>>719860658 (OP)
It was pointed out to me a while ago that there's almost no protagonists in video games that are mothers. Plenty of dads, lots even, sad dad shit is everywhere, but moms are rather limited in what roles they take in a story.
There's the player's mom in an rpg who stays at home the whole time and maybe wakes you up at the start or makes you food or offers a petty service like storing your money.
There's the evil queen who is maybe the primary antagonist if she's lucky and not just a pawn to some evil diety.
There's background NPCs that are technically mothers because a child NPC is in their house.
There's Cooking Mama.
Sometimes someone's mom is the damsel in distress, usually yours but Sonic Advance 2 got weird with it.
I feel like I forgot one but I might not have.
Toriel is the most subversive mother character I know of. You could argue she's the first archetype I described, but she's clearly infinitely more important to Undertale than like, Crono's Mom, Red's Mom, Luminary's Mom(s), Ness's mom, etc. She was also in distress in Deltarune Chapter 3 but that game isn't finished so it remains to be seen how much that defines her role in the rest of the game (I suspect it doesn't).
Carol on the other hand is basically just written as an evil queen so-far. The character actually named Queen is really interesting from the angle of universal mother theory but in practice she isn't actually a mother so she feels too tangential to this for me to unpack further.
I haven't read past chapter 2 of Coffin but I guess mama graves is also rather unique.
idk where I was going with this
I wanna make an RPG about cooking and I can't decide if the protagonist being a mother is cool or sexist.
