Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24431758-20140313050841/@comment-45826614-20200518084237

My biggest problem with rachel is that she complains about all the unfairness of her not being talented while bam and his companions are, while not trying to improve herself in the slightest. Most regulars climb the tower and get stronger while doing so, so that they can continue to progress. Eventually they become a ranked and are levels above regulars. Rachel, however, has never tried to make herself stronger. The entire time she has been in the tower, she has resorted to manipulating and using others to climb the tower while essentially hitching a free ride off them. The first time we even see her in the tower she seems to already have made some sort of deal as she is paired up with endorsi and that other strong guy. She gets involved with fug so she can revive white for the sake of using him to climb the tower. Tbh I don't know why fug even decided to make a deal with her, unless it was hwaryun who was doing it for the sake of making bam stronger.

So yeah, at no point has she made an effort to improve herself. One scene I saw placed emphasis on this. It had everyone walking towards a destination (forgot what it was, though I think it was around the floor of death cause they were teamed up temporarily or something) and rachel was the only one who decided that walking was too hard and resorted to sitting on her floating lighthouse. It just goes to show how lazy and useless she is. She reminds me of a quote by that fire dude in black clover: "there's nothing wrong with being weak, but there is something wrong with staying weak." We wouldn't have a problem if Rachel decided to actively improve herself in order to climb the tower but she chooses to stay weak and leech off of others. If she was gonna use anyone to climb the tower, her best bet is probably bam but she seems to not want to because of the prophecy or something.

I saw some people earlier talking about how she isn't bad cause she was guided by hwaryun into strengthening bam through her actions, but that still makes her bad. In that case, her intentions weren't to help bam, it was hwaryun who was aiming to help bam. I have considered that she might really want to help bam and its sort of like a saskue-itachi situation where she aims to make him hate her to get stronger, but this most likely isn't the case because bam hasn't been shown to be someone who acts on his anger, and is more likely to forgive. He doesn't even kill her when she puts Khun in a coma. And also when rachel has been away from bam she has not been shown to have thoughts about helping bam. Of course these thoughts aren't going to be shown in the because they would be revealed in a plot twist but she has been actively thinking about using others to climb the tower and preventing bam from progressing. The only way I think she could be trying to help bam is when she told him that arlene called him a monster and wanted to get bam to follow her again, although I think this has more to do with her trying to wrap bam around her finger rather than providing motivation to climb the tower.

So yeah, Rachel is pretty fucking bad. We have seen in a flashback someone grabbing her by the hair and I think that she may have lived a shitty life on the outside, but that doesn't mean she's secretly good and is only like that because of what happened to her. Bad = bad. No excuses.