I wrote the majority of this on a tiny notepad at Kohl's while I was waiting for the group interview to begin. Then I accidentally left my pen behind in the office and couldn't finish it on the car ride home, so I copied what I had into a Word document and continued where I left off.
Growing up, I've never played any of the Mother games. I had never even heard of them until a few years when I had watched Chuggaconroy's LP of Mother 3. If anything, I am definitely looking forward to the Mother 4 fan game coming out next year. Inspired on a whim while watching an LP of Mato's translation of Mother 1+2, and doing a little digging on the lore, I hope that I have managed to capture Giygas in his final moment in Earthbound/Mother 2.
He screams, and he does not know why.
He howls, and he cannot say why.
He cries, and he wishes he knew why.
But he cannot. It is beyond him now. All thought and comprehension has fled him. Erased and made soundless. Into nothing. Become nothing.
He tears. He stretches. Twists into a beautiful red-black corkscrew.
It hurts.
Everything hurts, and he can't say where. He cannot feel, but it is there. It is everywhere.
Sound.
Words.
Emotions.
Echoes upon echoes upon echoes.
The little girl speaks, head bowed and hands clasped to her bosom, and he doesn't understand what she's saying but it stings.
The boy in the cap speaks, and he doesn't understand what he's saying but it rips.
The boy with the glass panel on his face speaks, and he doesn't understand what he's saying but it tears.
The boy with the single strand of wire that acts as hair speaks, and he doesn't understand what he's saying but it breaks.
Every man, woman, child, animal, and alien life-form speak, and he tries to understand what they're saying, really, really hard, and IT HURTS OH MAMA MAMA IT HURTS MAMA—
He has no mouth but he must scream. He has to, and he does.
And everything is still. The darkness closes in.
Warm.
All-encompassing.
Suffocating.
Cold.
Cold.
So very cold.
Mama.
Mama.
Oh Mama I'm so happy—
Oh Mama it feels good—
Ma…ma….
M-a-m-a….