User blog:Rachellover69/Rachel throughout the story

So this is going to be quite an extensive post when it's finished and I'm not going to do it all at once and I'm also not doing the formatting right here and now and I'm gonna focus on the content for now.

What I will do is go through all or most of the events that involve Rachel and analyse her actions and there will be a lot of interpretations and assumptions, since there really isn't much confirmed about her at all, but I will try to not do it one sided. This is not to make people stop hating on her, this is just my rambling and making a theory before anything is revealed so I can claim to have been right all along :).

One of the most essential things here is that you have to be aware that characters can lie and that it's always important when a character talks about something and to whom he/she's talking to. Then there's also thoughts, which you can sometimes read, but even they aren't always clear, especially when someone is in an emotional state or when sometimes people try to convince themselves of something. Keeping up appearances or impressions is also a thing that will be talked about a lot. In the end a big part about Rachel is for her to play a certain role.

Important parts that I can remember from the top of my head (will eventually update it and these are just headlines, I will go through all of them in detail, probably with pictures)

This is more or less just a reminder for me of what I want to touch on, so you might not want to read this, as this is not meant to be convincing or anything at all, these are just my talking points.

1)Time before enterting the tower in the cave with Baam.

Who is Baam? Who is Rachel? Their relationship. What is the cave? Significance of the name Baam.

2) Entering of the tower.

The door, Baams conviction to chase after her, and Rachel's smile.

3) Headon's floor

Headons role (irregulars and regulars), Headon using Rachel and then making a deal. Yuri's appearance (Baam receives help)

4) Floor of tests.

Deal between Headon and Yu Hansung (FUG), Hwa Ryun guiding Rachel, Rachel buying expensive food for test points (she already knows she passed the position test beforehand), Androssi feeling a strange aura from her, Crowns Game, Rachel talking to Androssi in rest room in front of mirror (about hiding her identity), Rachel talking to Koon after Baam's injury, Hide and seek game (Rachel knows about Ho's plan one way or another but still doesn't do anything to prevent that), faking injury and pushing Baam down (she's actually excessively apologizing beforehand, probably partially lying about the reason though, because she obviously can't tell him what she's about to do), pretending that he died saving her and acting like it afterwards, talking to Hwa Ryun (seemingly depressed) in the end.

5) Climbing with Koon's team, pretending to be paralyzed.

other members of FUG on Koon's team, Koon's suspicion (telling the other members to be ready to turn their back on Rachel, but some of the team members are with FUG so Rachel probably knew how Koon felt), Emily (someone tells Emily that Baam is alive and I suppose it's either Rachel, Hwa Ryun or Repellista) and the Hand of Arlen incident with chicken being killed and Dan ending with crippled legs (becoming one's legs analogy)

6) train city

received Emily from Cassano, relationship with Yura Ha (telling her about Baam, when the average reader is at this point under the impression that Rachel might not even know that Baam didn't die and that she actually planned killing him in that water tank), setting up the tournament to hijack the train, involvement with FUG (does she want Baam on the train or not, is her fraction of FUG on good or bad terms with Karaka or maybe not involved with him at all, in other words does she maybe oppose Karaka, who planned to get Baam on that train to get rid of him and she tries to stop that), reunion at the terminal, Baam asking Rachel if what she wants is more important than him (same question Androssi asks her at the 2nd floor when she couldn't answer or didn't want to at the very least) and this time she answers without hesitation (maybe keeping up appearances/playing her role),  pushing him down again (like in season 1 she can't look at him while she's pushing him down), Koon's words towards Rachel when Baam goes berserk (not even Koon thinks Rachel doesn't care about Baam)

7) on the hell train

talk with Hwa Ryun (friendly chatter, no hard feelings between them, almost seems like they are friends) and talking about making friends no matter if they're real nor not, Rachel saying that she wants stronger teammates, another reunion at the Wooden Horse station, Rachel's behaviour towards Hoaquin, the games on the train (Koon



vs Rachel)

Part I)

