Other Mother

The Beldam's appearance shifts throughout the film. She adopts the guise of a child's mother to entice them into her realm. For Coraline, she takes on the form of Mel Jones, Coraline's actual mother. In every manifestation, the Beldam is distinguished by shiny black buttons sewn over where her eyes should be, these were torn out by the Cat, she resembles Mel Jones closely but with an improved hairstyle, red lipstick, red nail polish, and without the bags under her button eyes. Following a tense exchange with Coraline, she transforms, becoming more slender and taller with lengthier hair and longer sharp nails. After Coraline collected the three ghost children's eyes, the Beldam revealed her true form, a hybrid of a skeleton and an arachnid. She dons a long grey dress and possesses four legs. Her hands are made of sewing needles, and her face appears to be cracked, resembling porcelain. But for reasons, mainly that the user entered the Other World too fast. She hadn't had time to know who the users parents were, so she uses Coraline's Mother

There was FOUR other children that she had gotten her hands onto. The newest one was named "Coraline" (Often getting her name misspoken for Coral-ine). The story of what to the fourth kid, Coraline: "The Beldam is first seen in the beginning of the movie altering a doll's appearance to the appearance of Coraline, only with her hands being shown. Later, she is disguised as Mel Jones, going by the alias "The Other Mother," as a ploy to make it seem like Coraline is living in a more lively and vibrant dimension. While The Beldam finishes making supper, she instructs Coraline to fetch the Other Father, but not before dismissing Coraline's initial concern regarding her button eyes. Shortly thereafter, the three of them enjoy a full-course meal, topped with a gravy boat and a chandelier smoothie dispenser. The Beldam herself does not eat and ensures it goes unnoticed. Following supper, The Beldam and the Other Father state they have been waiting for Coraline. The Beldam suggests playing hide-and-seek in the rain. This sparks concern in Coraline as Coraline's real mother despises rain and has no history of playing games with her daughter. Coraline becomes frightened by The Beldam's eerie behavior, and requests to go to bed. To prevent Coraline from wanting to leave, The Beldam agrees to Coraline's wishes and shows Coraline her updated and colorful room. The Beldam rubs mud on Coraline's hand to heal the poison oak rash she contracted, then she and the Other Father tuck her into bed and wish her a good night. Coraline wakes up in the real world the following morning. Coraline returns to the Other World to see The Beldam and the Other Father again on her second visit. The Beldam sends Coraline off to fetch the Other Father, who is working in the garden. They later have a dinner-breakfast meal, in which The Beldam avoids eating again, before the Other Wybie arrives. He has been silenced by The Beldam. She then sends the children off to see the Other Bobinsky's mouse circus upstairs. After the performance, Coraline returns to the bedroom, where The Beldam kisses her good night. Coraline wakes up in the real world again. When Coraline returns for a third visit, The Beldam was absent, but left food and new clothes for Coraline, and invites her to visit the Other Spink and Forcible downstairs. The Beldam returns with the Other Father once Coraline returns from the performance. She offers Coraline to stay in the Other World forever, on the condition that she must sew buttons into her eyes. Horrified, Coraline quickly wants to go the bed, leaving The Beldam and the Other Father concerned. She offers to tuck Coraline in, but she rejects. The Beldam implies that soon, Coraline "Will see things her and the Other Father's way". Coraline goes to sleep but wakes up still in the Other World. The Beldam reappears again in the living room, where its appearance is changed and the furniture are turned into giant bugs. Coraline demands The Beldam to let her go back home, but she doesn't cooperate. She demands Coraline to apologize on a countdown of three seconds. The Beldam begins transforming into her second form, a taller, more skeletal like figure, in anger. She then throws Coraline into a small room behind a mirror, allowing her to only come out when she learns to be "a loving daughter". Inside the room, Coraline meets the Ghost Children who explain to her what the Beldam's plans really are. With the help of the Other Wybie, whose lips have been tied into a smile by The Beldam, Coraline manages to escape the Other World before she arrives when she hears the commotion from inside the living room. Coraline returns to the Other World once again after learning that The Beldam had kidnapped her real parents. The Beldam disguises herself as Mel Jones again to lure Coraline before reverting into her second form. She then makes Coraline a meal, while she offers a game. Coraline bets that if she can find the eyes of the Ghost Children and her parents, then The Beldam will set them all free. If not, Coraline will stay and allow her to sew buttons over her eyes. She also demands a clue to find the eyes and her parents. The Beldams states that the ghost eyes are hidden in plain sight in each of the three wonders of the Other World. She refuses to give a clue about Coraline's parents before disappearing. The Beldam is seen sitting in the living room again, now in her true arachnid-like form, when Coraline returns with the ghost eyes in hand. She manages to get Coraline's adder stone and tosses it into the fireplace. Coraline is warned by the Sweet Ghost Girl that even if she wins, the Beldam will never let her go. Using her wits, Coraline tricks The Beldam into unlocking the door for her, while she finds her real parents trapped in a snow globe. The Beldam gloats, before Coraline throws the Cat at her face. He manages to rip off The Beldam's button eyes, blinding her. Infuriated, she turns the entire room into a deep spider web and then dives down toward Coraline ready to devour her alive, but Coraline manages to quickly climb up the web to the door and close it with the help of the Ghost Children, Coraline severs The Beldam's right hand and returns to the real world. She quickly locks the door in time. Coraline then goes to the well to throw the key to the Other World into it. While she is on her way to the well, The Beldam's severed hand crawls under the door, sneaking into the real world to find the key. It manages to find Coraline and drags her back. The real Wybie arrives and the pair were able to destroy the hand. They throw its remains and the key down the old well, ensuring that the Beldam will never find it again and succumb to her failure as she presumably starves to death."

