Rachel Taylor

## Background

### 1996 - 2009: Rachel Taylor

Rachel is the third born daughter of Elliot & Meredith Taylor, as well as the twin sister of Pallas. She was named after the face of the Queen of Diamonds & Queen Isabella I of Castille. Similar to someone of royal descent, Rachel was considered bougie & high maintenance. Things were either her way or the highway as she felt entitled to many things. This was heightened when her mother left her & her sisters with their father when she was nine. With only one parent, Rachel needed more attention then ever & with their father constantly out gambling, Rachel never got it.

As one of the younger sisters, she accompanied her father to his card games while Judy & Pallas had gotten jobs. Rachel & her younger sister Argine were by their father as distractions. They didn't have to do much but be there whenever he was playing so her life was consisted of going to school then coming there afterwards. Though she was there for her father, Rachel made her own fun out of it. After years of switching groups so her dad wouldn't get caught, Rachel had start a relationship with another one of the card players' son unknown to her sisters & their fathers. One of those nights, she was in the back with the player's son when her twin had come to grab her. As soon as they came outside, the next thing they heard were bullets & Rachel already knew who they were meant for.

### 2009 - 2012: Rachel Taylor

Following her father's death, Rachel began blaming herself believing that if she hadn't snuck out then the other players wouldn't have caught on to her father's tactics. While her older sisters got jobs, she would run small scams with Argine as no one else could watch her. When they weren't scamming, she decided to fill her free time like she did before at the card games... with boys. Wherever the girls would stay at, Rachel got the rep of the local slut & eventually expanded her horizons to other genders. She never cared about the labels because she was getting the attention that she was desperately craving.

### 2012 - 2015: Rachel Taylor

After three years of jumping from city to city, the girls would move to Gotham after Judy got a job at Wayne Enterprises as a Financial Consultant. Her job helped them get set up with a small apartment in the city so the girls had a place to lay their heads after years of sleeping in an abandoned building. While Pallas got a job at the Wildcat Gym, Rachel began taking GED prep classes at Hamilton Hill High School so she could finally get her degree. She also began making money on the side when she ended up employed as a sex worker in the East End District. Sometime after getting her diploma, things would suddenly change for Rachel after Argine had spotted one of their father's former associates in Gotham.

## Romantic Relationships

* Hector Ortiz: Boyfriend (2013)
* Kevin Ballantine: One Night Stand (2013)
* Rose Forrest: Brief Girlfriend (2015)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics:** Rachel used to want to be a famous gymnast but her parents did not have enough money to allow Rachel to take lessons. She learned on her own & became quite skilled in this aspect. Through years of training, she is able to perform incredible feats of balance, agility & coordination.
* **Firearms:** Rachel is the least likely of her sisters to use a firearm but she still knows how to work them.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** Rachel has become a formidable combatant through her training of boxing from her sister Pallas & street fighting from her time as a sex worker.
* **Knife Throwing:** Her go to weapon is a pair of daggers that she stole from a customer. The daggers are considered priceless artifacts with diamonds encrusted on the handles.
* **Marksmanship:** Rachel is extremely accurate with her knife throwing, usually throwing out smaller daggers to incapacitate a target.
* **Seduction:** It started out as her seeking attention after the abandonment of her mother. She eventually began using the skill to her advantage & was able to swiftly steal from stores by distracting the owners. It also helped when her & her sisters go on crime sprees, with Rachel usually serving as the distraction.
* **Stealth:** Though she has the most "loud" personality of her sisters, she knows to be quiet when needed & is the best when it comes to sneaking up on someone.
* **Thievery:** Like her sisters, stealing was one of the first skills she learned after her father was killed. She not only stole essentials like food & medicine, but also steals high-end merchandise from Gotham's elite.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Range:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strategy:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Combat:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **TOTAL:** 56, classifying her as Threat Level 2 / Low Threat

## Trivia

#### General

* Rachel is the name of a Biblical figure (mother of Jacob), who is the face of the Queen of Diamonds. Her middle name comes from Queen Isabella I, the Queen of Castile.
* She lost her virginity to the son of the card player about two weeks before her father's death.
* Though most are surprised due to her childhood, Rachel is very high maintenance & boujee. She likes the finer things in life, even if she usually couldn't afford them. But that doesn't meant she won't find a way to get them.

#### Relationships

* Upon coming to Gotham, Rachel began dating Hector Ortiz. He eventually convinced her to have sex with both him & his friend, Kevin Ballantine. After her sister Pallas found out, she made Rachel break up with him & told Hector to leave her alone.
* She met Rose through Ted & her sister Pallas. She spent a lot of her free time at the gym, helping Ted out occasionally with some administrative work & going in the ring to learn a few moves. Rose was hiding out at the gym around this time, leading to the two having a short relationship.