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Canon: Glee.
Character: Rachel Berry.
Timeline: 1x22: Journey.
Personality: Rachel can be described, in a word, as ‘annoying’… to those that don’t know her very well, anyway. She’s loud, obnoxious, and very, very…confident in her singing abilities. The residents of McKinley high school know her as the obnoxious frontrunner in the dorky Glee Club, the girl who is constantly chasing after Finn Hudson despite it being a hopeless endeavor, and the girl who is so cocky that you just want to slap the annoying out of her.
Underneath the smooth confident surface, however, Rachel is very insecure. She’s an excellent student and her voice sounds like an angel, but she struggles with her identity at the high school. She has a very large weakness for doing ridiculous things to become popular and become well liked by her fellow student population. She’s ridiculed on a daily basis because of her sense of fashion, her involvement in the glee club, and her general conceited attitude… but Rachel, despite this, has the foresight to continue on and try to be as close to herself as she can. This doesn’t make her high school experience any easier, however: most of the kids in the high school hate her.
Rachel takes everything she does extremely seriously and she’s extremely ambitious. In fact, her ambition is probably her best personality trait… but Rachel has a tendency to take her ambition a step too far nearly every episode. She’s been known to act very outlandishly and dramatically when things don’t go as planned (see: her way) and has a patented ‘storm out’, with a complimentary hair flip for added measure. Her entire life is wrapped up in beginning the journey to becoming a star, which includes managing the glee club as efficiently as possible. She often spends time practicing in the auditorium by herself in order to keep herself in top vocal conditioning. Failure is never an option with Rachel Berry and when she does fail? It’s positively heartbreaking.
What Rachel lacks in tact, she makes up for by being a genuinely nice person. She cares very deeply for her friends, especially Finn, and is often shown going to great lengths to make sure that they’re happy, even at the sacrifice of her supposed stardom. She quits the glee club numerous times because of her ego, but always come back because of her friends. Rachel considers her friends to be the most important thing in her life and struggles greatly with accommodating her personality with their wellbeing.
Background: Rachel Berry was born in a special sort of way: she was a test-tube baby chosen through stringent DNA screenings of potential mothers to two gay dads, Hiram and Leroy. To this day, Rachel isn’t entirely sure who her biological father is, but she thinks it’s more fun that way. Her parents decided to train Rachel in the classical arts at a very young age - she won her first singing competition at eight months old and mastered choreography by the age of three months old. This resulted in Rachel being supremely talented and cultured, but with a severe lack of what’s socially acceptable. She viewed herself as a star and by the time she arrived at McKinley High School, Rachel Berry was ready to shine on the big stage.
When Rachel arrived at McKinley, she didn’t jive well with the entire ‘high school’ crowd. She spent a lot of time on MySpace and separate solo projects in order to keep her talent fresh, along with ballet. Her social life was woefully malnourished… until she noticed a sign-up sheet on the activity board for the McKinley Glee Club. She got into the club without much difficulty, because her voice is easily the best the Glee Club has. Despite getting into the club easily, Rachel isn’t extremely satisfied with the progress they’ve made. She feels like she isn’t given the star quality that she deserves and needs, which only shows how much importance Rachel places on her career and what she wants. Fortunately, shortly after the Glee Club’s formation, the quarterback of the football team, Finn Hudson, joins as the male lead, and Rachel quickly finds a new reason to stay in the club: Finn can compete with her vocally and makes the club worthy enough to stay in… plus, Rachel has a crush on Finn, so that makes staying that much easier.
Rachel’s loyalty to the glee club is questionable through most of the first season. On some days, she’s fiercely loyal to the organization and would do anything to keep the club alive and going, like choreographing a sexual dance to Salt n Pepa’s ‘Push It’ in front of the entire school assembly in order to get new members to join the club. On other days, her ego interferes with her devotion to the club. When Mr Schuester, Glee’s advisor and mentor, gave a solo that Rachel desired to one of the other member’s, Tina, Rachel allowed her temper and ego to get in the way and she ultimately quit Glee club for the lead part in the musical ‘Cabaret’. She only rejoined Glee when Finn asked her to, practically confessing his feelings for her in order for her to join. This only shows how important Finn’s relationship to Rachel is, because Rachel is willing to rejoin Glee simply because he asks it. When she discovers that Finn’s girlfriend, Quinn Fabray, is pregnant with what everyone presumes to be Finn’s baby, she refuses to rejoin the club… only to join again at the last minute right before a crucial performance. Her reasoning? She wouldn’t be a good friend “if I let you down when you needed me the most.”
