The Collector

The Collector is a short humanoid being with child-like features. He has tan-yellow skin, bushy white hair and eyebrows, an upward-pointing nose, and a large pale blue blotch that eclipses the left side of his face, giving the right side the appearance of a crescent moon shape. The Collector's eyes are yellow and have narrow pupils with scarlet irises. His left leg also appears to be pale blue. The Collector wears full-body clothing resembling robes or pajamas with an oversized collar and sleeves. His clothes are split between dark blue on the right and periwinkle-gray on the left. The sleeves have these colors switched, with the right sleeve being periwinkle with blue suns and the left sleeve being blue with periwinkle crescent moons, as well as a magenta border on the rims of the cuffs. He wears a dark purple nightcap with magenta trim and a light star-esque spotted pattern. He wears dark blue shoes with light gray pom-poms on them. Additionally, he wears a light pink pendant with a purple crescent moon face around his neck.

The Collector has three small, dark blue stars on his left cheek. On some occasions, usually if he is using magic while experiencing strong emotions, such as anger or excitement, his eyes emit a bright glow. The Collector is depicted as a childish and mercurial entity. He is motivated by simple desires, wanting to have fun and play games with others, but much like a child, he gets quite emotional and impatient when his wants are not met. He partakes in theatrics often, speaking riddles and rhymes, although he will quickly give up on harder words. Despite his childlike attitude, the Collector has proven to be cruel and heartless when crossed. With a temperamental nature and great power at his fingertips, the Collector is a dangerous and unpredictable force that will not hesitate to punish those who upset him and terrify others into obeying his demands. Looks and acts like a child but is 400+ years old.

The Collector is nonchalant about the world around him, as he used his powers freely to manipulate reality to suit his needs. This casual indifference caused him to see others as toys for his amusement, such as viewing the catastrophic events the Day of Unity, an event using the nine coven heads as conduits for the Draining spell, a spell that would kill all witches with coven sigils, would unfold as a fun activity. Despite his god-like power, the Collector understood little about mortals, failing to grasp that his warped perception of fun has dire consequences and thinks little of the lives of others. The Collector thinks everything was still a game of pretend, dismissing the people as little more than part of his game. The Collector does not know the fragility of mortal life or what death means to them, showing that everything he did in the Boiling Isles was never under malicious intent and always been under the impression he could just bring people back as easily as fixing a broken toy.

Despite all his flaws, the Collector has an honorable side, he keeps his word and offers head starts to people he thinks need them. Additionally, he is shown to have learned to respect King's boundaries (which he initially did not do), for example when he respected King's wish for him to not touch Francois. He also displays some affability with Odalia Blight, whom he sees as a maternal figure, despite making her his servant to his whims. ( King is a young, bipedal titan with a small stature. He has slightly purplish dark gray fur, save for his stomach and the tip of his tail, which are mauve in color. He has short limbs, a round body and stomach, and a bushy, fox like tail. Each of his hands possess two triangular, bone-like claws with flat inner sides, acting as his fingers, as well as short, pointed thumbs. His feet are somewhat stumpy and have mauve metatarsal pads, with two more claws on the front of either foot acting as his toes. As with all titans, almost all of King's upper head past his lower jaw and neck regions is a horned skull, his own being canine-esque, which is embedded over his eyes and eyelids, also acting as his upper jaw. His horns are tall and point backward, curving slightly inward, the left of which is broken off near the base in a notch shape. The muzzle of his skull has two large, outward-pointing canine teeth, and he has two molars on either side near the base of it. He has an upside-down triangle-shaped nasal cavity covered by a pointed upper nasal bone, giving the hole a pointed, heart-shaped appearance when viewed head on. The skull itself is entirely stationary, save for his brow ridges, which can change position with his expression like normal brows. King wears robes and a nightcap resembling the Collector's, as well as a small white rectangular bandage over the crack in his skull.

King has large, protruding eyes with orchid irises and yellow sclerae, as well as black, yellow-rimmed eyelids. He has slightly longer and shaggier fur around his cheeks, neck and nape. His inner mouth is light purple, with a long, darker purple tongue, as well as two lower canine teeth, which are the only visible teeth inside his mouth. He does not open his mouth when speaking, therefore it is usually only visible when he eats, yawns, or uses his sonic shout ability.

