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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt // Sold my soul, and yeah, the truth hurt
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Rose: I wish you wouldn't look at me like that, Rachel.
Rachel: I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up.
Hey, hun! Long time, no see.
What were your personal thoughts on Rachel’s parents? And, I mean her biological mother, Sara, her stepmother, Rose, and her father, James. 👀
Omg I totally would've missed this cuz I uninstalled Tumblr! Missed you, as well as the good side of Tumblr! Good thing I'm back, even if just for a sec.
Another great question! Been a while since I've touched on Before The Storm, but if we're talking about personal thoughts, I'll be basing them off memory & won't be trying to over justify them, hehe (yay)
Sera's pretty cool, could tell that the writers made it a point to parallel her and Rachel, even though I still believe there's a difference between them. Popular girl who never had enough fulfilment and turned to drugs, kinda oversimplified and would've been nice to see her story. Sean's mother, (was her name Karen ?), kinda reminds me of Sera/Rachel. Her protecting Chloe and sacrificing her own safety to give Rachel "what she needs/a good father" is touching. Even though the latter also shows her own self-doubts and hesitance in confronting the problem. By tangent, Rachel also has this, like delaying or avoiding the inevitable/lack of communication with Chloe (although they share a preference to communicating via letters), but actually took actions to chase after what she wants. I wish they would've met for longer and Rachel gets proper advice/guidance from Sera. Making Sera her confident about drugs and her LA dreams isn't a bad idea. But then again we're talking after-the-fact.
Rose is caring and understanding. And perhaps too much like a good wife that James married her. Good for his career, I guess.. I read that she's almost robotic, even though if we watch Chloe's backtalk on the dinner table and turn Jame's arguments against himself, we can actually see Rose making valid points against James. Rachel even smiled and commented something like "well-said, mom". Liked that bit. And at the end she divorced James, which is also a win. She really cared about Rachel. It's possible that Rachel's awareness of Rose being her stepmother, her upholding a perfect kid/student image & her secret wild side prevented from a deeper bond to form between Rachel and Rose.
James.. argh. Overprotective , manipulative (to Damon & Chloe) and stubborn at times. I can't help but wonder what "and my dad.. will definitely punish me with-" (Rachel said under the oak tree) could refer to, but it definitely suggests an oppressive side of him that makes Rachel feel really suffocated (and possibly needing a photo to remind her how much her dad loved her. A little messed up, but that's a good early detail of her insecurities.)
Her parents uses the stereotypical strict Asian +only child parenting except for the lack of proper guidance. It also kinda haunts me how in the OG LIS, they would've looked harder for Rachel if she never met Chloe. (Chloe pulled her away from her parents? But this doesn't matter that much cuz she still got baited by Jeffersht, showing that she never truly shared with them what's deeply bothering her/ask for advice)
I hope you're doing good! I'm trying to take and break and heal from the decisive side of Tumblr, see you, hun :')
Rose supports Amberprice!
I think James Amber is an interesting and complex morally grey character and although I absolutely don’t excuse his actions, I really want to try and dig deeper into his character just to understand him better, because I genuinely think he had so much potential and that he was greatly written, I just wish we had more content that would explore him as a person a little more.
That being said, I really hope Rose leaves him and finds happiness (and has a good relationship with Rachel) after Chloe tells Rachel the truth, because she deserved better and though she kept silent the whole time about Rachel’s biological mother too I don’t think she was a bad person, or had ill intentions, and I don’t think she deserved to lose Rachel as a daughter either. I also think her relationship with James was incredibly toxic, to be honest.