Abigail Bellweather

**Abigail Bellweather** is one of the main characters in *Motherland: Fort Salem*. She is portrayed by Ashley Nicole Williams.

## About

Brash, unquestionably alpha, driven, courageous, deeply attractive, and a bit of a man-eater Abigail is a witch and the daughter of the formidable, decorated General Petra Bellweather. Abigail shares a comfortable and loving bond with her mother, and is excited to be joining the ranks of the witches' army, like many generations of Bellweathers before her, though she's not unaffected by the pressure to live up to her name. Abigail takes her training very seriously and butts heads with the far less-motivated Raelle.

## History

Abigail is from New York and summered every year in Annapolis, Maryland. Her family has a long history in the United States Army leading back to her ancestor, a former slave, that fought under General Alder.

The Bellweather name is very well known in the army, as all of Abigail's aunts, grandmothers, and mother have served before her. It was her fate and duty to eventually serve in the U.S. military. She was well-known in the High Atlantic witch circle and knew many of the cadets who are also from elite families with whom she is training at Fort Salem prior to enlisting, such as Libba Swythe and Gerit Buttonwood.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

Abigail watches a parade from a building with her boyfriend - Paul. Paul insists on continuing their relationship, but she compels him to move on. Later, her mother - Petra tells Abigail that she owes it to her slave ancestor to succeed. Abigail excitedly takes the oath to join the military, with her mother's support. She becomes a Private, First Class cadet at Fort Salem and was placed in a unit with Raelle Collar and Tally Craven. Abigail is confident, driven, and wants to be number one at the academy. At first, she is reluctant to be in a unit with Raelle because Raelle doesn't seem motivated enough and her poor work attitude affects the unit's performance and generally reflects poorly on her. When she attempts to get reassigned to another unit, General Alder refuses and instead tells her to buck up and to work with her unit sisters until they are all on the same page. They do well in a harmonics exercise and she and Raelle agree that they don't have to be friends to work together. However, they continue to butt heads.

Abigail meets her rival - Libba Swythe during training and they exchange insults. Anacostia Quartermain forces Abigail to perform the discord seed as punishment for Raelle's tiredness. At lunch, Raelle tries to heal her, but Abgail doesn't trust her and rejects it. The unit argue about Tally's mother while performing unified windstrikes. They use their frustration to blast through solid metal. Anacostia congratulates them and tells them their going to Salem Town. During the pageant, Abigail leaves to get food and Raelle follows her. They agree to stay away from each other's problems. The duo get along for a while until Scylla Ramshorn shows up and Raelle leaves. A panic about a Spree balloon ensues. Abigail, Tally, and Glory try to calm the people down, but Tally windstrikes a man who blames all witches for the Spree attacks. When Anacostia hears about it, Abigail covers for her. Later, in the unit's room, the girls have alcohol and Abigail gets along with Raelle and Libba.

Abigail is confident as ever when the male witches come to Fort Salem for Beltane. A young cadet named Clive introduces himself at the picnic and they start to flirt. She asks to meet his friend, Augustin Alcala, as well. Later on, Clive and Abigail make out and possibly have sex while Augustin watches.

Petra is intent on Abigail having a successful career and getting into War College. She demands that she do better and that she invite her unit to her cousin's wedding, which she reluctantly agrees to do. During training with their scourge whips, Libba distracts Abigail and she gets hit by a moving dummy. Libba asks if Abigail is even trying ti get in War College. During Beltane, Abigail has sex with both Clive and Augustin. When Clive and Augustin go back to their academy, Abigail doesn't even go to say goodbye because she got what she needed from them and training is her only mission.

At the wedding, Abigail tries to connect with the generals and the Dean of War College, until, just as her cousin Charvel warned her, she ultimately realized that her skills and credentials mean nothing because of her last name; regardless of how she performs in basic, she will get into War College as a result of her family's pristine war reputation. This realization hurt Abigail, as she wants to succeed on her own merits and get out of her mother's shadow by making a name for herself through her own achievements.

