#mother 1 novelization

[pastacurls]

Me after pulling rarepairs/crackships out of my ass anyway happy pride month clausken

[sundaywarning]

doodle dump of mother stuff from over the last couple of months

[demonpopstar]

any MOTHER/Earthbound Beginnings novel readers? or perhaps even... novel LIKERS?

Ken is a shithead, so hateful. It's funny. I love him honestly.

[motherforthefamicom]

buncha mother stuff

[crazypatrolstudent]

MOTHER 1 sketches

[raayllum]

yk i was going to ask what your takes/predictions are for the rayla/sarai parallels but then i realized they sure weren't gonna be good and would ruin me but then i realized i do not like myself anyways so you have the floor

So I have a lot of feelings about Sarai and Rayla (and Claudia) being women who are doomed by the narrative and I will try to express them eloquently

Post with Sarai and Rayla parallels (pre-S4)

Post with Harrai and Rayllum parallels (pre-S3) featuring all the potential parallel pairs

The Viren-Avizandum theory that Viren paralleling Avizandum in the intro was to also parallel how the dragon queen caused Harrow's loss of Sarai by having Viren cause Callum to almost lose Rayla (pre-S4, largely defunct but still interesting)

Bonus Claudia and Sarai parallels (being used for dark magic, etc.)

With that out of the way:

Rayla and Sarai do have their similarities, given that they see their enemies as people even when it would be far more convenient not to and everyone else around them is telling them not to ("The human looked up at me, and I saw the fear in his eyes" / "You keep calling it a monster!"). And they see these people as well, people, even when ultimately taking the act of dealing the final blow upon themselves (Sarai being the one to kill the Magma Titan, Rayla killing/tackling Viren off the Pinnacle). There is, of course, the very obvious framing parallel between Harrow watching Sarai ride away in 2x06 and between Callum watching Rayla leap away an episode later in 2x07 that makes my heart do a little pitter-patter every time

We know from Callum's Spellbook and from Sarai's argument in 2x05 that she is staunchly against dark magic - just as Rayla is - but they are both willing to stand by Harrow and Callum anyway even when they choose to engage with it: "I disagree, but I stand by you anyway" / "It doesn't matter what you did before, I just want you to be okay again". (This bodes well for S6 Rayllum in particular.)

There is, of course, that Sarai dies saving Viren, and Rayla almost dies killing Viren / wrecks her relationship with Callum by leaving to hunt him down, causing mother and son to both assume, "Without Viren to perform the spell, the heart is worthless and this was all for nothing" / "I didn't find him..." "Oh, so you disappeared for two years for no reason at all?"

While Harrow and Callum parallel each other more framing and devotion wise (Harrow never moved on from Sarai just as Callum never moved on from Rayla, while Sarai must've moved on fairly quickly after Callum's father's death for Callum to be able to remember the man and only have a 5 year age gap with Ezran. More thoughts on that in this oneshot here <3)... I think Harrow and Rayla are more similar personality wise and that Callum also has a great deal of similarities with his mother. (This is also why Rayla-Harrow and Callum-Viren dynamics tend to parallel each other as well, tbh.)

Basically I don't think there's a clear cut-ness to it - almost everyone in TDP parallels each other at least a little with a generational breakdown of

Personality:

Harrow-Rayla

Viren-Callum

Sarai-Ezran

VS Generational roles

Ezran-Harrow

Rayla-Sarai

Callum-Viren

if that distinction makes any sense? There may be more to the Sarai-Rayla parallels (certainly I can see the "Tell me she wasn't your world" + making a choice said woman doesn't want you to make on her behalf involving dark/star magic and shit, which Callum arguably already has) in S6/7 in the way I thought might be happening pre-S4, but I lean more away from it now. There could always be interesting (or sad) stuff I missed though between the two ladies, so anyone feel free to leave your thoughts in the reblogs/replies!

And like yourself anyway, you deserve a seat

[creepcroack]

Hewo.

I luv Mother saga :] ✿

[friendsyoyo]

i enjoyed reading your post about Ninten's name! do you have any thoughts and/or headcanons about the other Mother 1 protags?

thank you! i was really hesitant to share that post, so i’m surprised to see the warm reception to it. i certainly do have hcs, here’s a couple:

continuing the name hc, ana calls ninten “kenneth” when she’s mad at him

lloyd and ninten have a shared interest in military vehicles, with ninten loving aircrafts and lloyd liking tanks

teddy has become a good family friend. he invites the kids over to the live house as VIPS, something about teaching them “culture”

ana loves her stationary. she wants every single letter of hers to be personalized for the recipient, whether that be her pen pal yoshie or her beloved (who tears into the envelopes anyway)

all three kids pick up instruments. lloyd likes percussion, ana sticks to piano, ninten likes woodwinds

ninten hates science class, but he excels at it. he doesn’t like that fact because it reminds him of someone. thankfully, a good grade in english reminds him of someone much pleasanter

[kuweka-jua-comic]

Prologue - From the Darkness - page 01

[aroacettorney]

when will aup sidestories return from war and stop leaving me bitter about how the main story ended

[john-artbuckle]

Teddy, or should I say, Joe Hurricane

[sunnychameleon]

i drew these in a primal rage

[sundaywarning]

do you guys see my vision

[pk-starst0rm]

hes such a little asshole

(throws him across room lovingly)

Inspo taken from this part in the novel

[motherforthefamicom]

these are from december but uh drawing s 👍

[kleiner-detektiv]

Just gimme Vol 5 already Dx

I don't want to wait a whole month.

And I don't want to wait half a year for Vol 6 either Dx

I can't reread the previous books again, please >.<

Be aware, spoiler for happy marriage novel vol 4 in the tags.