Talk:Rachel/@comment-5135787-20160517170227/@comment-26854521-20160517173443

Headon made a deal with Rachel. That means he wants her to do something and she gets something in return. We don't know how much Headon cares about keeping his word, but the fact remains that he wants her to do something, presumably make Baam climb the Tower, and unless he already got what he wanted out of Rachel it's in his own interest to keep her safe.

We have never seens one of the higher FUG members talk about Rachel. YHS knows about her and anyone that was close to him while he was trained after the 2nd floor (Jinsung, probably Mirchea, too), but I don't think that her existence and her status are known to many of their members. Even Baams existence (his Irregular background) is only said to be known to few people.

Now to the thorn. The thorn comes from Gustang. He talks to a person (maybe Macseth) on the radio, who strongly implies that he planned everything. So if it wasn't for Baam, they would have probably never received it and it's not like the people who planned to melt Baam were in perfect control of it. They pretty much tried to take it by force.

SIU did say recently that Rachel could potentially have a thorn as well, since she's an Irregular, but I don't think you should automatically assume that just any Irregular can use every thorn. Gustang for example didn't use the thorn himself. Now we don't know for sure that he couldn't use it, but it seems rather likely to me that he couldn't. He said he was very exited to see the thorn in the hands of an Irregular, but if he was so curious why not try it himself? He probably tried but couldn't make it react to him, there's probably a deeper connection between Baam and the thorn.

As to why they don't try to melt Rachel. Maybe one has to take the thorn in first to be then melted into the weapon they want, and we'll see soon enough how that'll work out for her on the 43th floor.