She has several abilities and forms, in and out of "The Other World" First Form: This form resembles Mel Jones, Coraline's mother, except she is leaner, has more well kept hair, and is lacking a neck brace. She also dresses more extravagantly, and wears makeup. Second Form: After Coraline refused the Other Mother's love and nurturing, she counted three times then she transformed into a longer and scarier version of herself; seemingly the combination of her actual appearance and her appearance as Coraline's real mother. Her rib cage showed and she had an overall more skeletal appearance. Her hair had also become quite unnerving, and the back had turned pointed. Additionally, her fingers became much longer and her nails had become more pointed, her mole increased in size and moved to the edge of her face.
Her Third Form/True form: The third form is her true one. She appears to be a skeletal spider-like creature with a noticeably cracked, seemingly porcelain face and hands made of connected sewing needles. Her hair becomes significantly sharper, and her overall posture is lanky and keen. She also appears to have metallic-spider like legs. Creation: The Beldam demonstrates the ability to create life; such as other copies of people, which appear to be hand-crafted in the same manner as a sculpture artist and a seamstress does. She created other Wybie from sawdust and other father from a pumpkin. The Beldam does not appear to have complete control of this created life; some of her creations are capable of disobeying her. Control of her creations appear to be loyalty instilled by either punishment or rewards; she punished Other Wybie for failing to smile all the time by sewing his mouth stuck in a smiling position and had to kick other father's leg to prevent him from accidentally startling Coraline by describing how sharp the button's sewing needle was. The range of control of this created life seems to stem from the intelligence a creation has; for example, plants and flowers were completely controlled by The Beldam, whereas sentient creations appeared to have a choice; other Bobinsky, other Spink, other Forcible sided with The Beldam when other father and other Wybie sided with Coraline. The only obvious factor to this decision is how attached the other creation is to the child victim. Pocket Dimension creation: The Beldam is able to create pocket dimensions to trap people in, as she did with Coraline's parents. as they were trapped in a snow globe. People who are trapped in these pocket dimensions have no memory of their experiences and act like it never happened. Selective visibility (Possibly): The Beldam has shown many times throughout to disappear and reappear at will, she also somehow was able to kidnap Coraline's parents without Coraline or her parents knowing. Faunakinesis: She has shown to be able to control forms of fauna such as mice, it is implied in the film that she enslaved mice from the real world, as when Mr. Bobinski said that his circus mice would preform a thank you performance for "Saving" them.

