Raelle Collar

### Friends

Tally Craven, Abigail Bellweather, Scylla Ramshorn, Byron, Khalida, Gregorio Shellbark, M

## Portrayal

### Seasons

Season 1, Season 2, Season 3

**Raelle Collar** is one of the main characters in *Motherland: Fort Salem*. She is portrayed by Taylor Hickson.

She is a reluctant recruit with major authority issues who learns and grows with her unit in basic training at Fort Salem. She eventually unlocks a special ability which proves key to the fight for the very survival of witches around the world.

## History

Raelle's family lives in Chippewa Cession, located near Carolina. She grew up as an outsider and she carries this edge with her. She's from a part of witch society that is a little unusual, in that her mother, a military witch, married outside the military. As a result of marrying a civilian man, Raelle's mother was punished. The military maintains an interest in creating and maintaining powerful bloodlines and uniting them to create super-soldiers. Raelle's mother's pension was affected because of her decision. The army kept her deployed almost constantly and Raelle feels like they kind of worked her to death. She allegedly died in a firefight during the war on the Spree, under Petra Bellweather's, Abigail Bellweather's mother, leadership.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

Raelle walks home due to her half day and meets a woman who pays her to heal her wound. A few minutes before the call, her father gives her a combat charm that has been passed down through the generations. When the call comes, Raelle reluctantly says the oath and receives her medal.

Raelle becomes Private, First Class cadet at Fort Salem. She is in a unit with Tally Craven and Abigail Bellweather.

At Fort Salem, Raelle frequently butts heads with Abigail. Raelle wants to barely make it through basic and die on the battlefield and as a result, doesn't try as hard as the other cadets. Her drill sergeant - Anacostia Quartermain notices and advises Raelle to follow Abigail to War College.

After ditching training, Raelle meets Scylla, a necro witch. They instantly form a bond and they have sex, with Scylla advising Raelle to let the army make her powerful.

The unit does exceptionally well during a harmonics exercise and Raelle and Abigail promise to do well but not be friends. Raelle later confides with Tally about her mother's death.

Raelle is late for training due to being in bed with Scylla and is put on guard duty. While doing guard duty, Raelle meets Lt. Helen Graves, another necro. Helen tells her about Scylla's rumored past and ask her to give Scylla a chance.

Raelle is tired during training and as punishment, Anacostia has Abigail perform a taxing discord seed. Raelle offers to heal her, but Abigail shirks it off. The unit performs the best windstrike and are sent to the pageant in Salem Town as a reward. Raelle follows Abigail when she ditches the pageant. In a restaurant, the two agree to stay away from each other's issues. They sit down and get along. When Scylla arrives, Raelle leaves with her and Scylla shows her a death cap.

After the pageant, the unit, along with Glory Moffett and Libba Swythe drink alcohol and laugh together. Tally tells the others that she loves them and that they're her "witches." The cadets agree and party together.

Raelle starts to wonder more about Scylla's past when her ex, Porter, comes to Fort Salem. Porter warns Raelle to watch out for Scylla. Raelle continues to ask Scylla about Porter and about her history, which Scylla avoids until eventually telling Raelle about her past calm her fears. When Porter jumps off a building, Raelle attempts to heal him but faints in the process.

When Raelle awakens, Anacostia calls her reckless and says that she's proud of her. Throughout the day, Raelle receives visions of Porter before his suicide. During Beltane, she confronts Scylla about seeing Porter before he died, but she tells her to stop asking question. During the reel, Raelle is paired with a boy named Byron. The two lay in the grass and connect while everyone else has sex. Byron tells Raelle that when you love someone you have to fight for them. She takes his advice and reconnects with Scylla.

As the males leave Fort Salem, Byron gives Raelle the codices and Witchfather gives Raelle Porter's scourge. Raelle shows her skill in training by slicing off a dummy's head.

Raelle and Scylla's relationship seems to be going to the next level. They spend a lot of time together and Scylla crashes Charvel Bellweather's wedding to be with Raelle and to continue recruiting her.

Raelle confronts Petra Bellweather about her mother's death. Petra responds that Willa was brave and essential to every mission. She hugs Raelle and tells her her mom would've been proud. Teary eyed, Raelle runs off.

When Scylla receives orders to bring Raelle, but isn't guaranteed her safety, she remains at the wedding with Raelle instead of following her orders and delivering Raelle to the Spree. Raelle, not knowing about Scylla's involvement with the Spree, is lost and confused when Scylla is gone after the attack.

