Raine Whispers

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* Debut
* Epilogue

“
I promised a special kid I’d protect you.
”

—Raine to Eda

**Raine Whispers** is a supporting character in *The Owl House*. They are the Head Witch of the Bard Coven, and the partner of Eda Clawthorne. They founded a small rebel group known as the Bards Against the Throne, with the intention of liberating wild witches who don't want to be forced to join a coven. Using their new position within the Coven System, they planned to sabotage the system from the inside and stop the Day of Unity from happening. After reuniting with Eda in their adulthood, Raine and Eda coordinated the BAT's witch efforts against Emperor Belos. However, when a run-in with the other Coven Heads results in the capture of BATs, Raine's cover was blown and they were placed in a magical stasis, but not before helping Eda escape from custody.

Raine is later released and resumes work under the emperor, supposedly now kept in line by brainwashing thanks to drinking tea tampered by Terra Snapdragon. In reality, Raine fakes the brainwashing to continue their investigation in secret. Together with other mutual Coven Heads, they rebuild the rebel cell and recruit witches to save the Boiling Isles before the Day of Unity. Raine eventually re-recruits Eda and company into the new group, which they restructure into the Covens Against the Throne. When the Day of Unity finally arrives, Raine and the Coven Heads are forced to power the Draining Spell; Raine ultimately severs Eda's sigil-branded arm to protect her from effects of the spell, before passing out in her arms along with the other depowered Heads.

Raine is later turned into a puppet by The Collector after the events of the Day of Unity, and is locked in the Archive House. However, Belos takes over Raine's puppet form as a host to manipulate the Collector under the guise of Raine.

## Appearance

### Body

Raine is a middle-aged witch with medium brown skin and mint-green hair with white streaks near the bottom. They have darker mint green eyebrows, and green eyes. They gained tear-esque scars running down their cheeks as a result of Belos's possession, as well as additional scarring on their lower right ear.

Years later, their hair has grown out more and turned fully white.

### Clothing

Raine wears large round glasses, a gray earring on their right ear, and a cloak similar to Hunter's.

In "Eda's Requiem," they are shown to be wearing an altered version of the BATs uniform: a long, black tunic with a maroon collar, gold trim, three gold buttons, a brown belt, crimson pants and black, knee-high boots.

In "Hunting Palismen," they wore a white cloak over their head with the Bard sigil on the neck over their current outfit.

In the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", they have salmon-pink rimmed glasses and wear earrings similar to Eda's gold ones. They wear a pale grey tunic with pointed gold clasps, and baggy, high-waisted mahogany pants with an orange belt. They wear shoulder pads, a mint green cloak with dark green trim and notch lapels, and laced brown dress shoes. A ribbon depicting The Titan's skull, the bottom of which being reddish-pink with maroon trim, can be seen on the left side of their cloak.

## Personality

At first glance, Raine is timid and easily flustered. Despite being the current Head Witch of the Bard Coven, Raine ironically suffers from stage fright and struggles with making public speeches, as seen in their Head Witch initiation ceremony in their debut episode. Like Eda, Raine values magical freedom and opposes Emperor Belos's methods of controlling magic by force under the Coven System.

Despite their shyness, Raine's true self shines in their cause. A capable leader and skilled tactician, Raine is not afraid to make hard choices and ask hard questions. They are crafty and resourceful, having executed multiple raids against the Emperor's Coven, and almost succeeding in infiltrating Emperor Belos's mind. Raine is very successful at deception as well, fooling everyone, even Eda, that they were in support of the Emperor, in order to throw off suspicion.

Raine is shown to be extraordinarily selfless and determined. They spent months pretending to be under Terra Snapdragon's control, endured Terra's constant mistreatment placidly, even though Terra was condescending and cruel, and even reluctantly fighting Eda in order to maintain their cover as a brainwashed coven head. In all these, Raine is willing to do anything for their cause, no matter how much it may cost them emotionally.

They are also playful and fun-loving, evidenced by the fact they went out of their way to name their rebel sect the C.A.Ts (Covens Against The Throne) much to the despair of their new ally Darius Deamonne, their shameless teasing of Eda, their joking around with The Bards Against The Throne, and their love of messing with Coven Scouts.

