Character Spotlight: La’ Rachel
The first character in the spotlight is La’ Rachel from Sacred Stones. Her character is best described as an attention seeker, where in the game, she is constantly vanquishing monsters (or so she says). She can also be described as self-focused, or self-centered, and humorously oblivious to her flaws. The example for this is in her support conversations with her countryman Dozla, she laments that no one knows about her Anonymous monster exterminations, the key word being perhaps anonymous. She, hailing from the Holy land of Rausten and in fact is the kingdoms princess, is very celibate (again so I think), as in her B support with Ephraim, she asks to see his battle scars to heal, but suddenly snaps back, accusing him of trying to seduce her. A puzzling, if not interesting character.
La ‘Rachel is the games only Troubadour, and as a Troubadour she is limited in class choice to the Valkyrie or the Mage Knight. However, saying that she is bad simply because she is limited is far from the truth, in that she has some of the best growths in the game. Her Luck is the most prominent feature she has, maxing out the highest and hardest stat to max by level 11 or so. Her Resistance is of similar caliber, maxing that out as well. Her Magic and Speed are lower, but she still has a good chance to max them out.
She is however, limited by that choice of mounted magicians, as she is weak to horse killing weapons like Zanbatou, or Horse Killer. This is coupled by the fact that her one Achilles heel is HP, meaning that she can’t take large amounts of damage, and her Defense score is what can be expected from a Magic unit.
Out of all the unprompted characters in the game, not including the Trainees, she has the most average stats maxed out by level twenty in both of her classes, whereas some units will max only two.
Her growth rates are so good that she could be considered to be the Est of the game, but her potential is hampered by her class cabs restricting her abilities. She does fall into the same archetype as Clarine, as they are both princesses or nobles, they are both Troubadours, and they both have very good luck and resistance growth.
In Awakening as a Spotpass Character, she comes as a Level 18 War Cleric with much more balanced stats, along with a Berserker and a Trickster, Supposedly to represent Dozla and Rennac of her band of merry monster slayers. She is the only character to do this, as most have at least eight units of have their roster fully filled. Her additional skill is Rally Resistance along with her class skill Rally Luck, represents her two stats that she would max out in most (if not all) games.
I would really like to see a support conversation with Maribelle, because they fall into the same Archetype, and because their personalities are so similar.