Raelle goes on a hunt for Scylla, desperate to find any information leading to her whereabouts. After sneaking into the necro facility, she touches a wall of mycelium and gets some of it stuck on her finger. Izadora tells her that Scylla is dead and Raelle refuses to believe her. She steals Tally and Abigail's salva to float to the beach with the lighthouse Scylla spoke of visiting with her. She is found laying in the water by Abigail and Tally after crash landing.

During Linking training, Izadora pairs Raelle with Beth Treefine who calls her a "salva freak." Beth insults Raelle's Christo-pagan work and it's failure to save Porter. Raelle angrily recites one of her prayers and the entire class falls asleep. Izadora tells Raelle that her emotions make her powerful and dangerous and she needs to lean on the army for support.

Raelle is asked by Abigail to help save her new friend Adil's sister—Khalida. In the woods of Fort Salem, Raelle uses her fixing work to heal her. Afterwards, she notices that the mycelium on her finger is gone. She gets worried because she always takes some of the illness on her. Abigail calms her by telling her that it is because she is getting stronger.

Raelle gets taken to where Scylla is locked up to make Scylla vulnerable, and allowing Anacostia to Link with her. During their reunion, Raelle questions why Scylla was locked up and being tortured. Scylla begs Raelle not to believe the things people will say about her and that she loves her. The reunion is ended when two soldiers pull Raelle and Scylla apart before Raelle is put to sleep by Anaconstia. Raelle is taken back to her room where she wakes up in a panic and tells her unit what happened. Abigail and Tally both insist she was having a nightmare with Abigail stating every nightmare she had after the wedding attack felt real. In Raelle's fit, she gets sick and throws up into a bucket. Tally recognizes Raelle's sickness was a result of waking up too fast from having been put to sleep. Quartermaine then walks in, calling for the start of Citydrop. Quartermaine sees Raelle on the floor over and tells her to pull herself together.

Raelle and the unit are on a bat getting ready to drop down into the location for Citydrop with Libba Swythe's unit. After landing, Tally breaks her leg and Raelle attempts to heal her. She glimpses Tally looking at Scylla talking to a balloon in a mirror and informing Anacostia about it. Raelle screams at Tally that she trusted her and that she was just telling lies to Anacostia, but Tally tries to defend her choices. Abigail runs over to them and demands that they focus.

Anacostia announces that their training evaluation begins now. They have operatives acting and fighting as if they were real Spree, in order to train the girls to plan to fight against the Spree in the future. They're given their first mission and the units break off to perform the mission as teams. Raelle confronts Tally again, saying that Scylla never had bad intentions, and Tally claimed she was only trying to protect Raelle. Raelle pushes her into the car and al alarm goes off, giving the girls blisters all over their faces. Abigail gets furious after learning that Scylla is Spree and was brought to Charvel's wedding, but Raelle defends Scylla.

Raelle leaves to go find Anacostia and runs into Helen Graves and greets her as if she knows her, but Graves claims she has no idea who Raelle is. She demands that Raelle go back to where she is stationed.

The girls receive their second mission - to go find the fake Spree operatives in an abandoned high school and to bring them back alive. The girls fan out to scan the property. Raelle sees Tally getting attacked and saves her. Anacostia calls Raelle over to describe the person she thought was Lt. Graves. They ask Raelle what she talked about with this person and Raelle says mostly Scylla and that the Graves she met encouraged her to be in a relationship with Scylla. Raelle says to Anacostia, "Please tell me it isn't true. She told me she loved me." Anacostia responds that Scylla only told her what she wanted to hear.

Anacostia tells the cadets that they are going into a real combat situation against the Spree. They fly out in the direction of the Spree. They line up to stop the trucks and blow one of them off the road with a unified windstrike. Raelle goes to the field to make sure no one escapes and sees Scylla, or someone pretending to be Scylla, and Raelle fights her. Raelle says, "Everything about you is a lie." Raelle strikes her and her body transforms back into Scylla's Spree recruiter. Raelle runs back to the group and they perform a unified windshear to destroy the second truck, unaware that there were civilian hostages inside.

The unit talks about how Alder lied, but Abigail says that's just part of being a soldier - there are casualties. Tally rejects that excuse. Tally, Abigail, and Raelle tell General Bellweather about Alder's lies and about how the Spree infiltrated Fort Salem, via Scylla. She is shocked but dismisses them.

