Rachel Paul

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> ### Actor
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> Laura Bailey (HCV)
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> Female
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> Black
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> 8
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> **Pre-Apocalypse*** Second Grade Student
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> Emily Paul - Mother
> Ben Paul - Brother
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> Caucasian-American
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> Alive
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> | “ | *Here [...] This is Captain Yellowbear. He’s my friend, and he helps keep all the bad things away.*
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**Rachel** **Paul**, nicknamed **Ray** or **Rach** by many of her companions, is a protagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in JunoBox's Dawn of The Walking Dead. She is a deuteragonist of Season One. A somewhat childish, humorous, and assertive girl, she acts as a moral compass of the group, alongside her childhood friend **Clementine**, acting as a playful spirit in post-apocalyptic world while she tries to maintain a strong sense of direction.

## Overview

Rachel is a young girl with a vivid imagination and a strong sense of adventure. She is often seen reading books, particularly those about brave and adventurous characters like Daisy the Danger Duchess. Rachel is also a very loyal friend to Clementine, always willing to help her and protect her. She is also brave and resourceful, as evidenced by her willingness to stand up to the walker that attacked her and Clementine.

Rachel is a kind and compassionate girl who cares deeply about her friends and family. She is also a very positive and optimistic person, always seeing the good in others. And while she's not as astute as Clementine, she makes up for it in bravery and charisma. And she is always willing to help others, as evident in her constant attempts to rescue her older brother.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Rachel was born to Emily Paul and an unnamed father on October 31, 1994 and is the second and youngest child after her older brother. In "**Just One Bullet Goes a Long Way****",** when helping Lee in the drugstore, she mentioned that her mother was a P.E coach, and she liked gym class. She carries with her a stuffed toy rabbit, affectionately named Captain Yellowbear. It is implied that she is very fond of the toy and believes it to be somewhat of an aid when she offered it to Lee in **"Rock and a Hard Place"** in order to help him rest and "keep the bad things away".

She was in the second grade, and presumably classmates with Clementine along with a few other friends. She is a playful and a risk taker to boot, as seen when she took the initiative to investigate Lee’s car crash in the woods, and heavily pushing toward leaving the safety of their group to venture out into Atlanta and rescue her brother.

During the summers, she along with Clementine and other neighborhood children would play games outside for prizes such as trading cards and candy before retiring indoors for the night.