At the wedding, Abigail discovers her beloved cousin slain by The Spree. She gets ambushed by two Spree assassins and immediately tries to fend them off when she is unable to vocalize. Her mother comes to save her, but Abigail still walks away with a minor stab wound.

Abigail is traumatized after the wedding, feeling a mix of shock, remorse, and guilt about her cousin's death. As this was Abigail's first true experience with war, she realizes that it is much more complicated and traumatic than she expected and she eventually starts to lose her enthusiastic "grind her country's enemies into dust" mindset, though she keeps up her facade around others so as to not appear weak to her peers and superiors. She pushes everyone away, including her unit sisters, and claims to be fine. Her mother assigns her a bodyguard, Bridey, because it appears that the Bellweather matriline has been specifically targeted and she wants Abigail to stay protected. Abigail refuses the help at first but then starts to relate to and learn from Bridey, a decorated veteran in her own right.

After some days, Abigail bonds with Adil, a mysterious boy from the Tarim who just arrived in Fort Salem along with his sick sister, Khalida. Though the two keep having different opinions about the actions of the Army in the world, their friendship seems to turn into something more and the two share a kiss. When Adil asks for help with his sister, whose sickness was too severe for even Fort Salem's best Fixers to treat, Abigail goes to Raelle and begs for her help, admitting that she was a powerful witch who could do things that none of the rest of the cadets could do. Raelle agreed and used her powers to heal the child, but when Raelle became confused, since she didn't take on any aspect of Khalida's sickness as she normally does when she heals someone, Abigail assumes that it just means that she was just getting stronger and more powerful and compliments her on her work before reminding her of all they could accomplish if they applied themselves to their training.

The next morning, the cadets undergo the final exercise of their training, the Citydrop, where they are warned that this was their final assignment before graduation, and failure would result in the cadets losing their chance to go to War College and instead being deployed early. Unfortunately, as soon as they arrived at their location, Raelle learned that Tally had told Anacostia that Scylla was in the Spree, which Abigail then found out as well. This makes the entire unit preoccupied, with Abigail upset that Tally knew Scylla was involved with her cousin Charvel's murder and furious that Raelle would bring her to the wedding, but Raelle is insistent that Scylla is innocent. but just after its beginning, first Raelle and then Abigail find out that Tally knew that Scylla is Spree.

Divided and preoccupied, the squad, who were meant to be identifying and disarming mines on their assigned street, accidentally triggered a bomb in a car that causes them all to suffer a minor case of the plague. When one of the officers suggests they go home for treatment, Abigail immediately refused, unwilling to fail basic and become "war meat" in early deployment.

During the night, still in denial, Raelle leaves by her own to find Anacostia and get answers about what happened to Scylla. Abigail and Tally, concerned, leave to go search for her and are attacked by two officers masquerading as Spree terrorists; though both women manage to defeat their opponents, Abigail, who was triggered by the attack and reminded of her first fight with the Spree, savagely beats her opponent even after she was incapacitated, forcing Tally to restrain her. Though the Bellweather Unit was commended for passing the test, Abigail was given a warning about stopping the fight when the enemy was defeated instead of getting out of control. This leaves Abigail even more intent to prove herself, not willing to lose her chance to go to War College.

The next day, Abigail is still coping with her pain and anger, but manages to put them aside for training and, during the exercise, is even able to reach some kind of respect with her rival, Libba Swythe. Before the end of Citydrop, the cadets are called for a true combat situation due to the fact that none of the other military teams were close enough to stop the Spree, who were transporting their entire arsenal of weapons by truck and headed toward Boston. Abigail and the other cadets successfully defeat the Spree by first using a unified windstrike to stop and disable the first truck, and then using a unified windshear to absolutely destroy the second truck, which contained armed mines. However, many of the cadets were injured during the second strike against them, including Abigail, who sustained a head injury, and Libba, who was ultimately killed when a piece of shrapnel ripped her heart. Devastated, Abigail begs Libba to wake up, forcing Anacostia to pull her back and comfort her as she dissolved into tears.

