Talk:Rachel/@comment-74.120.235.112-20120906010757

In my opinion, Rachel is one of the most fascinating characters in this story. Her history and general character is too unknown to let her fall into an archetype yet (please don't let her, SUI) and I love how she is a walking contradiction. She agrees with Baam in a flashback about the lonelieness of the stars, and even has a dream where Baam disappears with his friends, leaving her alone, and screamed hysterically at him "Don't go!" during the Headon test (out of practical fear for his death, being left alone?), but her apathetic reply to Hwa Ryun and obvious actions directly contradict them. She and Baam are such EXACT foils, really, from their names, personalities, goals, actions, even the way they are presented and interpretted.

I think that there is also a complexity in how Rachel's presentation seems to play on how ideallisticly the entire story is read. For example, her act of cowardice/lack of willpower could practically be considered a practical assessment of her stregnth and value of her life. This seems to play into SUI's theme of moral judgement (perhaps the futility of?) and the character's idealism of old themes such as evil/good, judgement, will, power, dreams, effort, right/wrong..

Idk, at a more personal level, am I the only one that thinks its cool how she's fighting her own limitations, set by "God" (SUI) which is completely unsuited for the role required to obtain her dream? =(