Rachel matures throughout the first season, growing less and less diva-esque and more and more likeable and friendly. However, she has many weaknesses, such as her devotion to Finn Hudson and her desperate need to be liked and wanted. She, time and time again, manages to screw up the Glee Club’s chances of winning because she allows her ego to get in the way. However, most of the time, it’s with good intentions and she has her heart in the right place. She manages to secure the Glee Club’s position on a mattress commercial to rally moral for the members of the Club and to get them pumped for Sectionals. This commercial manages to get Mr Schuester barred from accompanying the Glee Club to sectionals, but instead of giving up, Rachel rallies behind the club, claiming that they’ve worked too hard to give up now. This manages to give the club the kick in the pants they need to bind together and form their set list… but not before Rachel has a moment of crisis. Finn, her best friend (both in Glee Club and probably in the entire school) has been lead to believe that his girlfriend’s baby was his… but it’s really Noah Puckerman’s, Finn’s best friend and Rachel’s old flame. In order to do right by Finn (and to potentially break Finn up with Quinn so she could have a shot), Rachel tells Finn that the baby isn’t his, but Puck’s. This causes Finn to quit the Glee Club and causes the Club to be one member short for Sectionals. At the last minute, they manage to get Rachel’s quasi-stalker, Jacob, to join the club, just to meet requirement. It’s with a heavy heart that they go to Sectionals… without Finn.
Despite this, Rachel shines again when she manages to save the day when the Glee club makes it to sectionals, after Sue Slyvester leaks New Directions’ set list to the opposing team. Instead of panicking and giving up, Rachel pulls it together with Finn’s assistance (and his revelation on how important he is to Glee Club, along with his superb music choice) and sings ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ on the spot, helping cinch the Sectionals trophy, keeping the Club alive for one more tournament. Instead of giving up, which many kids with absolutely no idea of what to do would do, Rachel trusts her instincts and her talent, managing to finally shine as the star she rightfully believes she is. And the best part? Finn is finally hers.
The club returns to McKinley thinking that their popularity woes have been solved. They, after all, were now winners! This is sadly not the case, as even with a Sectionals trophy underneath their belt, they’re still getting slushies thrown in their faces and, even worse… they still have Vocal Adrenaline, their main competition, to defeat at Regionals. As for Rachel? She’s currently dating Finn Hudson, the quarterback of the football team, and she’s the star of Glee Club. She’s on cloud nine… until Finn dumps her because he can’t quite handle the constraints of their relationship. This causes Rachel to go into a tailspin. Why had Finn dumped her when she was the one who had always been at his side, loyally and faithfully? It’s this crisis that causes her to run into the male lead for Vocal Adrenaline… Jesse St. James. They have excellent musical chemistry, they get along fantastically, and he won’t dump her at a crisis of popularity. Despite Finn realizing that he’s screwed up in dumping Rachel and despite Glee Club telling Rachel that they would drop her if she continued her relationship with Jesse, Rachel continues to see Jesse… believing that even though they might not be “true love”, who are they to say that she doesn’t have a right to be happy?
Jesse has ulterior motives, however - he’s actually spying on Rachel in an attempt to get her in contact with her biological mother, who is the coach of Vocal Adrenaline, Shelby Corcoran. Shelby can’t contact Rachel until she’s 18, but upon watching Rachel perform at Sectionals, she needed to meet her sooner. By using Jesse (who “transfers” to McKinley High so Rachel doesn’t get kicked out of the Glee Club and can date him openly), Shelby manages to give Rachel a tape of her singing… and Rachel is possessed by a need to meet her. When Rachel finally does, it’s almost disappointing, as it’s not the sensation that either of them expected. When they meet for the final time, Shelby gives Rachel a glass with stars on it (as stars are both Rachel and Shelby’s thing) and after one parting performance of Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’, they part ways… but not before Shelby tells Rachel that she’ll see her at Regionals.