Due to his childlike nature, he is quite naïve to the point he will take someone's word that they are telling the truth, a trait that has been exploited by others in getting the Collector to help them. As a result of being taken advantage of, the Collector loathes deception, especially when the person turns back on their promise. He is very disheartened that everyone lies to him and manipulates him, even his siblings, the Archivists. The Collector just wants to make friends, even if it is just pretend.

For all his callousness, the Collector is not inherently malicious. At heart, he is just lonely and only wishes to make friends. However, having spent a long time imprisoned to be sought after for his magical power, the Collector fears being alone and is wary that people will use him and leave him. A passage in the Collector's storybook further implies that, due to the Collector wanting to use his powers for his amusement, he viewed his race's observance and vindictive ways with disinterest. Coupled with his wish to be friends with King and make him happy, it is shown that the Collector yearns to have a companion like him who understands him. However, he is alien to how friendships work, at one point he asked if they were formed by forcing someone others to be with them. Another consequence of this desire for companionship is the Collector getting bitter and resentful when those he befriends express strong attachments with other people. This is displayed by his feeling envious of King's friendship with Luz, a kind-hearted, outgoing, eccentric, energetic, and exceedingly geeky girl, who possesses a strong love of fantasy and adventure. She is an extremely optimistic person who always attempts to see the best in others, even in past enemies. She is eager to find her place in the world and be accepted for who she feels she truly is. She is clever, creative, and a quick thinker, capable of coming up with solutions to problems on the fly, but if she has too much on her mind, she can be oblivious to things. At times, Luz has also been shown to utter small phrases in Spanish when experiencing certain bouts of emotion. She also possesses a strong fondness for certain animals that most would find creepy or grotesque, such as snakes, spiders, and possums.

The Collector would rather befriend people than destroy them. He captured Eda, a confident, rebellious, and sassy tall grey haired women in her late . Her vast skills and aptitude in witchcraft give her a brash streak, as she proudly declares her power and is openly defiant of authorities, going as far as knocking a guard unconscious and flying off to avoid getting caught. While Eda tends to act immature for her age, and mischievous at times, it's shown that she has a caring side to her and she is willing to protect the people she holds most dear, such as when she protects Luz multiple times, being close to a mother figure for her, as well as swallowing her pride when she realizes that she's being unreasonable and that Luz is miserable not being around her new friends and only having a limited palette with learning about magic, and enrolling her in Hexside. During the Day of Unity, whilst attempting to save King from the Collector, she lost control of her curse and attacked, resulting in the Collector holding her captive in the Archive House.

The Collector is part of a species called collectors. Little is known about collectors, but it appears they are a celestial race connected with magic and space, giving them abilities that allow them to manipulate reality. According to the Collector's book, collectors are long-lived species whose goal is to observe the passing of time and all life within and to collect and seal up members of each species in order to preserve them eternally. If they encounter resistance during their collecting, however, they have a known policy to, "clean the planet and scorch the air", i.e., planetary annihilation. A specific group of members of this race is referred to as "the Archivists".

They are, evidently, one of the most powerful magical races, their immense power only rivaled by the potent magic of another race, titans, whose magic has the ability to cancel out that of collectors', as was discovered by the Archivists when they sent the Collector to the Demon Realm on their behalf (with the Collector under the guise that this was a game). The collectors would develop a rivalry with the titan race, believing such a powerful species to be a threat to their affairs.[3] It remains unclear as to how influential collectors and their quarrel with titans were, as there exists trace evidence of collectors in the modern day. However, murals of collectors inside the Archive House depict collectors locked in a battle with titans and donning skulls of fallen titans as they fought. To ensure their purge was successful, the Archivists wiped out the titans one by one until only two remained, those being the Titan and his unborn egg, which hatched into King.

The outcome of the collector-titan war ultimately resulted in the near-extinction of the titan race, whose strewn bodies became landmasses found across the Demon Realm. However, the current status of other collectors remains unclear, as only the youngest Collector was trapped by the Titan in the In Between Realm. Around the time of this conflict, some ancient witches came to worship this young Collector as the huntsmen of titans (calling him the "Grand Huntsman"), and adopted the role of Titan Trappers using titan-based attire inspired by collectors.

In the present, the Collector was freed from the In Between Realm by the last remaining titan, King. He did not continue the Collector's goals.