because i hate the “Rachel-is-a-bitch hate” i’ve decided to post this analysis which i found from reddit. and SIU said himself that Rachel is the protagonist of this story. she is the heroine, same as like bam as the hero in this story.
and i know many people think that in the picture above it was bam and black march. i personally think it was rachel (eyes, noise, and hair especially)
source in here : http://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofGod/comments/2hoaum/rachel_and_baam_backstory/
*I recently reread through TOG with the goal of finding out more about Bam and Rachel’s back story. I tried to put everything in chronological order with a little bit of explanation for each image. Feel free to correct me on anything or to point out things that I might have missed.
Bam reveals that he was born in a dark cave54 . He eventually began to build a tower of rubble in order to reach the light that was at the top of the cave54 . Upon reaching the top he found that he was unable to exit the cave and conceded to a life alone54. After failing to escape the cave Rachel descends from the hole54 . This is the first time that Bam and Rachel meet. Something to note here is that it looks like she is holding a knife in her hand as if she was expecting to have to fight somebody. It can also be assumed that Bam has not had contact with anybody else ever. A possible way that Bam could have survived is that he filled his stomach with shinsu34. The only problem with this theory is that shinsu is only found inside of the tower.
It is revealed that Rachel taught Bam everything that he knows. “She taught me everything I know. The words I hear. The letters I read. Everything I feel was hers.” She also teaches him about fighting and why people fight5. This is a great opportunity for Rachel to indoctrinate Bam into thinking what she wants him to. Indeed this comes up later when it is revealed that Rachel taught Bam what fighting was and that he should never betray a girl20 .
Bam describing Rachel “She was my star. She taught me how to speak and told me of the outside world. Through her, I learned of human warmth, and she became my reason to live”3
Describing Rachel again “Rachel is my friend… it’s a name of my friend that I used to spend time with. She doesn’t sparkle like a jewel, and she isn’t the most beautiful. She’s tomboyish and pulls jokes on me and even lies from time to time, but she is very precious to me. If I can find her I don’t care about climbing the tower.”4
This is one of the biggest mysteries in TOG. In the cave that Bam lived in there is a Jahad crest as well as something else below it28. This is also one of the times that Rachel tells Bam the story of the real sky28. An interesting component of this story is that she mentions the night we fear28. This is mentioned by Rachel later in the story when she tells Hwaryun why she pushed Bam out of the bubble77 . In addition to Rachel saying multiple times that she is afraid of the night/Bam there is also the time that she had a dream that she was looking at the sky. In the dream Bam shows up30 and is standing next to the other regulars. Rachel wakes up from the dream distraught30.
This part is something that is extremely open to interpretation and creates a huge amount of questions for the Bam and Rachel backstory. During the crown game Bam leaps off the throne in order to protect Rachel. It is at this point that he has a flashback to what I am assuming is the cave. It is shown that Rachel is being pulled by the hair by some unknown character25 . This means one of two things. Either there is another character that is in the cave with Bam and Rachel or Bam have attacked Rachel before and does not remember it. To me this is one of the biggest mysteries in TOG.
Here Bam is retelling what he has been told about the area above his cave from Rachel. I would suggest going back and reading all of Chapter 73 due to the large volume of information present in it. It is shown that Rachel uses a rope to come down into the hole to interact with Bam73 . Rachel tells Bam the she has to leave early due to an important task she has to perform73 . When Bam asks why he cannot go up the rope with Rachel she tells him that he is not a chosen child 1 273 . Interesting to note here is that the children shown in the previous picture are wearing what appears to be the same clothes that Bam wore when he first chased Rachel into the tower. This means that at some point Bam went from wearing his rag to wearing the clothes that the “chosen children” wear above his cave.
Sometime after this Rachel first tells Bam that she is going to leave him to climb the tower27 . Note that he is still wearing his rag. Later when Bam has his new clothes as well as a knife, Rachel leaves him to climb the tower. Bam chases1 after her and it is at this point that they enter the tower. Bam is able to enter the tower because he is chosen while Rachel is able to enter the tower due to being between Bam and the door. Whether or not she planned this is unknown.
On the first floor Rachel meets with Headon. Rachel calls him the tower’s fae76 that she read about in a book. His purpose is allegedly to help the children to climb the tower. Headon tells her that she was not chosen by the tower and calls her a lying, loathsome, dirty, and dreadful person76 . After Bam passes the test Rachel says that Bam took everything from her. Headon tells her that he will make her the heroine of the story if she fulfills and task for him. Rachel is later called the heroine of the story after she “kills” Bam76 .
Here are some of the major questions that I can think of that are still unresolved:
1 Where did Bam get his clothes that her wore when he entered the tower? At some point he went from wearing a rag to clothes that are similar to those worn by the chosen children.
2 Is there somebody else that has been in the cave with Bam and Rachel? At some point somebody attacked Rachel. This could just be an art mistake but the person kneeling over Bam in this picture does not have the ribbon that Rachel has been seen wearing when she is in the cave.
3 Why is Rachel afraid of the night/Bam? Is Bam named after what she is afraid of or is she afraid of him?
4 How did Bam end up in the cave?
5 Is the Jahad crest in the cave with Bam actually the Jahad crest or did Jahad start using it for his own purposes?
6 Why does Rachel believe that Bam took everything from her?
7 Who built the tower and why? The story of Bam building a tower of rubble in his cave seems to mirror the construction of the tower itself.
Here are what I believe to be pictures of the external part of the tower. 1 2 3
tangentwithtanner
izzy806
dededos
gummygunk
areudirty
origamiaround
ellievsbear
baratheonpilled
