Character Discussion Jake and Rachel

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

They were kinda close, but it's said in a few books that they were on different sides of the family...didn't always do get togethers together. I would love to have seen a joint family thing with them, I can imagine the two of them glancing around, wondering if anyone besides Tom is a Yeerk.

Do we know which relatives of the two married? I do think Jake said it was cousin by marriage...or Rachel did, someone. Would have to be an aunt and uncle I think.

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[anijen21.livejournal.com]

no worries. I think I agree with you, actually. Rachel's issue isn't about power in a leadership sense, but about power to control her surroundings. I think her parents' divorce has a lot to do with it. She couldn't keep a very important part of her life from crumbling and dismantling, so rather than obsessing herself with keeping things together, it's almost like she relishes the destruction. Destruction is easy and irreversible, and beautiful as long as it's her doing.

Yeah, I think Cassie did mention it at one point. Oh well. As much as I subscribe to the whole new criticism, close-reading thing I think I will selectively ignore that so my theory works :)

[acts_of_tekla]

Pah, they're all ghost written. Apply comic book continuity -- choose your own.