“They told me I should pick someone. Someone they can test. I read about you, I heard about you. I want you on our team.”
Recruitment it is. At least partially.
So, in this scene involving a psychotic naked mass murderer and a socially stunted dog girl with a penchant for brutality, let’s talk about ponies.
Earlier in the chapter, I was talking about Rachel being analogous to Rainbow Dash as the Element of Loyalty in MLP:FiM terms. Here we have her facing a challenge of loyalty, which is pretty much half the reason the Elements of Harmony are a thing in MLP:FiM – each Element’s episodes tend to have them facing lessons involving the side of friendship they represent.
Hell, the whole situation is similar to the very first scene that showcases Rainbow Dash’s loyalty, in which the villain for the initial two-parter tried to tempt her into abandoning her friends to join a dark version of the flight team she aspired to become part of. Granted, it’s a little different in that Siberian inviting Bitch to the Slaughterhouse Nine isn’t meant for the specific purpose of fucking over the Undersiders (probably), but it’s still the same basic problem.
Will Rachel be like Rainbow Dash and pick her existing team – which she believes doesn’t want her – over the chance to join a more brutal team with a member she might actually be able to relate to, or will she give in to temptation?
I don’t know. Either would make for some interesting stories – setting aside the possibility of this being a trap, either a) Rachel becomes a Slaughterhouse Nine member and the remaining Undersiders potentially end up fighting her along with the rest of the Fellowship later, or b) she doesn’t, and Siberian potentially calls in the rest of the Fellowship to get rid of the reason Bitch wouldn’t join them – the other Undersiders.
It’s also worth noting that if she does take this offer, she’ll be disqualifying herself from Coil’s help securing this territory. Not that it seems like she really wants his help.
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