Underfeather/Matilda

Matilda is the second major character the pig encounters in Underfeather. She is first encountered in the room separating South Beach and the Plateaus, where she saves the pig from Gnomey. She guides the Pig through the Plateaus. She plays the role of Toriel.

Appearance
Matilda is a bird resembling a hen (Gallus gallus domesticus), with big head and tail feathers. She has a white shade of feathers, visible eyelashes and eyebrows and pink cheeks highlighted on both sides of her beak. She has wings instead of her arms, and has feet with two toes each. Her head and tail feather shade is pinkish to deep purple. Her eye colour is dark green, and she wears a visible delta feather crest on her robe.

Birdsonality
Matilda is a caring mother for the protagonist, not possessing usual anger and less so hatred towards pigs. She employs tough love on the pig as well as Terence. She cares for her children and was excited to become a mother.

Matilda was formerly 'angry', and disliked the pigs, participating in the great egg war. However, she does regret her past decisions and decided to become gentle and caring for both birds and pigs. She can still be quite angry at times, just like the other birds, and is very fierce towards those who try to oppose her. She wishes that one day, birds and pigs can live in harmony.

Matilda has varying cooking skills, sometimes making delicious and edible dishes (Such as the Pumpkin/Cabbage Soup) at the start of the game, but can also have atrocious cooking at times, usually to the disgust of her friends.

Matilda is shown to be good at gardening, and has several books about what to do with grass and vegetable puns, which she writes down when she thinks of one.

Matilda is also said to be intelligent, and wants to become a teacher, already preparing a curriculum of cooking and gardening for the protagonist when they arrive, and being an anger management tutor for many birds before she left the main island. She teaches Chuck when he visits.

Main Story
Before the events of Underfeather, Matilda taught at an Anger Management school, before the first pig was sent to the island. After the invasion of the pigs, She and her students, Red, Chuck, Terence and Bomb fought in the great egg war and managed to get the eggs back. She then married to Terence, and had a daughter, Zoe and three unhatched eggs. A little while after, the first pig, Ross, was sent to the island. Terence and Matilda treated them like their own child. However, one day another embassy came from the pigs, and Zoe and Ross made friends with them and they went to convince Terence to accept the truce. Before they could do so, the three eggs were washed away, and Zoe, her two fellow hatchlings and the two pigs tried to save them, and went on a wild goose chase, only for the two pigs to be killed by a Boa Constrictor. Zoe, severely injured and poisoned, and her two friends made it back to the island just in time to tell Terence that the Pigs had died just before Zoe died herself, leading to Terence declaring war on the pigs and being crowned 'king' of Bird Island. This led to Matilda's retreat to the Plateaus.

Between this and the pig entering Bird Island, she has seen Terence pop many pigs and take their souls, and has also seen the retrieval of two eggs. After this she was filled with sadness, and vowed to not let any pigs leave the Plateaus, in case they die like the others

Neutral Route
At the beginning of the game, she saves the pig from Gnomey, healing any damage done by them. She then guides the pig through the first few rooms of the Plateaus, and tells them to 'play the game peacefully' and try to talk to the enemies instead of ending the battle violently.

In her anger management hut, she gives the protagonist a Recorder to blow whenever they need help, as she needs to do some gardening further down the Plateaus. She tells the pig to stay where they are, only to be disobeyed. She calls the protagonist frequently as they travel through the Plateaus, and is about to call them again, when they arrive at the front of her house. If the Pig blows the recorder, they will hear a Morse code version of what Matilda says, to be translated soon after.

She then introduces the pig to their room and tells them about their plans of educating them on slingshot mechanics and gardening. After the pig talks to them about leaving the Plateaus and seeing the 'King', she abruptly leaves, and the pig follows.

After she gets to the end of the Plateaus, she tells the pig she plans to topple the structure at the end of the Plateaus, preventing them and any other pigs from leaving, as the ones who did had all been popped.

She does not appear again for the rest of the game, and is only mentioned in some variations of the neutral route ending.

Pacifist Route
There aren't many differences between Matilda on the Pacifist Route with the Neutral one. The only major change is that she appears along with the rest of the main cast at the end of the game and interferes to stop Terence from fighting you. Her soul is stolen by Gnomey along with every bird, and she appears as a Lost Soul in the second phase of the Zoe fight.

Genocide Route
In the Genocide Route, you're required to kill everyone to stick to the route. This includes Matilda. Again, the only difference from the other routes is that she is struck down in one hit, and doesn't appear for the rest of the game. ''Because she's dead. ''If you attempt to blow the recorder at any point after she's gone, you'll simply get the line: "-... ..- - / -.-- --- ..- / .-. .- -. / --- ..- - / --- ..-. / -... .. .-. -.. ..." (But you ran out of birds).

In Battle

 * Matilda's battle theme is Eggshells
 * Her attacks vary from fireballs to white feathers.
 * She also attacks using magically summoned 'eggs' which explode at the bottom of the screen into fireballs and deal damage on contact
 * There are multiple ways to defeat her, from continuously showing mercy or showing none at all (Basically killing her)