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 * 1) RachelDidNothingWrong #RachelBestCharacter

Rachel so far in the story is my favourite character. I believe she has been brilliantly written as opposed to the other way more beloved main characters in the story but for some reason people seem to hate her.

In my opinion she represents a very human mental progression in life. Since everyone is a child they are told they are special and even if they are not directly told that, they must have heard that they can achieve anything if they try hard enough. But at some point 99% of people had to wake up and realize that they are not special. They realize their ordinarity and chose to live ordinary lives. The remaining 1% are the 'chosen'. They are bright,charming,beuatiful or talented and their destiny is to live 'special' lives like becoming rich,famous,accomplished (NOT WORKING A 9-5 BASICALLY...). And in Rachel these people see themselves, surrounded by brilliant dedicated talented individuals who they can't be compared to. This is many people as it seems and the problem stems from the notion that everyone is equal at birth. This builds up expectetions of greatness that crush young adults and late teens (15-25 for the most part incidentally the main demographic that reads TOG ).

And then there is Rachel a charcter who (I speak now not knowing her past or actual motivations) is much like the 'regulars' of our society that 99% but hasn't given up yet. But she isn't like Rock Lee for example she can't train everyday to get stronger that is not very effective anyway, as we see Lero Ro demonstrate at the floor of tests in the early chapters where he beats a guy who said he trained his whole life to climb the tower... There bound to be people who thought like that but time and time again we only see talented regulars/irregulars at the top of the food chain in the TOG with less talented people forced to be their underlings or be tormented by them.

Now Rachel has decide to walk a special life despite not being special herself and people may be afraid (consciously or subconsciously) that their choice to 'grow up' is wrong and want to bring her down for daring to try and walk her special path that they have given up, to validate their mentality perhaps. I also think that she wouldn't be nearly as hated if she was a 1-off side character that betrayed Baam. It's like people are angry that a 'normal' person like them gets to be a main character, maybe they feel its unfair and hate her as means to an end.

Also I think it's much more likely that Rachel was a maid or servant of some kind to a noble family of sorts when she was a kid. We already know that she was good with tidying up as Khun noticed and she replied that she was doing that a lot. Her cheap wear is can also be atributed to that, She is almost never seen wearing anything expensive or extravagant. So my theory is that she was maybe sold by her family at a young age and was forced into slavery. Maybe there she was mocked because of her 'ugly' appearence by the pretty ladies of the houseand she grew this jealousy of pretty people or her wanting to look like a princess. Maybe she met Arlene by chance one day, maybe she witnessed her death or something and she learned of her past and sympathised with her. Then she wanting to be the one to avenge her tragic death cobined with the fact that she was forced to live under others made her obsessed with the idea of freedom and reaching the top. But with someone like Baam  she couldn't feel free while climbing the tower and thought that he was a burden someone inferior to her. And when she found out that Baam who was supposed to be inferior part of that 99% was in fact part of the 1% of the gifted people she vented out all her frustrations her building emotions to Baam. So after that she could never go back to her normal path of life, her newfound pride is to great to apologize to Baam after she betrayed his trust.

Well that's my take on that I'm just opening conversation plz dont bash my rational opinions =). These are just thoughts that have all crossed my mind while reading TOG and fell like sharing...