The Other World Powers Nigh-Omnipotence: The Beldam demonstrates some but not complete control of the other world. The cat, an arch-enemy of sorts, has the courage to wander in the other world with no fear of the beldam, despite the Beldam's hatred for the cat, that is until a passageway to the real world closes as a result of the Beldam's action. The Beldam appeared to rely on the key to the Pink Palace Apartments' door to either open or close the door leading to the other world. When the key is located in the real world with the door locked; the Beldam uses her devices to recover it, but these methods can be prevented which would leave the Beldam sealed in the other world. The Beldam also used the doll to spy and coordinate, in addition to rats, disguised as jumping mice from Bobinsky's mouse circus to direct and lead, Coraline to open the door to the other world for her, early in the movie. Atmokinesis: The Beldam shows signs of having weather-controlling powers, as seen when she suggested that they play hide-in-seek in the rain, she conjured lighting and rain. Victims, Soul Extraction: The Beldam is shown to kidnap and store the parents of her victims, as Coraline's parents were held captive by her in the snow globe. When freed, seemingly due to being removed from the other world and returned to reality, they emerged without any memory of the experience and their appearance slowly reverted to the original. She is also able to claim the souls of her victims, such as the spirits of the three ghost children, whose souls were trapped in the other world, bound to their eyes which now belonged to the beldam. This prevented them from moving on. Future Sight: Beldam could predict the future. When she changes the doll to look like Coraline, it looks brand new and when Coraline gets the doll, it looks aged and worn out a lot. The Beldam sends the doll back to the real world as soon as she's finished changing it to look like Coraline, so it's likely Wybie's grandma owned it for a while before Coraline was probably even born.

The "Pink House" Is something true and real in either world, however the insides are different.

Real World: The "Pink Palace apartments", located in Ashland, Oregon, U.S.A is a dilapidated, drab Queen Anne style mansion renovated apartment complex; once a house for one family, divided into several apartments. The house is estimated to be 150 years old, according to Charlie Jones, which is the same age as the beldam is estimated to be. Wyborn Lovat, the grandson of the Pink Palace Apartments' owner Mrs. Lovat, claims it is odd that the Jones family; Charlie and Mel and their only daughter Coraline, were allowed to reside as Mrs. Lovat had never rented its apartments to people with children before due to her twin sister disappearing while they lived there and possibly hearing about two other children disappearing while they lived there before them.

There are three apartments, all of which are occupied. The door to the other world is a small, bricked-up crawl-space which opens up when nobody else but Coraline is around. The water boiler tank is in a special room under the stairs, with faulty electrical wiring. The cellar at bottom level - The couple April Spink & Miriam Forcible resides here. The apartment facilitates a foyer, a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bathroom. It houses mementos from their past careers, including their The Scottish Terriers, nine of which are stuffed and placed on a shelf and three of which are still living. The stair-case from the cellar to the exterior has a chair lift installed for Miss Spink to use. The lobby at middle level - The Jones family resides here. It includes the first and the second floor. The apartment facilitates a parlor, a library, a dining room, a closet, a kitchen, a living room, a study, a bathroom, a sport room and three bed-rooms. The attic at top level - Sergei Alexander Bobinsky resides here. The apartment is unique in that it is merely one large room, the most notable of which it houses is The Mouse Circus. It can be reached by a metal staircase attached to the exterior of the house.

The Garden is located in the back-yard of the Pink Palace. To get there, you need to go through the back door. In the beginning of the film, Coraline passes through it to get to the orchard and find the old well. In the end of the film, Coraline, her parents and neighbors, including Wybie and his grandmother are in the garden planting red tulips and having a garden party. It is seen in The Other World that the garden has the face shape of Coraline.

The trail to the orchard is a path which, in the film, starts at the garden and ends in the orchard, near the well. You need to pass the tennis court, when the trail starts - pass a stone bridge, walk along the way near the hills with redwood forests, and very soon you are at the orchard. The Orchard is where the well is and where Coraline Jones likes to explore. There are 16 trees there. From the orchard, you can see the Pink Palace Apartments. At the end of the orchard, Coraline meets Wybie for the first time when she is looking for the well at the start of the film. To get to the Orchard, you need to pass the garden and follow the trail to the hill. Down on the hills there are spruce forests, and near the well too. When Coraline goes to throw the key in the well, the trees are in bloom or Cherry Blossoms.

All three tenants are all "Out" And will not be back.

