#tower of god rachel

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Rachel in a suit

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Why I like Rachel

(Spoilers for Tower of God)

If you're somewhat familiar with webtoons, there is a small chance that you've heard at least one of the two most hated names amongst all female characters.

The first one being Rashta, the concubine from "Remarried Empress" that is looked at with a lot of disdain because when the emperor showed up to take her away from a life of slavery and offered her a life of luxury, safety, wealth, and healthiness, she dared to accept it... Truly a hideous monster... Never mind the fact that the emperor himself that cheated on his wife doesn't get nearly as much hate as her, but I'm getting off-topic...

And the second name is, of course, Rachel, a "major" antagonist from the series "Tower of God" that nearly killed the main lead who loved her like a sister and separated him from all of his friends for years by pushing him into a pit where he kept bleeding and agonizing until he was found by a secret society that turned him into a living weapon while all of his friends assumed he was dead.

Yes... She is one of my favorite characters.

While I feel the hatred towards Rashta is kinda overkill, Rachel is someone that I totally get why people feel the way they feel about her.

Aside from the whole "trying to kill the protagonist thing," Rachel is just not a very enjoyable character to watch for most. She isn't particularly clever with her plans and mostly just feels like she's lucky, the ways she keeps escaping death feel like forced plot armor, every time she enters the plot the main lead pauses whatever it is that he's doing to go after her which just breaks up the pace and halts the story, and finally, she just doesn't have that much chemistry with other characters, mostly just acting like a bossy brat giving orders and complaining about not having something she wants.

So why do I like her so much?

Clearly is because I like freckles!

This might be a hot take but... I kinda feel like all of her character flaws are somewhat earned.

Anyone ever seen that episode of Powerpuff girls where Mojo watches an alien invasion doing all the things he always wanted to do with barely any struggle and basically taking away all his dreams from him? That's basically how I feel about Rachel.

The girl's backstory is pretty much that she wanted to be the main character of the story. She wanted to climb the tower, reach the top, get her wish, and see the stars... But for whatever reason anytime she tries she just keeps getting a "no" for an answer, as if the world is conspiring for her to fail.

Not only that, as if being denied her dreams wasn't enough, she also has to watch this kid that she was taking care of go and get it all in her place.

The protagonist, Bam, is constantly doing all the things Rachel wanted to do. He's climbing the tower, he's receiving support from higher-ups, he's making billions of friends, unlocking dozens of power-ups, getting tons of influence, growing stronger and stronger... Meanwhile, everyone just looks at Rachel as if she was a dead weight that's stopping Bam from reaching his true potential because he won't stop thinking about her.

I don't know about you but that to me just sounds so frustrating, as if you were being punished for having your own goals and having to stay still as someone keeps living the life you always wanted, someone, mind you, who you sacrificed years of your own life taking care of, someone who didn't even want this kind of life.

Rachel's biggest crime is that she wanted her own life, a life without Bam, but the dude just wouldn't leave her alone.

I have this personal mindset that any story can be summed up in three words:

"Someone wants something."

A character's motivation is the main core of what drives a story forward and determines how interesting it is, and Rachel's motivation is in my opinion just fascinating.

Like I said, she's basically the side-character who wished she was the main character and has to live constantly being reminded that she isn't and never will be the main character, and the more she tries to be, the more hate she gets, both from the rest of the cast and from the fanbase.

Because of that, even though she committed so many crimes like hurting or killing several of the other characters I still find myself feeling sorry and sympathizing with her because I can see where she's coming from and how that drove her to her current point.

I don't know... I just feel like Rachel has a really interesting and well-earned tragic motivation. At the end of the day it's just jealousy but it feels like such an understandable and relatable jealousy.

That said, I have no idea where the story is going with this character. I don't know if they'll give her a happy or sad ending, and I'm not sure what I would prefer... And I'm not gonna sit here and go "#Justice_for_Rachel" or anything like that. I know she's a villain.

But I at least wish that at some point we could get a bigger exploration of things from her point of view and had one of the good guys also try to understand how Rachel became who she is today.

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Rachel Can Fucking Die

I knew something was off about her.

If I ever-

Ever-

See a picture of her, I will destroy it.

That bitch can drown in a lava pit.

*long breath*

Calm down.

Calm down.

Ok.

Welp-

Time to start shipping Bam and Khun.

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my silly little star🤲🤲🤍🤍🤍

close ups:

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now that I realize ‘paralyzed from waist down was just pretending for evil purposes‘ is a whole trope...

is that problematic? it feels icky

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You'll never know how it feels to be the one

Who's left behind

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Spoilers for season two, episode 313 of the tower of god webtoon below! Not much really, just a lil chat about Rachel and how absolutely UNGRATEFUL she is, and a bit about Yura and her backstory.

She acts like Yura doesn't even exist at all. She can't see Yura being her friend just because she isn't being fawned over by everyone she meets?? I still wish Bam would have hit her here, just once!!! She needs some sense knocked into her.

Maybe she will eventually see Yura as a friend, but I bet it hurts Yura. Yura IS Rachel's friend, but Rachel can't see that. She can't see how much Yura actually cares for her. I guess it's because she truly believes no one will ever want to be her friend? Which only tells me one thing; Rachel will absolutely sacrifice Yura if that means she's one step closer to everything she wants, just like she did Bam.

Now, I believe Rachel cares for Yura. They could be best friends if Rachel would pull her head out of her own ass for a second and see Yura as a person, and not her fame or her beauty. Rachel thinks Yura has it easy because of her fame, but Yura has it just as hard in her own ways. What, with her twin brother being data (that no longer exists now), and their mother being dead thanks to the families, the only person she has left is Rachel, who can't even look at Yura in an equal light because she thinks there's a gap between them.

I feel for both of them, really. I switch back and forth with Rachel. One second I feel sorry for her and hope things get better, and then the next, I just want Rak to eat her freckled ass.

I hope Rachel accepts Yura as her friend eventually, but I'm not sure when that will happen. It might be whenever it's too late and Yura is already gone.

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yura and rachel in honor of lesbian visibility week :) wishing good visibility for u all out in the sea

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facial features headcanons ~

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Day 2: Support Women Wrongs

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Honey Bracket: Round 2, Poll 4

tattletale illustration is by u/monkeyjay on reddit!

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Tattletale/Lisa Wilbourn

The ultimate high school mean girl. Has the super power of ‘cold reads your biggest secrets then hurts your feelings with them’. Grew up rich. Constantly manipulates all of her friends. Is generally manipulative. Is blond. She deserves to win this, 100%

Literal superpower is bullying people. Pissed off a good chunk of the most powerful people in the setting by being targetedly mean.

She's blonde. She's very mean

She is blonde. She is a supervillain. She uses her power to make superhumanly accurate guesses about how to best f*k with people.

Rachel

Was the protagonists first and most valued friends until she decided she was jealous of him and tried to kill him I've heard that ToG is so popular and Rachel so well know and hated that in South Korea being called Rachel is an insult

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Rachel