Annotated 12-14
I mentioned a while back that one of my less successful projects was an adaptation of the Bible. Before it flamed out, I spent a lot of time with Genesis’ juiciest stories. They inspired the name “Rachel.”
Biblical Rachel is an interesting figure. She was attractive enough for Jacob to jump through a lot of hoops to wed and bed her, and unlike other Genesis women, she first appears as a laborer. She’s still defined primarily as sex object and babymaker, as Genesis women tend to be, but we’re encouraged to imagine a special spark of life to her, earthly passions completely compatible with godliness, as opposed to the generally repressed approach to God’s path many of us experience.
Guilded Age doesn’t really have interest in characters whose sexuality is the most important thing about them, but I was intrigued by trying to translate that spark of life to our context. That’s what helped me find this Rachel’s voice.
Ah, Rachel. Knowing what your end will be makes all this so poignant.
That bible adaptation project was 11/10, would overscore again.
You’d overscore again, Harky…?
*eyebrow wiggle*
I enjoy these comments with their corresponding avatars.
I concur entirely
This is probably the first hint we got of what Gravedust was hiding under that baggy tunic.
I did assume, from Rachel’s theming, that that was indeed the reference her name made.
I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the name the first time around, as that’s just in my nature (having had biblical names myself and a plethora of reasons to be disgusted with the human end of the church besides), but I did and still do like this character’s character arc – even if I think it was definitely too singular for the event that ended it.
I recall noticing the ruler sword last time around, associating it with Sisters’ whacking knuckles, and thinking this sword was that tool taken to the nth degree.