Talk:Irregular/@comment-4736714-20130321181718/@comment-66.65.73.157-20130321200558

Would you care to cite the importance of opening the door? I've seen a lot of people on the fanbase talk about it, but aside from one off-hand reference that Baam did it, I don't think it's remotely important. It's fanon -- people noticed that Headon and Yuri mentioned that Baam had opened the door himself, and seized on it. But it's never been directly connected to Irregular status.

(We also know, remember, by word of god, that Rachel is an Irregular.  My understanding is that the theory that you had to open up the door yourself to be considered an Irregular was primarily invented by fans who didn't want to accept that Rachel qualified.  But now that the author has explicitly stated that she _is_ an Irregular, it works the other way around -- we know that opening the door yourself is not important.)

Irregular means two things:

1.  Literally, non-selection members, people who weren't selected from within the Tower to climb it.

2.  By implication, it means people from outside the tower, which is the actual _important_ part (it's the reason that they can take challenges directly from the Guardians and are capable of killing Zahard, neither of which residents of the tower are permitted to do.)