Still dealing with the pain of losing her fellow cadet in their first real mission, Abigail suffers another blow when Tally reveals her that in the trucks they destroyed under Alder's orders had civilians who were kept by the Spree as hostages, something that Alder had been informed of before giving the order. At first, she refuses to believe that Alder would knowingly allow the loss of civilian life, but then Tally, with Raelle's support, is able to convince her, leaving her even more sad and disappointed. Although she's somewhat comforted by Adil, who held her in her bed as she cried, Abigail's and all other cadets' trust in Alder is further tested when they gathered in the mess hall to watch General Alder's address to the nation regarding the attack. The entire group, still shell-shocked from the mission, were stunned to see their leader lie about certain aspects of the attack, including claiming that it was the Spree who killed the civilians, neglecting to mention that the soldiers who fought in the mission were only cadets who had yet to finish basic training, and distorting the circumstances of Libba's death, all to make the army look better.

Abigail, Raelle, 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 shocked and disappointed 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.

Petra pulls some strings to get only Abigail into War College. She tells her she's free from deployment and that this is how things have to be done. Abigail hesitates, considering the offer, but against her mother's wishes she joins her unit in deployment.

The unit flies off to go save the Tarim, along with the help of Adil. They find the remaining Tarim hidden 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. The Camarilla burn the pilots alive and conjure a dust storm around the witches. The group engage the Camarilla in battle. Abigail briefly fights a member and slits his throat. 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. One of the Camarilla comes up behind her and stabs her. Abigail runs out to try to save Raelle and links herself to her, but unfortunately this leads to 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. They walk surrounded by light and floating fungal spores, leaving growing mushrooms and fungi wherever they walk. They both appear confused and walk holding hands.

### Season 2

Following their return to Fort Salem, Abigail and Raelle are placed into testing by Izadora in hopes of determining the nature of their new ability, which is dubbed as being the "witchbomb." However, despite a battery of tests, the two are unable to replicate the ability. Things seemingly going nowhere, it is decided that further testing is a waste of time for the time being and the two of them, along with Tally, are placed into War College as Coven Sekhmet, along with Gregorio Shellbark and M as their coven leader.

Secretly, however, Izadora continues analyzing the data and comes to a theory. Administering a new test, she discovers that it is actually only Raelle who is the witchbomb, due to her connection with the Mycelium. Abigail is left feeling left out. She then develops a new skill in her Weatherwork.

The Unit then finds themselves out in the field with Alder, doing publicity for her new witch testing centers and trying to quell the anger of the rising "Not Our Daughters" movement which is trying to have the centers shut down. During the demonstration, the Camarilla attack. One of the Camarilla uses the voice of Abigail's sister, Charvel, having stolen her vocal cords prior to her death. They tell her that they've been waiting to finish what they started at the wedding.

Back at Fort Salem, the Unit participates in a witch holiday known as Samhain. They participate in a ritual, battling the Lost Regiment, which allows each of them to summon one dead witch to speak with. Abigail summons the spirit of Charvel. Charvel calls her a coward, telling her that she has allowed herself to be victimized time and again by the forces that slaughtered her. She tells her to stop being a soldier and start being a warrior by getting rid of that which terrifies her. She tells her that she is the last of their line and she is vengeance.

Abigail decides to pay a visit to her family home and bring Adil with her so that they can obtain a sample of Charvel's blood for a secret ritual, one allowing them to track the Camarilla.

Abigail and Adil track the Camarilla to their headquarters where they launch an attack, only to discover that Raelle has been captured by the Camarilla and that their leader, Dr. Alban Hearst, is subjecting her to a dangerous witchplague in order to test the limits of the witchbomb ability. Before they can do anything, however, Raelle's mother, Willa Collar, appears along with Scylla Ramshorn. Willa enters the clean room where Raelle is being kept and sacrifices her life in order to save Raelle.

