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Mother Timothy Goose is a player character in Neverafter. He is played by Ally Beardsley.
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Description[]
"My character, hi. My name is Timothy Goose. People refer to me as a lot of things, but one is Mother, Mother Goose. I'm a caretaker in my village. I'm getting gray hair right now. I'm a little bit of a slumped kind of guy. Life hasn't really been easy. I'm a little bit bumbling, but I'm really trying hard. I have a big book that I'm really being led by right now. There's some sort of magical component to it. I still can't figure it out. I write things in it, and the book absorbs it if it doesn't mean anything, but words stick, and now the only word that has stuck has been the word shoe, so I'm trying to go there. Yeah." - Ally Beardsley
Appearance[]
Timothy is an older man with a hunched, worn appearance and grey hair. He doesn't suit any hats, which Ylfa sees as a curse since he lives in a time with such great hats. He is 6'7" and has abs.
Personality[]
Whilst not excessively sweet, Timothy has a caring personality, and took care of many children from his village, reading them stories (hence his title of "Mother"). He strongly believes that children are the future of the realm, and seeks to nurture and protect them, even if some of them can be cruel and unpleasant.
He's a little bumbling, but is trying really hard. In Ally's words, he's a "Medieval gay prepper," so he carries a sharpened broom as a weapon.
Background[]
When they were younger, Henry and Timothy settled in Pottingham, where they raised their son Jack.
At some point, Jack acquired a goose egg, which he claimed to have found, and shortly thereafter acquired a large amount of money. The two husbands assumed he had gotten the money from selling powders, tinctures, or elixirs.
One dark night, Timothy came home clutching a small pile of bones, proclaiming to his husband, "This is Jack." He told Henry that he had seen Jack die after Jack told a goose that he needed his "third wish." On hearing this, the goose laughed, and rapidly decomposed Jack into the pile of bones. Noticing Timothy, the goose then asked him if he wished to know what just happened. When Timothy agreed, he got stuck in the same cycle that Jack was in. He then wished "for something to bring [his] son back," and was gifted his magical book. Realizing that he was now down to his last wish, Timothy presumably fled home.
Upon opening the book with Henry, Timothy was distraught to find that the pages were blank. Desperate for answers, he wrote, "Jack, can you hear me?" on one of the pages. To his surprise, most of the words were absorbed into the paper, and only the word "Jack" remained. As Henry gathered books for him, he wrote down everything he could remember about his son. Inspiration struck when he noticed a dark patch on the floor from his son's childhood antics - he would spend hours jumping over a lit candlestick, until it burned to a stub and the wax stained the floorboards.
When he wrote down the nursery rhyme he wrote about this, the room filled with brilliant light, and the Gander was abjured and pushed back. The letters on the page became illuminated in multi-colour, and a window in the pages opened to another world. In it, he saw an idealized version of Jack, looking healthy and well, running faster than he ever had towards a non-flooded Pottingham. This version of Jack told Timothy that he could use the book to bring him back, but also much more. With a final remark - "You'll find them. I know you will." - the magic faded away, and the bones disappeared in golden light.
At some point thereafter, Timothy left Pottingham, presumably with Ylfa Snorgelsson. When writing in his book, the word "shoe" lingered on the page, pointing him in the direction of Shoeberg.
Timothy played rugby for six years.
Relationships[]
Lord Bandlebridge[]
Timothy approached Bandlebridge to investigate his shoe carriage, but didn't get much information from him, other than that all the buildings in Shoeberg are shoe shaped. When Bandlebridge asks Timothy about his job, Timothy responds "I wear a lot of hats" to which Bandlebridge agrees, but meaning it much more literally.
When Timothy sees the Gander behind Bandlebridge, Timothy swears quietly and colourfully, to which Bandlebridge becomes offended, thinking he was talking to him. Timothy attempts to grab him by the neck to hiss "I'm a cursed man," and Bandlebridge runs away. He later tells Bandlebridge that Pinocchio is incredible. When Bandlebridge starts to insult Pinocchio, Timothy uses Silvery Barbs on him, because he hates hearing adults yelling at children, insisting that while some children are scary and seem like they might have a dark future, Pinocchio is "beautiful and good." When Pinocchio tries to enter Bandlebridge's wagon again, Ylfa and Timothy have to pull him away.
Old King Cole[]
When Timothy first sees Cole, he immediately reacts by saying "I'm taken, but just...you're large...." Cole immediately refers to Timothy as his friend, and suggests that Bandlebridge should back off from Pinocchio, pointing out that Timothy is a witch (which he assumed based on the broom Timothy is brandishing). He refers to Bandlebridge as "Bainbridge," and tells him to stop being nosy and keep his thoughts to himself.
