Rachel Pidgley

Rachel with a cabinet pudding. (Chapter 8, Page 15)

> *"He's like... He's like a little... tiny... small... very **very** small... helpless... newborn baby bird!"*
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> -Rachel about Hyde (Ch6, p18)
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Rachel Pidgley is the day manager and cook at the Society for Arcane Sciences, former cook to Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the best friend and most avid supporter of Edward Hyde. She handles the shopping, cooking, and catering plans for the Society.

## Physical Appearance

Rachel has dark skin, slightly curly black hair, green eyes, and a mole on her left cheek. She wears her hair in a loose ponytail (despite being noted not to look too terribly Victorian). She most frequently wears a grey blue dress with puffy sleeves and a frilled white apron overtop, tied in a big bow behind her. Beneath, she wears long white bloomers, socks, and black flats.

## Personality

Rachel is shown to be a bit of a scatterbrained and fun-loving girl, though can often be maternal and fussy when it comes to Hyde, or her crush, Jasper Kaylock. She's not at all afraid to handle herself in a fight, but can often worry about notions of femininity and her performance of it within romance.

## Trivia

* Rachel often carries a kitchen knife, both for her job as a cook and as a weapon.
* Rachel is Jekyll's oldest friend besides Lanyon, commented to have known him nearly as long.
	+ She's close enough to Jekyll that he's divulged his love life with Morcant, a werewolf like Jasper, (though he's a bit embarrassed by the reminder of the story) and she therefore trusts him on romantic matters.
* Rachel used to live with her family in an apartment off Sugar-Loaf Court, a place that sounds a lot nicer than it was in all actuality.
* Besides when her family traveled, she's always lived in London.
* Before working at the Society for Arcane Sciences as Cook and Day Manager, she worked for Jekyll at his personal residence as a cook to help support her family.
* Rachel knows and may be friends with the cook who works at Lanyon's residence, Emma, who owns a mud phoenix like Jasper's for her kitchen. Rachel has therefore wanted a mud phoenix too for a while.
* Rachel was the first person Hyde ever met directly after his first transformation, and often went shopping for him.
	+ As one of his oldest and therefore closest friends, Rachel worries after Hyde incredibly often, and often to the point of overbearingly.
* Besides her parents, she has two siblings: her older brother Patrin, and her late younger brother Eli.
	+ She's also mentioned having cousins who live in Gloucester.
* Despite not seeing her often, her relationship with her sister-in-law, Lucy Corbyn, is close and amicable.

## Quotes

> *"If I don't order the fancy stuff early, Mary'll really have my neck."*
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> *"Oh, but surely you could take down one little grocer?"*
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> *"I sure could! But I heard you already had a run in with the peelers today."*
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> - Rachel and Jekyll (Ch2 p21)
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> *"Now he probably thinks I'm some sort of **looney.**"*
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> *"You **are** some sort of looney."*
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> *"I don't want **him** to know that! Ohhh Henry how could you **do** this to me! You're supposed to be **helping** my love life, not mucking it up!"*
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> - Rachel and Jekyll (Ch2 p25)
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> *"I used to make second dinners all the time, when I lived at home. My kid brother would be out doing god knows what, then he'd show up at three in the morning, hungry as a wol- really hungry."*
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> - (Ch4 p1)
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> *"That 'wolf boy' saved me from a giant bear thing. He can do whatever he wants. Also I gave him free chicken for life."*
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> - (Ch6 p29)
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## Gallery

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