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Den Mother

The Den Mother is the protector and guardian of the Milk Man’s secret tomb, as well as personal caretaker of the Rainbow Squirt’s daytime activity group. She’ll try to stop Raz from waking the sleeping Milk Man with barrages of exploding cookie boxes and ninja star-like god’s eyes.

Old Psychopedia description

The Den Mother was an inhabitant of Boyd's mental neighborhood. She was the leader of the Rainbow Squirts, and the boss of the Milkman Conspiracy level in Psychonauts.

Appearance[]

The Den Mother has red hair styled in pigtails, yellow skin, red lips, and blue sunglasses with orange lenses. She wears blue jeans, a red scarf, orange-green bracelets with pin needles stuck inside, black shoes, a small blue hat, and a green coat. Her undershirt is blue with orange stripes. She has four fingers on each hand.

Psychonauts[]

Do not follow! The milk is not ready, and you are not ready for the milk!

–The Den Mother

Once Razputin manages to enter the Rainbow Squirts' base, he is immediately approached by the Den Mother, who thinks he has come to make a payment. Her happy facade is quickly lifted when the G-Men and Censors storm their neighborhood. She realizes Raz must have led them to the hideout, and orders her Squirts to fight off the threat. She then proceeds to jump into a doorway behind an ironing board that leads to the Milkman's secret location.

Razputin follows and drops down into a room where the Milkman lies under glass. It is here that Raz must fight the Den Mother. After the battle, the Milkman awakens and rises up out of his glass resting place. Raz leaves the Den Mother as she lies defeated on the floor, and exits the building to witness the Milkman using Molotov milk bottles to blow up every moving thing in sight. Shortly after, Raz is automatically ejected from Boyd's mind.

Strategy[]

Shoot those exploding cookie boxes. And turn on your shield when you see her throwing stuff at you!

Ford Cruller first advice Raz from the bacon about Den Mother.

You can't see in the dark but she can! Clairvoyance will let you see what she sees!

Ford Cruller second advice Raz from the bacon about Den Mother when she turns off the lights.

The battle will take place in what seems to be a basement with three sets of stairs branching off and the middle featuring a circular area which in the center the milkman can be seen under glass. The den mother will attempt to fire God's eyes as shurikens and throw exploding cookie boxes at Raz, he can either use PSI-blast or Telekinesis to attack her, which curiously enough this will deal different amount of damage. Once half of her hit points are gone, she darkens the room, which is not a problem for her, since she can see perfectly in darkness and sees things in a red tint. However, Raz can't see in the darkness, and he has to use Clairvoyance on the God's Eye she uses in order to continue fighting from her perspective so he can see in the darkness. Once she is defeated the milkman can finally be freed from its coffin.

Attacks and Health[]

  • God's eye: the Den mother will constantly throw an object made of yarn upon a wooden cross, similar to what a ninja would do with a Shuriken. Thanks to its tiny size is hard to see when is approaching towards Razputin so the best way to avoid this attack is by using Shield, or simply moving around but quickly. In total she fires 5 god's eyes and this attack deals 4 hit points (1 whole brain for Mental Health).
  • Rainbow Treats: the den mother similar to the past attack will constantly throw an object, but this time being explosive cookie boxes and in the air so it lands close to raz. Once they fall on the ground they will lie on the ground for a moment until raz gets close to them or after the den mother moves to a different position, similar to the past attack, raz can block the explosion of the box by using shield and if this is not done raz would receive a total of 6 hit points. Also, in total she only drops 3 boxes (5 if the the first 3 boxes are exploded).
  • Super Jump: after doing all of her attacks or even after getting damage she will jump from stair to stair. While doing this she can't be damaged in any sort of way, sometimes she can even jump two times consecutively. While this is not really an attack it counts as a method of quick movement.
  • Night Vision Sunglasses: this ability is only used when she turns off the lights of the area it seems that her sunglasses has night vision which means the ability to see in low-light conditions. In her case everything even Raz itself are in a red tint color.

Surprisingly enough, unlike most of the bosses in the game the amount of hit points she requires to be defeated varies on the PSI-Powers Raz is using. PSI-Blast requires the most quantity of hits being a total of 12 hits, pretty similar to Kochamara, followed by this goes PSI-punch with a total of 6 hits and lastly TK or Telekinesis only requires 4 hits to defeat her. With TK this could be the case by the fact raz is throwing the explosive cookies back at her.

God's Eye[]

God's Eye

The God's eye.

God's eye is a spiritual and votive object made by weaving a design out of yarn upon a wooden cross. The God's Eye is an item found in the Den Mother's lair while Razputin is battling the Den Mother. When Clairvoyance is used on it, he can see through the eyes of the Den Mother from wherever he is standing. This allows him to fight the Den Mother even in complete darkness, as she is able to see in the dark with a bright red tint. Raz loses this item after the Den Mother is defeated.

Quotes[]

Before Battle[]

  • "Oh, hello there. Have you come to pay for your Rainbow Treats? We knew you would."
  • "Won't you join us in our Rainbow Squirt Pledge of Purpose?"
  • "You brought them here!"
  • "Go girls! Protect the milk!"
  • "Hi-ya!"
  • "Do not follow! The milk is not ready, and you are not ready for the milk!"
  • "I told you not to follow. Now you must die!"
  • "THAT IS THE WAY OF THE RAINBOW SQUIRTS!!!"

During Battle[]

  • "God's Eye!"
  • "No milk for you!"
  • "Have some cookies!"
  • "Hi-ya!"
  • "Hy-yup!"
  • "Ha!"
  • "Treats for you!"
  • "Die!"
  • "This box is free!"
  • "Ooh!"
  • "Gak!"
  • "Ah!"
  • "Ah ha ha ha!"
  • "BWAH HA HA HA!"
  • "HA HA HA!"
  • "Enough! It’s time for me to pluck out your eyes!"
  • "Fine. Then I’ll do this."
  • "Hope you can see in the dark"
  • "Because I can! HA HA HA HA!"
  • "How did you know where I was?"
  • "You must have heard me breathing!"
  • "Lucky shot!"
  • "How can he see in the dark?"
  • (If Raz uses stop sign) "I will if you will. And then you will die!"
  • (If Raz uses watering can) "Your can is going to be full of yarn in a second!"
  • (If Raz uses rifle) "Ha! That is the fakest-looking gun I've ever seen!"
  • (If Raz uses phone) "They can handle themselves. So can I."
  • (If Raz uses plunger) "Enough distractions. Time to die!"
  • (If Raz uses flower) "All who disturb the Milkman must die!!!"
  • (If Raz uses Invisibility) "I know you're in here somewhere!"
  • "When he wakes, there will be no afterwards!"
  • "Ohhhh… oh…"

After Battle[]

  • "What have you done? He wakes!"
  • "And the seas...shall run white...with his rage..."

Trivia[]

  • Using Clairvoyance, the Den Mother sees Raz as himself in his actual appearance, because this power is necessary to defeat her.
  • This is one of the only bosses who Raz can talk to during battle. Though it is rare for her to finish her sentences as they are always interrupted by her sadistic exclaiming and laughing when she attacks.
  • On April 25, 2019, Scott C. told on his Instagram account that Den Mother was inspired by his own mom.
  • The Den Mother's glasses are teal and orange, which is the same color scheme as Kochamara. This may be an indication that the Rainbow Squirts are the product of Oleander hypnotizing Boyd.
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