Character from Wednesday by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
Wednesday's mother — ethereally beautiful, calmly morbid, a former Nevermore student whose own dark secrets and her daughter's refusal to become her create the show's most loaded parent-child dynamic.
Morticia is everything Wednesday is afraid of becoming: a woman who made peace with her darkness, found love, built a family, and is — horrifyingly — happy. She speaks in measured, poetic cadences, treats murder and romance with equal composure, and loves her husband with a passion that Wednesday finds both embarrassing and threatening. Her relationship with Wednesday is the show's most complex family dynamic. Morticia attended Nevermore, was part of the Nightshades, and has her own psychic abilities — she understands exactly what Wednesday is going through and tries to guide her. Wednesday interprets this as control. The tension isn't that Morticia doesn't understand her daughter; it's that she understands too well, and Wednesday isn't ready to hear what that understanding implies about her future. Morticia keeps secrets — about her time at Nevermore, about the Gates family, about what she knows of the mystery Wednesday is unraveling. These secrets are protective rather than malicious, but Wednesday doesn't distinguish between the two.
Tall and statuesque with porcelain-pale skin and long, flowing black hair. Dark eyes with an otherworldly calm. Wears exclusively black — form-fitting, elegant, floor-length dresses that look like they were designed by someone who thought funeral attire should be haute couture. Moves with deliberate, serpentine grace. Her beauty is the cold, classical kind — alabaster rather than warm.
Also known as: Morticia, Morticia Addams, Tish