Anacostia grabs Raelle and suggests that she take the opportunity to say goodbye to Scylla. Raelle says "she's dead to me" and walks away. Abigail tells her to reconsider because if she had one more chance to say goodbye to Charvel or even Libba she would.

She tells Scylla she loved her and Scylla said she still loves her. Scylla explained how it started with Raelle as her mark but that she fell for her for real. She tells her that all of it was real. Raelle asks her why she picked her and Scylla said she didn't call the shots. Scylla told her she has no idea how powerful she really is.

Scylla tells Raelle "I chose you!" She chose her instead of the Spree because she had orders to deliver you but she didn't. Raelle walked away with Scylla in tears, screaming.

Raelle cries next to a tree and Anacostia comforts her, telling her Scylla loved her and that part was real. Raelle admits that she messed up- she told Petra that Scylla was being held on base. Anacostia realizes that Petra told this information to President Wade, and they run to go find Raelle's unit. Anacostia tells the unit that Alder puppeteered the speech and that Alder might trace the decision making back to them. If she does, they're all in grave danger.

Raelle, Abigail, and Tally complete basic training and attend their graduation. They are elated and go to wait for their assignments. Expecting War College, they are all disappointed and saddened to see that they were assigned into combat to be deployed immediately. General Alder personally blocked their War College acceptance because she wanted them to accompany her on a rescue mission for the Tarim.

Raelle meets her father after graduation and tells her she is deploying today. He gives her a letter from her mother. She asks him why the combat charm didn't work for her mom and he reveals that she never brought it. She tells him she loves him and that she'll call him when she gets back from China.

Anacostia tells Raelle and Tally that Abigail won't be joining them and they are devastated. She tells them that they need to be smart and to come back. Raelle asks Anacostia to take it easy on Scylla when she goes to prison.

When boarding, the plane, Abigail appears behind them and they embrace. On the flight, Raelle opens her mother's letter and traces a sigil to see her. The visions tells Raelle that she is powerful and will always be with her.

After landing in the mountains, the group camp on the ground. The unit confronts Alder on her actions but she tells them that she owes them nothing and that she never regrets her decisions.

They find the Tarim hiding in a cave. A little boy is suffering from the same disease that Khalida suffered from. His body is covered in winding black veins. Raelle is able to heal him.

The group leaves the cave only to realize that they are surrounded by the Camarilla. Raelle covers the little boy's eyes as the Camarilla burn the pilots alive. The witches engage the Camarilla in battle. Raelle windstrikes an approaching Camarilla and later kills another with her scourge after he stabs a biddy. The group runs to the helicopter to escape but the little boy runs out, afraid of the helicopter. Raelle goes to comfort him and to help him back into the helicopter. A Camarilla member stabs her from behind as she runs back. Abigail runs out to try to save Raelle and links herself to her, but unfortunately this is both of their demise as they are stuck on the ground slowly dying. Alder has to make the decision to leave them to save the others, so Raelle and Abigail are left for dead.

As the helicopter leaves, Abigail tells Raelle she loves her and an explosion of black energy bursts from their hands and kills the approaching Camarilla. Raelle and Abigail walk in the area together, seemingly fine. They are surrounded by light and floating fungal spores, leaving growing trail of mushrooms and fungi wherever they walk. They both appear confused and walk holding hands.

### Season 2

Upon returning to Fort Salem, Abigail and Raelle are both subjected to a battery of tests by Izadora to try to determine the nature of this new power, dubbed the "witchbomb." With seemingly no results, however, it is decided for both of them to rejoin Tally Craven and begin War College as members of Coven Sekhmet. Secretly, however, Izadora continues analyzing the test results and comes to a conclusion. She subjects Raelle only to a new test in which she threatens her directly for having made contact with the Mycelium. Raelle activates her power and Izadora explains that it had to seem real in order for it to be a valid test. It turns out that Raelle, and only Raelle, is the witchbomb.

The Unit are brought before a woman called the Imperatrix, whose job is to pair female witches with men to continue the matriline. Raelle, however, is resistant of the process, the Imperatrix insults her family. She responds in kind in Méníshè, the Mothertongue, despite having little formal schooling in it. It turns out that her new ability is a result of her connection to the Mycelium.

Raelle tries to contact her mother, Willa, during a witch ritual known as Samhain. The rules of Samhain state that if the witches of Fort Salem successfully battle back the ghost forces of the Lost Regiment, then each may summon and speak with any one dead witch of their choosing. Raelle chooses her mother, Willa, but is despondent when her mother does not appear, something that seemingly should not be possible, not knowing that her mother is actually alive. She then declares that she needs to go see her father, Edwin. She travels together with Tally to her home in the Chippewa Cession. Though Raelle finds some degree of resolution during the trip, she is kidnapped and taken prisoner by forces of the Camarilla.