## Post-Apocalypse

### Season One

When the plague began, Rachel and Clementine were having a playdate at Clementine’s house when their babysitter, Sandra was attacked. The two fled to Clementine’s treehouse and remained there for days. Hours after the initial attack, the girls use Clementine’s walkie-talkie to attempt to make contact with Rachel’s family. Eventually, the get a response from Travis, the best friend of Rachel’s brother. Until his arrival, the two girls remained in hiding and heard many gunshots at and chaos.
The two girls come across Travis inside Clementine’s house, and they retreat back to the treehouse. For next day, the trio remained in the treehouse as the world fell apart around them. Sometime during the day, a man arrived and attempted to break into Clementine's house, so he could steal their TV, but walkers scared him away. After a long while of waiting, Rachel tells Clementine that she wants to sneak out and attempt to find her brother, much to the other girl’s worry. Before they can discuss any further, a car crashes loudly in the woods behind them, and Rachel immediately leaves the treehouse, deciding to investigate. The two climb the fence and trek into the backwoods when they spot a man. When The man spots them, he tells them to go and get help, walkers arrive and the girls, obviously afraid, runs back to their hiding spot. They reunite with a worried Travis, who before he can reprimand them for leaving, quiets them down as the man from the woods enters the yard. She is later in a treehouse hiding from the walkers and where she had been hiding for a few days.
They are all later found by Lee while he was wandering through Clementine’s house in search of help. After helping him fight off Sandra, now a walker, he begins to realize the girls’ parents may not have made it and decides to look after the girls, including Travis. Lee begins to feel affection and concern for the young girls.
After leaving the house, they encounter Shawn Greene Officer Andre Mitchell in the street, Shawn mistakes the three children as Lee's children, to which Lee gives Shawn an explanation of how he knows them, stating they were all alone when he found them. Shawn then takes Lee and the kids to his father's farm. When Shawn tells his father, Hershel, Lee's story, Hershel asks the children if they know who Lee is, to which they all respond with yes.
The next morning, The kids and Lee meet Kenny and his wife, Katjaa, along with their son, Duck. Rachel took to accompanying Duck quickly, taking a liking to his playful attitude, while Clementine was befriended by Katjaa, with her acting like a motherly figure for her. Travis sticks with Kenny to assist him in repairing his vehicle. Rachel also witnesses the walker attack that kills Shawn first hand as a result of her and Duck’s horseplaying, which causes Hershel Greene to kick the group off his farm as he blames Kenny for not saving his son. Kenny's family offers to take Lee and the kids to Macon, Lee's hometown, to which he accepts.
The group's pickup truck runs out of gas shortly after arriving in downtown Macon. As they were exploring the streets, they were almost immediately advanced upon by walkers. The group was saved by the intervention of Glenn and Carley, who led them into a nearby drug store owned by Lee's parents. As soon as they met the rest of the group who had holed up in the store, including Doug, Lilly, and her father, Larry. As the adults argue over the fate of Duck, whom Larry believed was bitten, Clementine informs Lee she needs to use the restroom. Lee tells her to just go use the one in the store, but as she opens the door, she is attacked by a walker that had been undetected by the group. Clementine is grabbed, but Lee saves her and in turn is saved by Carley, who shoots the walker.
Clementine was then charged with the task of keeping in contact with Glenn over her walkie-talkie while he retrieved gasoline for Kenny's pickup truck at a nearby motel. While the group waited and attempted to find a way into the pharmacy to obtain nitroglycerin tablets for Larry's heart condition, Rachel and Clementine helped Lee search the office and asked him about himself and his family. Clementine also asks about the cane Lee finds while clearing the office, to which he responds it was his dad's, and that it was "better at protecting this place than any guard dog." Rachel is also present when Carley approaches Lee and tells him she is knowledgeable about his past.
After the pharmacy's alarm prompted a large-scale walker attack, Rachel and Clementine assist Lee in blocking the doors by retrieving his father's cane and handing it to him, after which he slides it through the handles. Clementine is tripped and grabbed by another walker as they escape, tearing her away from Rachel. But Lee saves her a second time.
Later, as the survivors regroup in a motor inn, Clementine expresses her distress to Lee over having broken her walkie-talkie when she fell, which she had used to talk to her parents. She is comforted by Rachel.

"Starved For Help"
Three months later, Rachel is seen at the Motor Inn playing soccer with Clementine when Lee returns with his hunting party. She is called over, along with Clementine by Travis to meet one of the newcomers they'd brought back with them. It's then Rachel reunited with her older brother, Ben Paul.
Lee goes over and talks with the kids. He asks Clementine about her missing hat, and her radio. He gives the three youngest members of the group rations, and offers Ben some as well, but is turned down. Rachel forcefully gives her brother part of her rations instead.
Later once Ben and Travis return from the dairy, the group arrive at the dairy for the evening. Rachel and Clementine are adding entries to their shared scrapbook as Kenny pushed Duck on the repaired swing. After taking their picture, Duck and Rachel leave to tour the dairy on their own for a while before joining Katjaa, Andy and Clementine in the barn.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Rachel has killed:

* Sandra *(Caused, Zombified)*
* Shawn Greene *(Indirectly Caused, Accidental, Alive)*

## Relationships

Allies
* Motel Survivors
	+ Lee Everett - Guardian, Mentor
	+ Kenny - Friend
	+ Katjaa - Friend
	+ Duck - Friend
	+ Carley - Friend and Savior
	+ Doug - Friend
	+ Lilly - Friend
	+ Glenn
* Rachel’s Neighborhood
	+ Emily Paul – Mother
	+ Ben Paul - Brother
	+ Unnamed Father
	+ Travis - Friend
* Clementine's Neighborhood
	+ Clementine - Best Friend
	+ Diana - Aunt Figure
	+ Ed - Uncle Figure
	+ Sandra † - Babysitter
* Greene Farm
	+ Shawn Greene †

Enemies
* Greene Farm
	+ Hershel Greene - Former Ally
* Motel Survivors
	+ Larry

## Gallery

The Gallery for this Character is a work in progress.

## Appearances

### Dawn of The Walking Dead

#### Season One

* "A New Day"
* "Starved For Help"

## Trivia

* Her birthday is October 31st, also commonly known as Halloween.

