An Experiment on an Alien with an Air Pump
In Mother we see Giegue suspended in a round ball of goo. Now one may theorize that this replicates his home planet’s atmosphere, or serves as an incubation chamber for some future life stage. Well, you’d be close on the first.
What if the orb was in actuality a pressure chamber? Giegue’s race is from a planet where the atmospheric pressure is so dense, being on our planet with its much lower pressure would rip him to shreds. It makes sense; the liquid in his orb would be ideal, being that its much easier to compress liquids than solid.
So once Ninten and crew do defeat him, his ship is damaged enough so that when attempting to make escape velocity to exit Earth’s atmosphere, the vessel breaks up, scattering his essence to the wind.
But he’s a being of immense psychic ability. His consciousness remains in every molecule, and it waited, sifting through the air for decades. It found Ness, and entered his mind like a psychic vampire, sucking out the boy's psychic abilities to amplify his own (That’s why once you defeat the ManiMani statue in Ness’s mind, his PP goes up; this isn’t a bonus, its an inherent ability that’s been suppressed since childhood). Using the power he stole, Giegue found a grounding rod in the ManiMani statue, buried nearby. from that statue he conducted his operations, poisoning the minds of every Flora, Fauna, or Automoton in it’s radius, which slowly grew bigger. He recruited Carpainter to capture Paula to double his power boost, he recruited Monotoli to provide the funds and tools he needed to build a living organism large enough to allow his remains to inhabit our atmosphere comfortably, the Devil’s Machine.
In Mother we see Giegue suspended in a round ball of goo. Now one may theorize that this replicates his home planet’s atmosphere, or serves as an incubation chamber for some future life stage. Well, you’d be close on the first.
What if the orb was in actuality a pressure chamber? Giegue’s race is from a planet where the atmospheric pressure is so dense, being on our planet with its much lower pressure would rip him to shreds. It makes sense; the liquid in his orb would be ideal, being that its much easier to compress liquids than solid.
So once Ninten and crew do defeat him, his ship is damaged enough so that when attempting to make escape velocity to exit Earth’s atmosphere, the vessel breaks up, scattering his essence to the wind.
But he’s a being of immense psychic ability. His consciousness remains in every molecule, and it waited, sifting through the air for decades. It found Ness, and entered his mind like a psychic vampire, sucking out the boy's psychic abilities to amplify his own (That’s why once you defeat the ManiMani statue in Ness’s mind, his PP goes up; this isn’t a bonus, its an inherent ability that’s been suppressed since childhood). Using the power he stole, Giegue found a grounding rod in the ManiMani statue, buried nearby. from that statue he conducted his operations, poisoning the minds of every Flora, Fauna, or Automoton in it’s radius, which slowly grew bigger. He recruited Carpainter to capture Paula to double his power boost, he recruited Monotoli to provide the funds and tools he needed to build a living organism large enough to allow his remains to inhabit our atmosphere comfortably, the Devil’s Machine.
