Talk:Irregular/@comment-89.15.246.214-20130516223426/@comment-4736714-20130516231230

The author has said explicitly in the comments on his blog that both Baam and Rachel are irregulars.

Anyway, as I recall, Headon never says that Baam is chosen. Go back and read chapters 76 and 77 carefully; he tells Rachel that she is not chosen, and gives her the impression that Baam was chosen, but he doesn't say so explicitly (the most he says is that Baam is "his guest", which could mean anything.)  Rachel asks him why Baam was chosen, and Headon doesn't answer her directly, probably because he wanted her to think that in order to manipulate her.

("Chosen" has another meaning anyway -- Baam has natural talents, attracts friends, and so forth.  This ties into Lero-Ro's speech about how the most important thing to climbing the tower is luck -- luck to be born with a strong body, luck to have natural talents and a chance to improve them, and so forth.  When he tells one of the Regulars that he has simply failed to be chosen, he didn't mean it in the Tower sense of the word, but in the idea that some people are chosen by god or fate or whatever and others are not -- he goes on to ask Baam if the thinks that god is cruel.  I think that this focus on the unfairness of the world is one of Tower of God's central themes.)