* In "BTSing my Fic w/Juno: DoTWD - Rachel P.", Rachel has had over 10 redesigns of the course of 2023.
	+ Rachel originally had pigtails in 5 of the shared designs.
	+ She apparently had more of a tomboyish appearance, sporting a large T-shirt and shorts in most of her earlier models.
* Her favorite color is yellow.
	+ In "BTSing my Fic w/Juno: DoTWD - Rachel P.", it was stated that her favorite color was initially going to be red, as a joke and in reference to her red rain boots.
* In a previous iteration of her character, Rachel would've had a crush on Duck.
* Rachel used to be immune to the infection.
* Apparently, in a very old version of the story, Rachel and her brother were able to practice magic.
* In a older draft of Chapter 2, Rachel and Clementine would have met three new survivors: Deborah, Oliver and their mother, who would later be revealed to be bit.
	+ Initially, things went the same, but the person sneaking about upstairs would have been an 11-year-old girl named Deborah, who shared a personality similar to Sarah from Season 2. She would come downstairs while Clementine and Rachel were hiding and call out to them. Rachel would jump out and aim a spatula at her, freaking Debbie out. Oliver, a 14-year-old boy, would come downstairs and defuse the situation with a flashlight, but Rachel would accuse them of being robbers. Oliver would spin the accusations back on them and accuse them of being murderers, to the girls’ horror. Clementine would defend them both, saying that the house they were in was hers, and Oliver asks her to prove it. She would then point to the art on the wall near the front door with her name on it. Olly apologizes, and Rachel asks why he would call them murderers. Oliver says it’s because there’s blood all over the place, like the kitchen and on their shoes. Rachel and Clementine would look down and see they tracked blood on the floor and then freak out.
	+ Clementine asks them why they broke in, and Deborah explains they were going to the store when they got jumped in the parking lot (by a walker). They got away in their car, but their mom crashed a little ways down the street and was hurt badly, so they brought her inside and to the bathroom upstairs.
* In an older version of Chapter 2, Rachel and Clementine would've came across a walker Sandra, instead of Travis.
* Rachel was initially going to start the apocalypse at her house.
	+ In a scrapped version of Chapter 1, The chapter started with Rachel and Clementine talking to each other over the radio before a flashback started. Clementine and Rachel would have been on a bus coming from summer camp.
	+ Sandra would have been there and picked them up. She'd ask them about camp, and they'd each tell her something about camp that would have played an important role later on in the story.
	+ They arrive at Clementine's house, and Rachel's mother is outside. She hugs her and asks why she hadn’t left for Savannah yet. Mom says she wanted to hang out with her children before heading to the coast and ushers the kids to the backyard, where they see a surprise birthday party set up.
	+ Rachel's opening presents. Emily hands Rachel a gift, and she opens it. This is how she would have gotten her stuffed rabbit, Captain Yellowbear. The flashback would have ended with a camera flash and picked up with the start of Chapter 2.
	+ Rachel would have actually been home instead of at Clementine’s. Travis would find her, and Rachel would say they have to go save Clementine because she’s all alone.
	+ The scene where the girls would enter the house and run into Travis would have happened, only difference is Clementine would have been alone and ran into Travis and Rachel.
* Rachel enjoys gym class, as her mom is a school P.E. coach. It's unknown if her mother was a coach at her school.
	+ It's implied Rachel was also on a soccer team with Clementine. She might have enjoyed it more than Clementine, as Clementine states that she didn't really enjoy playing on the soccer team.
* Rachel is shown to be very fond of books.
	+ In *"Into The Fire"*, she's very excited to share her book "Daisy the Danger Duchess" with Clementine.
	+ She's seen discussing the comic book Super Dinosaur by Robert Kirkman in detail with Duck at the end of "Just One Bullet Goes A Long Way".
* It is implied by multiple characters that Rachel has a tendency of causing/and or getting herself into trouble.
	+ In *"Into The Fire"*, Sandra says that if the girls behave themselves, she'll take them to the Zoo.
	+ In *"Adventures in Babysitting"*, while search Rachel's house, Travis believes she might have wandered outside on her own.
		- In that same chapter, Travis initially accuses Rachel of causing a mess inside Clementine's house.
		- Also in that same chapter, she plots to leave the house in search of her older brother.
		- Another instance in that same chapter, she rushes out of the safety of the tree house to investigate the crash behind Clementine's house.
	+ In *"Just One Bullet Goes A Long Way"*, Rachel recalls a time where she fell out of the treehouse and broke her arm.
	+ In *"In Your Charge"*, Rachel's mother, Emily, mentions that Rachel can be a handful over the answering machine, and she will pay extra for her troubles.
		- In that same chapter, she reiterates that Rachel must listen to Sandra, implying she might have a habit of not following instructions.