Mother is an anthropomorphic cat inhabiting a world where humans and animals live side by side. She is wed to an unkempt, alcoholic husband with poor hygiene, who remains disengaged from parental responsibilities. Her presence exudes perpetual weariness, her posture and expressions marked by emotional depletion amid the turmoil of her surroundings.

She tacitly enables the violent, antisocial tendencies of her children, Nyāko and Nyatta, responding to their actions with passive indifference. In a notable example, after a piglet shares pudding with her offspring, she impassively orders its slaughter, later transforming its remains into tonkatsu for the family meal—a decision reflecting her morally ambiguous pragmatism in navigating domestic strife.

Her interactions within the household reveal a numb acceptance of their grim reality. She neither challenges her husband’s neglect nor curtails her children’s cruelty, embodying a cycle of apathy and desensitization pervasive in their existence. No explicit backstory or evolution is documented, leaving her motivations and past ambiguous, confined solely to her role as the family’s resigned matriarch.