The Unit are then sent on a mission to capture Nicte Batan, the leader of the Spree whose location has been revealed, but who is still a dangerous adversary. Before this, Abigail lays into Scylla, asking if she really thinks that Raelle is going to forget her history just because she's a big hero, but Raelle tells Abigail to lay off. The group heads off on the mission, Scylla, including. Nicte uses a working that causes them all to experience terrible delusions. Abigail goes into a vision in which she uses a powerful storm Work, cheered on by the members of her family and her Unit, until it goes out of control and ends up killing them. Back in the real world, she is actually casting the spell until the others snap her out of it. They then all continue to a cabin, where Nicte uses another piece of Work that causes them to all turn against each other and say terrible things about each other, the things they have all thought in their unkindest moments. Only Tally is able to resist, and discovers Nicte, fighting her and breaking the Work, allowing the others to be freed.

The Unit returns to Fort Salem, Nicte collared and shackled. However, as they present her before General Alder, Tally moves to attack and they realize that Nicte has disguised herself as Tally. Abigail and Raelle manage to restrain her and free the real Tally. In the aftermath, Raelle tries to take Abigail to meet with the Mycelium, only to be stopped by Izadora. Raelle tells Izadora that she feels that Abigail deserves to see where the witchbomb comes from, but Izadora tells her that she's the one in charge. Later, Abigail meets with her mother, Petra, who is being promoted to leadership of Fort Salem in the wake of the revelation that General Alder knew Nicte Batan and betrayed her, leading her to create the Spree. She congratulates her on her promotion. Petra tells her that she should get to class, but she says that she's not going to class, but rather to the front lines to fight the Camarilla. Petra says that it would look bad for her own daughter to jump over the rest of War College, but Abigail replies that she can't wait any longer. "Tell me what you need to get started," Petra says.

In an auditorium at Fort Salem, General Alder holds a public execution of Nicte Batan, ostensibly her final act as the Army's leader. Tally, however, steps forward, invoking an ancient ritual known as the Rite of Proxy, and challenging Alder to reveal publicly the truth about her past history with Nicte. When Alder refuses and instead attacks Tally, Abigail and several other witches then declare the Rite of Proxy against her as well and reveal her crimes. She then issues her resignation, telling everyone not to make the same mistakes she has. Shortly afterwards, Fort Salem is attacked by the Camarilla.

In the face of the attack, Abigail tries to charge into the fray, but Raelle warns that it would be suicide, as the Camarilla are infesting the grounds with witchplague. Instead, the Unit regroups, Tally discovering a special tone which allows them to disable the armored suits that the Camarilla soldiers are using to defend themselves from Work, allowing them to be attacked. Abigail tells Adil to go and find Khalida while she and the Unit continue forward. As they make their way, Abigail realizes that hitting the source with the witchbomb could end the attack, if only they can find it. Tally manages to track the source, which to their horror, turns out to Penelope Silver, the daughter of Vice President Blanton Silver and a new witch at Fort Salem.

Penelope seems barely conscious of what she is doing and Raelle and Abigail are forced to work in tandem to use the witchbomb to take her out. Peace returns to Fort Salem, but General Alder is dying, her Biddies having been killed in the attack. The Unit pays her a visit, Abigail telling her that she spent her whole life looking up to her, that she showed her what it means to be a leader, and they're going to be just as hard on her mother as they were on her. Afterwards, the Unit is blamed for her death and Blanton Silver orders their extradition to Washington D.C. to stand trial. They are placed on a bus to be transported to Washington D.C., but Abigail's mother, General Bellweather, stages an attack, aided by Nicte Batan and Scylla Ramshorn. They then decide to flee into the Chippewa Cession, seeking refuge until their names can be cleared.

### Season 3

Abigail is in hiding with the others in the Unit, along with Nicte Batan, as well as Adil and his sister Khalida and Scylla Ramshorn. She, Raelle and Tally are all wanted fugitives after having killed the daughter of the Vice President, Blanton Silver, Penelope, in order to stop her from spreading a dangerous witchplague within the grounds of Fort Salem. The group hides out in a paper factory that is used as a front for Spree draft-dodges, but is forced to go on the run again after their cover is blown.