The Gander[]
The Gander initially formed a wish pact with his son, resulting in his death. In a state of grief, Tim unknowingly forming the same pact with the Gander. The bird gives him three wishes, but in exchange for his life. For his second wish, the Gander ends up giving Tim a magic book which is ultimately the key to his undoing. From that moment on, the Gander is a dark force that follows Tim around waiting for him to make his third deadly wish.
The Golden Goose[]
The complete opposite of her brother, the Gander, the Golden Goose is a nurturing force within Tim's life, protecting him from the dark forces around him. After Timothy's book is stolen by Rapunzel, the Goose chooses to make Timothy Goose's final wish, knowing that once that wish is made, Mother Goose will die. With tears in her eyes, the Goose reveals all the different versions of Mother Goose's story to Timothy, showing that, in some stories "Mother Goose" is the witch riding the goose, but sometimes is the goose itself. This means that the two are connected as though they are the same. So in a combined voice of herself and Tim, the Goose wishes to have her book back, sacrificing herself to help Tim.
Henry Hubbard[]
Henry and Timothy are married, and both care very deeply for their son. Henry did as much as he could to help Timothy work out the book to save Jack when he was killed.
Jack Hubbard-Goose[]
Timothy is one of Jack's two fathers, and he loves Jack very much. From a young age, Timothy would write nursery rhymes about Jack, and even when he began to gain illicit money and hang out with the wrong crowd, Timothy always thought of his son as a good boy. One day, Timothy saw the Gander turn Jack into only bones, and came home to his husband, terrified. He had entered himself in the same deal as Jack was in with the Gander in order to save his son, and he is currently still searching for him.
Pinocchio[]
When Timothy proclaims that he's tried all types of hats and none of them suit him, Pinocchio lets him try his hat on, but it still doesn't work, and Pinocchio says "it certainly is a child's hat on a full grown man." He tells Bandlebridge that Pinocchio is incredible. When Bandlebridge starts to insult Pinocchio, Timothy uses Silvery Barbs on him, because he hates hearing adults yelling at children, insisting that while some children are scary and seem like they might have a dark future, this child is "beautiful and good." When Pinocchio tries to enter Bandlebridge's wagon again, Ylfa and Timothy have to pull him away.
Puss in Boots[]
When Timothy tries on Pinocchio's hat, Pib tells him "in the friendliest way possible, you look amazing." Later, Timothy scratches behind Pib's ears, which Pib seems to enjoy.
Scheherazade[]
During the battle in the Canonade, she is able to explain to Timothy the nature of Snow White's spell on the ink. She was actively holding onto it, and the amount of spell that she was able to cast into it is still present. Therefore, they could focus on undoing Snow White's damage, or focus Tim's spellcasting on Destiny's Children's goals, which might cause both of the spells to happen. Knowing the danger of Snow White's spell, Tim tells her that they have to stop Snow White's spell from coming to fruition.
Ylfa Snorgelsson[]
When Ylfa was young, Timothy, or "Mother," as Ylfa knew him, read stories to her and other local kids in their shared hometown of Pottingham. After "things went bad," Ylfa reunited with Timothy for protection, although sometimes Ylfa protects him more than the other way around. They have done pushup contests before, and Ylfa won, but Timothy lied about how many he did. Timothy is constantly reminding her to drink more water, to the point that she feels waterlogged.
Due to trauma associated with the Gander, Timothy had to ask Ylfa to stop wearing her red bonnet, which he felt incredibly guilty for because he never wanted to police children's clothes.
The Story of Mother Goose (Reclaimed)[]
Together with his husband, Henry Hubbard, Timothy no longer feels he needs to be the storyteller, as everyone else now has the power to do so. He spends a lot of his days sitting outside his home in the shade, answering any questions or working through any writer's blocks that anyone may be having when trying to write their stories for themselves. He, Henry, and their son, Jack live happily in Hapley. Furthermore, Jack, being really fast, is able to work as a successful messenger.
One day Jack comes home telling Tim that he traded their cow for a beautiful, jet black gander. It bashfully looks at Mother Goose, asking if he's a witch and a storyteller. When Timothy replies in the affirmative, the gander states that, if he ever feels like he wants to wander and find other stories, the gander wishes to join him in that journey. Tim warmly accepts the offer, saying he is always welcome. The gander lives in an ADU Henry builds on their property, having shaken off the will put upon it by its author, spending his days flying through the world of fairy tale with a wise witch on his back.
Trivia[]
- If Timothy had died a third time or made his third wish, he would have joined the Gander and became an antagonist.
- His minis were sold during the Dimension 20 Neverafter Auction for $1,235 ("Once"), $3,001 ("Twice"), and $3504.69 ("Mother Timothy Goose x Gander").