Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24431758-20140313050841/@comment-98.255.13.231-20161102021251

Rachel has Narcissistic personality disorder. And Narcissists are very dangerous due to their unwillingness to accept the personhood of others. From the Mayo Clinic Web-site: She manipulates all the people around her, and enjoys it. Creating Emily was a fun game to her. Manipulating Baam was probably a lot of fun initially. When he stopped doing what she wanted and started pursuing her own agenda, she had to get rid of him. Her rejection by Dan, and her humiliation by Koon in the sweetfish test, and her reaction give us a clue to her character. She doesn't take threats to her belief that she's a special person well.
 * Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
 * Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
 * Exaggerating your achievements and talents
 * Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
 * Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people
 * Requiring constant admiration
 * Having a sense of entitlement
 * Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations
 * Taking advantage of others to get what you want
 * Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
 * Being envious of others and believing others envy you
 * Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

She is like Ha Yura, unconcern that Hana Yu was seriously wounded, her fan was simply in the way of what Yura wanted. She greatly differs from Hoaqin, in that he is willing to do horrifying thing for grand reasons. He is compelling due to his grand vision  Rachel is only willing to be evil on a much smaller scale because she is a much more banal person with less conviction. She is a much more realistic vision of evil. She isn't off invading another country or engineering the deaths of millions. She's the clerk who keeps the trains to Auschwitz running on time, who makes sure the bill for the bullet to the executed prisoner's family has the correct postage on it.

Part of the reason she is so hated is that she does these things for the most trivia of reasons, and throws away things of real value for cheaper/tawdry things that don't conflict with her self-image as the center of the story. She could be Ship Leesoo, with a side of Hwa Ryun. But that wouldn't let her be the center of the story. So being part of Baam's growing circle of powerful friends/allies is less attractive than hanging out with a hair-triggered, unrepentant mass-murderer, because with Hoaqin's group, she's more important. It's like throwing away a baquet ticket, to munch scraps you stole from a dumpster. The banquet tickets were a gift, your 'cleverness' let you steal the scraps. Prince showed growth by realizing a seat at the table, and earning his place, was more satisfying than treacherous friends and living on a knofe edge.

The idea that Headon is directing her may be true, the other question is was someone directing her to take care of Baam?