Abigail then leads the group in a raid against a factory of the Camarilla, who are poisoning the Mycelium, the witch Mother. At the same time, the unit laments the loss of Raelle, who has become sick and taken by the Mycelium to heal. Although the raid is successful, it drives the group deeper into hiding in the Chippewa Cession.

The group is captured by the Cession Marshal and brought before the Council of the Great River. There, the Council tries to extradite them back to Fort Salem, but they manage to convince the Council to let them escape out west instead. In the process, however, they are attacked by the Camarilla and their leader, Alban Hearst. They manage to win the battle with the aid of Sarah Alder, who has been revived by the Mycelium.

Blanton Silver, acting as President following the believed assassination of Kelly Wade, orders an army attack on the Cession in order to capture the Unit. Meanwhile, Anacostia Quartermain tries to aid the group from within, but tries to stop Abigail from taking any direct action against the opposing forces, fearing a greater conflict. Abigail, however, insists that she cannot simply watch. She leads a fight against the invading forces, aided by Thelma Bearkiller, one of the members of the Council. During this time, she grows close with one of the Army's new cadets, Guadalupe "Lupe" Cortez, but is horrified when Lupe dies in the fighting. She decides that the time has come for the Unit to turn themselves in, before things get worse. She gives her surrender to her mother, General Petra, who has arrived on the Cession border to oversee the end of the conflict. Petra praises her for knowing when to surrender, something that she personally has had trouble with.

The Unit is brought to trial before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It quickly becomes clear, however, that the trial is a farce when the prosecutor bombards the Unit with questions but keeps cutting them off every time they try to speak. Abigail then asks the judge if one of them could just be granted some time to speak freely without being interrupted. The judge agrees and Abigail tells Tally that it has to be her, that she is the only one of them that has a foot in both worlds. Tally is reluctant, but eventually agrees. She gives a riveting speech, but one that seems to ultimately have no effect. The Chief Justice orders the session ended for the day, but just then, Kelly Wade arrives, retakes the office of the presidency and orders an end to the trial. In the happy aftermath, Raelle and Scylla get married. Furthermore, Abigail and Adil, after much prompting, decide to make it a joint wedding. The ceremonies are happy and filled with music, but then comes the news that the Camarilla have launched a direct assault on Fort Salem.

The Unit and allies race to Fort Salem, battling the Camarilla and supporting Civilian Oversight allies. During a lull in the fighting, Abigail and Adil discuss the possibility of their honeymoon. They finally battle through, reaching the chamber containing the Mycelium. There, the Unit's worst fears seem to come true when Alban Hearst appears and launches a devastating attack that leaves Raelle on the edge of activating the witchbomb, something that Tally saw in a vision and believes will destroy the world. Just then, however, Sarah Alder appears with the stewards of the First Song, a magical song that reshaped the world over 100,000 years before. She reveals to Abigail that her ancestor, Jem Bellweather, was one of the stewards of the First Song and that Abigail still carries the song within her. The stewards sing the song and Raelle activates the witchbomb. The song, combined with the power of the witchbomb, reshapes the world in a new way, causing a small portion of the power of the witch to be within everyone on Earth.

In the aftermath, the Unit learns that Anacostia died in the fighting. Abigail is deeply saddened by the news, but heartened to learn of the bravery of her sacrifice. Mother Mycelium then addresses the Unit, revealing the nature of what they have done. They learn that the world will look to them as goddesses and Alder tells them to make sure that they live up to the name before fading away.

## Relationships

* Paul - former fling in New York. She breaks up with him when she goes to Fort Salem.
* Clive Garland - conquest at Fort Salem when the male witches come for Beltane.
* Augustin Alcala - conquest at Fort Salem when the male witches come for Beltane.
* Adil - romantic interest, marries

## Physical Appearance

Abigail is tall and athletic with light brown skin, dark brown, shoulder-length hair, and big brown eyes. She is very beautiful and carries herself with a lot of confidence. Her hair is often seen pulled away from her face with two French-braided half-pigtails, and she is typically seen in her training clothes, formal military uniform, or combat uniform. She is the tallest of the girls in the Bellweather Unit and has a curvier body type. Her witch's mark is on her rib cage, and because she is not a virgin, it has a metallic sheen to it.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Witch Physiology:** As a witch, Abigail possesses enhanced vocal chords 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. As a Bellweather, she possesses potent Work from her bloodline. Along with Raelle and Tally, she is one of the most formidable cadets in her year.

