Tommy (MOTHER)

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“	So, Tommy WAS born, and you hid this from everyone? Because you were ashamed that he was abnormal? Disfigured? Why would you keep Tommy hidden from the world, like a prisoner inside your own house? How deranged is your mind that you concluded that this was the best thing to do? You could have given him to adoption. Hell, you could have even aborted him, that would have been more humane! Tommy deserved better than to be treated like a dog.	„
	~ Carl's phone message to Mary, after he discovers the truth behind Tommy.

Tommy, otherwise known simply as the Monster, is the secondary antagonist of the survival indie horror game MOTHER. He's Mary's third child, and the one who was born with so many physical abnormalities that she's decided to keep Tommy hidden in the secret room of her apartment.

Biography[]

Some time before the game's events, Mary, the protagonist, gives birth to Kyle and Kayla and later to Tommy, a horribly disfigured and overall abnormal boy. Mary considers raising him in secret from the society and coerces Jack, her husband, into keeping the child a secret and convinces all her relatives that she had a miscarriage. They maintain this lifestyle for years, raising Kyle and Kayla as normal children while holding Tommy in a dirty, cramped room, barely giving him any attention or affection. Eventually, being overcome by the guilt of providing Tommy with such miserable existence, Jack takes his own life. Mary and the children are devastated and later move to a new apartment, bringing Tommy with them.

Once in her new apartment, Mary starts out by following her doctor's prescription medicine that's supposed to help her fight the anxiety and insomnia. As she takes her medication, does different chores around the flat and just tries to sleep, strange things start to happen involving Kyle and Kayla claiming to see an invisible entity that they for some reason name Tommy. Attributing it to the side effects of the pills, Mary dismisses their claims, but soon realizes that something is indeed living inside their apartment and lets it's presence be known by randomly interacting with the objects around the flat.

During the fifth night at their new apartment, the creature shows it's hostility for the first time. While playing hide-and-seek with Kyle and Kayla, Mary can suddenly stumble upon Tommy in one of the hiding places, with the latter injuring her. To make matters worse, because of the doctor's mistake, the green medicine makes Mary addicted, hazy and uncertain of whether Tommy is real or not.

Finally, during the sixth night, Tommy begins hunting down Mary and the children, traveling through the vents and windows, kidnapping them while Mary is away and trying to devour their flesh. The only way to repel him is the camera flash of her phone, which startles Tommy and makes him retreat. Mary attempts to barricade vents and windows with the wooden planks and even arms herself with Jack's gun, but Tommy just keeps coming back, with the Jack's apparition breaking into the apartment later to aid him.

On the fifteenth night, Tommy's persistence becomes his demise, and even though Jack's vengeful spirit roams around the flat, making the situation quite difficult, Tommy underestimates his resistance to gunshots and perishes from his wounds.

The outcome of this story depends on Kyle and Kayla's well-being in the end. If both of them are alive, Marry is arrested, since Carl, Jack's brother, had found out about Mary's terrible secret earlier and contacted the authorities, deeming her a danger to the kids. If at least one of them is dead, Mary commits suicide by shooting herself in the head upon the police's arrival, with Tommy's revenge being fulfilled from beyond the grave.

Appearance[]

It's unknown whether Tommy's in-game appearance is legit and isn't caused by the side effects of Mary's medicine, but since his corpse appears unchanged on the final night after he's been shot dead the previous night, it's believed to be real.

The combination of a life-long isolation and severe physical deformities has transformed Tommy in a grotesque creature with barely any resemblance to the human being. He's got a greyish complexion with some of his body parts, specifically arms, torso and legs being covered in dark-brown spots, either excrement and blood or just a natural pegmentaion of his skin. Although his posture is always hunched, his leg, arm and abdomen muscles are fairly developed, with his spine also being exposed. Tommy's face is prolonged and is almost dog-like in appearance, with either a lack of or rudimentary eyes and a mouth full of large teeth without lips.

Personality[]

In all fairness to his animalistic behavior and homicidal tendencies, these traits were most likely developed by Tommy from years of neglect and poor treatment provided by his parents, especially Mary.

