by Tanith » Wed May 5, '10, 9:03 pm
I guess Alis was a mother at some point, or at least offered up her DNA, since Rolf is her descendant. I can see her being a mother, too. If not for her love of family, she wouldn't have gone on her quest.
Alys would have made a great mom. She would have run a tight ship, but her firm-but-fair approach reminds me of my own mother. Despite being a tough-as-nails hunter, in the little time that she's in the game they hint at her various homemaking skills like cooking, cleaning, giving Chaz a schedule, checking on her neighbors, etc. While not necessarily "mom" skills, they point at her being someone who could settle down and raise a family. And, of course, taking Chaz under her wing suggests even further that she's cut out for being a mom.
Assuming any of the characters from PSII lived on, I bet Amy became a mom at some point. We don't really know much about her, but of course her nurturing personality is very motherly. There's also something about coming from a "normal home" that suggests stability in her life. I can't really see Anna or Shir as mothers. Anna has too much baggage and Shir just doesn't seem like the settling down type.
I guess I see Rika as a mom. She was made for the purpose of breeding, anyway, and then there are the pictures of her in the Compendium with Rui. I wonder if part of Seed's makeup of Rika was to give her a strong sense of nurturing and an inclination to produce offspring.
There's that Toyo Ozaki comic where all of the final generation characters are stuck together in a parallel universe and talk about how Mieu is like a mother to them. Crys mentions that sometimes Mieu is more like a mother to him than Sari (ouch), and Sean was not only raised by Mieu but even * by her (whoa). It's not hard to see that Ozaki really favored Mieu as a character. I personally don't care for how Mieu is portrayed as so highly ideal by Ozaki (it makes her character a bit flat), but she certainly seems to be great "mom" to all the heroes that come after Rhys.