Clockwork Mother

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The Clockwork Mother is a clockwork humanoid who works for The Mistholme Museum as a Museum Security Officer.

## Description

The Clockwork Mother is described as "a strange woman, made of brass" and has "clockwork whirring at her joints." She wears the Mistholme Museum's security officer badge.

During the lockdown, her vocal mechanisms were damaged, so she communicates via sign language. While she did have the option to get a new voice, she turned it down.

Mother is shown to be passionate and loving as she spends her entire life finding a way to fix her daughter. She is also shown to be selfless, as she requests she receives no payment or gifts for her work, just that she can see and protect her daughter every day.

## History

The original human mother's past is not developed beyond the fact she has a daughter and no other family. When her daughter gets sick, she spends years trying to cure it. Eventually, her daughter dies and it is described as the worst day of her life. When her daughter died, she instead focused on reviving her as a Clockwork Girl, and succeeded in doing so at the cost of her age. To ensure her daughter was not alone, she made a clockwork version of herself and died shortly after.

The Clockwork Mother then made a second version of herself to ensure her daughter was never alone. This family of three lived happily until their daughter started dying just as her human counterpart had. Despite the mothers' best efforts, she too died and forced the mothers to relive the worst day of their human counterpart's life. The two mothers fought and, despite the fact they are meant to be the same person, they were unable to agree on what to do.

So, one Mother stayed behind and tried to recreate their daughter, this time fixing what was wrong. She was unable to do so, and eventually completely disappeared.

The second Mother took their daughter's body and travelled the world to try and find someone to help her daughter. After many years, she finally found herself at the Mistholme Museum and asked for help there. While the staff tried, they ultimately decided the Clockwork Girl could not be saved by them. Instead, they offered to put her on display to keep her memory alive as the original mother had wanted. The Clockwork Mother agreed in exchange for the ability to see her daughter everyday.

Now, the Mother works as a security officer at the Mistholme Museum and roams the halls.

## Appearances

* NASCENT, ***Clockwork Girl*** (Part of exhibit)
* SPIRALING, ***Antique Radio Transmitter***, (Mentioned)
* LOST, ***A Clockwork Mother***
* CONVERGENT
* OBEDIENT
* SENTIMENTAL
* EMPOWERED
* QUADRUPEDAL
* UNSEEN
* ELEMENTAL
* NEVERENDING
* CONFIDENT
* ENTRAPPED
* SACROSANCT
* ENIGMATIC
* SEVERED, (Mentioned)
* OMNIVOROUS, (Mentioned)
* UNFOLDING, (Mentioned)
* NOWHERE
* TROUBLING
* ELABORATE
* TAKEN
* HORRIFIC

## Relationships

### Clockwork Girl

The Clockwork Girl is her daughter. As Mother has spent her entire life looking after and protecting her daughter, it is easy to say she loves her daughter.

### The Other Clockwork Mother

Both of the mothers are meant to be identical versions of the original mother. While both Mothers fought and left each other upon the death of their Clockwork Daughter, they kept in touch for some time using letters implying they ended on good terms. However, since then, the Other Mother has disappeared and no one has been able to find her.

### Curator

The Curator offers a place for Mother's daughter in the museum when it is revealed they cannot help her.

## Trivia

* The Clockwork Mother is technically two mothers- the one who stayed to remake her daughter, and the one who travelled the world to fix her.
* Mother speaks in Auslan - Australian Sign Lanuage

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 NASCENT
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 SPIRALING