Rachel Sinclair

Rachel Sinclair (레이첼 싱클레어) is a Villain and a member of the Nameless as the youngest of the villainous group. She is an illegitimate daughter of the Mad Elder, Reagan Sinclair as one of the numerous ones aside from her older half siblings Raxfer Sinclair, Razenia Sinclair, and many others.

Born in Castle Gray, the snow-covered wasteland ruled by her biological father, Rachel was raised by Heverna, her mother and maternal uncle for most of her childhood but her life changed dramatically after her Gift abilities awakened. Desperate to keep her safe from her father, her family attempted to leave Castle Gray, but her mother was captured by the Royal Guard who had brutally murdered her uncle.

Sentenced to die for "crimes" against the lord, Rachel was rescued by the infamous villain Engen, the Smiling Man, as he was traveling through the snowy lands. Rachel, who had just lost everything dear to her, was inspired by Engen's determination and dream of crushing the Hero Clan despite previous failures. She then vowed to avenge her family and herself by killing her tyrannical father by mounting his head on his castle tower.[1]

After leaving her homeland, Rachel was fostered by Engen as they traveled together to recruit others to the Nameless. Under his care she was trained on how to use her Gift and molded her into a deadly villain. She was introduced in the District 17 Assault Arc, where she and the Nameless helped saved Hero Killer after she was nearly killed by the heroes and announced their returned to the public by attacking the Hero Clan. Rachel is a short and fair looking young girl with long blonde hair styled in a ponytails with hairbands in same color as her skirt with bright eyelashes and amber yellow eyes. She has a perpetual blush, having had it since her birth and typically wears a smile on her face. She wore a white long sleeve shirt and later a short sleeve version with frailties with a blue skirt and has a blue band tied under her collar with heels but switched to a casual black shirt with blue jean overalls and sneakers. She also seems to have a large bust size.

Rachel is a young woman with an easygoing and childish nature that always seems to be happy or carefree even in stressful and dangerous situations. Unlike Engen, John or Ihwa, Rachel isn't a stoic type of person and is talkative unlike her tight-lipped friends.

She is friendly and very outwardly kind but can be very strange or outright weird herself as she enjoys teasing others with pranks or verbally poking fun at them, particularly at Vector.

Rachel has a mischievous side of hers shown in various moments, like taking advantage of Bagna's lack of knowledge towards love to convince him that he was love with Ihwa and Engen just to mess with him. Aside from that, Rachel cares deeply about her villainous comrades as she enjoys spending time with them despite their different personalities or cold natures.

This was further exemplified by how she approaches Engen in spite of the latter's aloofness with a smile, forgave Ihwa when the latter beat her up during the Nameless' test for the Hero Killer, hugs John whenever he's in his small form, and protects Vector during many dangerous situations.

But while she comes off as less intense than the other members of the Nameless, Rachel had a strong hatred for her biological father Reagan Sinclair due to the events of her childhood and the cruel life he created in her former home of Castle Gray. This was fueled by the trauma of thinking that was she was powerless to even consider revenge. These whirlwind feelings of her sadness, guilt, rage, and fear became the source of her strength.

As a villain, Rachel isn't needlessly cruel like her biological father or has an outwardly cold vicious mindset. Like Vector and Ihwa, she doesn't like involving bystanders in her schemes.

When fighting or facing opponents, Rachel doesn't hesitant to kill her opponents in gruesome ways having trapped countless of her worst enemies in her Garden of Solitude to suffer. She has a cunning side beneath her usual cheerfulness, having approached numerous situations with a clear showing of awareness.

This was shown when analyzing Sharpshooter's fighting style in their fight and switched opponents after seeing her disadvantages during the Nameless' attack on Dust City's Hero Clan HQ. Rachel was born in Castle Gray, a desolate snow-covered land where orphans were everywhere, poverty was the norm, and never-ending civil war and fighting were frequent in the Age of Heroes and Villains. She was raised by her mother Heverna, a gardener and material uncle, who worked for the local castle lord as they lived together in a small cottage near the edge of the district. [2]

Rachel's First use of her Gift Rachel using her Gift for the first time.

While poor, the family lived in relative peace and Rachel was raised in a stable home life despite the harshness of Castle Gray. One day while eating dinner with her mother and uncle Rachel wanted to know the name of a flower she had accidentally cut earlier after cleaning their garden.