Preparation for Regionals goes more or less as planned until Rachel is struck down by an unfortunate case of laryngitis. This causes a large crisis for Rachel - so much of who she is and her identity is her voice. When she hears that she may have to have her tonsils removed in order to still the infection from spreading, Rachel faces what one can only call a mid-life crisis. Despite Finn’s constant support and reminders that people like Rachel for more than her voice, she still insists that she is nothing without it. Where would she be without her voice? Certainly not in Glee Club and certainly without all of the new friends (and enemies) that she’s made through her position. Finn manages to break Rachel out of her funk by bringing her to meet one of his friends who is now a paraplegic thanks to a football accident. He’s unable to get up and walk and move ever again… and he even tried to kill himself as a result. Rachel is given a new perspective on life and as a result, manages to realize that her singing voice isn’t the only thing good about her. She moves forward towards Regionals with a better attitude and is three times as determined to overcome her difficulties and win Regionals for her friends.
However, just before Regionals, a crisis hits the Glee Club. Jesse St James, the boyfriend of Rachel Berry and the former lead vocalist for Vocal Adrenaline, switches sides at the last minute to reclaim his glory with Vocal Adrenaline. Now that his job for Shelby is done, he sees no need to stick around a group of people who don’t really like him in the first place. He publicly humiliates Rachel and breaks her heart in front of the entire Vocal Adrenaline squad by pelting her with eggs and telling her ‘good luck’ at Regionals. In order to get back at Vocal Adrenaline and to break out of their ‘funk’, Rachel and the kids of New Directions manages to get their act together and develop a funk number to scare off the members of Vocal Adrenaline and, together, they decide they’re fully prepared for Regionals.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Rachel is a fantastic singer. She also has an exceptional knowledge of music. She can dance. Oh, and in a pinch, she makes for a fantastic leader and a great rallier of the troops…other than that, she is completely and utterly useless.
This post is for any and all OOC interaction with Rachel-mun, PR~! Please comment for plotting purposes only -- any character interaction will, of course, be in the in character posts. :)
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Character: Rachel Berry.
Timeline: 1x22: Journey.
Personality: Rachel can be described, in a word, as ‘annoying’… to those that don’t know her very well, anyway. She’s loud, obnoxious, and very, very…confident in her singing abilities. The residents of McKinley high school know her as the obnoxious frontrunner in the dorky Glee Club, the girl who is constantly chasing after Finn Hudson despite it being a hopeless endeavor, and the girl who is so cocky that you just want to slap the annoying out of her.
Underneath the smooth confident surface, however, Rachel is very insecure. She’s an excellent student and her voice sounds like an angel, but she struggles with her identity at the high school. She has a very large weakness for doing ridiculous things to become popular and become well liked by her fellow student population. She’s ridiculed on a daily basis because of her sense of fashion, her involvement in the glee club, and her general conceited attitude… but Rachel, despite this, has the foresight to continue on and try to be as close to herself as she can. This doesn’t make her high school experience any easier, however: most of the kids in the high school hate her.
Rachel takes everything she does extremely seriously and she’s extremely ambitious. In fact, her ambition is probably her best personality trait… but Rachel has a tendency to take her ambition a step too far nearly every episode. She’s been known to act very outlandishly and dramatically when things don’t go as planned (see: her way) and has a patented ‘storm out’, with a complimentary hair flip for added measure. Her entire life is wrapped up in beginning the journey to becoming a star, which includes managing the glee club as efficiently as possible. She often spends time practicing in the auditorium by herself in order to keep herself in top vocal conditioning. Failure is never an option with Rachel Berry and when she does fail? It’s positively heartbreaking.
What Rachel lacks in tact, she makes up for by being a genuinely nice person. She cares very deeply for her friends, especially Finn, and is often shown going to great lengths to make sure that they’re happy, even at the sacrifice of her supposed stardom. She quits the glee club numerous times because of her ego, but always come back because of her friends. Rachel considers her friends to be the most important thing in her life and struggles greatly with accommodating her personality with their wellbeing.
