The Fallen are slippery, and the reason they haven't been wiped off the map is that they utilize a cell structure and have some cover from parahuman abilities. Valefor's mom in particular. A thinker doesn't want to go scanning tracts of rural/unpopulated area for missing kids if it means a chance of seeing her looking back at them. Because if they do, then they'll likely end up in a brief coma followed by a year and a half of something like being convinced the walls are bleeding spiders. She has kids with buds from the same shard and farms them out to other branches of the family in exchange for some muscle (Eligos being some of that). Not that same degree of punishment or screening, but stuff in that general vein. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> Those with any power assisted perception of her feel for the effect.<ref name="R3">chandra381: Honestly I think Wibblebub is wasted in any other genre than horror.
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Quick q: is she the same person as Valefor's Mom that WB mentioned earlier while describing the Fallen, who had some kind of anti-clairvoyant countermeasure?

Wildbow: The effect is more intense if you use enhanced perception on her. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

The full extent of her ability is still unknown.<ref name="R1">Not sharing Valefor's mom's power, as she's interesting enough I want to keep her in my back pocket. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

History

Background

Joined the Fallen and persumably founded the Mathers family. Had several children from multiple different fathers. Such as Valefor and Lionheart, also traded children to other branches in order to get firepower back.

Post-Echidna

Her son, Valefor, attempted to carve out a piece of Brockton Bay for the Fallen. He failed and was blinded by Skitter in the ensuing battle.

Timeskip

It is unknown how she reacted to losing another of her sons.

Mama, along with other Fallen group leaders, sent out several family groups throughout the North America after she heard about the End of the World prophecy.<ref name="WDFall River">WD Fall River</ref> In order to prepare for it.

Gold Morning

Presumably participated, willingly or otherwise.

Early Ward

With the amnesty Mama found herself in Earth Gimel with a large collection of fallen.

She was mentioned as one of main villainous influencers in the new multiversal human society.<ref>“What about the ones who are hooked into bigger groups?” I asked.

“That gets more complicated, and it’s less about the places to watch and more about the names to keep an ear out for,” my dad said. “Marquis, Goddess, Lord of Loss, Mama Mathers, the Crowley brothers, Deader and Goner, Barrow.”

I knew the names and I knew where they were situated. No big surprises there. I nodded to myself. Marquis. So casually mentioned. - Excerpt from Glare 3.5</ref>

Fanart Gallery

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  Illustration by Uberpigeon on reddit

References

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