Trying to remember Rachel suddenly creates the flower in her hand's palm which shocks her family. Later that night, her mother and uncle argue about what to do. Her uncle believes they should take Rachel to meet her father, but her mother rejects the idea of it fearing that her daughter could get killed. Her uncle warns Heverna that it is only a matter of time before the nobles and the lord of the castle find out about Rachel's new status as a Gift user and her abilities. Seeing the tense argument, Rachel asked that they stop fighting.

Heverna, wanting to protect her daughter from harm, starts packing and prepares to leave with Rachel. Rachel's uncle tells her not to be foolish as he reminds her that it's taboo to leave the lands, but Heverna stands resolved and tells him to get lost if he isn't going to help them. Seeing his niece's fear, Rachel's uncle gathers his resolve and agrees to help. Heverna tells him to meet them at the outskirts of the town in three hours while Rachel smiles at the sight of them making up.

That night, Rachel and Heverna hurry to the meeting point but instead of seeing her uncle, they find his dead body. Suddenly, a man carrying a scythe appears behind them.[3] The man is revealed to be Highwind and royal guards from the main castle immediately arrest them. In an attempt to save Rachel, Heverna tells the guards the identity of Rachel's father is Reagan Sinclair, the lord of Castle Gray. But Highwind shrugs off the revelation and explains that his lord has many, many illegitimate children in the hundreds and that Heverna has no clear proof of her claim while telling her that his lord holds "justice and fairness" above everyone else even his daughter. Highwind then takes Heverna away to be executed and sends Rachel to be dragged across the lands as punishment for trying to break the backward laws of Castle Gray.

Rachel could do nothing but laugh at her fate, not because she was happy but because that was all she could do as the life that she knew was destroyed in an instant. She wonders what happened to her mother and who was this man that they call her father, later thinking that she was fated to die in the snow while leaving nothing behind. Then a man dressed in the castle guards' uniform appears.

The man saved Rachel from her torturers as he brutally killed them, he didn't ask any questions like why she tried to leave the snow-covered wasteland or why Rachel looked like she wanted to die. After making a grave for her mother and uncle, Rachel had wondered what the man was doing in Castle Gray, and the Smiling Man answered that he had attempted to reach a clan twice before but failed both times. And that was why he was preparing for his third attempt against them while smiling with an eerie smirk.

Seeing how happy he looked made Rachel jealous as she thought that having such strong hopes and aspirations was nice. She then saw the castle where the man who took everything from her was living.

Rachel Awakens her Gift Rachel awakening her Gift.

At that moment, Rachel realized that she had given up on life because she had already given up on getting revenge before even trying, and through a whirlwind of emotions, she awakens her Gift as they would become the source of her Gift. As she prepared to leave her former home, Rachel swore that she would return someday and kill the Elder that they call her father. And mount his head at the top of the castle tower.[4]

Rachel and Engen cross the Forest Rachel and Engen crossing the Forest together.

Rachel and Engen would then cross the Forest of Immortals, a large dark forest that surrounds the entire district. Thanks to Engen, they were able to go through the haunted forest safely while avoiding the monsters that dwelt there. [5]

While leaving Castle Gray, Engen and Rachel met Vector, a scientist of the Hero Clan, after he fled from Project Newborn along with John Nash, a victim and test subject of the horrific program. Engen recruited them as he saw how useful the doctor's Gift was and Vector offered his services in exchange for witnessing and playing a role in Engen's future endeavors against the clan.[6]

In the coming years, Rachel began a new life with her villainous comrades as Engen started recruiting survivors, outcasts, or those with grudges against the Hero Clan amongst the Villains. During this period, Rachel adopted the name "Sinclair" to let those from House Sinclair know that she was alive and well, even though she hated it [7] and it's assumed that she learned how to use her Gift as well as how to fight from Engen.

The rest of her childhood isn't fully known but Rachel grew close with Vector and John, especially with Vector as he decided to help her succeed with her revenge and Rachel typically teased the doctor.

At some point, Rachel also met Baek-Ji, a young Gift user with a grudge against the Hero Clan's leader. This gathering of individuals started to be called the Nameless, survivors of the war amongst a new generation of villains.