Background: Rachel Berry was born in a special sort of way: she was a test-tube baby chosen through stringent DNA screenings of potential mothers to two gay dads, Hiram and Leroy. To this day, Rachel isn’t entirely sure who her biological father is, but she thinks it’s more fun that way. Her parents decided to train Rachel in the classical arts at a very young age - she won her first singing competition at eight months old and mastered choreography by the age of three months old. This resulted in Rachel being supremely talented and cultured, but with a severe lack of what’s socially acceptable. She viewed herself as a star and by the time she arrived at McKinley High School, Rachel Berry was ready to shine on the big stage.
When Rachel arrived at McKinley, she didn’t jive well with the entire ‘high school’ crowd. She spent a lot of time on MySpace and separate solo projects in order to keep her talent fresh, along with ballet. Her social life was woefully malnourished… until she noticed a sign-up sheet on the activity board for the McKinley Glee Club. She got into the club without much difficulty, because her voice is easily the best the Glee Club has. Despite getting into the club easily, Rachel isn’t extremely satisfied with the progress they’ve made. She feels like she isn’t given the star quality that she deserves and needs, which only shows how much importance Rachel places on her career and what she wants. Fortunately, shortly after the Glee Club’s formation, the quarterback of the football team, Finn Hudson, joins as the male lead, and Rachel quickly finds a new reason to stay in the club: Finn can compete with her vocally and makes the club worthy enough to stay in… plus, Rachel has a crush on Finn, so that makes staying that much easier.
Rachel’s loyalty to the glee club is questionable through most of the first season. On some days, she’s fiercely loyal to the organization and would do anything to keep the club alive and going, like choreographing a sexual dance to Salt n Pepa’s ‘Push It’ in front of the entire school assembly in order to get new members to join the club. On other days, her ego interferes with her devotion to the club. When Mr Schuester, Glee’s advisor and mentor, gave a solo that Rachel desired to one of the other member’s, Tina, Rachel allowed her temper and ego to get in the way and she ultimately quit Glee club for the lead part in the musical ‘Cabaret’. She only rejoined Glee when Finn asked her to, practically confessing his feelings for her in order for her to join. This only shows how important Finn’s relationship to Rachel is, because Rachel is willing to rejoin Glee simply because he asks it. When she discovers that Finn’s girlfriend, Quinn Fabray, is pregnant with what everyone presumes to be Finn’s baby, she refuses to rejoin the club… only to join again at the last minute right before a crucial performance. Her reasoning? She wouldn’t be a good friend “if I let you down when you needed me the most.”
Rachel matures throughout the first season, growing less and less diva-esque and more and more likeable and friendly. However, she has many weaknesses, such as her devotion to Finn Hudson and her desperate need to be liked and wanted. She, time and time again, manages to screw up the Glee Club’s chances of winning because she allows her ego to get in the way. However, most of the time, it’s with good intentions and she has her heart in the right place. She manages to secure the Glee Club’s position on a mattress commercial to rally moral for the members of the Club and to get them pumped for Sectionals. This commercial manages to get Mr Schuester barred from accompanying the Glee Club to sectionals, but instead of giving up, Rachel rallies behind the club, claiming that they’ve worked too hard to give up now. This manages to give the club the kick in the pants they need to bind together and form their set list… but not before Rachel has a moment of crisis. Finn, her best friend (both in Glee Club and probably in the entire school) has been lead to believe that his girlfriend’s baby was his… but it’s really Noah Puckerman’s, Finn’s best friend and Rachel’s old flame. In order to do right by Finn (and to potentially break Finn up with Quinn so she could have a shot), Rachel tells Finn that the baby isn’t his, but Puck’s. This causes Finn to quit the Glee Club and causes the Club to be one member short for Sectionals. At the last minute, they manage to get Rachel’s quasi-stalker, Jacob, to join the club, just to meet requirement. It’s with a heavy heart that they go to Sectionals… without Finn.
Despite this, Rachel shines again when she manages to save the day when the Glee club makes it to sectionals, after Sue Slyvester leaks New Directions’ set list to the opposing team. Instead of panicking and giving up, Rachel pulls it together with Finn’s assistance (and his revelation on how important he is to Glee Club, along with his superb music choice) and sings ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ on the spot, helping cinch the Sectionals trophy, keeping the Club alive for one more tournament. Instead of giving up, which many kids with absolutely no idea of what to do would do, Rachel trusts her instincts and her talent, managing to finally shine as the star she rightfully believes she is. And the best part? Finn is finally hers.
