Raine Bouchard

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Raine Bouchard
Biographical Information
Place of Death	Paris, France
Nationality	French
Status	Deceased
Death	September 6, 1951
Family	Claude Bouchard† (father)
Affiliation	Chimera Maquis (formerly) MDC (formerly)
Rank	Lieutenant
Physical Information
Species	Chimera Human (formerly)
Gender	Female
Hair color	Blonde (formerly)
Eye color	Green (formerly) Gold
Appearances
Game(s)	Resistance: Retribution
Other Information
Voice Actor	Salli Saffioti

"You British, always wanting to blow things up."

―Raine

Lieutenant Raine Bouchard is a main character and the primary antagonist in Resistance: Retribution. She is the second-in-command of the Maquis, under the command of Roland Mallery. Raine later transformed into "The Chrysalis", a Hag-like Chimera. James Grayson killed her shortly after she fully succumbed to the virus.

Biography

Raine Bouchard was a serious, straightforward blond woman of French origin. For two years since the outbreak of the Chimeran War, she and her father, Claude Bouchard, had studied the Chimera and worked in developing a serum that would counteract the Chimeran virus.

She joined the Maquis in Luxembourg and eventually "charmed" their leader the warhero Roland Mallery, which led to her gaining a significant amount of influence in the Maquis with Mallery himself becoming rather subservient to her and her interest in Chimeran conversion centers.

Resistance: Retribution

Following the liberation of Britain, Raine was part of a French delegation to Britain to seek British help in aiding the liberation of mainland Europe in Operation Overstrike. Raine also learned about the rogue British soldier James Grayson, whose knowledge about conversion centers would be invaluable to her father's research. She intervened in preventing Grayson's execution for desertion and offered him a reprieve to join the Maquis. After Grayson expressed his reluctance to take her offer, Raine convinced him otherwise as she revealed that the Chimera have recently evolved a new process of converting humans, and her father's work that would stop the new conversion process.

Following the capture of Rotterdam, Bouchard gathered Grayson and other Maquis together at Bonn, Germany, where Raine wished to investigate a specific Chimeran conversion center, which produced the newly Boiler and Hag strains. She hoped that the investigation would progress her father's research into the new conversion process. While infiltrating the aforementioned conversion center, Raine was captured by the Chimera and "drown". Raine's adjutant, Colonel Roland Mallery, distressingly left her for dead and ran into Grayson, who learned from him and rescued Raine. After Grayson and Bouchard escaped from the conversion center on a Hammer and regrouped with Mallery, Bouchard was shocked to see it destroyed due to James' deliberate actions.

Raine furiously criticized Grayson for this, explaining that she had wished it for the facility to be conserved and study for the serum. Though, she owed her debt to Grayson for saving her. As Raine along with Mallery were about to leave to follow the Carriers to another Center, they received a radio distress message from Stephen Cartwright, who needed help in destroying a group of Chimeran Earth Movers from threatening the Maquis' headquarters in Luxembourg. Bouchard and Grayson began to argue each other on whether to help Cartwright or continue their pursuit of the Carriers, as the former believed that tracking the Carriers remained a higher priority. Ultimately, Grayson was knocked out by Mallery, and Bouchard and the Marquis left him.

After tracking down the Carrier's destination, Raine returned to Luxembourg and used the research she gathered to aid Claude Bouchard in completing the serum, which would infect and kill the Carrier strain, and thus halting the Chimeran conversion process. It was then revealed that Raine deliberately infected herself with the Chimeran virus at Bonn to allow her father to gain a sample of the virus as to develop the serum. Raine was then reunited with Grayson, who was insistent to evacuate Raine and her father just as they were close to completing the serum. As Raine and Grayson argued, Dr. Bouchard was killed by a Burrower to Raine's distraught. Raine ultimately finished her father's work and gained a sample before escaping Luxembourg.

Upon being relocated to Reims, in part of Operation Overstrike, Raine volunteered herself in delivering her father's serum to the Chrysalis Lair, where Chimera DNA was implanted into captured humans before they were taken to other conversion facilities, through the Paris catacombs. However, Grayson protested and warned about Raine's infection. Though no one believed him and was imprisoned under Mallery's orders. Raine later visited him and, under the influence of the Chimeran virus, seduced him into having sex before leaving for the Chrysalis Lair on the next day alone and unassisted.

Due to her infection, Raine easily traveled her way to the Chrysalis Lair as both Cloven and Chimera left her alone. Upon reaching inside the facility, Raine finally succumbed to the virus and mutated further from her father's experiments, becoming a Hag-like creature, claiming herself to be "The Chrysalis". She fully appeared before Grayson after he deployed a second sample of Bouchard's serum into the Chrysalis Lair' system, and attacked him. After being finally defeated by Grayson, Raine revealed to James that even though they had wiped out the Carriers, the Chimera are evolving and were already replacing the Carrier strain with Spinners. Just as she completely succumbed to the virus, Grayson put her out of her misery with a gunshot to the head. Her transformation and exact details of her death were only known to Grayson.

Personality

Raine was a very crafty and determined woman who believed that the most effective way to destroy the Chimera was to sabotage their ability to convert humans into more Chimera. However, this would led to her developing a single-minded obsession with discovering how Chimera's DNA worked at the expense of everything else.

It is heavily implied that she "charmed" war hero Roland Mallery into her schemes, who led into him becoming somewhat subservient to her and her obsession with Chimera's DNA, so much in fact he was willing to abandon the Maquis in Luxemburg that he had led for years for the sake of entering another Chimera conversion center.

Raine was also noted for taking big risks without thinking of the consequences, like getting herself infected with the Chimera virus so her father could have a sample to use in his vaccine. It's unknown if she thought she could starve off the infection, simply believed that the infection would take longer to take control of her or that her father would had made an anti-virus very quickly upon getting the virus sample. However, her father's death killed any hope for a cure for her and by the time of the invasion of Paris, the virus had started to influence her with her seducing James Grayson into having sex with her. It's heavily implied that she saw the Paris mission as her last mission before succumbing to the virus but decided to keep it to herself.

Mallery, who had developed a unhealthy crush on her, infected himself in a moment of madness upon seeing what became of Raine after she succumbed to the virus, and attempted to kill Grayson, seeing him as responsible for what happened to her, showing the hold she had over him.

Quotes

As The Chrysalis

• (with mock concern) "What's wrong, James? Headache?"
• "Why attack me, we're on the same side"
• "I see you staring. Don't be shy. I am Beautiful now!"
• "You can't kill us. You are simply raw materials, resources. There are worlds of us, infinite in number. We will not stop."
• "James. We're not dead. The serum spread, set off triggers...they're so advanced...Carriers gone...just triggered new types; Spinners, James. No matter what we do, they'll just keep evolving!"

Gallery

Trivia

• The manner of Raine's death at the hands of Grayson mirrored Grayson's execution of his brother, Johnny, from the beginning of Retribution. Raine's death is also similar to Nathan Hale's death by Joseph Capelli in Resistance 2.
• Raine Bouchard's dogtags read: Bouchard, Raine, Lieutenant, MDC Branch, UED, No. 0324489