Linda Mitchell

* Seasons 1-3
* Season 4-

*"I guess that's a little worrying, but like I always say, people can change."* - Logan's New Girlfriend

**Linda Mitchell**, (née Wattson), is the mother of Carl, Carrie and Sally, and the wife of Calvin Mitchell, as well as the step mother of Logan. Linda is a major character in *Carl*, being Carl's mother as previously mentioned. Throughout the series, Linda has shown to be a hard-working, honest, and pleasant woman, being someone who is very easy to get along with. She is also considered to be very attractive, thus attracting the attention of many male characters in the series, mainly Boo Who and Ricky Steelix. Though she always means well, Linda's behaviour towards her children can be somewhat overbearing at times, often leading to her unintentionally embarrassing them or her worrying too much about them.

## History

### Backstory

Linda was born in Mushroom City in the year 1976, being the daughter of Michael Wattson, a veteran sergeant of the Koopa Troop, and his wife Jessica. Linda attended Princess Karoline High, where she was a rather unpopular student, as she was overweight, wore oversized glasses and had acne. This caused her to become a target of bullying, with Terri-Lynn Hatchins in particular tormenting her very frequently. It was here where she met Felix Grey, who just like her was unpopular and not well-liked.

Linda developed her first crush during her time in High-School; a troublemaker named Ryder, whose appearance and charisma caught Linda's attention. This continued for at least one year. One night in 1991, Linda decided to finally confess Ryder her feelings, only to eavesdrop on him talking to his friends, where she heard Ryder harshly insulting her and dismissing her as ugly and weird. Linda was left broken-hearted upon learning what her first crush really thought of her, believing that no one would ever love her. Just in that night however, Linda came across a guy, who had just faced a somewhat similar situation to hers. After hearing what was troubling her, he encouraged Linda to not pay attention to what others think of her, telling her that she shouldn't be feeling sorry for the hurtful things Ryder has said because she is worth more as a person than he is. Linda decided to follow the guy's advice and started focusing on taking care of herself: she began going to the gym, becoming more sociable and making friends, and eating more healthily, thus shedding aside her insecure overweight appearance for that of a confident young woman. Linda and the guy never asked for each other's names, so they weren't able to recognize each other when meeting again over a decade later.

It is mentioned that Linda has a math degree and is qualified to work as a teacher in both Elementary and High-School, indicating that she attended college in Mushroom City throughout the 1990s after graduating High School.

By the early 2000s, Linda, now a woman in her mid-twenties, decided to move out of Mushroom City due to how dangerous it could be at times. She decided to settle on Toad Town and eventually started a new life there. A few years later Linda started a relationship with an unknown man, and from one of the encounters she had with this man, Linda became pregnant, laying an egg shortly after. Linda's partner however abandoned her as soon as he found out she had laid an egg, even going as far as too leave Toad Town and the Koopa Kingdom altogether. Linda has never told anyone who this man was or what his name was. Eventually, the egg hatched nine months later on October 19th, 2002, with the infant inside it being a boy whom Linda named Carl.

Linda went on to raise Carl as a single mother, getting him a pet Piranha Plant whom Carl named Marvin. The two of them lived in a small apartment for most of Carl's infancy. In the year 2008, Linda met up with the boy she talked all the way back in that night of 1991, neither recognizing each other because of them being so physically different from how they were in the early 90s. Linda learned that the man's name was Calvin Mitchell, who started flirting with her during a trip to the supermarket. Linda was amused, and thus decided to go out on a few dates with him, eventually becoming a couple. They both got married the following year, with Linda and Carl moving into a house in the suburbs of Toad Town along with Calvin and his son Logan. Over a year later, Linda gave birth to two eggs, from which twin sisters Carrie and Sally would hatch.

## Appearance

Linda is a slender, female dragon-Koopa with yellow skin, green head, a pale yellow snout, blonde hair and black eyes. Her outfit consists of a shell and a pair of heels, but unlike most characters, Linda doesn't stick to just one color, having worn green, red, blue, yellow and pink at least on one occasion throughout the series. During the first three seasons of the series, Linda had long hair that reached her shoulders, but starting with the fourth season, her hair is now shorter and styled into a Bob cut.

## Personality

Linda is shown to be kindhearted, optimistic, and quite social person. She always tries to look on the positive side of things and offers to help people as much as possible, and is overall pleasant to be around. Linda is shown to get along with almost everyone, having a strong bond with Grace and her friends, and even people like Sydney Staffordshire.

Linda is portrayed as a hard-working and caring mother and wife, always wanting to encourage and help both her children and Calvin as much as possible, but her patience also knows limits, and will thus scold her children if they are misbehaving or will call out Calvin for his stubbornness when necessary. Aside from this, Linda also tends to unintentionally embarrass her kids from time to time, mainly Carl, by either being too protective, overly worrying about minor things, or letting others know about anecdotes Carl wouldn't want them to know. In spite of this, the relationship between Linda and her family is nothing but loving.

## Relationships with other characters

### Carl

Linda is the only one who isn't mean to Carl. Being his mother, she often defends him if one of the family members pick on him. She often embarrasses him, and does love and care for her son, while Carl loves and cares for her to.

### Mr. Mitchell

While she does love Calvin, Linda does not like it when he's very strict and unreasonable with Carl, and she wishes he and Carl had a more positive relationship with each other.

### Carrie & Sally

Like with Carl, Linda does love and care for Carrie & Sally. despite them being very younger than Carl and Logan. Linda does not seem to favor them over Carl and Logan though she disproves of them swearing at Carl and Logan and she doesn't spoil them that much unlike Calvin.

### Logan

Being her step-son they don't interact that much though Logan seems to favor Linda over his father because as he said in The Hike, Linda isn't a very strict parent unlike Calvin.

### Grace and her friends

Linda acts as a motherly figure to Grace and her friends and she likes spending time with them and she said in (Carl's New Teacher) that she's gonna keep in touch with Grace and her friends, as well as Talia helping her find a new job. This relationship is also shown in The Hike where they hung out together while Calvin took Carl and his friends on a hike.

## Gallery

Linda Mitchell as a teacher in Carl's New TeacherLinda looking for a costume in 1-8Linda in 1991