* **Pushing:** She can manipulate people’s actions through her voice, putting them in a trance-like state where they are open to her suggestions. In *Say The Words*, before leaving for Fort Salem, she ends her relationship with Paul by telling him to move on, to which he readily accepts, promptly turning and walking away.
* **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.
* **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, Abigail can levitate several feet off the ground, and, with practice, can perform combat drops. During *Citydrop* -- their first real mission -- she is shown to be a very competent user of Salva, landing in the grass during both jumps without causing herself injury. Additionally when she summons powerful storms with strong winds, she can use them to levitate herself in the air without Salva. In *Oh Elayne...*, after returning from the chemical plant and realizing that the Marshals were on their tail, the group decides to split up.  Abigail, Adil, and Tally decide to utilize salva to make an escape off of a steep cliff.
* **Work Detection**: Abigail is shown using certain seed sounds to identify hidden mines during *Citydrop*.
* **Electricity Manipulation:** Abigail turns on the lights without touching them after she wakes up from her nightmare in *Up is Down*.
* **Linking:** 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:** After Raelle is mortally wounded in *Witchbomb*, Abigail links with her in an attempt to save her life. However, this fails and Abigail ends up getting dragged into death as well.
* **Weather Manipulation:** Dubbed "weatherwork" by the witches at Fort Salem, users of which are known as Blasters. Abigail shows great potential in this field and is intent on being able to recreate her ancestor Jemm's Working that "stopped the battle cold" in her own words, if not create a whole new Working herself.
	+ **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*, Abigail 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.
		- **Windburn:** In *Irrevocable*, Abigail is able to apply so much air-force that she shreds the Camarilla member who stole Charvel's vocal chords' face completely off, down to the bone, allowing her to retrieve these remains for her family.
	+ **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.  In *Bellweather Season*, she and her mother use this ability to send the burning Camarilla agents out of the Bellweather mansion window. After Raelle is stabbed by a Camarilla member in *Witchbomb*, Abigail windstrikes him and sends him flying a considerable distance. In *Irrevocable*, she windstrikes several Camarilla members at their hideout. In *Happy Yule!*, while being held in The Marshall's house, Abigail, Tally, Scylla, and Nicte all emerge from their rooms at once to attempt to surprise him with a collective windstrike; he is barely affected and notes that it felt like "a baby's cough".
	+ **Storm Generation:** In a fit of uncontrollable emotion, along with Raelle, they were able to unintentionally brew a small lightning storm that shakes the whole training room.
		- **Tornado Creation:** In *A Tiffany*, Abigail was said to have thrown a waterspout at Raelle. Later in the episode -- with particular seed sounds, and circular motions created with her hands, Abigail is able to craft a flurrying storm, and pull down two destructive twin tornadoes. However, she ends up wounding her throat severely with this combination of workings. In *Delusional*, Abigail creates a massive lightning storm with three funneling tornadoes, having such precise control over this power that she is able to mimic Jemm's working during a delusion created by Nicte and braid a trio of tornadoes together before losing control. However, before her Work kills the team, she regains control and undoes the storm. In *Revolution, Part 1*, utilizing her tornadoes to lift Penelope up into the sky, along with Raelle and her witchbomb to vaporize her. In *The Price of Work*, while at the chemical plant, Abigail summons a single tornado that picks up surrounding rocks and debris, sending it flying around.
			* **Disintegration:** In *The Price of Work*, in unison with Adil's earthwork, the two managed the "Union of Sky and Earth", which seemingly disintegrates all of the target Camarilla operatives, leaving Tally in shock.
		- **Razor Hail**: In *Petra's Favorite Pen*, after the Camarilla-led civilian commanders begin firing on their own Army cadets, Abigail unleashes a storm that rains down thousands of razor-sharp shards of ice from the sky that puncture the commanders multiple times, taking them down.

