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Summary
The Other Mother is the main antagonist of the book Coraline. To persuade children to stay with her, she creates replicas of their homes and relatives that are more interesting than their real-world counterparts for children. Cat thinks that she tries to convince the children to stay with her forever because she wants to love something that isn't her or maybe because she wants to eat something. While it is true that she loves her victims, she loves them not as a mother loves her children, but as a miser loves her money. And when she gets bored of them, she throws them away, steals their souls, and keeps them captive forever.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-C physically, higher with her powers
Name: Beldam, Other Mother
Origin: Coraline
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Classification: an 'Other Mother', it is heavily implied that she is one of the fair folk/faeries
Powers and Abilities:
Peak Human Physical Characteristics, Extrasensory Perception (Her hand seems to be able to see and hear although her body is in another world[1][2]), Immortality (type 2. After her hand was torn off by a closing door and her face was left covered in gashes, both her hand and her body continued to live[3]), Body Control (Can control her disembodied hand[1]), Bodily Weaponry (With her claws and teeth), Sound Manipulation (She changed her voice to Coraline's mother's voice. When she thanked Coraline for telling her that she had found two souls, her voice came from everywhere in her world, including the mist (i.e., parts of her world that had not yet been made).[4] After Coraline escaped from her, her voice changed to something that no longer even resembled a human's voice[5]), Empowerment (She seems to draw her power from the souls she has collected, because her world slowly begins to lose its reality and dimensionality as the children's souls are taken away one by one[4][5]), Teleportation (Teleported out of kitchen[6])
Creation (She can create worlds every day just to keep Coraline entertained[5]), Life Manipulation (Created the Other counterparts of Coraline's relatives and neighbors[7]), limited Mind Manipulation (Forced Other Father to capture Coraline[5]), Soul Manipulation (If she can convince children to sew buttons on their eyes, she can turn them into empty shells and steal their souls, preventing them from going to the afterlife[8]), Illusion Creation, Air Manipulation (Created a cold and stinging wind to assault Coraline[5]), Sealing (Sealed Coraline's parents inside a snowglobe[5])
Attack Potency: Street level physically (Her KE would be this level.[3] Has nails like claws[6] and teeth sharp as knives.[3] Her disembodied hand left a deep gash at the side of a Scottie Terrier[2]), higher with her powers (She can create whole worlds every day just to keep Coraline entertained and destroy them every night when she gets bored of them[5])
Speed: Average Human
Lifting Strength: At least Average Human (Forcibly pulled Coraline, an 11 year old girl, through a hallway.[7] Should be comparable to Coraline's real mother), possibly Peak Human
Striking Strength: Street level
Durability: Street level
Stamina: Unknown
Range: Extended Melee Range, at least Several Meters via reality warping
Standard Equipment: Three children souls, Other Beings
Intelligence: Above Average
Weaknesses: She loves games and challenges, and although she doesn't play them fair, she never refuses them.[9] If the souls of the children she has captured are taken from her, her power over her world will be weaken.[4] She can only create copies of existing things, and cannot create anything new.[5]
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