for me, it's the fact that...
she literally RAISED that boy.
Filled his head with nothing but thoughts of how great she was, and how great her hopes and dreams were....
then she got bored/tired of him and cut him off REPEATEDLY, in the harshest ways possible.
but AFTER she saw he was going off and doing his own thing, making his own friends, she pulled him back closer with some underhanded shyt
only to cut him off again. In the harshest way possible.
In hindsight, SIU may have been going through some thangs when he started this
Honestly, SIU's continued support of her character and statements saying she is the other protagonist tells me something fairly simple: Rachel is going to get a redemption arc and it's going to annoy me. The anime is pretty heavyhanded about it, actually. That she couldn't ascend in the way that Bam does - that her way can't mesh with his. And she'd never get to the top of the tower with him pulling her along. It's also very likely that she betrayed him off-rip because she got a note like Hoh got and basically gave him to FUG in exchange for getting to ascend further.
She is understanding of who he is better than anyone, because she basically is the only person he knew. She knows his good heart and strong will would lead to conflict. Ones that she would either not survive, or very likely actively work against just because of her personality. She's self-serving. She's Khun with narcissism and half the IQ, and eventually, there would have been a point of no return if they traveled together. And she wouldn't have won.
They'll spin her as being that way out of a desire to survive, and shine up her need to get to the top of the tower all pretty to try and justify it all after the fact. Which is fine, I guess. I know it's coming, so I've rejected it already, because honestly, fukk that bytch. She's consistently the worst part of the story, and it's Bam's character consistency where she is concerned that both makes him very well written and firmly places him below Midoriya as a shounen protagonist. Dude has all the Midoriya intangibles, and Tower of God is even more intricately written. But fukking ho-ass Rachel and how she reduces Bam to less than his best whenever they're on-panel together basically kneecaps him.
fukk Rachel.
SIU did a good job writing her if he was going to run the obvious rivalry situation with her being the villain... but it's drifting dangerously close to trying to slip her a face-turn, and after hundreds of chapters, that's not what anyone needs or wants. Plans gotta change. Rachel gotta get bushed, or get that Jahad stimulus and become an actual hurdle to overcome. Shackling the story down with her subplot out of a desire to stick to the original plan ain't it, chief. She gotta go, and it should probably be Khun who does it. In-character for him to want to get his hands dirty doing the necessary and sparing Bam from it.
She is understanding of who he is better than anyone, because she basically is the only person he knew. She knows his good heart and strong will would lead to conflict. Ones that she would either not survive, or very likely actively work against just because of her personality. She's self-serving. She's Khun with narcissism and half the IQ, and eventually, there would have been a point of no return if they traveled together. And she wouldn't have won.
They'll spin her as being that way out of a desire to survive, and shine up her need to get to the top of the tower all pretty to try and justify it all after the fact. Which is fine, I guess. I know it's coming, so I've rejected it already, because honestly, fukk that bytch. She's consistently the worst part of the story, and it's Bam's character consistency where she is concerned that both makes him very well written and firmly places him below Midoriya as a shounen protagonist. Dude has all the Midoriya intangibles, and Tower of God is even more intricately written. But fukking ho-ass Rachel and how she reduces Bam to less than his best whenever they're on-panel together basically kneecaps him.
fukk Rachel.
SIU did a good job writing her if he was going to run the obvious rivalry situation with her being the villain... but it's drifting dangerously close to trying to slip her a face-turn, and after hundreds of chapters, that's not what anyone needs or wants. Plans gotta change. Rachel gotta get bushed, or get that Jahad stimulus and become an actual hurdle to overcome. Shackling the story down with her subplot out of a desire to stick to the original plan ain't it, chief. She gotta go, and it should probably be Khun who does it. In-character for him to want to get his hands dirty doing the necessary and sparing Bam from it.
nah, and I sincerely hope your timeline was better than this one before the merge
