The Doll Games’ Sade-ian baby doll, a cruel voluptuary who presided over the orphanages and boarding schools of the so-called "nasty" games, corrupting virtuous boy dolls and jealously tormenting her rivals Aina, Mara, and Melanie. At once mother-substitute and Gargantuan infant, Matron was a crucial element in the Doll Games' studies of the "maternal grotesque" as well as the "infant whore," while the surrogate families she ruled became Oedipal laboratories in which the Doll Games conducted many of their boldest experiments.