Peacock

Mrs. Peacock was a member of the Peacock family in Home, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of Edmund, George and Sherman Peacock.
==History==
Mrs. Peacock was the matriach of the Peacock clan, which has been living in Home since the mid-18th century. She, like the rest of the Peacocks, was entirely immune to pain as a result of generations of severe inbreeding, which also caused numerous physical deformities. This "tradition" was upheld by Mrs. Peacock, marrying a man within the family and even procreating with her firstborn son Edmund, making him the father to her youngest children, i.e. his own siblings. They led an exceedingly frugal lifestyle by growing their own crops, keeping lifestock, and leaving the family property only on sparse occasions.Scully made the hypothesis that George and Sherman Peacock were the result of an incestuous relationship between Mrs. Peacock and Edmund. This is further backed by Mrs. Peacock's apparent favoritism towards Edmund and her speech about the "pride [and] love" she had knowing that "[her] boy will do anything for his mother".In 1986, Mrs. Peacock and her husband were in a terrible car accident that resulted in his death and the loss of her arms and legs. Although an ambulance was called to the scene, her sons refused to let paramedics near Mrs. Peacock and instead brought her home to treat her injuries at her instruction. At her own wish, her sons kept Mrs. Peacock's survival a secret, and hid her away on a sled under a bed, feeding her regurgitated food.In an effort to preserve the Peacock lineage, Mrs. Peacock offered herself to her sons for incestuous sexual intercourse.
:The fact Mrs. Peacock had sex with her sons is known due to a DNA sample from a baby her children buried alive, as the infant's molecular pattern is said to have "tripled into cell metaphase".
==The Home Murders==
In 1996, during a heavy rainstorm, Mrs. Peacock gave birth to a newborn child that was fathered by her three sons. However, the family deemed the child too sickly for their purposes, with Edmund, George, and Sherman burying the child alive in a baseball diamond the same night.
Mrs. Peacock was still under her bed when she witnessed and , who had been assigned to investigate the strange case of the buried child, enter the bedroom. Without making her presence known to the , Mrs. Peacock overheard Mulder and Scully as they discussed the events of the case, deciding the Peacock Family was behind the murders and that they ought to inform their findings to Sheriff Andy Taylor. When her sons returned – long after Mulder and Scully had left – Mrs. Peacock informed them about what the two agents had talked about. She was left alone once again, as her sons departed to kill Sheriff Taylor, attempting to thereby prevent the loss of the Peacock family.
Once the three Peacock sons murdered Sheriff Taylor and his wife Barbara Taylor and returned home, Mrs. Peacock offered sexual intercourse for all of them to have a chance to with hopes to give birth to another, more healthy addition to their family. Later that day, Mrs. Peacock was discovered by Mulder and Scully, who had come with the intent of capturing the Peacock family and charging them with the murder of Sheriff Taylor and his wife. First mistaken for a mutilated kidnapping victim, Scully recognized Mrs. Peacock from the pictures on the wall. When questioned by Scully about the actions of her sons, Mrs. Peacock remained unrepentant and refused to leave her abode for medical treatment, going as far to express her great pride in regards to her children's loyalty to the family and declared she could tell Scully had no children.
Even though George and Sherman were subsequently killed after a fight with Mulder and Scully, Mrs. Peacock managed to escape from her family house with Edmund, who drove both her and himself away in the Peacock family car. She lay in the vehicle's trunk, talking with Edmund, while the car was parked in the middle of a road. She told him they had to move to find a new home and that there would be more members of the Peacock family someday soon. Mrs. Peacock remained in the trunk as Edmund climbed out of it, implicitly after another sexual encounter, stepped back into the driver's seat and drove away to their unknown next destination, while "Wonderful, Wonderful" was playing in the car. ( "Home")
=== Comic continuity ===
In the WildStorm comics 2#-4#, it's shown that Mrs. Peacock and Edmund found their new "Home" at a large farm in Garden County in rural Nebraska. At her behest, Edmund had killed the previous owners and disposed of their remains in the pig pens, and over the course of almost two decades, the two produced the next generation of Peacocks. Remarkably, their eldest daughter Molly was born without any visible birth defects and despite her supportive stance on her parents' incest, she has never engaged in the practice herself. To their surprise, in 2015, Agent Mulder, now on the run from the FBI, coincidentally arrived at the farm to investigate the nearby state-run fracking operation and was captured by Edmund at Molly's wishes, as she intended to continue the family legacy by providing her aging mother with a new mate. When a squadron of FBI agents surrounded the house in search of Mulder, Mrs. Peacock ordered her son to cover the house in gas and set it alight with all remaining Peacocks in it.
In her final moments, Mrs. Peacock reminisces about her past, revealing that she had been participating in the incest since she "came of age" and that she had given birth a total of 72 times, with the majority passing away before she could even name them, although Molly claims that there were hundreds of Mrs. Peacock and Edmund's children on the farm.
The 3# comic also shows the exact circumstances of the car accident. In the flashback, Mrs. and Mr. Peacock (both portrayed without any disfigurements) leave their sons at a Christmas tree sale after Mr. Peacock gets frustrated with their low intelligence, ugly looks, and disinterest in girls, while Mrs. Peacock goes to comfort Edmund and tells him not to feel any shame for his "sacrifices to the family". As Mr. Peacock is distracted with tuning the radio away from a channel playing Wonderful, Wonderful, the car ends up plowing through a passel of pigs on the road and crashing into a welcoming billboard. The scene implies that Mr. Peacock married into the clan and was unaware of the incest between his wife and Edmund, as well as the fact that he wasn't the actual father of George and Sherman.
==Appearances==
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***"Home"
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***"The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" (flashback)
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