Mother and Child

The **Mother and Child** are a pair of possessed Humans found hiding in an clinic. They are a minor antagonist and secret boss in FAITH: Chapter III that's required to be banished to get the "A New Journey" Ending.

### Phase 1

Through the boss fight Mother doesn't move at all and so isn't a danger of enemy on her own, however instead she relies on demon babies(which have 45 hp) that are constantly spawning during this boss fight.Every time before baby spawns random amount of frames ranging from 30 to 90(2 to 6 seconds) will be chosen to decide when first baby will spawn, after which it changed to range of 45 to 90(3 to 6 seconds).Requires dealing 200 damage to boss for phase to end.During transition to next phase baby speed will change from 4 to 6.

### Phase 2

Upon entering this phase Mother becomes invincible and large horde of babies that climb on her and give her shield out of themselves spawn.
She will spawn Special Bois(which have only 20 hp) every 15 seconds which will move in one of 4 corners of the arena and start forming in their full form of Big Boi which takes around 2 seconds.Special Bois dying will reduce Shield hp(which is 3 at the start of the phase) by 1. In this phase babies spawn in range of 45 to 60(3 to 4 seconds).

### Phase 3

In this phase Mother is possible to damage again, now she has a 50% chance to spawn a Special Boi instead of normal one during fight, however there can't be more than 3 of them at once.In phase 3 timer on spawning babies is range of 30 to 60(2 to 4 seconds).Dies after loosing rest of hp(200), during this group of babies again climbs on her, but after this Mother dies, possibly gets eaten by babies.After this babies escape to vents on right and left.

## Biography

The mother is (presumably) a possessed Human woman with long hair and is colored orange in the game's art style. Her face has a skeletal appearance, with sunken cheeks, hollow eye sockets and a lack of lips. Her facial features are magenta-colored. She appears not to be wearing any clothing.

The Demon babies that she summons are pink with red eyes. Some of their eyes glow, and after a certain point these Demon babies will begin to transform into creatures with long limbs, giggling manically as they attack John. The babies can't cause damage to John, only being able to slow him down. However, the transformed babies are able to kill John.

### October 28, 1987

The Mother and Child can be found after returning to the clinic after killing Jeffrey. John must get back onto the gurney and go into the door in the left corner with several corpses and gurneys clustered around it. After waiting some time, one of the corpses in a gurney stands up and pushes John to forcibly open the basement door. He falls down the stairs and the gurney is destroyed.

Hearing a Demon baby crying, John follows the source and sees a woman standing at the end of a dimly-lit room. Walking up to her, she is cradling a Demon baby in her arms. She tells him to be careful not to wake the Demon baby up. John asks if she's seen Nate and Jason, but she says that they belong to Gary. He asks who Gary is, she turns her head to look at him directly and says that Gary is a normal Human being just like him and her. Freaked out from looking at her unHuman skeletal appearance, John tries to leave politely but the Mother asks why he's leaving so soon. She says that her Demon babies haven't eaten in days and wonders if he wants to meet them. A battle ensues.

### October 30th, 1987

John finds a notice for Tier I Acolytes while exploring Garyland. Although she's not outwardly referenced, Gary tells his newly inducted thralls to not investigate the basement door in an abortion clinic. This part is speculation, but what I'm assuming is that his operations of whatever Gary does with Mother is kept secretive and doesn't trust his new members enough to learn about it. The other tiers of acolytes probably know more about it.

After navigating through Nowhere Forest, John enters a door and meets Gary face-to-face for the first time. After some questioning, the two engage in battle. During the fight, there's a chance for Gary to summon apparitions of creatures and demons John has faced, including the transformed Demon baby. Like all the other apparitions, they cannot kill him on contact and can only knock him down. If John doesn't retrieve his crucifix in time, Gary catches him and performs the Second Death ritual on him, killing him.

After Father Garcia shoots Gary in the head, he retreats to the Crucible to heal from his wounds. Following in pursuit, Garcia and John find a large slab floating on top of the entrance to the Crucible. If John defeated Mother, Tiffany, and the Unholy Spirit, the gigantic seal would've been gone and John's able to go inside to defeat Gary once and for all. If not, he has no choice but to bring the slab down to temporarily stop any future demons coming out from the Crucible. Otherwise, this is the last time the Mother is directly/indirectly mentioned.

## Quotes

### Pre-Battle Dialogue

* (Screen fades to the Mother looking at her cradling Demon baby.)
* Mother: "Shh... Please don't wake the baby."

* John: "I'm looking for twin boys. Nate and Jason Martin. Have you seen them?"
* Mother: "The children belong to Gary now."

* John: "Who's Gary?"
* (Mother turns to look at John directly, revealing her skeletal appearance.)
* Mother: "Gary is a normal Human being just like you and me."

* John: "..I'm leaving now."
* Mother: "Oh. Going so soon?"

* Mother: "The little ones haven't eaten for days."

* Mother: "Don't you want to meet them?"

### Demon babies

* A compilation of the Demon babies' wailing heard throughout the fight.

* A compilation of the transformed Demon babies' laughter.

## Trivia

* The filename for the transformed Demon babies is called "BigBoi".
* The Mother's hair almost looks like a hood of some sort.
* The Mother and the Red Demon are the only two enemies that cannot kill you on contact. The Red Demon doesn't kill you at all and the Mother indirectly kills you through her Demon babies.
* The audio effects for the Demon babies in this fight are recordings of Airdorf's daughter.

## Speculation

* This is all theory-making so feel free to ignore this. It's not explicitly stated what Gary was planning to do in the abortion clinic but what I'm thinking is that the Mother was used to make Demon babies as sacrifices for the Second Death ritual. Stillborns from unknowing patients who want to get an abortion were probably used to support the Mother in some way. Since Gary is performing illegal acts in a public business, the Department of Health has been actively trying to shutdown the area. He doesn't trust his newly inducted cult members knowing about his operations with Mother so they're left in the dark and only members who have been in the cult longer are trusted with this information. Sometime before John comes, the place has been condemned, and Gary has no choice but to abandon the Mother in the clinic while he prepares for the Profane Sabbath before his cult is pinned down by the Sterling Police Department, who's been hot on his trail ever since the shootout near the Candy Tunnels back in between Sept. 22nd to Sept. 27th of that year.
* Additionally, it is possible that the Mother is the woman mentioned in Sandra's note in Chapter II. She is described as giving a "big smile", which might fit given the Mother having her teeth bared at all times. She also is constantly outside the clinic and somehow ends up pregnant after Sandra loses her Demon baby, which fits the point made above. However, there is no definitive proof for this and it could merely be a coincidence.
* It has also been speculated that the Mother is actually Rhonda Ericson, the woman who is mentioned to work at the clinic. There is no strong evidence for this but it is an interesting idea nonetheless.

## Gallery

The Mother before she turns to reveal her ghastly face.The Mother's baby revealing a sinister smile. Plays right before the battle begins.The room we fight the Mother in.The Mother's overworld sprite.The Mother, fully shielded by her babies.The Mother, with her shield depleted once.The Mother with her shield depleted twice.One of the Mother's babies.A baby with yellow eyes that transforms into a larger baby.The mid-transformation of the glowing eyed baby.A transformed baby.An apparition of a big baby, seen in Gary's boss fight.