Then the foster homes. Home one, where the parents were kind, but lacked the patience to deal with a little girl who child protective services had labeled a borderline feral child.
Hrm.
Her foster-sister there had been a mongoloid that stole things, breaking or ruining what she couldn’t take for herself.
Not exactly a good term to use, but this is from Rachel’s perspective. I feel like this is an example of Wildbow writing the character rather than him actually using this word himself, much like the Mrs. Knott situation back in 2.2 was supposed to be according to some of the asks I got about it at the time.
Basically, it seems a lot more clear this time why this description is here. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that it’s an Interlude, and maybe the fact that I’m more familiar with Wildbow’s writing and personality at this point, but I also think the phrasing and formatting has something to do with it – it’s italicized, emphasized, implicitly made a deal out of, whereas the Mrs. Knott description was written straight as if it were completely normal to think/say/write something like that. Granted, part of Wildbow’s point may have been that to Taylor, it was, but I think that might’ve contributed to it looking like it was that way to Wildbow as well.
(Incidentally, I realized recently that it’s plausible that my liveblog reminded Wildbow to go change the Mrs. Knott section. I do know he was reading my liveblog around the time I received the news that it had been fixed.)
Rachel had responded the only option she could think of, attacking the girl who was three years older and fifty pounds heavier, leaving the girl bloody and sobbing.
Well, that answers one question: Rachel was kind of unstable even before she got her power. “borderline feral”, even before her power took that up to 11.
At least I think this is before she got her power. I would’ve thought we’d get a mention of the incident we learned about in 4.1 if it wasn’t.
That might be coming up, actually.
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