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Template:Character Mother Maiamai is a character in A Link Between Worlds.

Biography

Mother Maiamai is located in Lake Hylia behind a Bombable wall. When Link encounters her, she explains to him that she was traveling the worlds with her children when she lost all 100 of her babies.[1] She asks the young hero to locate them, informing him that they will be crying out for her.[2][3] If Link accepts, she gives him the Maiamai Map to help locate her children.[4]

In exchange for locating and returning her babies, she gives Link item upgrades. After Link brings back 10 baby Maiamais, she can upgrade one item that Link owns himself (she cannot upgrade items that Link is renting). For example, the upgraded Bow allows Link to shoot 3 Arrows at once, instead of just one. When all 100 babies are returned, she will upgrade Link's Spin Attack to the Great Spin Attack.[5]

To upgrade an item, 10 of her babies form a semicircle around her and chant while she inhales the item and spits it back out, upgraded. When the Great Spin Attack is earned, she inhales Link and spits him out.

If Link speaks to Ravio after getting the Great Spin Attack and returns to Mother Maiamai, she will say that she and her children are leaving for a different dimension.[6][7] When Link returns to the cave, there is only one Maiamai left in it, the 72nd one that Link saved.[8]

Gallery

Upgraded Items

Trivia

  • The Mother Maiamai appears to be based on the white storytelling creature from A Link to the Past, though larger, pink, and with a shell.
  • Her name "Maiamai" comes from the Japanese word マイマイ maimai, meaning "snail". The name is also a play on the phrase "My, oh, my!".
  • If Link goes near her babies, he will turn his head to look in their direction. This is useful if they are hidden in groups of stones, bushes and or skulls (in Lorule), but it will not work if Link is facing directly away from them.

References

  1. "My, oh, my! What business have you with Mother Maiamai? Forgive me if my spirits aren't flying so high. We were on a great voyage through all the worlds, my takes and I... Then I lost sight of my little Maiamais! All 100 of my babies, by and by!" — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  2. "Could you find all of them? You'll hear my children crying--calling for their Mother Maiamai!" — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  3. "They call out with such cute, chirping sounds. Yet they must be so sad, missing their Mother Maiamai." — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  4. "Thanks! Mother Maiamai finds you quite a kind child. Here--take this. It will help you know if my tykes are nearby. Oh, yes--upon the Maiamai Map you can surely rely!" — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  5. "I knew you'd be able to help me. Thank you--oh, thank you! You found all of my babies! Please take this from Mother Maiamai! [...] Mother Maiamai can't thank you enough. You found all my Maiamais! You're nice, child, very nice." — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  6. "You came just in time! It's a bit sudden, but we must bid you good-bye. I'm off to a different dimension with my Maiamais! Oh! But Mother Maiamai doesn't even know your name! Ah...Link. What a nice name. There's nothing more I could do to make it nicer, oh, good friend of mine. My darling tykes owe you their lives. May we see you again, by and by." — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  7. "Good-bye! Good-bye! And thank you, Link!" — Mother Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
  8. "Hello there, Link! I'm the 72nd Maiamai you saved! Thanks for all your help. Mom and the others have gone off. But I--? Well, I stayed behind. Time for me to be my own Maiamai." — Maiamai (A Link Between Worlds)
TMC Forest Minish Artwork Names in Other Regions TMC Jabber Nut Sprite
Language Name Meaning
Japan Japanese マザーマイマイ Mother Snail
Canada FrenchCA Mère Meille Phonetically similar to Maiamai.
French Republic FrenchEU Big'ornette Portmanteau of "big", "bigorneau" and the female suffix "-ette"
Federal Republic of Germany German Mama Maimai Mother Maimai
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States SpanishLA Mamá maimai
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