Rachel Mariana Morgan (Summoning name: Jariathjackjunisjumoke; Temporarily: Algaliarept) is the protagonist of The Hollows series. She is a red-haired, pale-skinned, athletically built demoness with green eyes and frizzy, curly, bright red hair. Her birthday is July 27, 1981. She is impulsive and rash and her descent from white earth witch into ley line, black & demonic magic is necessitated by her escalating need for more power to balance her enemies.
History
In the Main Series
- Rachel Mariana Morgan is one of two known survivors of a deadly, genetic condition known as Rosewood Syndrome, which will normally kill a witch child before they reach 2 years of age. The only other survivor of Rosewood Syndrome is Stanley Collin Saladan . She has a two year degree in earth magic and criminal justice, however she has shown an aptitude for earth magic well above what her degree suggests. She originally started out as an earth witch, but eventually learned ley line magic, and finally demonic magic (that which mixes both earth and ley line magic) out of necessity. As a result of her first encounter with the demon Algaliarept, Rachel has an extremely sensitive, unbound vampire scar. Though it does not show on her person due to demon magic, she is still vulnerable to attacks from vampires who play on the scar, which elicits a temporary sexual desire and loss of inhibitions. Fortunately as a result of her association with Ivy Tamwood, most vampires will not risk playing on her scar as it would incur the wrath of the Tamwood family and those they control (who see Rachel as Ivy's property/shadow-in-the-making, despite the fact that Ivy would never bind her, as this would break Rachel and make her more or less a slave instead of a true friend or lover).
- Both her survival and (that of Stanley) of Rosewood Syndrome is a direct result of genetic tampering (illegal since the turn). Her father Monty Morgan was friends with Trent Kalamack's father, and because of their friendship Kalamack Sr used his genetic manipulation to save Rachel by repairing the damage to her mitochondria. It is currently believed that Kalamack Sr was not aware that the genetic condition was originally caused by the elves to stop witches from regaining the demonic powers that were their birthright. While Rachel originally believed herself to be merely a witch who can (as a result of this tampering) perform demon magic, during Pale Demon it is revealed that she is in fact a true, witch-born demon, as she is able to create a Tulpa (or construct) from a memory which can be fixed into the reality of the Ever After by a male demon, something that no one but a true demoness could do.
Dead Witch Walking
- After years of dead-end assignments, Rachel breaks her I.S. contract with a wish from a leprechaun she was supposed to tag for tax evasion. This is extremely risky, as the I.S. does not allow people to simply walk away alive. She teams up with Ivy Tamwood & Jenks the pixy and in exchange for their help she gives them each one of the three wishes the leprechaun gives her. They form the Vampiric Charms runner service and move into a church that serves as their base of operations.
The Good, The Bad, and the Undead
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Every Which Way But Dead
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A Fistful of Charms
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For a Few Demons More
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The Outlaw Demon Wails
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White Witch, Black Curse
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Black Magic Sanction
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Pale Demon
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A Perfect Blood
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In the Novellas and Short Stories
Undead in the Garden of Good and Evil
At the end of this short story Ivy mentions that as punishment for framing her old boss, she has been assigned to a rookie witch in the runner department. Presumably this is Rachel.
Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel
In this short story, Rachel makes a deal with her brother that if she can summon the spirit of her dead father, he will let her join the I.S. However instead of summoning her father she summons the spirit of Pierce, a dead vampire hunter. Together with Rob & Pierce, Rachel tracks down a missing girl and defeats the vampire who took her.
Dirty Magic
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The Bridges of Eden Park
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The Bespelled
Rachel does not appear in this story.
Ley Line Drifter
In this story Jenks mentions that he & Bis should not tell Rachel about freeing a murdering Dryad from a statue. She does not appear in the story itself.
Powers
As an Earth Witch
She can create & use charms & amulets, and potions which she normally loads into paint balls for a modified paint ball gun. No quick & adaptive magic - it all has to be prepared ahead of time.
As a Ley Line Witch
When Rachel uses ley line magic, she draws directly from the line and uses it to forcefully throw enemies, create magical circles to shield herself, or do a "power pull" with a lover. Rachel can use ley line power to quickly craft and throw spells mid-battle without the need for further preparation, and due to her ability to "spindle" ley line power in her head, she can hold a lot more power than a normal witch and thus hit much harder when throwing raw force around.
As a Black Witch
Though branded a black witch and shunned by the Coven of Moral and Ethical Standards, Rachel practices almost no magic which would be considered black with the exception of her demon curses.
As a Demon
As a Demon Rachel can be called via scrying mirror or summoned using her summoning name. She has the ability to make constructs in the Ever After when aided by a male demon, and she can spindle ley line energy and use it to attack her opponents by flooding them with the line's energy. She also has a massive amount of demon curses that she can perform to harm or kill her enemies, though all demon magic causes smut to be added to her aura.
Relationships
Ivy Tamwood - Rachel and Ivy share a strong friendship with some sexual tension as a result of Ivy's deep love for Rachel. Ivy is extremely protective of Rachel and will not allow anyone to harm her, even going so far as to attack Piscary to protect her. Rachel is not attracted to Ivy in that way, but loves her as a friend and considers her a sister in arms. Rachel also attacks a master vampire to protect Ivy, both of them repeatedly risking their lives to protect each other's mind & soul.
Jenks - Jenks is the other of Rachel's partners in the Vampiric Charms firm. Jenks, father of 54 children, also sometimes acts as a fatherly or big brother figure for Rachel, at times seriously threatening boyfriends and lovers with bodily harm if they allow any to come to Rachel. Despite his diminutive stature he is an accomplished warrior and they always take him seriously. Rachel on the other hand sees him as a firm friend and ally, but defnitely not a father figure - when he is made human sized by one of her demon curses she has to repeatedly remind herself that he is married with children, as he is extremely attractive and has the body of a very buff 18 year old.
Nick Sparagmos - Nick was the first boyfriend that Rachel has had in the series, and he is the most unliked. He made his true personality clear when he took up the help of Al the first instance that Rachel was in toruble. He isn't afraid of magic or demons despite his human nature. His character spans over the series from Dead Witch Walking to For a Few Demons more, while his relationship with Rachel only spans through the series in Dead Witch Walking to Every Which Way But Dead. The two were intimate but it didn't seem to be the real deal for either party. Rahcel resigned herself to give up on him in such a way after he ran off on her in the beginning of Every Which Way But Dead.
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Kisten - While at first Rachel is unsure of Kisten, the two grow to have a strong and loving relationship. Kisten sticks strictly to the boundaries set by Rachel in their relationship, and despite his strong urge to bite he never did, as Rachel feared she would be accidentally bound by him and that Ivy would flat out kill him if he ever took their relationship to a blood-sharing level. Kisten is the first boyfriend Rachel has in the series who seems to honestly put her first in every sense, and when she tries to protect him from the Undead vampire Art, he dies, only to return as an Undead himself and die a second time protecting her. It is in the brief moments when he is dying for the second time that Rachel gains some hope of saving Ivy's soul, as Kisten's soul returns to him despite the fact that he is Undead, just long enough to remind Rachel that he loves her in Ivy and that he does not regret giving up his second life for them. Rachel has never really recovered from Kisten's death, but she seems to be making progress and slowly allowing herself to love again.
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Quotes
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