Queen Mary

“	Let me hear the melodies you’ve learned… Yes… That’s it… That’s the song… Oh… Giygas... I had loved him as if he were my own child, too… He would always wag his tail as a baby… I would sing him a lullaby, but then… Oh, George! This is your wife Maria! I know you’ve been waiting… I’m on my way to join you in heaven now...	„
	~ Queen Mary’s speech before dying

Background

Maria, better known as Queen Mary, is a character in MOTHER (localized as EarthBound Beginnings). She is the wife of George, the great-grandmother of Ninten, the adoptive mother of Giygas, and the queen of Magicant. She and George were abducted from Earth by an alien race in 1906. There, Mary raises one of the aliens, Giygas, while her husband studies PSI without the race's permission; George later escapes back to Earth in 1908 without Mary, who is never seen again.

Prior to the events of EarthBound Beginnings, she and George met while she drew carnations outside Podunk as the first person who greeted him. Afterwards, when George was selected to write a novel cataloguing the town's history, he chose Maria as its artist, and married soon after. During their marriage, Maria was known for playing piano concerts for the rest of her family, and sewing with her fellow housewives, selling the results thereof for charity to the local church.

Afterwards, as seen in the prologue and MOTHER: Invasion from the Unknown, she and George were abducted by aliens in the early 1900s while traveling by car from Merrysville to Podunk near Mt. Itoi. George managed to escape two years later, but was unable to rescue Maria. As a result, she spent most of her life taking care of an infant Giegue, the game's primary villain.

When Ninten first visits her castle, Queen Mary will ask him to learn her song so she could remember the tune. She tells him it will be an easy task, due to it being only eight notes long. When Ninten returns after learning the Eight Melodies, she reminisces her past and an alien named iygas, causing her to remember that she is Maria and that Magicant was a mirage born from her consciousness. After telling Ninten and his friends about her past, she vanishes along with Magicant to join her husband, as her purpose has been completed.

During the final battle, when using the check command, Mary's consciousness informs Ninten's party that the only thing that may defeat Giygas is to sing her lullaby with all of their heart.

For clarity, the player cannot name a character Mary.

General Information

Name: Maria

Nicknames: Queen Mary

Origin: MOTHER

First Appearance: MOTHER

Latest Appearance: MOTHER

Company: Nintendo, Hal

Creator: Shigesato Itoi

Sex: Female

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: Over 80 years old (Maria was a young adult in the early 1900s and the events of MOTHER 1 takes place in 1988)

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Eagleland

Story Role: Protagonist

Classification: Grandmother of Ninten, adoptive mother of Giygas, Missing Person

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular, Pure Consciousness after death

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

Ranking: Queen

Affiliations: Ninten (Her descendant), Ana, Lloyd, Teddy, George, Maria's Magicant

Status: Deceased (Maria’s true body after magicant is erased is gone and all that’s left is her consciousness)

Date of Death: Near the endgame of MOTHER 1

Alignment: Neutral Good (Directly made the melodies filled with her love for Ninten despite never meeting him. She also helps him in his journey to defeat Giygas, being the one directly explaining to Ninten and co. how to defeat Giygas)

Protection Level: Mental Protector within Magicant (Mary soothes all of her citizens in magicant, where magicant is an illusion born of Mary's consciousness), Global Protector (Aided Ninten and co. in their attempt to stop Giygas, who plans to destroy the Earth and all of its people, with it being directly noted that the Earth is in danger)

Codex Statistics

Tier: Low 10-B physically. Her creations are 9-A to 8-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Below Average Human level physically (Maria’s true self is an extremely old woman). Her creations are Room level (Potency) (Her creations are capable of harming early game Ninten and co. who fought Starman Jr. who should be comparable to early game Ness, who can fight Territorial Oak who is around 4.5 to 5 meters making its self-destruction which would be around this levels of energy) to Buiding level (Potency) (Her dragon can fight end game Ninten and co., who should be superior to the late mid game MOTHER 2 cast, who can fight and defeat the Kraken, who massively dwarfs an entire ship in size)

Durability: Below Average Human level physically. Her creations are Room level to Buiding level

Striking Strength: Below Average Human Class physically. Her creations are Room Class (Potency) to Building Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Below Average Human. Her creations are Unknown

Travel Speed: Below Average Human Class

Attack Speed: At least Transonic

Reaction Speed: At least Transonic (Should be comparable to Ninten and co., as she witnessed the fight between them and Giygas along with giving advice during the fight, where Ninten can fight similar enemies to the cast of MOTHER 3, who can dodge shouts from the Steel Mechorilla)

Stamina: Likely Average physically, likely Limitless as her magicant Avatar (Does not get physically tired as her magicant avatar)

Range: Standard Melee, Thousands of Kilometers with abilities (Her creations can send objects from her magicant to Ninten's house, possibly brought in people from the real world into her magicant, scattered her love around the continent while in Magicant)

