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| Name: Rachael |
| Weapon: Double-Sided Twin Tonfas |
| Nationality: U.S.A. |
| Sex: Female |
| Height: 165cm |
| Weight: 50kg |
| Age: 22 |
| Blood Type: B |
| Occupation: Mercenary |
| Family: Tracy (twin sister) |
| Appears in: Battle Arena Toshinden 3 |
Rachael is a character in the third installment of the Battle Arena Toshinden video game series. She made her first and only appearance in Battle Arena Toshinden 3, as an unlockable counterpart to Tracy, with a similar moveset to her.
Story[]
Rachael is Tracy's older twin sister and a mercenary who is willing to do any job for money. Abandoned at birth by her parents at a young age for Tracy, Rachael was left to fend for herself as an orphan. With a brash and bold and somewhat fiery temperament like her sister, Rachael was never adopted, as she was deliberately kept in the system by the Organization, whom by many members was said to "hold promise".
Essentially raised from within a cruel and harsh world, Rachael was forced to travel constantly from orphanage to orphanage, and along with many other children like her, constantly fought and bullied one another in a callous and forgotten part of society without guidance or care, and because of this, she grew up having a cold and bitter personality, and knew little else but fighting. Despite this, she never picked on anyone who was nice or gentle to her, or fought back harder against children who she knew was weaker than her, and wanted to live a happy life like she had seen from the shows and movies she saw.
As a teenager, Rachael was permanently settled in the Chicago Organization branch orphanage, and in due time, she had gained quite an infamous reputation as most of her peers began to fear her, due to her violent and unforgiving temper. To the Organization however, their expectations bloomed into a most desirable result.
A few years later, upon reaching the age of 15, Rachael discovered one morning that the others in the orphanage her age had suddenly disappeared. To Rachael, she was told that her peers, most of whom she fought with, were sent out into the world, because they were "weak" and had to work hard miserably, and was kept around, because she was going to "graduate" because she was "strong". In reality, she was spared from being sacrificed for her blood, a fate to any who came of the age as an orphan in the Organization's grasp, and was groomed to be a fighter raised entirely as a ward of the Organization since childhood.
With only a surface branch teaching of the Organization's ideals, Rachael then entered into the real world from a youth in the orphanages of the Organization. She was introduced into a mercenary street gang with peers raised the same way as her, and under the leader's guidance, she learned more street smarts along with paramilitary expertise and martial arts training. Day by day, as the gang lost members through each job that came, by their lives or the authorities, Rachael shrugged the lost of her compatriots, as "the strong live, and the weak die". But off the job and able to live well off with her earnings, she began to learn the world outside had just as much good as it did bad, and was not the overly unfair and brutal place she grew to see.
In due time, as she even began to supersede her leader of the gang she was in, Rachael's expertise had gotten the attention of the superior that they took jobs from. That man was Abel. Having seen the relentless ferocity coming from within her years ago, Abel knew that her edge had been dulled from being in the "pacified flocks", but was ready to reforge her back into the furious woman she was younger. Giving her the "ultimate payoff", he gave her a file for her eyes only. Inside was a shocking discovery: she had a young twin sister named Tracy who was living a normal and decent life with the same parents who had abandoned her in the first place, causing a strong amount of uncontrollable hatred to build up from within Rachael's own heart.
Abel then told Rachael that she could get her revenge against Tracy if she was to work for him as an asssassin of the Soshiki. Without any hesitation or second thought, Rachael had accepted Abel's offer and began training herself in order to learn all of her sister's signature moves and techniques.
When the third Toshindaibukai had begun, Rachael had confronted Tracy from within their match and told her that she had truly and personally hated her due to the fact that she was put through a living nightmare while Tracy was given a normal and decent life. Even though she saw and realized that Rachael had wanted to kill her upon sight, Tracy could not bring herself to do the same thing to her own sister and that she had spared her life right after the end of their own tough and emotional fight against each other. As Rachael had looked on in a complete state of both shock and disbelief, Tracy had explained to her that she had wanted nothing more than to restore their lost twin sister bond with one another and that she had offered Rachael a chance to come back with her to New York in order to start all over, but Rachael had refused the request and walked away from Tracy, never to be seen again.
It is unknown of what had happened to Rachael afterwards, but it's likely that she continues her work as a mercenary.
Game Appearance[]
Rachael appears to have a short orange hair with a long fringes in each side of her hair, tan skinned, green eyes and a large breast. She appears to be muscular than other female characters. She also wears a blue headband on her forehead and green earrings on her ear.
Her hair changes colors throughout the game when she was chosen in character select screen, her hair is red while in her in-game appearance her hair becomes brown.
Her only appearance has her wearing a red strapless bra with laces to keep themselves attached with black elbow pads in each elbows and black kneepads on her knee, black short shorts with a blue cycling shorts underneath, white knee-high socks and black and red sneakers. In-game, her sneakers appear as black leather shoes. Her double-sided tonfas are red and blue as her in-game appearance it becomes red and black. In her alternate appearance her hair becomes pale brown and the color of her strapless bra is light blue.
Her alternate costume is still her primary outfit but minor changes, her strapless bra is now violet but maintains her short shorts and cycling shorts and sneakers from the original colors of her primary outfit.