* **Telepathy:** Dubbed "Farspeech" by the witches at Fort Salem. Used by the unit to communicate and receive orders from General Alder in *Not Our Daughters*. In the same episode, the Camarilla member who killed Charvel and stole her voice box uses Farspeech to lure Abigail away from the rally to be ambushed.
* **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. Abigail summons Charvel Bellweather, who reinvigorates her for the fight ahead.
* **Omnilingualism:** Due to speaking Méníshè-- the root of all known languages -- Abigail is capable of speaking nearly every language. In *Mother of All, Mother of None*, *just before Nicte's execution, she invokes "Rite of Proxy" -- along with several other witches.*
* **Mirror Communication (Two-Way Scrying):** At the end of *Homo Cantus*, Scylla suggests a piece of Spree work used to communicate through mirrors; Abigail successfully contacts Petra with it for the first time since going on the run.
* **Fear Sensing:** In *She Returns*, Abigail notes to Adil that she could feel the fear in the air as the two watched the Camarilla-led Army invades the Cession.
* **Cloaking (Invisibility):** One of the Tarim's unique Workings that cloaks the user in a warm orange glow. In *She Returns*, she uses this cloaking method -- the first time in the series she has used it independently -- to sneak up on the civilian commander leading the invasion of the Cession and snap his neck.

### Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** As a soldier, Abigail is in top physical condition.

* **Bilingualism:** She is able to speak English as well as fluent Spanish.

* **Expert Combatant:** From her training at Fort Salem, Abigail became skilled in armed and unarmed combat. She is capable of briefly holding her own against two Camarilla assassins, but was eventually defeated. After her mother comes to even the odds, she successfully defeats one of the assassins. During Citydrop, she is able to fight against two officers and eventually defeat them. During a battle with the Camarilla, she is able to fight against one and kill him by slitting his throat with his scythe.
	+ **Skilled Knife Wielder:** During her fight with a member of the Camarilla, Abigail is able to efficiently use a knife to fight against her.
	+ **Skilled Scourge Wielder:** During a battle with the Camarilla, Abigail is able to fight against them with her scourge.
	+ **Skilled Stick-Fighter:** During her training, Abigail has demonstrated she is skilled at using a baton in battle.

## Equipment

* **Scourge:** During her time at Fort Salem, Abigail has started using her scourge when in battle.
* **Salva****:** During her time at Fort Salem, Abigail has trained to use salva to practice combat drops.
* **Scry:**During her training at Fort Salem, Abigail practices using a scry to find things, but shows no skill in it.

## Quotes

> Obviously you're familiar with the Bellweather name...
>
> Abigail

## Trivia

* Abigail has many family members in the United States army. Her family tree is so extensive that many are hidden in the civilian population, descendants of defectors and conscientious objectors from generations pasts.
	+ Her female ancestor, the first member of Bellweather family to serve in U.S. Army, was a slave. Petra places a lot of pressure on Abigail to do better for this ancestor.
	+ Her female ancestor,Jem Bellweather, led the infantry charge during Battle of Juarez and sacrificed herself to provide cover for Madeline Swythe and her blasters' song.
	+ Both of her grandmothers died in their 50's, one in the air when her salva ran out, and the other rotting in a tent crawling with plague rats.
	+ This contradicts in season 2 when we learn that Abigail's grandmother is still alive. This was stated before the writers needed the Minerva as a character in season 2.
	+ Alternatively, Abigail has three fathers so she has 4 grandmothers.
* "Bellweather" contains "weather" and ties in to her and her family's specialization as blasters. In the prophecy, she is referred to as the "sky" to Adil's "earth."
	+ Additionally, a "bellwether" in animal husbandry is a castrated male sheep (called a "wether") that is recognized as a leader within its flock and is given a bell to wear so shepherds can easily identify and track them. This ties in to Abigail and her family's long history as military leaders.