Character from EarthBound by Shigesato Itoi / Nintendo
The unnamed matriarch who cures homesickness with steak and phone calls — grounding EarthBound's cosmic stakes in domestic warmth.
Ness's Mother never leaves Onett. She stays home with Tracy and King, makes steak when Ness visits, and answers the phone when he calls. And that phone call matters — if Ness doesn't call her regularly, he gets homesick, a status condition that makes him unable to focus in battle. She cures it just by talking to him. She tells him he's brave. She mentions her soap opera is getting steamy. She says she covered for him with his teacher. She is the emotional anchor of the entire game. Every Your Sanctuary vision Ness has — memories of being a baby, of his father holding him, of King as a puppy — leads back to her. The theory that she might be Ana from EarthBound Beginnings (her clay model holds a frying pan, Ana's weapon) is never confirmed. She prays for Ness during the final battle. She makes steak.
Blonde hair. Holds a frying pan in her clay model. Wears a simple house dress. Has the bearing of a woman who has accepted that her thirteen-year-old is going to fight aliens and has chosen to be supportive about it.
Also known as: Mom, Mama