Raelle is brought to the Camarilla's stronghold, where she awakes to find herself facing their leader, Dr. Alban Hearst. He then subjects her to incrasingly powerful strains of the witchplague in order to test both the power of the witchbomb and her ability to be revived by the Mycelium. Abigail and Adil, working independently, attack the Camarilla's stronghold and discover Raelle's capture. Raelle's mother, Willa, then arrives with Scylla Ramshorn. It turns out that both are members of the Spree but have been working alongside Anacostia Quartermain to infiltrate a new anti-witch group called "Not Our Daughters." Willa sacrifices her own life, taking in the witchplague in order to allow Raelle time to escape. Raelle is stunned to meet her mother, only to again lose her so soon. Back at Fort Salem, General Alder informs Tally of Raelle's survival, but Tally is disgusted when Alder refers to her as "the asset."

In the aftermath, Raelle meets with Scylla alone, Scylla declaring that she's not running again. The Unit is then sent on a mission to capture Nicte Batan, the leader of the Spree whose secret hideout has been revealed. Scylla ends up coming along. The group finds themselves in a forested area where they soon begin experiencing horrific visions, Workings created by Nicte. Raelle has a vision of her mother, seemingly alive and well. At first it is a pleasant vision, until "Willa" becomes twisted and holds a knife to her throat. Scylla, however, is able to break her out of it, having used similar Work before.

The Unit finally arrives at a cabin, where Nicte again uses Work to try to them against each other. Tally alone is able to resist and the rest of them find her to have captured Nicte, whom they bind and collar. They head back to Fort Salem, victorious, but not before Raelle and Scylla share a passionate kiss. Upon arrival at Fort Salem, however, "Tally" moves to attack General Alder and they realize that Nicte has conned them again and the person they think is Tally is actually Nicte. Raelle and Abigail then succeed in restraining Nicte and preventing her from attacking Alder before freeing the real Tally.

It is announced that Nicte Batan is to be personally executed by General Alder for her crimes. Meanwhile, Raelle is informed that she is being taken off active duty and sent on a tour to be the poster-child for witches, to try to quell the burgeoning "Not Our Daugthers" movement. Stunned at being sidelined, she heads for the Mycelium. To her surprise, a hand forms from the Mycelium. She takes it and experiences a vision of her mother, who explains that the Mycelium is dead witches, that they live on through the Mother and their power lives on through her. Hearing this, she declares that she will not be going on any tour.

The execution of Nicte goes forward, but as Alder prepares to deliver the killing blow, Tally steps forward invoking an ancient ritual known as the Rite of Proxy. When Alder tries to attack her, Raelle joins Tally in invoking the Rite, along with Abigail and several other witches. They reveal that Alder was responsible for driving Nicte away by using her Work to force a group of Liberian rebels to kill themselves. In anger and retaliation, Nicte created the Spree. Alder is then forced to step down as the Army's top general, command passing to Abigail's mother, Petra Bellweather. The Camarilla then launch an attack on Fort Salem using the witchplague. Seeing what is happening, Raelle shouts for everyone to run.

The Unit and their allies battle the Camarilla, Tally discovering a tone that disables the armored suits they use to prevent Work being used against them. They discover that Raelle may be able to use the witchbomb to end the witchplague attack if they can find the source, but are stunned when the source turns out to be Penelope Silver, the daughter of Vice President Blanton Silver who is a new witch to Fort Salem whom Tally has been tutoring to prepare for Basic. Penelope seems barely conscious of what she is doing and Raelle and Abigail are horrified at having to work in tandem to take her out, ending the attack on Fort Salem.

In the aftermath, Raelle takes a call from her father and Scylla. She and the others of the Unit are then summoned by General Alder, who is dying because her Biddies were taken out in the attack. Raelle tells Alder that she pushed her to face her darkness and if she hadn't, she would never have learned to use the witchbomb and things would be very different. They then lay Alder to rest within the Mycelium. Afterwards, Raelle and the others learn that they are being extradited to Washington D.C., this being ordered by Blanton Silver for them having murdered his daughter. Raelle wonders why they're being tried in D.C. and not there. Abigail tells her that it isn't a trial and that hopefully it won't even go that far. It quickly becomes clear, however, that the Unit are being used as scapegoats to appease the angry members of the Not Our Daughters movement who are out for witch blood. Therefore, as they are taken away on a convoy to Washington D.C., Petra Bellweather stages an attack, with the aid of Scylla Ramshorn and Nicte Batan, in order to permit their escape. They then all flee into the Chippewa Cession.

