Martha Martha is the foster mother of Yusei Fudo , Jack Atlas , and Crow Hogan . She seems to be Hispanic and owns a cottage in the Satellite sector where she keeps care of orphaned and homeless children . Martha is regarded as a parental figure by all abandoned children in Satellite and refers to all of them as her children . Personality . Martha became the mother figure for all abandoned children , including Yusei Fudo , Jack Atlas , and Crow Hogan . She ' s motherly , kind , caring , stern , protective , friendly and selfless . Biography . Dark Signers . After Yusei Fudo sustains an injury from his Duel with Kalin Kessler , Crow takes him to Martha ' s refuge , so that he could receive the required surgery . As the gang are waiting outside for the operation to be over , Martha assists as a nurse to the doctor , who works on Yusei . After Yusei wakes up , Martha scolds him for growing up as an adult , just so he could forget about his foster parents , as well as beginning the task of building his first Duel Runner . All of that , just so that he can put his life in danger by going to the B . A . D . Area to stop the Dark Signers without the help of his fellow Signers ) . She also tells him that she can ' t understand why he didn ' t ask for help from his friends , when Yusei ' s ideals happen to be " believing in friendship " . Even so , she reminds Yusei that no matter what he does , he can always count on his friends that they will be there supporting and backing him up . She ' s present when Akiza ' s father , Hideo , goes to Satellite in order to ask for his help . However , Yusei refuses to help as doubting that he really can do something for her . Martha figures out why as she says to him that his heart is all closed up now . This is due to the Duel against his old friend Kalin , as it left him with the fear of having to face against another friend . Martha tells Yusei that now the only ones who can help him are his friends . But in order for Yusei ' s heart to open again , he needs to face Akiza again as a friend . Before they leave , Martha teases Yusei , saying that " seeing that he likes Akiza , Yusei better go so that he can also get his future wife " . Yusei tries to reject that opinion , but agrees to help nonetheless . Later on , when all four Signers along with Leo , Trudge , and Mina go back to Satellite , they are greeted by Martha . She seems happy that Jack is finally back too . However , the reunion is cut short as Yusei finds out that Rally and the others , along with Crow , have disappeared . Martha then notices that Akiza is there as well , meaning that Yusei was able to open her closed heart after all . Thus as everyone is later seated on the table and having supper , Roman suddenly appears in order to Duel . After Yusei has accepted to Duel , he ' s accompanied by Akiza , while Jack and the rest take Martha and the kids to a safer place . However , three of the children , Taka , John and Mitch , have decided to watch the Duel ; Martha notices this and along with Trudge are gone looking for them to where Roman and Yusei ' s Duel is taking place . As his spider geoglyph has formed on that area , she and Trudge eventually get near the Dueling site but away from the Nazca Line . As she notices Yusei , they both then see John and Mitch , who are scared and trapped inside the spider geoglyph . Just then they hear Akiza who says to them that an Earthbound Immortal is about to be summoned , and that the kids ' souls will be sacrificed . Martha , worried now because of this , tells Yusei to protect them . However , with help from Jack and Trudge , Martha manages to save the children when Earthbound Immortal Uru is summoned . The impact caused by the summoning and attacks of the Earthbound Immortal damages the building Martha , Trudge , and Taka were on . It slants and begins to fall over , and Martha crawls to the edge to save Taka . She manages to get Taka to Trudge , but falls off of the building and into the geoglyph and is sacrificed into Uru . Her last words were to Trudge , telling him to keep care of her children . After Yusei and everyone else returns to her home , the children try to apologize for the occurring incident to Dr . Schmitt stating that it ' s their fault for what happened to her . However , Yusei states that it isn ' t and that the true culprits to blame are the Dark Signers . He then makes them believe that once the Dark Signers are defeated , Martha and everyone else will return . After Yusei and Roman ' s second Duel ends with Yusei winning , she finally returns along with Rally , Tank , Nervin , Blitz and other people sacrificed to summon Uru . Pre - World Racing Grand Prix . Martha and Schmidt try to convince a withdrawn old man , Bashford , to move in with them , due to the dangerous nature of his house . After failing to do so , the children in her care convince Crow to talk with Bashford . Crow , along with Yusei , Jack and Blister manage to talk him into coming to Martha ' s , where he will have plenty of . Afterwards , Bashford makes a Stardust Dragon statue outside her house . Ark Cradle . Later , after the Divine Temple appears , she and Blister help get the children on a bus , and head for safety . When the Children were worried , she assured them Yusei , Jack and Crow will protect the city . During the final Duel between Yusei and Z - one , she along with Dr . Schmidt , Blister and her children are cheering for Yusei .