Rachel Walker

**Rachel Walker** is one of the main protagonists of Rainbow Magic, along with Kirsty Tate.

## Physical Appearance

Rachel has long, curly golden hair with a wavy fringe that is pushed to the side and is usually in a ponytail, though it has also been hung loose at times. In the film, her hair is kept down and curls at the ends. The colour of her eyes is unknown but in the film, she has blue eyes.

## Description

Rachel is a high flying speed demon. She loves doing loop-de-loops and racing with dragonflies. (Luckily she has more cautious Kirsty along as a spotter, because Rachel hardly ever watches where she's flying). She's mechanically inclined. She can fix a bicycle, and likes to take things apart to find out how they work. This often comes in handy on an adventure. Now if she can only fix her dad's lawn mower before he finds out she took it apart. When she grows up Rachel wants to be a helicopter pilot or a race car driver... or maybe both.

## Relationships

### Kirsty

In Ruby the Red Fairy, Rachel encounters Kirsty on the way to Rainspell Island. Everyday, they always have magical adventures with the fairies.

## Personality

Rachel is friendly, caring, and creative. She sometimes feels sorry for Jack Frost because he doesn't have friends, and no one loves him. At first, she was quite skeptical of the idea of magic until she met the fairies.

In the movie, she was more reluctant to show her belief in fairies than Kirsty was, even discarding her locket at one point in favour of her reputation.

## Fun Facts

1. Unforgettable Adventure: Celebrating Kirsty's cousin, Esther's wedding (as said in the My Big Book of Fairies).
2. Favourite Movie: Starlight Chronicles
3. Favourite Pantomime(s): The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
4. School Friends: Holly, Zac, Tanya, Adam, Kayla, Jordon, Dylan, Jessie, Maya, Jodie, Karen Lewis, Jessy and Amy, Annie, Jaydon
5. Favourite Sport: Netball

## Biography

Rachel lives in Tippington Town with her parents and her dog, Buttons, and has a seemingly small bedroom, painted pink and containing a dressing table (as shown in the movie), as well a picture of a horse on the wall above her bed.

She likes the colour pink to some extent, as it is Kirsty's favourite, but she really prefers purple. She likes Inky the Indigo Fairy as she represents a shade of purple. Rich, The Angels' stylist, thought that the colour Rachel looked best in was blue.

She is also quite adventurous, though initially not as brave as Kirsty. Both girls love it when their parents let them go off on their own to play and have adventures. Rachel, however, likes sports a lot more than Kirsty does: she enjoys running (having won a prize for running on sports day) and is good at ball games, especially netball. Additionally, Rachel likes skateboarding, being rather good at it, in comparison to Kirsty enjoying skating. Similarly, on their winter holidays, Rachel chose a snowboard, while Kirsty chose skis.

Rachel also loves food, mainly all kinds of sweets, chocolates, cupcakes, and cakes. In particular, she seems to like Golden Crunch chocolates and Marshmallow Magic ice cream. It isn't like her to turn down dessert, and one of her dream jobs is to work in a sweet factory, like Candyland.

Rachel loves school, and attends Tippington School, most likely a combination primary and secondary school, the uniform for which is grey and blue. A number of the children in Rachel's school are known, namely Holly, Zac, Tanya, Kayla, Adam and Jodie, all of whom have skills and interests, as well as teachers Ms Patel, Mrs Bowler and Mr Beaker, many of whom Rachel likes. Lydia, Bril, Angela and Wendy, the human antagonists of Return to Rainspell Island, also attend Tippington School, and are often called the 'Popular Girls'. Although being loyal friends, Rachel and Kirsty are openly welcome to making new friends such as Matt and Lucas, Sarah and Anna, Emily and Isabel and numerous kids at the Sunsands beach resort.

Rachel loves reading as much as Kirsty does, their favourite stories being fairytales, as well as princess stories.

Rachel has a friend called Karen Lewis, who takes tap dance classes. Rachel would love to be able to tap dance. She and Rachel are also in the same ballet class.

Rachel, as well as Kirsty, is a devoted Brownie, often helping at events, either with her own troop or Kirsty's. She also attends many school events, such as the museum sleepover or the party in the woods.

## Trivia

* Rachel was the 1st character to appear in the first Rainbow Magic book, Ruby the Red Fairy.
* Rachel is three months younger than Kirsty, so as Kirsty's birthday is in the Easter holidays (in or around April), it stands to reason that Rachel's birthday is most likely in or around July, placing it in or close to the start of the Summer holidays.
* Rachel owns a mobile phone.
* Rachel owns a green frog toy, to remind her of Bertram, the Royal Frog Footman.
* She lives in a circle, and is good friends with her neighbour Sam, who is a little older than her.
* Kirsty talks about Rachel a lot, as said by Aunt Harri and Uncle John, who exclaimed "the famous Rachel!".
* In the movie, Return to Rainspell Island, she is voiced by Grace Vance.
* Rachel has an Old English Shepherd Dog, named Buttons.
* Like Kirsty, Rachel is an only child.