Mother: The Original Story

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The cover of the book.

Mother: The Original Story (Japanese: to be added) is a novel released exclusively in Japan which is loosely based on the plot of EarthBound Beginnings. It was written by Saori Kumi and notably follows Ana's point of view, rather than Ninten's, covering the plot of the game from Snowman up until its ending. Though it largely follows the plot of the game, it takes a few other liberties such as adding characters, renaming characters, or focusing on portions of the game in greater detail.

Plot Synopsis

In the town of Snowman, a young, devout {[wp|Catholic}} 12-year-old Snowman resident with black hair named Ana is the sole possessor of uncontrollable psychic powers in her town. When her mother travels to Youngtown for missionary business, she unexpectedly vanishes, leaving her and her father alone in the church where they reside. During one week, her mind becomes bombarded with strange, unconsciousness mental images, which she eventually determines are the experiences of another PSI user in the world who trying to communicate to her through them: a young 12-year-old boy with blond hair and freckles named Ken, who is energetic, courageous and righteous yet has impulsive, aggressive and insensitive tendencies. His traveling companion is a young 11-year-old brown-haired boy named Lloyd, a bespectacled kid genius who is kind, sensitive and loving but is extremely weak and has no fighting skills in battle. The boys both exhibit traits indicative of being a mama's boy and being immature, which greatly aggravate Ana. While Lloyd's personal mission is to recover a Kannon flower to save his dying mother, he and Ken's current mission is to save all of mankind from a potentially world-ending event. While Ana is conscious of these events, her efforts to communicate with the seemingly psychic communications are prone to dismal failure.

One snowy night, Ana finds her father praying to God in the chapel and prays along with him for a righteous person to come and save God's people from the world's terrible troubles; rumors that aliens from [[Mt. Itoi have abducted all the adults from Youngtown have spread, while other tumultuous events have occurred in recent times from across the world, such as darkening skies, crazed animals, evil machinery, and undead zombies. While praying, Ana decides to find her mother despite her physical weakness and young age, being just shy of 13; she becomes resolute in her mission, however, believing it is a task set to her by the Lord. Immediately afterwards, Ken and Lloyd arrive at the chapel with Ana's missing hat, claiming they received it at the Reindeer train station after hearing about its owner and her PSI possessory with the intent of returning it to her; Ken immediately insults her while introducing themselves to her. Ana states that she is familiar with them, which astonishes both her father and the two boys--neither the father or the boys were privy to her psychic vision's of the boy's travels--and states her intention to journey with them to rescue her mother.

After Ana and Lloyd share a moment, a furious Ken confronts them, urging them to move onward on the false pretense of Ana and Lloyd being romantically involved. Afterwards, a herd of white wolves suddenly confronts the trio, with Ken and Lloyd effortlessly battling the wolves while Ana huddles on the ground in fear. After the battle is over, the children travel to

Ana shares a romantic moment with Ken while Teddy is severely damaged by the robot nearby.

When Ana uses her powers to inflict damage on the people crowding around her, her hair turns a pale white from the stress of her psychic exertion.

Ken then telepathically communicates with Ana.

Trivia

• Ana's hair turning white could be a possible reference to her in-game sprite, which has a pale-color hair the same color as her skin.
• The author of this novel has expressed interest in publishing a fully-translated version of her Mother novels, though she is unsure of the series' copyright in order to accomplish such a proposition.

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