NT-Mama

NT-Mama (NTママン) One of the characters in the OS personification series.

Overview

Nicknames	NT-san
First Appearance	1996/01/19 (Release date of Windows NT 3.51 in Japan)
System Personified	Windows NT 3.x

NT-Mama (NTママン, NTmaman) handles the household chores of the Windows OS anthropomorphic family. Wife of the estranged DekaMaster (Doggie Kruger) and mother of 2k-tan, Inu-T, XP-tan, Homeko, and XP MCE-tan. She watches over the family as a patient mother.

Her weapon is a western-style sword, usually either a rapier or a broadsword; this contrasts with 95-tan, who wields an eastern blade.

Since the winter of 2006, she has been one of the members of the Toshimaen trio, together with 95-tan and NT 3.1-tan, and has been exerting her charms as a mature woman.

Background

Creation and Early Life

NT-Mama's creation came about as a result of VMS developers from DEC hired to work with Microsoft to develop a next-generation OS, with VMS' power and OS/2's portability. She was born in 1989 when development on Windows NT started, cloned from VMS-tan's code, a sample brought over to the Microsoft labs without VMS-tan's knowledge or permission. She is not a complete clone of VMS-tan though, her code was also partly spliced together with OS/2-tan's.

She was born into the Microsoft-IBM Family, but had only met MS-DOS-tan and the Windows-tans since she wasn't introduced to them until after the family's break-up. Early in life, she was trained to be a fighter, inheriting the training that was originally promised to OS/2-tan before her, and outside of her training, she spent the most time with Windows 3.1-tan until 95-tan was born.

When 95-tan was born, she and NT-Mama trained and sparred together. They hardly ever met 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan, who were deliberately kept away from them by the family's higher-ups.

Achieving Dominance in the Server Market

Her 1993 debut was successful. While she wasn't yet at her strongest, and not strong enough to defeat any of the Unix-tans in combat, she was able to exploit the weaknesses of their war-torn faction. Their territory was overran by her forces, and from defeating the Unix-tans, she secured a large part of the server market.

She further took over the market when she also conquered the DEC faction and defeated VMS-tan in a duel; she didn't know that VMS-tan was her mother, nor ever met her, so she didn't hold back in battle. The DEC Faction declined over the next few years, losing territory to her forces before collapse.

Appearance

The first NT-Mama is depicted as a young woman (though her age range varies from child to adult depending on the artist) with purple hair (ranging from lilac to very dark) and blue or purple eyes, and later became a 30-year-old female office worker.

Most commonly her outfit is a simple pink dress, sometimes with a long-sleeved shirt under it, and an apron over it. She has blue hair tied in a ponytail by a yellow ribbon.

Personality

Although usually seen as loving, sweet and motherly, a few artists' depictions show NT-Mama as a bold, and sometimes crazed warrior, shown with a bladed weapon. One such depiction shows her alongside a similarly-armed 95-tan, they are thought to have trained together.

Controversy

One design, Windows NT SP6, was designed by the dojinshi group DejaVu, but it was considered a bootleg design by Futaba society and not an official OS-Tan. Her design has not been used since then. Instead of the sweet and loving character she was a very strict and harsh teacher for a young 2k-tan.

Family and Relationships

VMS-tan

VMS-tan is NT-Mama's biological mother, whom NT-Mama is a modified clone of, but is unaware of their relationship; it was never told to her when she was first introduced to the Windows Family. NT-Mama fought against her for control over the server market as her first mission, and won.

OS/2-tan

OS/2-tan is NT-Mama's half-sister, although OS/2-tan and VMS-tan aren't related, NT-Mama was partly created from OS/2-tan's genes. Since OS/2-tan violently hates the Windows-tans, it's assumed that they have fought on several occasions before and during the OS Wars.

Windows Family

She is one of the matriarchs of the Windows Family, the other being 95-tan, who has no children, but fills a similar motherly role. As the main matriarch, she is the primary ambassador to the family during meetings with other factions. She is also portrayed as Me-tan's adoptive mother, raising her together with a young 2k-tan and XP twins, as they are close to the same age.

3.1-tan and 95-tan are commonly seen together with her, bonded by their roles in the family, and also their early life experiences.

In OSC fanon, she and 95-tan hardly ever met 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan, and didn't notice when they were exiled.

The Mac-tans

NT-Mama gets along well with OSX Rhapsody-tan, the ambassador of the Mac House. Their friendship is an important key in keeping the family meetings diplomatic.