Sarah Rainmaker

Sarah Rainmaker is a female comic superhero who features in Wildstorm.

Biography

Origin

Sarah Rainmaker Rainmaker is the daughter of Stephen Callahan of Team 7 and half-sister of Matthew & Nicole Callahan (Threshold and Bliss of DV8).

Apache born, Sarah Rainmaker's Gen-Active powers first manifested while living on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. She soon came to the attention of the Ivana Baiul and her Keepers, who were ordered to capture the seedling and bring her back for testing. Sarah managed to elude her captors and flee into the desert. She remained in hiding for three days before Ripclaw of Cyberforce, a fellow Apache, discovered her.

Dispatched by Sarah's family to ensure her safety, Ripclaw was followed by Keepers. Stormwatch was also notified that a young girl in the desert had manifested and saw to it that she would be safely returned to her family. With the help of Battalion, Ripclaw was able to defeat the Keepers. Their victory did not workout. Waiting for Sarah were the I.O. officials who had sought her in the first place. Brought to Project: Genesis, Rainmaker met her future teammates, Fairchild, Burnout, Grunge, and Freefall. With the help of then I.O. Director John Lynch, Rainmaker and the others manage to escape.

Early in the series, Sarah reveals a joy of flying, a power she shares only with teammate Burnout. The team spends some time in a beach-house on the West Coast, living with a semi-sentient housemaid defensive robot. There have been moments of friction as the rest of the team is still adjusting to Sarah's sexual orientation. For some time, Caitlin Fairchild had no idea Sarah was attracted to women, especially her, leading to at least one incident where Caitlin innocently changed clothing in front of her. Sarah's accidental 'flirtation' with Freefall was met with surprised rejection. Most affected is friend and teammate, Burnout, who has a strong romantic interest in Sarah.

Sarah has ended up battling many supervillains, many who wanted revenge on John Lynch. In another incident, she, Fairchild and Freefall were kidnapped by a man trapped in a young boy's body, who wished to gain a girlfriend from members of the team. The females were rescued by the males just in time.

Sarah tries to keep the peace in the group. Grunge, discouraged by another foolhardy decision, is convinced by Sarah to take a mind-clearing trip to the desert (where he finds and fights a trickster spirit and ultimately has to be rescued by the team).

Sarah's environmentalist concerns get her in trouble during the brief time the group attended college. Her new friends and Grunge's fun-loving new group end up in conflict, resulting in the release of a cybernetic gorilla on the school campus.

Sarah and her friends would be sent to fight a replicating menace in an evacuated American city. This would prove to be a very traumatic experience for the entire team, as the results of the fight were not what they expected.

The beach house and robotic maid are eventually destroyed by I.O. forces. Later, the team comes into conflict with DV8, super-powered teens who were also part of the project that granted Gen13 their powers. Sarah again tries to make peace instead of battle. Eventually members of the teams come to respect each other.

Some time after she came out to her teammates, Sarah was forced to return to the San Carlos reservation to help her fellow Apaches fend off an attack by William Greywind, her mother's abusive ex-husband. Assisted by the other members of Gen 13, she entered the spirit world and enlisted the aid of Geronimo, Crazy Horse and Lozen, who helped her unlock her spiritual abilities and defeat Greywind.

After the events of Captain Atom: Armageddon, Sarah was rebooted along with the rest of the team. This time she was fully established as a lesbian, who found it difficult to fit in with society. One day she came home to find that her parents, actually operatives ordered to raise her, in the process of ingesting poison. Immediately Tabula Rasa troops stormed the house and she was taken away. While in a detention center she met up with the other Gen13 gang and they all escaped. While relaxing at a farm, she made advances towards Caitlin, who was bewildered by the event. When the group was on the road again she revealed to them all that she was a homosexual.

During Gen 13's adventures, Sarah was revealed to be, as her Gen 13 teammates, the recipient of the soul of her original namesake, collected by the Doctor and restored in the new body. However, in this life all the Gens exhibited different tendencies, becoming progressively their own persons.

After the events in Number of the Beast, traveling with the group throughout this devastated world, Sarah seemed more agitated than the others. She expressed to them all that she would probably end up leaving the group. While seeking refuge in a mall, she made another advance on Caitlin. This advance, however, was sharply denied, adding to Sarah's discontent and her accusing Caitlin of being romantically involved with Bobby. As this was happening it was revealed that an American Indian woman known as Kachina, who possessed some form of magic power, was observing and had an interest in Sarah.

After leaving the mall, the group decided to hitchhike across the USA to the town of Tranquility. After hitching a ride from none other than Dr. Archimedes Sin himself, they all ended up at a post-apocalyptic skate park run by renegade youths. While there, Sarah saw Caitlin embrace and kiss Robert. This angered her so much that she stormed out of the park. She was later magically summoned by Kachina to Sarah's reservation home where she helped the shaman in making rain. And as well having a sexual relationship with the shaman.

Sarah was later beckoned to the Authority's calling to UnLondon, where she learned of the Carrier's departure. She was one of the few heroes to board the shift-ship and leave Earth, and was reunited with Freefall.

Post-Flashpoint

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Notes

• Sarah Rainmaker was created by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi and J. Scott Campbell where she made her first appearance in Gen 13 v1 #2 (March, 1994).

In other media

Films

• In Gen¹³, Sarah Rainmaker appeared in the setting of the 1998 animated film where she had a cameo role.

Appearances

• Gen 13 v1: (1994)

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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