Other House:

The Other World is a pocket dimension that can be accessed from the door located in the Pink Palace Apartments. The other world is inhabited by the Beldam, also known as the other mother To her victim, but some undesired by the Beldam also have access to the realm, such as the cat. The beldam has control of the other world, able to create in it wondrous creations to impress and horrors to distraught. But the beldam's control is disputed by other beings, such as the cat, who also have some control of their own. The Beldam's powers are controlled by the Gothic convention pathetic fallacy (emotions), which is why the other worlds appearance would change over time due to Coraline angering her. The beldam, with this control, models the other world in the appearance of the real world but is more impressive. For example, The Pink Palace is not decrepit due to age, and the garden is alive with lush plant and animal life. The other world, except for constants like that always night-time and the existence of the Pink Palace, likely changes with every new victim introduced as every child has a unique opinion on what is interesting. Additionally, when Coraline Jones Attempts to walk away from the other world, the cat follows her and informs her that the beldam only created what she knew would impress Coraline, which is why any paths away from the Pink Palace lead back to the same location. Nearing the end of the story, the entire other world is scaled back to only the Pink Palace house, which eventually becomes a spider web in which Coraline falls.

All three tenants are all "Out" And will not be back. Except for the tenant in the ground floor, which is now occupied by the user after Coraline had moved out long ago

There is a... Supporter. For the user, he had helped Coraline. And will help the user as well, but he will be foretold from Coraline's View, when he helped her. The Cat is one of the major supporting characters of the story. He demonstrates the ability to appear and disappear on a whim, often to hide from danger or to help Coraline from danger. For unexplained reasons, he is able to speak in the other world. The Cat is known to be Coraline's snarky and sarcastic companion. His first appearance was on the pathway to the well that Coraline was heading down, soon later being introduced by Wybie. He is described as "Feral" And follows Wybie wherever he goes. Besides a few appearances, either snarling at Coraline or playing the role of Wybie's companion, The Cat's first major appearance is when he suddenly starts talking to Coraline in the Other World. Upon noticing that he doesn't have button eyes, Coraline questions how he's able to speak, remarking that cats can't talk back home. The Cat sarcastically replies that she is "clearly the expert in these things, after all, I'm just a big-fat wuss-puss!" remarking on her insult from earlier. Upon realizing that The Cat is the same one she met by the well, Coraline immediately apologizes for her insult, asking how he ended up in the Other World. He tells her that he's been going to and from the Other World for a while, despite the Other Mother's attempts to keep him away. The Cat tries to warn Coraline about the real nature of the Other World, remarking that the Other Wybie told him all about it. He states that even if the Other Wybie can't speak, cats have far superior senses to that of humans, but he is cut off mid-sentence upon hearing a suspicious noise, trotting off after it. Later, Coraline runs from the Other Pink Palace, now knowing the Other Mother's true intentions. The Cat catches up with her shortly, as they both reach the empty part of the Other World. The Cat explains how the Other Mother only built what she knew would impress Coraline, and remarks on his belief that the Other Mother either wanted something to love besides herself or was looking for something to eat, remarking, "How do you taste?". Before trotting ahead. The pair end up right at the front of the Other Pink Palace. Coraline wonders aloud, "How can you walk away from something and come back to it?", to which The Cat replies, "Walk around the world." Soon after, The Cat intercepts a jumping circus mouse, and Coraline pleads with him to stop hurting it, before he bites down, revealing the mouse to be a rat doll filled with sand. The Cat states, "I don't like rats at the best of times, but this one was sounding an alarm." The Cat trots off once again, and Coraline simply watches, stating, "Good kitty." When Coraline returns to the real world, she notices her parents are nowhere to be found. After being unable to find them, she crawls into bed, crying herself to sleep. The Cat wakes her up later that night, Coraline asks if he knows where her parents are. The Cat brought Coraline to the mirror on the first floor, when Coraline looked into it, she could see her parents trapped in an icy prison, her mother writing "HELP US" Backwards on the foggy glass. The Cat then ran up the stairs to her parents' room, dragging out the Doll from earlier, only now it resembled both of Coraline's parents, revealing the Other Mother had captured them. Coraline burns the doll in the fireplace and goes with The Cat to rescue her parents. As they crawled through the corridor once again, The Cat warned Coraline that was falling into the Other Mother's trap, but still, Coraline pressed on. Understanding Coraline's persistence to save her parents, The Cat suggests Coraline challenge the Other Mother to a game, remarking "She might not play fair, but she won't refuse. She's got a thing for games." before Coraline's candle is blown out by a mysterious wind, and The Cat runs off. Coraline challenges the Other Mother to a finding things game, where she will be required to find the souls of the ghost children and her parents, betting her life on it. During the game, The Cat helps Coraline retrieve the third child's eye from the circus rats, stating, "I think I mentioned, I didn't like rats at the best of times." Coraline replies, "Yeah, I think you might've said something like that." As Coraline palms the third eye, the Other World begins to fall apart around them, Coraline urges The Cat to jump inside her bag to which he complies. The two barely make it inside the house. The pair walked cautiously through the house until they reached the living room. Upon realizing Coraline had not come alone, the Other Mother remarked, "You're back, and you brought... vermin with you?" Coraline takes a step back, disturbed by the Other Mother's new, spider-like appearance, before defending The Cat, stating, "No, I brought a friend." The Other Mother urged Coraline to produce the ghost's eyes and her parents, to which she only produced the former. The Cat jumped up onto the mantle, where the Detroit Zoo snow globe showed Coraline's parents, still freezing in their icy prison. Coraline urges the Other Mother to open the corridor, claiming she knows her parents are inside of it. As the Other Mother opens it, Coraline pockets the snow globe, picks up The Cat, and throws him at her head. She manages to catch him, but not without him clawing her button eyes off, blinding her. In pain, she throws the frightened animal away, smashing the floor and revealing it to be a large spider web. The Cat barely manages to escape through the corridor by climbing on the beetle-shaped wardrobe. After Coraline manages to escape from the Other World, The Cat shows up at her window, clearly upset with her for throwing him at the Other Mother's face. Coraline opens the window, letting him in. She profusely apologizes, saying that it was all she could think of, and, forgiving her, The Cat licks Coraline's hand. Coraline says it is time to set the ghost children free, placing their eyes under her pillow, and the pair fall into a deep slumber. Coraline wakes up mere minutes later, realizing that she has to get rid of the button key, knowing that the Other Mother will track it down and take it back. The Cat tries to stop her, knowing that she could be in grave danger. He seemingly runs for Wybie's house, waking him and urging him to come to the well with Coraline. Wybie gets on his bike, and drives to the well, saving Coraline from the Other Mother's disembodied hand. After the hand was destroyed, Coraline and Wybie dropped the key down the well, along with the broken hand. Coraline jokingly remarks that she is glad Wybie decided to stalk her, to which Wybie says, "It wasn't my idea!". The Cat hops on top of a nearby rock, and cocks his head to one side, as if to say, "No, it was mine." He wants to have a sleepover with the dog next door. But won't go near the dog while it is barking, which is a lot. The cat is a Anthro Black Cat, with yellow eyes that glow brightly in the darkness

