Talk:Rachel/@comment-30989362-20170108123139/@comment-26484417-20170108132133

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: There are about as many people like you--who are frustrated with the often nonsensical hate for Rachel--, as there are people with nonsensical hate for Rachel.

As for the rest of what you write, you worry that killing Rachel would put an end to this story, but Baam's motivation for chasing Rachel has quite dramatically changed since the early chapters, and I really hope that SIU isn't going to have Baam follow Rachel the entire story and merely change the reason from time to time. In this regard, I'm pretty sure the story could continue even if Rachel were to die already on 43F, because it's only a matter of providing Baam with an alternative reason for climbing, and I suspect he already has sufficient reasons.

For one, if he wishes to protect his friends from FUG, he cannot leave them, and most of them wouldn't give up on their climb simply because Baam does. Moreover, Baam has learnt quite a lot about some of the Tower's injustices and feels fairly strongly about some of them, so he may choose to try to do something about these things one way or the other.

Finally, if you neither like nor dislike Rachel, then that either means you like some of her traits while you dislike others, or that you haven't yet made up your mind. If it's the latter, then you obviously cannot truly connect with those who have already seen enough to join the Rachel fandom or hatedom respectively; however, you don't have to, because not everyone has the same values and perspective, so what for one is "meh" can be "interesting"--or even "decisive"--for another. If it's the former, though, then I'd really like to know what traits of hers you like.