Rachel Yoon

**Rachel Yoon** is one of the main protagonists of Project Melody. She is a mage with the power of Aquakinesis, a subsection of the power Hydrokinesis. She is one of the five main playable protagonists and is the first person Tomoya, Vivian, and Miles meet in the main story.

## Summary

Rachel is an Aquakinetic mage. She wields the ability to create, control, shape, and manipulate the shape of water. She can use her abilities to control water in a way to benefit her for combat, healing, and leisurely purposes. Rachel is Korean-American and an average woman, at only 22 years of age, she lives a standard middle class life much like those she is close to. She currently lives with her friend Alice Orozco, in her family's home in Mariposa, however her parents' home is also located in Mariposa where Rachel has lived in most of her life. Rachel's original home in San Lorenzo County, located on Palmdale Ave in Mariposa, is where her parents live and she sometimes still visits them as well as stays over. Many of her personal belongings are still her in Palmdale Ave home, including her pet Corgi Alison, or Ali for short. Even though Ali still resides with her original owners, Rachel still brings her over to Alice's home to spend the nights with them. Later in the story, Rachel eventually is able to own her own home due to her prolific performance as a mercenary in the White Hornets, despite her still being a Rookie. Her home is located in Marley, nearby the border with Mariposa. She currently works as a mercenary for the White Hornets, her connection and experience with Tomoya, Vivian, and Miles helped convince to join the organization; she was showing radiant potential to the point where she was free to become involved with more large-scale missions that have been assigned.

Her experience in larger missions with Tomoya and friends helped her become more involved with the mercenary group, as she then also starts getting involved in the more small-scale tasks that are usually passed around. She is a student at the San Lorenzo State University, and is a major in Fashion Design, she as well has a passion for art and even draws both digitally and traditionally. Her love for art contributes to her love for fashion as she often likes to design her own clothing as part of her free time as a creative outlet. Her time a part of the White Hornets as well as her new friends eventually helps her grow and further evolve throughout the story, it inspires her creativity and passions, and even helps unite her family once again.

## Appearance

Rachel has light blue hair and purple eyes. She has long hair with short bangs and forelocks with a slight curl on the end. Her bangs are on the center and cover her forehead, she stylizes them at times such as sweeping them to the left or right.

She wears a variety of clothing as her everyday fashion; ranging from shirts, pants, blouses, dresses, skirts, and all kinds of shoes. The outfit she mostly loves to wear is a t-shirt, blue or black jeans, and one of her numerous shoes such as her White Air Force Ones. Her swimwear consists of a white two-piece bikini set. Her formal wear is either one of the ones that she owns, such as her red dress used for formal occasions. Her sleepwear consists of an oversized t-shirt and sweatpants or her underwear.

## Personality

Rachel is described as a calm collected person on the surface who is supportive to those around her such as her friends. She tries to keep up an upbeat attitude towards herself and her friends, and usually channels the same energy towards her art. Her involvement with art leads her to be a creative person, and can help her with problem solving, even if she can have issues with problem solving at times. Her calm attitude correlates with her upbeat attitude which can further go into an energetic attitude, it has her moments of happiness where she is excited for almost anything she perceives as positive at that moment. Even during her hyperactive moments, she somehow manages to mostly become collected enough to go with the flow at that moment. She is also compassionate and respectful towards others, she is aware of how treating others the way she wants to be treated only has positive effects on her life even in moments where it does not feel that way at all. While she is able to flow through many situations in life which helps with her upbeat hyperactive helpful attitude, it does not help successfully bury her struggles and flaws that can become a hindrance to her.

She is patient with most people, but at the same time can express her own form of impatient with others especially depending on the situation. Her patience towards others is more forgiving than with herself, she is not as patient with herself than she would like to admit. She has a habit of sometimes rushing herself in situations where it is best for her to slow down and be present, but her racing thoughts at that moment can make this difficult.. She is responsible for herself and tries her best at taking good care of herself, her studies, and her art, her sense of responsibility is beneficial towards her relationship with others; however she has moments where she takes being responsible too seriously to the point where it leads her to become overwhelmed. As hardworking as she is, she has certain moments where she spaces out and gets lost in whatever thought she has at that moment, almost as if she's about to transition into a daydream state.

