Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24431758-20140313050841/@comment-31471121-20170307235322

I think Rachel has a complicated past and there is definetly a bigger reason to her actions. As we see in the latest chapter she seem to have a certain relationship with Arlene Grace(Bam's mother) and she states that she will fulfill the profecy, emphasizing that "it has to be her"  with a  sorrwful look in her eyes.

She finding Bam in that cave was not a coincidence, she definetly knew where he was and who he was, this further explained by the fact that she told him his birthday.I belive that she might be also Arlene child but she wasn't loved by her and mistreated. We see in the early chapters, in one of Bam flashbacks, where Rachel is being abused by someone(perhaps Arlene -as we know she went nuts after the events with Jahad) and shows a painful expresion. In the s2-240 chapter Wangnan states that she is good at tidyng and cleaning and she says that she has being doing it since she was a child, emphasizing my theory. She has being leaving with Arlene all the time outside the tower, thats why she knows so many stories about the tower and she never let Bam get out of the cave, because Arlene never permited her. This might be because Bam must open the door to the tower which was inside the cave as her prophecy foretold. Her being beaten might also be because she tried to take him out and was punished for it.

As for the reason she antagonized Bam once she enter the Tower is clearly stated by her "that he took everything for me", which might mean that he was entrusted with  Arlene dreams, hope and love while she was negleted. Her outburst at Headon floor dosn't look as one of great hate but one of fed up by her misfortune while Bam was blessed to be choosen by the tower.She clearly said that she must enter the tower and that this was her only hope. She is a very complex character and not pure evil and selfish one. I think part of her actions are to driven by her desire to fulfill Arlene wish and also to prove her wrong but there might be more deeper circumstances to it, after all we still dont know her full story, she might be more connected to the tower than we think.

My thought are based also on the fact that SIU sad that Bam and Rachel are deeply connected to each other and i'm certain its not only in a metaphorical meaning(like Bam being the).