As pointed out by Carl, he's been treated like a dog, if not even worse, his entire life, being locked up in a tiny, dirty room in both his old house and the new apartment, given only a bed and a plate placed on the floor. As seen in one of the cutscenes, his leisure is mainly comprised of sitting in his room alone in a total darkness, which undoubtedly has done a fair amount of damage to his psyche over the years.

The boy could have been saved from becoming completely feral, as evidenced by his relatively harmless behavior during the first few nights. He appears to be childish and mischievous, playing with Kyle and Kayla on occasion when getting out of his prison of a room, trying to watch TV, moving various objects around, including placing a live rat in one of the vents, finding Kyle's lost toy and dragging it further under his bed to tease Mary a little when she attempts to retrieve it and trying to play hide-and-seek with Mary and his siblings. He even leaves a note in one of the rooms saying "Sorry" later on the fourth night, either apologizing for his troublesome pranks or as a way to apologize for the future harm he's about to do to the kids and Mary, being unable to bear children fearing him and his own mother despising him and denying his existence.

However, some of the instances of his appearances and almost paranormal happenings in the apartment may be attributed to Mary's drug-induced hallucinations, which are also fueled by guilt, especially the ones where he's not seen at all, as if some invisible being manipulating objects around it.

All his innocent traits aside, Tommy is still extremely dangerous and a bit calculating. He's relentless in his pursue of the family's demise and will use every bit of opportunity when it comes to breaking into the house and hurting Mary and her children. He mainly infiltrates the flat through the vents and sometimes uses windows and the nearby passages to carry one of the children away from Mary's sight and starts slowly devouring them until he's either flashed with a camera or shot with a gun, using the vents and windows as an escape route, demonstrating some survival instincts. It's also unknown why he chooses to eat away at his siblings, with it being either the result of malnourishment from the lack of care or simply a decision born out of his insanity from isolation.

Either way, whether being governed by his carnal desires or vengeful motives, Tommy will stop at nothing to kill Mary and her children, even if it means breaking through the countless barricades, experiencing pain over and over again and dying in the end.

Powers and Abilities[]

Peak Human Speed and Dexterity: Despite spending most of his time in an uncomfortable position in a tiny room, Tommy is amazingly agile and quick. He's able to move at a lightning pace between the rooms and windows/vents and squeeze his body into them in a blink of an eye, which is peculiar ability of his as well, since even having wide shoulders is not stopping him from traversing the narrow crawl spaces.
Superhuman Durability: Another unlikely power of his, hinting at Tommy actually possessing supernatural qualities, is his inhuman resistance to bodily harm. He's shot repeadetly by Mary during several nights, and he's still able to recover from his wounds to carry onto the next one, with the fifteenth night turning out fatal after about 10-15 bullet wounds in one go.
Strength: The same can be said about Tommy's physical strength. Although not superhuman, Tommy can still run at full speed while carrying a child in his arms, including crawling through the vents, and is able to break wooden boards by either biting them with his teeth or bashing his head against them.
Surroundings Awareness: He cannot be considered exceptionally smart, but Tommy is still capable of some cunning. He almost always chooses a vent or a window to emerge from in a way that Mary won't be able to immediately locate him and while traversing the flat's hallways, he keeps turning off the lights and tampering with the electronics, such as the radio and a TV, to confuse and disorient Mary and does the same after snatching and devouring one of her children.
Paranormal Abilities: While unconfirmed, some weird events involving Tommy's alleged presence cannot be ignored. Some of them, such as the remote toy monkey jumpscare, can be dismissed as Mary's psychosis caused by the green pills, but the children's claims of seeing Tommy that coincide with an invisible being interacting with different objects, such as the times when the TV kept turning on and off without anyone seemingly being in a possession of a remote and a toy monkey moving on its own even after Mary had taken away the remote from Kyle, not to mention Tommy's incredible ability to escape his room without using any of the two vents leading into it, all point to Tommy possibly having teleportation, invisibility or even telekinetic abilities.

Weaknesses[]

Flashing Lights: Most likely having developed an acute photosensitivity due to living in a complete darkness his entire life, a camera flash can make Tommy scream in pain and retreat to the nearest escape route.
Gunshot Wounds: Although his durability makes him seem invincible, Tommy is still a mortal being that can be taken down for good with enough shots from a pistol.

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