Move Lists[]
As Tracy's counterpart, Rachael's moves are fire based as opposed to Tracy's electric based attacks and her double-sided tonfas can also shoot explosive tasers like Tracy did.
Special Attacks[]
- Atomic Blow: Rachael straight jabs to her opponent in a fire damage with her double-sided tonfa.
- Atomic Dynamite: Rachael shoots some explosive tasers on the ground with her double-sided tonfa at long range. She can also reaches her shot in a great distance as well as a counter hit.
- Atomic Spartan: Rachael charges and hit her opponent in a multiple spinning uppercut which she also set her opponent a blaze. She also has a short version of this move.
- Super Upper: Rachael charges her opponent with a dash and a rising uppercut. She can also uppercut the opponent instead of dashing.
- Green Corona: Rachael hits her opponent with a somersault kick.
- I.M.C. (Iron Mount Close): Rachael can knock her opponent by ramming to her shoulder in a great distance. She can also hits her double-sided tonfa and rams her opponent in a similar fashion.
- Sky Splash: Rachael jumps into the air as she falls down to execute a flying kick.
- Skyscraper: Rachael jumps to her opponent with a flying kick and goes for a spiral kick. She can also use spiral kick to her opponent instead of jumping.
Overdrive[]
- Twin Danger: Rachael unleashes a double somersault kick in heavy damage. Can only be done if her Overdrive meter is full.
Desperation Moves[]
- Flashing Sun: Rachael dashes to her opponent and unleashes a series of punches while wielding both of her double-sided tonfas and a series of kicks as she heavily knocks her opponent with a somersault kick. Can only be done if her health bar is flashing red. Unlike her younger twin sister Tracy, Rachael will grunt several times during execution.
Secret Moves[]
- Rock Crusher:
Quotes[]
Rachael's voice is different within the console version and unlike her younger twin sister Tracy who speaks in a rough and tough accent, Rachael normally speaks feminine especially her moves in Japanese. In her English however, she speaks masculine in a tomboyish tone due to her muscular appearance in the game and some of her moves does not have spoken lines which she imitates Tracy's grunts in English.
Taunt:
- "You don't have what it takes!"
Win Animation:
- "Now you see who's the best!" (Ansa mo niho do shida sa toa ne!)
- "Way cool!" (Ne, mo ai ira no!)
- "Are you that's a rap!" (Da sarat sa!)
- "Got the wrong gal!" (Ichi toshi gaida sa shi da!) (Perfect KO or not)
Moves:
English:
- "Atomic Blow!" (During Atomic Blow)
- "Yah!" (Unleashing Super Upper)
- "Hah!" (When unleashing Atomic Spartan, I.M.C., Super Upper, Green Corona, Skyscraper)
- "Sky Splash!" (Executing Sky Splash)
Japanese:
- "Atomic Blow!" (During Atomic Blow)
- "Atomic Spartan!" (Executing either normal or short version)
- "Tse!" (When unleashing Green Corona or I.M.C.)
- "Hoo kyum!" (When Unleashing either Super Upper or Skyscraper)
- "Hah!" (Unleashing either Super Upper or Sky Splash)
Soul Bomb:
English:
- "Wham! (Unleashing either ground or mid-air)
Japanese:
- "Mua tah!" (Unleashing either ground or mid-air)
Overdrive:
English:
- "Hiya! Hah! (Unleashing Twin Danger)
Japanese:
- "Hah! Tse!" (Unleashing Twin Danger)
Desperation Move:
English:
- Flashing Sun! Hiya 16x Hah! (Executing Flashing Sun)
Japanese:
- "Flashing Sun! Hah! 16x Tse!" (Executing Flashing Sun)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The sneakers she wears are modeled after Nike Air Jordan 12 Flu Game 1997s.
- Perhaps as a clue, this may hint that she may have lived instead in Chicago, Illinois:
- The Chicago Bulls experienced their highest point of fame in sports and major league basketball history during the 1990s, with Micheal Jordan as their all star lead player. Coincidentally, 1997 would help establish Nike Air Jordan 12s as the most famous of the line, as this would be the year of Jordan's momentous enduring and persevering namesake Flu Game. In terms of major league rivalries, the Chicago Bulls are known to have an intense rivalry with the New York Knicks since the former's founding in 1966.
- Possibly in theme with her backstory as an orphan, many series with characters with backstories of being orphaned or abandoned, or at least with child family problems take place in Chicago; Punky Brewster, Home Alone, Child's Play, and Gunsmith Cats are of some noteworthy mention. Series artist Tsukasa Kotobuki was also known to be an apprentice and assistant director of Gunsmith Cats's author and artist Kenichi Sonoda during its first series' run, and the series was also known to have creative teams take trips to the city for research and reference.
- Possibly as a jab within the booming fighting video game world at the time, Chicago is home to Incredible Technologies and Strata, who founded the "Mortal Kombat-killer" series Time Killers and Bloodstorm, and helped create the Mortal Kombat inspired live action sprite capture incarnation of Street Fighter: The Movie.
- Even the subject of pizza is not without noteworthy mention; New York City pizza is famed for its flavorful thin, wide, and aesthetic portions that can be taken by the slice on the go or eaten dining in, while Chicago is famous for its cornucopia like deep dish that stuffs toppings by the inch and emphasizes the word pie in "pizza pie". Any comparison of the two usually leads up to this debate of which is the best pizza of the two.