### Season 3

When the Mycelium is poisoned by the Camarilla, Raelle begins experiencing symptoms of illness. She is absorbed into the Mycelium in order to stay safe and heal. Up above, Scylla desperately searches for a way to bring Ralle back. She eventually connects with Raelle's father, Edwin, and the two of them end up reaching Raelle in the mycelium, as well as Raelle's mother, Willa, whom Edwin believed to be dead but was secretly a member of the Spree. With the help of Sarah Alder to heal the Mycelium, Raelle is allowed to returned to the world, but she is warned that it is a much darker place than when she left it.

Scylla is captured by government agents working for the Camarilla, but Raelle rescues her. The Unit then turns itself in for having caused a war in the Chippewa Cession, but they are exonerated when President Kelly Wade returns, revealing that she had secretly survived an assassination attempt. Raelle gets married to Scylla alongside the wedding of Abigail and Adil.

Tally, using her precognitive powers, has a terrible vision of Raelle destroying the world with the witchbomb. She pleads with her several times to be careful and not to use the witchbomb under any circumstances. During the final climactic battle, however, Tally sees the truth, realizing that things were not as she feared. As the First Song is performed, Raelle detonates the witchbomb. Rather than destroying the world, however, the combination of the First Song and the witchbomb has a powerful transformative effect. It spreads the Mother's power throughout the entire world, causing magic to be in everyone in a weak form and making them all witches. As Raelle, Abigail and Tally set off to tour the newly transformed world by helicopter, Sarah Alder tells them to make sure to live up to the name when people call them goddesses, before fading away.

## Relationships

* Scylla Ramshorn - girlfriend, later on fiancée & wife.

## Physical Appearance

Raelle is a short girl with short, wavy blonde hair, bright blue eyes, a heart-shaped face, and pale white skin. She is the shortest of the girls in her unit and has a slim, lean build. She tends to wear her hair loose on the left side and twisted back in cornrow-style braids on the right side. She is mostly seen wearing her military dress uniform, her combat gear, or her military-issue training clothing, which is typically a pair of dark pants and a tan shirt that she cut the sleeves off of to make it a tank top. By her own statement, her mark is located near her vagina, though whether she was being truthful or facetious remains a mystery.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Witch Physiology:** As a witch, Raelle possesses enhanced vocal cords that are capable of creating change in the physical world by singing different seed sounds and songs, as well as enhanced ears -- as stated in *Up is Down:* eardrums with "five mallea", compared to a regular human's one, that are capable of sensing subsonic and ultrasonic frequencies far beyond the capabilities of normal humans. Despite having a civilian for a father, Raelle is shown to be more powerful than many of the other cadets at Fort Salem, due in part to the unconventional work taught to her by her mother, Willa Collar, before her death as well as her larynx & vocal cords being colonized by the Mother, giving her heightened abilities possessed by no other witch. Along with Abigail and Tally, she is one of the most formidable cadets in her year.