She is a sociable person as well, she thrives in social environments while at the same time, is content with being by herself as it helps her "recharge her batteries" as she describes it. Despite this, she still is able to go many hours and days without going through this process, proving how much socialization she has accumulated over her life, even though in the end she can genuinely feel exhausted especially if the situations she was involved with were stress inducing. Her sociability is not perfect at all, she still can be fairly shy and easily flustered. She can become a nervous wreck at the drop of a hat, and if she is feeling overwhelmed at that moment, she can become emotional with feelings relating to sadness and inadequacy coming in. These feelings of inadequacy are able to have some tears flow out sometimes, but she has trained herself to not fully cry during those specific moments when they happen. She has grown to be a more sociable person growing up compared to when she was a small child.

Rachel's interests in material goods over the course of her life had developed into a form of materialism. Her attachment to miscellaneous material goods including fashion as a way to help her control how she feels is by far her largest flaw and her sense of materialism including its source is deeply explored in Project Melody/Unforgotten's story. While she does have a sense of awareness that happiness comes from within, at the same time she is in a constant cycle of gaining material goods for the purpose of making herself happier on the inside, even if those material objects serve no higher purpose for her other than the fact it makes her feel good or makes her living environment look good. A large portion of the issues Rachel faces could be in part due to the emotional attachment she developed growing up as both a young child and a teenager. Her attachment to material objects is a coping mechanism stemmed from the emotional abandonment she felt growing up, especially with her parents who were strict with her and her brother which led to the disagreements that led him to leave home. Ever since then, her parents have improved, but the wound inside still remains. Rachel tries her best to not let the issue of attachment get to her and tries to aim towards a healthy relationship with those around her such as her friends, and also with herself. Even though at times some signs of emotional attachment can come up, leading to jealousy or even guilt from herself towards the ones she cares about.

The flaws and imperfections within Rachel help her improve her character throughout the story, she realizes she is a whole human being and that she is still a valid individual despite all that she had previously went through. she is someone who is upbeat on life and is sociable with others, at least on the surface level. Though she can have overwhelming moments leading to negative thoughts and feelings of anxiety in correlation to the shyness she tries to hide, in the end she still is compassionate and supportive at those that cheer her on. While her feelings of resentment can come in, as well as her materialistic interests become a hindrance towards what she is truly aiming for, this doesn't stop her from trying her best at taking responsibility for her life including her actions. There are times where she can be blameful towards others as she still has trouble of taking responsibility for her actions and imperfections at times, this is one of the many developments she goes through throughout Project Melody's story. Overall, Rachel is a kind collected woman who loves being around other people, and even herself when she is in the right moment. Her compassion and respect towards those she truly cares about helps her character as one who would be there for her loved ones in their time of need. Her passion for the arts show she is a creative person who often likes to think outside of the box and inspires her to live differently than most of society.

## History

### Background

Rachel Yoon was born in Huntington Beach, California on March 9, 1999, she is the second child of her parents, and younger sister of Derek. Around the time after her graduation from Elementary School, her parents had been offered a career at Luoxo, a major corporation in San Lorenzo County. She and her family then moved to Mariposa, and have resided there ever since. After she graduated from high school, she enrolled in the San Lorenzo State University with a major in Fashion Design; ever since entering college, she has resided with her friend Alice Orozco in her family's home in Mariposa as they had an extra room for her. Her pursue for Fashion Design stems from her passion for fashion, and it correlates with her talent of drawing. Her passions for art and fashion often combine with one another, as over the years, outside of drawing fanart of her favorite pieces of media, she also has previously drawn many pieces of fashion. These pieces of fashion are either from stores she has passed by, from friends, media, or original designs she had created.

She has a good relationship with those around her such as her friends and family, especially her brother, despite not seeing him in person for a while. Before then, the Yoon parents and Derek had numerous disagreements with one another due to the mindset and personal choices he was forming at the time, as the arguments ensured, eventually he left home and lived elsewhere, all while Rachel was still in middle school. Since then, he only had checked upon his family through messages, but he still loved his sister and would often message her daily if he can. Even though their parents had changed, Derek still had not come back home, and he was still private about his endeavours no matter how many times Rachel had tried to go into detail. He messaged her every holiday including her birthday and always sent her gifts, but ever since her birthday in March during the game's events, he soon goes missing in action. This is one of the motivators to lead Rachel to join the White Hornets, as well as her desire to help those around her including in assisting the mercenary group at taking back the county from the hands of the major corporations and police force that have taken over.

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## Trivia

* Her mother is from Seoul and her father is from Busan. They moved to Southern California after graduating from university as both had aspirations to live in the area.