Let's start with the cave. The cave is outside of the tower and the outside of the tower is said to have no Shinsoo (as far as I know both of these things are confirmed by the author himself). In recent chapters (Hell train arc) we can see that even Baam himself is under the impression that he was imprisoned in that cave. We also have the Three Eyes in the cave and we also know that both Rachel and Baam are aware of that symbol from this flashback here (I'll try to find this panel at some point later, it is when Baam and Rachel talk about exploring the cave and use the Three Eyes as orientation to climb the mountains or something that sort), and while it is unknown what significance that symbol could have outside of the tower, it at the very least points towards the inside of the tower since we know of its significance there. The Three Eyes are at the very least a symbol of authority and especially inside of the tower the highest undisputed authority, showing that Baam wasn't just thrown into some random hole and kinda also has a judgement character, branding him as someone being locked away under someone's authority.

Now the let's come to Rachel in regards to the cave's position. Rachel has knowledge of both the outside and the inside of the tower. She knows about the stars and the sky, but she speaks about it as if she's never ever seen it herself. Urek is also someone who speaks about the sky and stars with a lot of admiration and he also comes from the outside, but maybe for him it's just something that he's missing or something. Rachel also knows some very specific things about the tower. You have to be chosen to climb the tower and she also knows about creatures like Headon calling them fae. The interesting part about that one is that people of the tower usually wouldn't even get to see guardians, except for the ones being chosen by Headon, people we know as regulars and the people who enter the tower by themselves on the first floor. So whoever told Rachel about them must have been a regular at the very least.

Personally I'm not really convinced by Rachel wanting to see the sky and the stars that much. To me it often seems like she's using that as a pretext or justification to not have to explain herself any further. It almost feels like a script that she keeps repeating and she herself doesn't really seem too excited, when she talks about it. It also seems odd that she wants to see the sky and the stars and that she thinks that she would have to climb the tower to do that. Cosidering (we don't really know what she knows but I don't expect her to be completely in the dark about her circumstances)  the cave is outside of the tower you would assume to try to find a way out of it or the place above it that she lives in, but instead she thinks that she has to get inside of the tower to then eventually get to the top and then leave it again? It really seems to me that the stars are just an excuse, but I will comment on that a lot more in detail when I get to that point in the plot.

Rachel enters the cave from somewhere above, but from the way she talks about the sky and how she shows Baam how she imagines that the ceiling of the cave wasn't there you can assume that she's surrounded by walls up there, too. It seems almost impossible that she found Baam by accident, if you assume that it is indeed a prison, especially if you consider her knowledge of the tower (because leaving the tower is something very complicated, I'll talk about that later, maybe information can be exchanged more easily, though I doubt that that information would be spread openly) and the fact that she decides to raise that kid she just found and that she is telling him that he can't leave that place. Without talking about this too much at this point my base assumption here is that she knows who Baam is. Maybe not in perfect detail, but I'm pretty sure she got the general idea, who he is (more so than him, which isn't very hard because he has absolutely no idea who he is) and what he is supposed to do and what potential he has. Potentially even to the point where it was her job to raise that kid and make sure he enters the tower.

So now let's start at the beginning with the name the 25th Baam (Korean for night). According to the story his name comes from being born on the 25th night. We do know that when Rachel found him he could neither talk nor write. She became his mother, sister, friend, teacher and moral compass. So naturally it must have been her who gave him that name or at the very least she told him that it is his name. How could she have known on which night he was born, when she had just found him some day? She either made up that name herself (maybe she found him on that day) or someone told her that that is his name and that he was born on that night or that she witnessed his birth herself (seems rather unlikely to me). So we do know from the epilogue of season 1 with her talk with Hwa Ryun that she is aftraid of the night/Baam and we also know from some other time that she sometimes can't sleep at night (will add pictures here). Now we are back to our two naming scenarios. She either named him herself after something that she is afraid of, kind of showing that she knows of his enormous potential or that she knows why he was imprisoned in that cave (or at least assumes that there is a good reason for it) or she got the name from someone else in which case she was probably told more than just his name and she probably got instructions as to what to do with him. Either case implies that she knows something.

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