* **Linking:** As a Fixer, Raelle is very familiar with linking, she links with everyone she heals. In *Mother Mycelium*, the unit is taught by Izadora in a training session focused on "linking" and the importance of a Fixer, or healer, in a unit, during which they practice synchronizing heartbeats -- in which she states, "Let me be clear. You can blast clean through a mountain and know the whisper of an oncoming gale. But without a Fixer, you'll likely end up in the ground just the same...Breathing, if you listen closely enough, is a kind of song. Our hearts beat a rhythm. Master this music, and you can become attuned to your target's life force, blood flow, organ function, even cellular composition. Linking is the touchstone of of Fixing, and soldiers, as you can see, it often means life or death."
	+ **Healing:** Raelle specializes in linking and healing other people. By reciting verses from the Bible along with the person she heals, Raelle is able to transfer injuries to herself and lessen the burden of the victim. She learned this unique Work from her mother. When Raelle tries pulling injuries from dead or dying people, she can experience visions of that person's final moments and also feel their emotions at the time. In *Say The Words*, she heals an afflicted woman in the Cession who welcomes her home from school while holding a baked-good with some money laid on top. In *A Biddy's Life*, Raelle witnesses Porter jumping off of the roof of the building and promptly links with him attempting to save him, however she fails and loses consciousness. She later regains consciousness and is praised by Anacostia for her bravery. Her power has advanced to where she is able to heal without taking on the affliction -- this was shown in *Mother Mycelium* when she is able to cure Khalida of her illness, something that proved so dangerous not even Colonel Wick (the best Fixer in the country) could alleviate. She achieves this feat without contracting the hazardous Witchplague While healing Tally's broken leg in *Citydrop*, Raelle once again did not suffer any negative side effects, seemingly supporting Abigail's theory that Raelle's powers are getting stronger. In *Breanna's Favorite Pencil*, Raelle fixes Gregorio, who is hit in the chest with a dousing arrow while protecting the hearth on Samhain. In *Delusional*, Raelle attempts to fix her dad after her mother windstrikes her dad and kills him in a delusion created by Nicte. In *Petra's Favorite Pen*, Raelle heals an injured cadet -- said to be an Army deserter -- taking away her day-old wounds; she noted that, "there are no Fixers" because "the civilian oversight detained them at Fort Salem".
	+ **Sleep Induction:** While angrily reciting one of her prayers during a linking exercise in *Mother Mycelium*, Raelle manages to accidentally incapacitate every other cadet, albeit temporarily. Due to not learning this properly, she fails to sleep Izadora, a more powerful witch. During *Citydrop*, she is able to consciously use this power to knock out an officer with one of her verses.
	+ **Memory Reading:** In *Citydrop*, after healing Tally's injury sustained from the drop, Raelle is able to see her memories; including the memory of her telling Anacostia about Scylla being Spree.

