Racquel Black. Jesse's wife and Billy and Primera's mother. She was a young Solarian woman attending the Jugend military academy and vying to become an Element. She was also the object of affection for two other Jugend recruits, Jessiah Black and Isaac Stein. Jessiah won her heart and it enraged Stein to no end. Racquel and Jessiah, now going by Jesse later abandoned Solaris and moved down to the surface to raise a family. They settled in the Aquvy region on an island close to the Ethos HQ. Stein, who had become a Bishop in the Ethos church under the assumed name of Stone, eventually tracked them down and sent a group of -Wels- who the Ethos controlled to the Black home and had them brutally murder Racquel. Stone's rationale for doing this was that Jesse had irrevocably 'tainted' her and she needed to be killed for her own good. Their mother's brutal death effected the Black children in profound ways. Billy joined the Ethos, whose lower members fought the same -Wels- that its higher members secretly control, and also caused him to develop a hatred of his father who was not there to protect his mother. The event also caused little Primera, who was a toddler at the time, to stop speaking completely.
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