Intelligence: Unknown

---

Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Speed, Abstract Existence (Idea, Primordial Source; For her magicant avatar, an abstract representation of her conscious), Immortality (Immortal Metaphysical Aspect; Can still use her consciousness to interact with the world after her physical body is gone. The Maria seen in magicant is just an astral image with her true self being long dead), Sound Manipulation (Maria filled her eight melodies with all the love she could and scattered them across the world as gifts for Ninten), Incorporeality (Maria’s true body after magicant is erased is gone and all that’s left is her consciousness), BFR (Force Teleportation; Seemingly brought people from Ninten’s world into her magicant, sent Ninten and co. out of her magicant during its collapse), Nothingness Manipulation (Completely erased her magicant upon remembering the memories and her true self), possible Clairvoyance (She created the flying man to represent Ninten’s courage even though Ninten just entered magicant), Observation (Unconscious Manifestation; Comparable to Ninten who through ignoring the Forgotten Man, Ninten makes him disappear, it is noted by a resident of Magicant that he was once well known but everyone forgot him), Subjective Reality, Creation, Illusion Creation (Standard Illusions), & Mind Manipulation (Magicant is a universe created entirely from the users own memories. It exists only within the mind of the user and is shaped entirely by their thoughts and desires. Magicant World's are shaped from the users perspective. Maria for example warped her own world to fit her views as a Queen. Ness's Magicant was shaped almost like a Town with stars and planets in the background. Along with that, users of Magicant can create weapons, equipments, healing items, and inhabitants that represent a certain side to their mind (A strong example would be the Flying Men which represents the users own courage). Some inhabitants act as enemies that will attack or serve as either a memory of the users own experience or simple civilians. It's unknown if there is a Sea of Eden in other variations of Magicant, however it is stated by Talah Rama that the Truth makes itself known to humanity with Magicant. Magicant only disappears once the goal of the user has been met. To provide some insight, Maria's goal was to recover from amnesia and remember the melody she sung to Giygas, and Ness's goal was to awaken his full potential by touching the Universal System. The journey has to be a momentous part of the person's life that culminates in an event that causes them to look inward and triggers the ability to access their magicant)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Abstract Existence (Type 1; All of Maria’s creations are an abstract part of her mind), Mind Reading (Creations can read Ninten’s mind. Creations are able to tell when Ninten is lying), Inorganic Physiology (Some of her creations are just a pair of eyeballs), Personal Nonexistence (Physical Nonexistence; The Forgotten Man was once a well known person but everyone forgot him, with Ninten ignoring him causing him to disappear), Cross-Universal Teleportation (Can send items from Ninten to his house), Precognition (Premonitions; One of her creations foresaw in a dream magicant collapsing), Purification (Material Purification & Spiritual Healing) & Resurrection (One of her creations is a doctor who can heal asthma attacks, blind, colds, confusion, stone, unconsciousness, and poisons), Lightning Manipulation (Her creation Ulrich knows PSI Lightning), Explosion Manipulation & Fire Manipulation (BigWoodoh explodes into a burst of flames upon death. Her dragon creation has PSI Fire), Transmutation (The fountain within her magicant can turn a broken earring into a magic earring and turn a red weed into a magic herb), Precognition (Preomnitions; One of her creations had a dream that magicant vanished into thin air, which happens at the end of the game), Statistics Reduction (Her dragon creation has a crying attack that lowers the defense of one party member), BFR (Her creation the Forgotten Man will send Ninten back to the beginning of Magicant Underground if he answers him incorrectly)

---

Equipment

Overworld

Sprite	Enemy Names	Notes
	Momseyes	Can do a continous attack.
	Dadseyes	None.
	Watcher	None.
	Foureyes	None.
	Groucho	May say "Hello", and walk away, giving more experience than defeating it in battle.
	Magic Snail	Has quite high Defense.
	Raeb Yddet	When it spawns closer to the side, it may call a Sky Yddet to battle.
	Sky Yddet	Has a dangerous "Final Blow" attack, which also defeats itself.
	Woodoh	None.
	Big Woodoh	Explodes upon defeat. May drop a Noble Seed.

Magicant Underground

Sprite	Enemy Names	Notes
	Momseyes	Can do a continous attack.
	Dadseyes	None.
	Watcher	None.
	Foureyes	None.
	Groucho	May say "Hello", and walk away, giving more experience than defeating it in battle.
	Ullrich	None.
	The Fish	Optional boss - Gives access to the Onyx Hook upon defeat.
	Dragon	Boss - Holds the Sixth Melody upon defeat.

---

Notable Techniques

• The Eight Melodies: The Eight Melodies of Mother was the song that Maria sung to Giygas as a lullaby during the time she was with him. It is the only way to defeat Giygas through reminding him of Maria filling him with guilt.

• Magicant: A universe created entirely from the users own memories. It exists only within the mind of the user and is shaped entirely by their thoughts and desires.

---

Other

Standard Tactics: Queen Mary does not fight, sitting in her throne watching over her subjects, the random creations in her magicant will normally attack for her. If she remembers her song, she will awaken and her magicant will disappear.

Weaknesses: PSI users need to concentrate in order to use their PSI.

Explanations

• A good chunk of the scans used on this profile are from the MOTHER 1+2 fan translation, translated by Clyde Mandelin (Tomato), he is a professional translator, widely known for his legendsoflocalization post on EarthBound or MOTHER 2.

Trivia

• A minor sprite error occurs during the scene where Magicant disappears, where Maria's dress is colored red instead of its usual pink.

Battle Records

None.

None.

None.