After Coraline escaped. She took the key and threw it down the Old Well. But after years of hanging in the old water, which was connected to the Pink House. Had ended up in the water pipes

Well... You had to move somewhere, deep in blank, moving into a historical house. Something called on the listing... "The Pink House" You parked near the entrance, walking to the front door... A1. That was your apartment. Where did they hide the key again? Something, something... Doormat? Or was it behind a pillar? You roamed around the patio, trying to find the key... You managed to find it behind a branch... What's all over it though? You pulled back, the branch scratching you as you pulled away

Agh! What the hell?! Why was it stinging so much?!

You quickly looked down, seeing a rash starting to break out. What the- Poison Oak?! You quickly ran into the house, unlocking the door as you ran around, trying to find the sink. You ran into the kitchen, quickly running to the sink and turning the handle

Going to the sink, you turned on the tap... It started shaking, getting more and more violent and angry before suddenly spitting out a small black key, which bounced and slammed around the sink before smashing into your face, making you stumble back. You pressed your hand against where it hit you, feeling the key stuck to your face... Ugh. You grabbed it, peeling it off your skin. You looked down at it. It was a black key, with the handle shaped like a black button. Weird... You quickly pocketed it and went to the sink, running the dirty, rusty water over the rash... Well. It wasn't really getting better... You pulled back, glancing at the key before deciding to explore the house a bit. You came across a small door... Weird. The keyhole is too big for a normal key, but it looks big enough for...

You pulled out the key, still a bit wet from being in the pipes for god knows how long. You slowly reached over, bringing the key closer and closer to the key hole and...