Mother Gooseberry

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Mother Gooseberry is a large woman wearing a white blouse with a long red dress. Her attire is reminiscent of what women wore in the 1910s. Her skin appears to be flaky and red, resembling something like an advanced sunburn. Notably, Gooseberry has what appears to be a skin mask with smudged makeup crudely stapled to her face to hide her deformities. The top of her head is hairless, yet her hair at the sides of her head remains. On Gooseberry's right hand is "Doctor Futterman": a poorly constructed puppet of a duck with pale feathers and red eyes. The puppet wears a top hat and a yellow bowtie with white polka dots. Futterman's bill has teeth, and within the bill is a powered drill.

Doctor Futterman is the alternative or secondary personality ("alter") of Gooseberry's likely diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, manifested as a bird puppet with teeth, with a drill inside its mouth. When Gooseberry speaks as the Doctor, her voice will change to be higher in pitch, as well more nasally and throaty. This second personality/identity is much more aggressive, profane and outspoken than Gooseberry herself, even to the point of insulting her. This includes comments of Gooseberry being a "mistake". Gooseberry often reacts with shock and dismay to the Doctor's off-colored "remarks".

Phyllis worked as her father's assistant in his dentist office since a young age, and used a puppet to distract adolescent patients during operations. Her hobbies included taxidermy and musical theater.

Due to her charisma, her popularity increased, leading to a local broadcast show called "The Mother Gooseberry Hour" in 1951.

After her father's death, Phyllis suffered hysteria and dissociation; her father's body was never found.

In contrast to her murderous nature, Gooseberry speaks in a faux-caring and motherly tone of voice, as she often refers to the Reagents as "children", and herself as "mother". Her dialogue may sometimes denote that she thinks she is helping or educating the Reagents.

Gooseberry lives in the "Fun Park and Orphanage" sets of the Sinyala facility. It is populated by mannequins and dead bodies. She is (somewhat) civil with the scientist and security that maintain the set, but is known to be nosy and allows Dr. Futterman to be rude.