Mother

Mother is the main NPC of Budgens and Dragons, and occasional pre-made character. She is mostly portrayed by Eddie O'Keeffe.

## Character Information

### Relatives

Grandmother - Mother's MotherAuntie - Mother's Sister

## Biographical Information

### Marital Status

- Father (husband)- Mr. Piss (husband)- The House (husband)-Boris Johnson (side bitch)

## Physical Description

### Other Descriptive Info

Incredibly beautiful and repulsive at the same time

## Bio

She lives in The House on the very edge of Faringdon. She is described as an extremely old woman with long grey hair, a large witchy nose, long wrinkly fingers and a slight hunchback. Mother's voice is a rib on cast member Gemma Grange's voice, Mother has an extremely gravelly, loud, faux-Essex accent.

Mother's 'role' in the game is to initiate The Task to the players. She also has to stay alive for The Task to be complete. Mother is, unfortunately, weak to pretty much everything and dies constantly. She is responsible for the end of many, many loops.

Mother's attracted to all genders and beings, and will frequently ask members of the group to marry her. If they decline, there is a risk she will die of heartbreak. Mother is also incredibly chaotic, and can snap at a moments notice when talking to people, usually referring to them as a cunt. She is foul mouthed, aggressive, protective, loving, angry, sarcastic, miserable and explosive all at the same time. Mother frequently breaks the fourth wall, staring into the 'camera' that follows the characters in each loop, and sometimes shuts people up mid conversation to have a go at them for saying something stupid. Mother loves a terrible pun, and tends to follow it up with a 'way-hey, LADS!' and a high five, which has been known to then kill her.

## Character Bio

Mother is also a pre-made character! She has been randomly chosen by Oli Ryder.

You are in control of Mother for this game. Your goal is to inform the rest of the group that they need to go to the Budgens in the Faringdon Town Centre and buy a scratchcard. You must specify the number of the scratchcard you want - but only if prompted by another player. As of Rules 3, you are no longer aware of how much a scratch card will cost. If you refuse to follow the Rules of Mother, you will die.

**Pro**: Everyone listens to you, you are the boss!

**Con**: If you die, the game ends.

## Other Mothers

In Episode 22, *Motherlode*, the group decided to try and cheat the game by playing as different variants of Mother, with their pros each being that when they die, the powers of Mother get passed onto the next person, essentially giving each other an extra chance at winning the game.

Mother died earlier in the adventure, but the rest of the Mothers made it to the Budgens alive and gained the scratchcard. They then celebrated, thinking they had won. However they failed to return home to The House and therefore *technically* did not achieve a true victory - although this is canonically considered the first win in the show.

##### Other Mother

Played by Joey Emerald (FKA Joe Del Toro). The first of the Other Mothers. Debuted in Loop 46.

##### Mother 2

Played by Emmy Bashforth. Confusingly, the second of the Other Mothers. Debuted in Loop 47. Mother 2 is the Mother who acquired the scratch card from Budgens.

##### Mother Goose

Played by Oli Ryder. The Third of the Other Mothers. Debuted in Loop 47. Spoke only in Honks but they were revealed at their death to have been references to past loops all along.

##### **Mother Bonk**

Played by Hayley Thompson. The Fourth of the Other Mothers. Debuted in Loop 47. No relation to Bonk or Son of Bonk.

##### **Mother from Another Mother**

Played by Alex O'Keeffe. The Fifth of the Other Mothers. Debuted in Loop 47. A surprisingly nice Mother, was much more gentle than the other Other Mothers. This Mother had a secret identity.

##### **Pull the Mother One**

Played by Reece Wilson. The Sixth of the Other Mothers. Debuted in Loop 47. Pull the Mother One was the most philosophical of the Other Mothers and at one point questioned what they were all doing together and wondering if they had broken the rules of space and time, before dismissing themselves as just being "a silly old fucking woman."

## Family

The residents in the house are not necessarily Mother's children - she claims she is simply called Mother - but she does have a canonical family who have made appearances within the show.

##### Auntie

Auntie is a pre-made character who is described as "Mother's much younger sister". She talks with a silky smooth voice and is pleasant to everybody. However she secretly hates Mother and the whole life Mother is living, and will do anything to steal the scratch card for herself. She has been played by James 'Bacon' Heyes and Emmy Bashforth.

**Pro**: Actually pleasant to listen to.

**Con**: Totally fuelled by spite for Mother.

##### Grandmother

Grandmother is Mother's Mother. She is the epitome of everyone's stereotypical Mother, constantly criticising Mother's age, her weight, her job, her friends, her lifestyle. She is oblivious to the fact that she makes Mother miserable. Her age is 'indeterminate but somewhere in the triple figures', because of this Grandmother's head is in a Futurama style jar, with her body attached to a robot made of carbon fibre. She can still smoke cigarettes. She sounds like Mother 'but with a tracheostomy' and is constantly going on cruises. She is played by Gemma Grange.

**Pro**: Not many, smells of Dove soap and always carries sweets.

**Con**: Everything bad about a Mother, including sounding like Mother.

##### 'Nother

'Nother is the Twin Sister of Mother. She has only appeared once during the first Live Show episodes. She is identical to Mother in every way. She is played by Joy-Amy Wigman.

**Pro**: Can be mistaken for Mother

**Con**: Crotchety old woman, sounds like a bad impression of Terry Jones doing an impression of a woman.

## Romances and Marriage

List all engagements, weddings, and romantic encounters

## Lore - SPOILERS AHEAD

It is revealed in Episode 28 that Mother remembers every single loop that has happened in the game. This could explain why Mother has grown more tired, erratic and insane as the series progresses

In some episodes, the audience hears Mother speaking to Father, who is not heard, about the group winning the game and questioning why the curse has not been lifted. During the second false-win, we hear Mother angrily confronting Father about the game being unfair before she gets attacked and reveals it's time for Plan B - although Plan B has yet to be discovered. We also occasionally get flashbacks to Young Mother, played by Heather Ferlo, singing My Immortal by Evanescence. The significance of this is currently unknown.

In Episode 46, Hooty the Owl keeps haunting Mother throughout each loop. She taunts her and keeps trying to enter the house, only for Mother to scare her off each time. Eventually, Hooty delivers a package to the group; a VHS tape labelled 'Evidence' which when played reveals that Mother has been behind the curse all along! There's also the claim that Mother was the one who ran over and killed Keir Starmer.

## Trivia

* Mother's voice in the early episodes is different to how it is now known. This was because the original voice was too painful for Eddie to do consistently.
* Mother has released several songs on Spotify. Legitimately. Search Budgens and Dragons and you'll find them.
* Everything Mother tweets on the Budgens and Dragons Twitter account is considered canon.
* The first player to indirectly kill Mother was Alex, playing Ulto Goeman at the time.

Mother, as created by Aston WattleworthMother, as created by Hayley ThompsonMother fan art by Jake BrennanMother, as created by Joey EmeraldMother the Hedgehog - by L.T DangerousMother the Hedgehog, with Stabby the Sausage - by TassiosBy Tassios - FanArt from the cancelled adventure Budgens and Dragons: Beach Volleyball EditionA very sexy Mother, by Tassios