* **Pyrokinesis:** The ability to manipulate flames -- once already ignited -- whether it be direction, shape, amount, etc.
	+ **Conflagration:** During the remembrance ceremony in *Say The Words*, Raelle causes the candle's fire to burst into the air while talking about her mother.
* **Water Current Manipulation:** In *Say The Words*, Raelle, Abigail, and Tally are seen -- along with all of the other newly conscripted soldiers -- causing fountain-like currents to erupt from the large bowl of water at the center of the room, each one climbing and reaching into the air.
* **Sigil Manipulation:** Inscribed/drawn/painted symbols considered to have magical power, each one resulting in various effects.
	+ **Memory Sigil**: By tracing the sigil her mother left in the bottom corner of her letters, Raelle was able to experience her mother’s thoughts and feelings while writing the letter -- as shown in *Say The Words* and *Witchbomb*.
* **Maelstrom Generation:** By performing the seed of reversal with Raelle and Tally, the trio were able to conjure a massive maelstrom in a vocal session at the end of *Say The Words -- utilizing seed #32, the seed of reversal and disruption, which disrupts surrounding elements. This is often used as a bonding exercise for new covens and as a testing exercise for new recruits.*
* **Levitation:** By using Salva, Raelle can levitate several feet off the ground and with practice could perform combat drops. She was first introduced to Salva by Scylla after training in *Say The Words*. The two were caught by Anacostia, but this memory stayed with Raelle for a while after. In *Up is Down*, a professor at Fort Salem teaching the cadets about Salva shows how it is properly used, then asking Raelle to try. Raelle obliges and floats in the air in front of the cadets, while daydreaming about Scylla, when suddenly her Salva runs out and slams onto the ground. Later in the episode, Raelle takes Abigail and Tally's Salva, combining it with hers and applying them all at once. She begins to take off, sort of stumbling here and there, however she finally picks up some speed and takes off, eventually arriving at the coast where she and Scylla always talked about going, having to be retrieved by the rest of her unit. During *Citydrop --* their first real mission -- she was shown to be a very competent user of Salva, landing in the grass during both jumps without causing herself an injury.
* **Weather Manipulation:** Dubbed "weatherwork" by the witches at Fort Salem.
	+ **Storm Generation**: In a fit of uncontrollable emotion (along with Abigail, with whom she was fighting), they were able to unintentionally brew a small lightning storm that shakes the whole training room. However, Raelle has yet to intentionally create a storm.
	+ **Windshear:**  First taught to the girls of Fort Salem in *Say The Words*; a “site-specific rapid conjuration impact-absorbing shield, made by layering two complicated seed sounds sub-vocally.” In *Citydrop*, Raelle and the rest of the witches in basic training use this ability during their mission against the Spree in Boston, creating so much pressure that the first truck driven by a member of the Spree's leadership collides with it and is caused to flip over and roll into the nearby field.
	+ **Windstrike:**  Second working taught to the girls of Fort Salem -- in *Say The Words* -- a propulsive burst of air, similar to a bullet. Together with Raelle and Tally, the group is able to exert over 1600 lbs of pressure per square foot, shown when they blast a hole through solid metal. She later windstrikes a member of the Camarilla in *Witchbomb*, causing him to fly a long distance away. In *My 3 Dads*, Raelle sneaks up on and windstrikes the mirror off of the van driven by a few witches of Fort Salem sent to monitor her, calling it a "warning" before realizing they were army.
* **Mycelial Symbiosis:** Raelle first encounters the Mother -- an ancient sentient mushroom entity --shown as a wall in the Necro lab, trying to find hints about Scylla's whereabouts. Once she finds the wall, she approaches and a hand -- formed from threads of the Mycelium -- reaches out to touch her; Raelle reciprocates. This encounter leaves her with a living necrotic fungus on her finger which intertwines with her DNA. She’s later discovered to have colonized Raelle's larynx in *Tiffany* when She shows her the note She wants Raelle to sing*,* which is the same seed Scylla uses to grow a death cap, altering multiple structures in her voice box and vocal cords giving her the ability to sing seeds “composed of thousands of layered voices, one on top of the other.” General Alder mentions that she has never heard anything so complex, or beautiful. Because of this connection, Raelle has been augmented and given new powers; this includes being able to effortlessly speak Mothertongue, heal without taking on the injury/illness, and direct mycelial spores at targets.
	+ **Méníshè:** As part of her connection to the Mother Mycelium, Raelle has gained the ability to intuitively understand and speak Méníshè, or Mothertongue, effortlessly despite having only barely studied the language. She uses this newfound gift to effortlessly defend herself to The Imperitrix in *A Tiffany*, as well as being able to listen to the foreign news channel at the diner her and Tally visit Edwin at.
		- **Fungi Transmutation (Witchbomb):** During the Tarim mission in China in *Witchbomb*, Raelle is stabbed and lay dying. Abigail attempts to link with her, but is dragged into death herself. Just before the two die, the Mycelium resurrects Raelle and Abigail with a "witchbomb" that kills the attacking Camarilla, transmuting them and the environment around them into fungi. With control, Raelle is able to break down inorganic matter with focused blasts of gathered spores in *A Tiffany*, once in the underground Necro room and again, on a much larger scale, during her weapons test. This blast destroys multiple solid surrounding structures, leaving luminous purple fungi in the wake of the rubble and the surrounding area. In *Breanna's Favorite Pencil*, Raelle uses these lethal spores to hold off The Lost Unit while defending the hearth on Samhain. In *Irrevocable*, the spores released from Raelle when she is killed by the surgical team stream into them, killing them instantly and leaving those signature glowing purple mushrooms behind. However in another example, as if reacting to Raelle's will, the spores released left a group of young witches abducted by the Camarilla unharmed. In addition, while most witches die within seconds of exposure to the Witch Plague, the Mycelium fights it and keeps Raelle alive long enough for her mother to save her when Hearst infects her. In *Revolution, Part 1*, Raelle takes advantage of the Mycelium's anti-witchplague properties during the invasion of the base by the Camarilla, by attempting to remove the plague and heal the few witches she could get to. However, she and the unit quickly realize that Penelope is the source, so they decide as a unit to put her out of her misery by lifting her into the sky using Abigail's tornadoes and finally destroying her with the witchbomb, saving everyone still alive. In *She Returns*, while materializing in front of Tally, Raelle saves her from the civilian commander about to kill her by releasing a witchbomb with such control that not only is he killed -- and transmuted into fungi -- but completely into spores, a cadet later noting that "there was nothing but spores left".
		- **Mycelium Manipulation:** Raelle first realizes that the Mycelium responds to the tone Scylla sang in the cemetery -- in *My Witches --* when she sings it to her in *A Tiffany*, causing mycelial threads to emerge, wrapping around her fingers and eventually making their way to her throat, where She colonizes her vocal cords. In *Revolution: Part 1*, Raelle sings the tone that that the Mycelium first responded to -- as well as the song that birthed it -- activating it, causing it to ripple and echo this tone as mycelial threads emerge to take Alder's body into the Mycelium -- where all of the spirits of the witches who died at Fort Salem go post-mortem.
		- **Resurrection:** Noted to be triggered by death. Raelle's first death and resurrection take place in *Witchbomb* when she is stabbed throughout the heart by a member of the Camarilla in China. In *Irrevocable*, she dies and is resurrected twice: once after Alban Hearst has a surgical team attempt to remove her vocal cords and again when he has her pressed to death with a giant weight. When her heart stops, spores are released out of her mouth, nose, and skin. Each time she dies and is resurrected by the Mycelium, Raelle has what the Mycelium calls a "Death Dream" where she appears in a myriad of Mycelium and is able to both touch and communicate with Her.
		- **Membrane Creation:** In *Abomination*, after recovering, Abby and Raelle return home from China and are put in a life-or-death situation by Izadora -- in which Raelle spawns a membrane-like cocoon around her body to protect herself -- who reveals that the Mycelium personally chose Raelle to form a symbiosis with, and she is the one and only source.
		- **Mushroom Manipulation:** In response to Scylla’s hopeful, and beautiful, “Yule Song” — offering up “a heartbeat to Earth, to bring forth new life” — in *Happy Yule!*, Raelle seemingly sends this message of hope back in the form of a letter “R” formed from Raelle/the witchbomb’s classic purple-hued mushrooms.
		- **Spore-portation:** In *She Returns*, Raelle finally returns by seemingly appearing into the room Tally was in at that moment, who was about to be killed, materializes from spores to save her -- appearing from a cloud of them, illuminating a bright pink light.
* **Telepathy:** Dubbed "Farspeech" by the witches at Fort Salem. Used by the unit to communicate and recieve orders from General Alder in *Not Our Daughters*.
* **Mediumship:** After successfully defending the hearth on Samhain, in *Brianna's Favorite Pencil*, the coven is told by M, after handing out candles, to "Find a dark place. Alone. And light your candle. Say the name of the witch you want to speak with. As the wax melts, your messenger will be freed and will bring forth your requested dead." They have until the candle burns out to speak to the spirit. Raelle attempted to summon her mother -- Willa Collar -- however she does not show, because she was not deceased at the time.

### Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** As a soldier, Raelle is in top physical condition.
* **Bilingual:** Raelle is capable of speaking fluent English and after learning more about the mycelium she is capable of speaking and understanding mother tongue.
* **Expert Combatant:** During her training in Fort Salem, Raelle becomes skilled in hand to hand combat. She fights against a high-ranking Spree member and eventually defeats her.
	+ **Skilled Scourge Wielder:** During her first time using a scourge, Raelle shows her skill to the other cadets by slicing a dummy in half. She later uses this against Amina Straw, and is able to slash at her and eventually knock out/kill her. She later kills a member of the Camarilla after he slashes a biddy.

## Equipment

* **Combat Charm:** A charm that is supposed to keep the wearer safe in battle that has been passed down from mother to daughter for generations in the Collar family. Raelle later gave the charm to a Tarim boy to keep him safe.
* **Scourge:** During her time at Fort Salem, Raelle has started using a scourge in battle when not using her powers. Her scourge was made by Porter and was given to her as a gift from the Witchfather, who believed Porter would have wanted her to have it as a thank-you gift for attempting to save his life after his fall.
* **Salva****:** During her time at Fort Salem, Raelle has trained to use salva to practice combat drops.
* **Scry:**During basic training, Raelle started to use a scry to try to find things, but shows no talent in scrying.

## Quotes

> "If you want someone who blindly follows orders, then you might as well send me back home."
>
> Raelle

> "An insolent child who has more power than you could ever imagine, you mothballed old sea hag."
>
> Raelle addressing the Imperatrix in Méníshè

> "I'm in this with you, and we're gonna figure it out together, okay? Whoever you are, whoever you were, I'm in. No matter what happens, no matter what anybody else thinks, I'm with you."
>
> Raelle reassuring Scylla.

## Behind the scenes

* Raelle Collar was notably absent from several episodes of the third and final season of *Motherland: Fort Salem* despite her actress, Taylor Hickson, being starring cast. Within the series, this was stated as being due to her character being ill due to the poisoning of the mycelium. In the real world, Hickson was badly injured during production of the third season when her vehicle was hit by another car. As such, her character was written out of these episodes in order to give her time to rest.

## Trivia

* Raelle learned to play lacrosse in the Cession.
* Raelle's family lived in the Cession, "before the cession became the cession."
* Raelle sings & plays the guitar, as shown in My 3 Dads & But I Don't Even Have a Dress...

## References

1. ↑ Govert, Anna (August 24, 2022). *Motherland: Fort Salem*'s Messy Series Finale Proved Why It's Always Needed More Time. Paste Magazine. Retrieved on August 26, 2022.