The club returns to McKinley thinking that their popularity woes have been solved. They, after all, were now winners! This is sadly not the case, as even with a Sectionals trophy underneath their belt, they’re still getting slushies thrown in their faces and, even worse… they still have Vocal Adrenaline, their main competition, to defeat at Regionals. As for Rachel? She’s currently dating Finn Hudson, the quarterback of the football team, and she’s the star of Glee Club. She’s on cloud nine… until Finn dumps her because he can’t quite handle the constraints of their relationship. This causes Rachel to go into a tailspin. Why had Finn dumped her when she was the one who had always been at his side, loyally and faithfully? It’s this crisis that causes her to run into the male lead for Vocal Adrenaline… Jesse St. James. They have excellent musical chemistry, they get along fantastically, and he won’t dump her at a crisis of popularity. Despite Finn realizing that he’s screwed up in dumping Rachel and despite Glee Club telling Rachel that they would drop her if she continued her relationship with Jesse, Rachel continues to see Jesse… believing that even though they might not be “true love”, who are they to say that she doesn’t have a right to be happy?
Jesse has ulterior motives, however - he’s actually spying on Rachel in an attempt to get her in contact with her biological mother, who is the coach of Vocal Adrenaline, Shelby Corcoran. Shelby can’t contact Rachel until she’s 18, but upon watching Rachel perform at Sectionals, she needed to meet her sooner. By using Jesse (who “transfers” to McKinley High so Rachel doesn’t get kicked out of the Glee Club and can date him openly), Shelby manages to give Rachel a tape of her singing… and Rachel is possessed by a need to meet her. When Rachel finally does, it’s almost disappointing, as it’s not the sensation that either of them expected. When they meet for the final time, Shelby gives Rachel a glass with stars on it (as stars are both Rachel and Shelby’s thing) and after one parting performance of Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’, they part ways… but not before Shelby tells Rachel that she’ll see her at Regionals.
Preparation for Regionals goes more or less as planned until Rachel is struck down by an unfortunate case of laryngitis. This causes a large crisis for Rachel - so much of who she is and her identity is her voice. When she hears that she may have to have her tonsils removed in order to still the infection from spreading, Rachel faces what one can only call a mid-life crisis. Despite Finn’s constant support and reminders that people like Rachel for more than her voice, she still insists that she is nothing without it. Where would she be without her voice? Certainly not in Glee Club and certainly without all of the new friends (and enemies) that she’s made through her position. Finn manages to break Rachel out of her funk by bringing her to meet one of his friends who is now a paraplegic thanks to a football accident. He’s unable to get up and walk and move ever again… and he even tried to kill himself as a result. Rachel is given a new perspective on life and as a result, manages to realize that her singing voice isn’t the only thing good about her. She moves forward towards Regionals with a better attitude and is three times as determined to overcome her difficulties and win Regionals for her friends.
However, just before Regionals, a crisis hits the Glee Club. Jesse St James, the boyfriend of Rachel Berry and the former lead vocalist for Vocal Adrenaline, switches sides at the last minute to reclaim his glory with Vocal Adrenaline. Now that his job for Shelby is done, he sees no need to stick around a group of people who don’t really like him in the first place. He publicly humiliates Rachel and breaks her heart in front of the entire Vocal Adrenaline squad by pelting her with eggs and telling her ‘good luck’ at Regionals. In order to get back at Vocal Adrenaline and to break out of their ‘funk’, Rachel and the kids of New Directions manages to get their act together and develop a funk number to scare off the members of Vocal Adrenaline and, together, they decide they’re fully prepared for Regionals.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Rachel is a fantastic singer. She also has an exceptional knowledge of music. She can dance. Oh, and in a pinch, she makes for a fantastic leader and a great rallier of the troops…other than that, she is completely and utterly useless.
This post is for any and all OOC interaction with Rachel-mun, PR~! Please comment for plotting purposes only -- any character interaction will, of course, be in the in character posts. :)
Contact: prthecrazyone // AIM: PR The Crazy One