Willa Collar

**Willa Collar** is a character in *Motherland: Fort Salem*. She is Raelle Collar's mother and the leader of a Spree cell.

## History

In her youth, Willa attended Fort Salem, but failed to get into War College. She later married a civilian named Edwin Collar and together they had a daughter named Raelle. They lived together in the Chippewa Cession, a massive unified Native American reservation that borders the Mississippi River. Due to this union, Willa was constantly deployed away from her family. She gained considerable status in the military due to her use of Christo-pagan work that allowed her to save countless lives.

Willa's supposed death was believed to be because of the actions of General Petra Bellweather, according to Raelle, although exactly what happened is unclear. It was said that Willa and her platoon were trapped in a bunker in Greenville by The Spree and at some point a firefight broke out and the sand turned to glass around Willa and the army had to crack what was left of her out.

When Raelle graduates from basic training, her father hands her a letter written to her by her mother. She opens it and Willa tells Raelle that she loves her and to trust her gift and to never doubt it, even for a minute. Raelle tears up at her mother's memory.

At the end of the episode, *Witchbomb*, Scylla is set free by Anacostia to escape. Scylla leaves and goes to The Spree refuge house where she addresses her leader. Her leader is revealed to be Willa. She tells Scylla, "You were supposed to bring me back my daughter."

During a ceremony known as Samhain, Raelle tries to summon Willa's spirit, but is unable to, as only the spirits of the dead can be summoned during Samhain. This leads Raelle to realize that Willa might be alive. Later, Raelle is kidnapped by the Camarilla, the true mortal enemy of the witches, who infect her with an increasingly powerful witchplague in attempt to draw out her witchbomb power. Willa then comes to her rescue. Upon seeing her, Raelle tells her that she has missed her so much. She asks if seeing her means she herself was dead. Willa replies that she isn't, but that they don't have much time, telling her that she thought she would have longer to explain. She tells her that leaving her was the biggest mistake of her life.

Willa tells Raelle to look at her, that she is going to have a lot of questions and she is sorry she won't be there to answer them. She tells her that she only wanted to make a world in which she could be free. She continues that she loves her more than anything and that she hopes one day she'll forgive her. She then absorbs Raelle's witchplague to save her and dies.

## Powers and Abilities

**Witch Physiology:** As a witch, Willa 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 the leader of a Spree cell and an ex-soldier, she is an incredibly powerful witch.

* **Linking:** As a Fixer, Willa is very familiar with linking.
	+ **Memory Reading**: In *Of the Blood*, Willa links with Scylla in order to show her how the Camarilla have taken out six heads of the Spree's leadership and are on the rise. In *My 3 Dads*, Willa links with Tiffany while she recalls what she saw while held by the Camarilla to find out where the other kids were being held -- in order to reach Raelle, who was captured at the time.
	+ **Healing**: Willa specializes in healing and has been said to have saved countless lives throughout her time spent with Fort Salem. By reciting verses from the Bible, Willa could heal the wounds of others. She taught this unconventional work to her daughter. Her Christo-pagan work was extremely effective while she was deployed, with every unit wanting to deploy with her. In *Irrevocable*, Willa was seen using this to save Raelle by drawing the Witchplague to her own body -- sacrificing herself for her daughter.
* **Sigil Manipulation:** Inscribed/drawn/painted symbols considered to have magical power, each one resulting in various effects.
	+ **Memory Sigil**: By drawing a sigil on her letters, Willa can allow other witches, who later trace over this sigil, to see and hear her as they read, as seen in *Say The Words*.
* **Mirror Communication:** In *Say The Words*, Willa communicated with Scylla as a balloon through the mirror.
* **Pyro-Shapeshifting**: By holding a lighter up to her chin, she can burn away her face and regrow another person's face and body beneath. Willa and Scylla change their faces in *Of the Blood*, in order to infiltrate a Spree rally at the mall Scylla attacked in *Say The Words*.
* **Weather Manipulation:** Dubbed "weatherwork" by the witches at Fort Salem.
	+ **Windstrike**: In *My 3 Dads*, Willa was able to windstrike a street light to back Scylla up once some Camarilla members corner her outside of their hideout. In *Irrevocable*, her and Scylla joint-windstrike another Camarilla member as soon as he opens the back of the van that they were hiding in.
		- **Shockwave Creation**: In *My 3 Dads*, Willa joins her windstrike with circular motions created by her arms that seems to supercharge it, having a powerful shockwave follow, sending the broken glass flying towards the surrounding Camarilla members, killing them all -- and simultaneously avoiding Scylla completely.
* **Animal Manipulation:** In *Irrevocable*, while desperately searching for Raelle alongside Scylla, Willa encounters a policeman with a police dog and uses a seed to make his dog turn on and maul him to death.

### Post-Death Powers

* **Mycelium Symbiosis**: After taking on the Witchplague from Raelle -- while they both lay in between life and death -- the two meet in the Mycelium's "death dream" to have their long-awaited, yet rushed reunion, where they finally are able to speak to each other. In *Mother of All, Mother of None*, Raelle is pulled into the Mycelium, where she is again face-to-face with Willa, who shows her the Mycelium's origin with Alder and her "Song of Grief" -- to which Raelle responds, "...the Mycelium's dead witches".
	+ **Mycelial Structure Creation**: In *The Price of Work*, Raelle awakes within the Mycelium, lying in a mycelial-based identical replica of her bedroom.
		- **Mycelial Body Replication**: In *Book Club*, Willa is seen emerging from a mycelial-like pattern that grows into the room after Quinn calls for her -- appearing as an exact bodily replica of Willa that still retains part of her mind and memories.
			* **Resurrection**: After dying and merging with the Mother, Willa’s consciousness is kept alive within it and able to be “resurrected” by channeling it through a biologically identical body made from mycelium.
	+ **Fungi Destruction**: In *Book Club*, after Willa realizes that Scylla has made contact with Raelle, she lets out a shrieking tone that causes the fruiting body of Scylla's death cap to fade away into black spores.
	+ **Oral Spore Emission**: At the end of *Book Club*, Willa is seen in Siberia fighting off the construction workers poisoning the Mycelium by releasing bright purple mycelial spores from her mouth that transmute them into fungi upon contact -- identical to the effect the witchbomb had on the Camarilla members in *Witchbomb*.
* **Telepathy**: Dubbed "Farspeech" by the witches of Fort Salem.
	+ **Imprinting**: According to Quinn, when two witches farspeak enough with each other, they imprint and are then able to communicate no matter where they are. In *Book Club*, Quinn is able to reach Willa through farspeech, even though the two haven't spoken in years and Willa is underground in a completely unknown location within the Mycelium -- which is attributed to the link that she and Quin forged. They've purportedly talked across oceans and through 16 feet of granite.

## Quotes

> You were supposed to bring me back my daughter.
>
> Willa in Witchbomb

## Trivia

* The exact circumstances of how Willa defected from the army are unknown.
* According to Edwin, Willa didn't get into War College.
* Willa has/had a sister, but it is unknown what happened to her.
	+ Raelle doesn't mention her during the remembrance ceremony, implying she is still alive.