Raine's belief in freedom was so strong that they were also willing to sacrifice themself to take out Eberwolf and Darius Deamonne in “Eda's Requiem” in order to prevent the Day of Unity and save all the witches. However, upon noticing that Eda had children, they stopped the spell, and decided theirs and Eda's sacrifice was ultimately not worth it. This choice ended up being the right one for Raine, as Eberwolf and Darius eventually became their allies upon learning they all shared a mutual enmity against Belos.

## Abilities

### **Unique Abilities**

* **Magic:** As a witch, Raine is able to use magic. Like all witches, their connection to magic comes from a sac of magic bile attached to their heart. Having earned the rank of coven leader, they are undoubtedly very magically skilled. Belos additionally describes them as having "always [been] annoyingly powerful."
	+ **Bard Magic:** As the leader of the Bard Coven, Raine is able to use music to manipulate the world around them. This allows them to nullify spells from other witches, make things levitate, and take control of any people who can hear their music. Raine is an expert at several instruments, granting them a wide range to cast magic with; they can even perform Bard spells using sounds without an instrument, such as whistling. Raine is noted to be an exceptionally talented Bard, as they manage to rise to the rank of Head Witch by skill alone, despite their stage fright.
		- **Violin Playing:** Raine is a skilled violinist and uses their violin to cast their Bard spells. They can use their violin to cast cutting shockwaves.
		- **Instrument Summoning:** Raine can also summon and dispel musical instruments at will. While they primarily use a violin, they can also summon different instruments such as a lute.
		- **Matter Annihilation**: They somehow managed to create (or find) a Bard spell replicating the corrosive interaction Eda's curse had with Bard magic, and were able to use it without an instrument or even their fingers through whistling.
		- **Storm Generation:** Raine is able to conjure a miniature storm with their magic.
		- **Chemical Manipulation**: Even as a young student, they were able to use Bard magic through whistling (without the need to use an instrument or even their fingers) to alter the chemical composition of a beverage. As a coven head, they were able to neutralize a brainwashing tea right under the nose of another coven head with her being none the wiser.
		- **Smokescreen creation**: They can use a wind instrument, in their case a flute, to create a smokescreen.
* **Willpower:** Raine has a strong will, being able to fight back after Belos takes control of their body and even force him out of them.

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## Trivia

* Raine is the first ever Disney character to be non-binary.
	+ In a private chat with a fan on Twitter, Roque stated that they also personally consider Raine to be transmasculine.
	+ In the Latin American Spanish version, Raine's gender and pronouns were initially changed to masculine. This upset many fans, and even Raine's voice actor themself, Avi Roque, who spoke on Twitter about this.. The Latin American Spanish dub has since rectified this in later episodes by avoiding the use of pronouns in reference to Raine. Many other dubbed versions of the series also ended up initially changing Raine into a male character, although many of them have also found solutions (such as neopronouns, pronoun avoidance or even literally translating the they/them pronouns used in the original English version).
* According to the "Watch & Play" version of "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", Raine's stage fright developed when they starred in the Hexside production of the musical "Rats!".
* In the series finale "Watching and Dreaming", Raine is shown to have a red fox palisman. Prior to this, it was unknown whether Raine owned a palisman.
	+ It was later revealed by Dana Terrace that Raine's palisman was hidden in the design of their violin, which features a fox head on its scroll. When asked about the violin's destruction, Dana first theorized that that Hunter and Dell recreated the palisman, then subsequently theorized that only the staff was destroyed and not the palisman itself.

## References

1. ↑ mist(el)toe/happy ho(leo)days ❄️ [@ilikegaycookies] (November 9, 2021). Y’ALL TRANSMASC RAINE IS CANON!! (Tweet). Archived from the original on November 11, 2021.
2. ↑ Roque, Avi (September 10, 2021). Avi Roque about Raine's change in Latin America (Tweet).
3. ↑ gigi @ TOH SPOILERS [@clovariia] (July 17, 2022). Screenshot of 'Watch & Play: The Owl House - Follies at the Coven Day Parade' (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 26, 2023.
4. ↑ Cissy Jones (April 28, 2023). The "watching and dreaming" PostHoot with the one and only Dana Terrace! (24:25).